As they were most of them unwilling to accept the Plan, and were intimidated into it for the benefit of the League, and of the two chief tenants, Mr.Dunn and Mr.Kilbride, men of substance who had squandered their resources, the majority of the evicted are sore and angry.
"At first each man was allowed L3 a month by the League for himself and his family.

But they found that Mr.Kilbride, who has been put into Parliament by Mr.Parnell for Kerry, a county with which he has no more to do than I have with the Isle of Skye, was getting L5 a week, and so they revolted, and threatened to bolt if their subsidy was not raised to L4 a month." "And this they get now?
Out of what funds ?" "Out of the League funds, or, in other words, out of their own and other people's money, foolishly put by the tenants into the keeping of the League to 'protect' it! They give it the kind of 'protection' that Oliver gave the liberties of England: once they get hold of it, they never let go!" I submitted that at Gweedore Father M'Fadden had paid over to Captain Hill the funds confided to him.
"No doubt; but there the landlord gave in, and the more fool he!" With another guest I had an interesting conversation about the Ulster tenant-right, which got itself more or less enacted into British law only in 1870, and of which Mr.Froude tells me he sought in vain to discover the definite origin.

"The best lawyers in Ireland" could give him no light on this point.

He could only find that it did not exist apparently in 1770, but did exist apparently twenty years later.

The gentleman with whom I talked to-night tells me that the custom of Ulster was really once general throughout Ireland, and is called the "Ulster" custom, only because it survived there after disappearing elsewhere.
There is a tradition too, he says, in Ulster that the recognition of this tenant-right as a binding custom there is really due to Lord Castlereagh.