The price was twenty-two thousand pounds, more or less.

Fourteen thousand were left on mortgage, which remained outstanding until the sale of the property by Mrs.Burke in 1812.

Garret Burke, the elder brother, had shortly before the purchase made Edmund his residuary legatee, and it is guessed that of this bequest two thousand pounds were in cash.

The balance of six thousand was advanced by Lord Rockingham on Burke's bond.
The purchase after all was the smallest part of the matter, and it still remains a puzzle not only how Burke was able to maintain so handsome an establishment, but how he could ever suppose it likely that he would be able to maintain it.

He counted, no doubt, on making some sort of income by farming.