“Tully has the holding at L2, 10s. a year, being 50 per cent, under the valuation of the land for taxes, which is L3, 15s.  As the total valuation with the house (built by him) is only L4, he pays no poor-rates.  He was in arrears May 1, 1887, of three years for L7, 10s.  Lord Clanricarde offered him, with others, 20 per cent, abatement, making for him 70 per cent, under the valuation—­and he refused!”

Since then (on Saturday Sept. 1), Tully has been evicted after a dramatic “resistance,” of which, with instructive incidents attending it, Mr. Tener sends me an account, to be found in the Appendix, Note H.

[17] Note H2.

[18] Mr. Tener writes to me (July 18): 

“At Allendarragh, near the scene of Finlay’s murder, Thomas Noonan, who lately was brave enough to accept the post of process-server vacated by that murder, was shot at on the 13th instant.  It was on the highway.  He heard a heavy stone fall from a wall on the road and turned to see what caused it.  He distinctly saw two men behind the wall with guns, and saw them fire.  One shot struck a stone in the road very near him—­the other went wide.  His idea is that one gun dislodged the stone on which it had been laid for an aim, and that its fall disturbed the aim and saved him.  He fully identifies one of the men as Henry Bowles, a nephew of ‘Dr.’  Tully, who lives with Tully, and Bowles, after being arrested and examined at Woodford, has been remanded, bail being refused, to Galway Jail.  Before this shooting Noonan had served a notice from me upon Tully, against whom I have Judge Henn’s decree for three years’ rent, and whose equity of redemption expired July 9th.”

[19] I have since learned that my jarvey was well informed.  Sir Henry Burke actually paid Mr. Dillon L160 for the maintenance of his tenants while out of their farms.  This, two other landlords, Lords Dunsandle and Westmeath, refused to do, but, like Sir Henry, they both paid all the costs, and accepted a “League” reduction of 5s. 6d. and 6s. in the pound (June 9, 1888).

[20] Down to the date at which I write this note (June 9), Mr. Seigne has kindly, but without results, endeavoured to get for me some authentic return made by a small tenant-farmer of his incomings and outgoings.

[21] Note I.

[22] Note K.

[23] While these pages are going through the press a Scottish friend sends me the following extract from a letter published in the Scotsman of July 25:—­

“In the same way I, in August last, when in Wicklow, ascertained as carefully as I could the facts as to the Bodyke evictions; and being desirous to learn now if that estate was still out of cultivation, as I had found it in August, I wrote the gentleman I have referred to above.  His reply is as follows:—­

“’I can answer your question as far as the Brooke estate is concerned.  None of the tenants are back in their farms, nor are