people with whom some of the other servants were on bad terms. 

 Everyone agreed, however, that none of the offences were committed 

 directly against his lordship, whose popularity among all classes 

 was as universal in Tipperary as it was everywhere else. 



This outrage led to his giving up the hunting ; but with the mag- 

 nanimity which characterised so many actions of " The Marquis," he 

 presented a large portion of his pack and five horses to the Tipperary 

 gentry, who then began hunting that country by subscription under the 

 Mastership of Mr. Millett of St. Johnstown. The list of subscribers 

 was headed by Lord Waterford with £100, which, I think, he continued 

 annually until his death in March, 1859. 



Unfortunately Henry Lord Waterford although a most particular 

 man about having all other accounts written up with minute exactness, 

 did not himself keep a hunting diary. There now remain alive but 

 few of those who hunted with him in Tipperary. Most of these gentle- 

 men I have applied to for particulars, but none can give them pre- 

 cisely ; they all agree, however, in stating that the sport shown by 

 him during his four years in that country was extraordinarily good, 

 and he did things in regal fashion. I should like to be able to give 

 some details of the sport and other matters which would be interest- 

 ing, but, for the above reason, I am unable to do so. The dates, how- 

 ever, which I mention may be relied upon, for I have taken great 

 pains to ascertain them, and they are recorded upon the consentient 

 authority of several parties who remember perfectly the occurrences 

 and can fix the time with accuracy. 



Directly the outrage was perpetrated at Lakefield the Waterford 

 gentry came forward and offered Lord Waterford their hounds and 

 country. Mr. Henry Briscoe of Tinvane kept at that time a pack of 

 foxhounds with which he and his father had been hunting a portion of 

 the Kilkenny country in the Carrick and Piltown districts, and this was 

 also offered to his lordship. Luckily he accepted them, and gave up 

 his idea of returning to England, as he had intended. 



The County Waterford and Mr. Briscoe's packs, thus amalgamated 

 with that which Lord Waterford brought from Lakefield, formed the 

 nucleus of the afterwards famous Curraghmore Hounds. 



His lordship at the same time acquired the hunting right to the 

 country in the co. Waterford which has descended to the present 

 Marquis, the boundary of which is from Gurteen to the Comeragh 

 mountains, along them to Cloncoskoran, then in a line to Clonea Castle, 

 with, of course, the sea and river Suir on the other sides, all within 

 the county. 



This extent was much too limited, so he entered into an arrange- 

 ment with the then Sir John Power of Kilfane (great-grandfather of 

 the present young baronet), who owned the Kilkenny Hounds and had 

 the hunting right to the country, to take at a rent of £50 a year the 

 southern portion of Kilkenny from the Slate Quarries to Woodstock, 

 embracing Carrigtruss, Wynne's Gorse, Castlemorres, Killeen, and 



