They were great sheep-raisers.

An old law of the Irish Parliament had exempted sheep, but not cattle or crops, from distraint, with an eye to encouraging the woollen interest in Ireland.
As to the sale of tenant-right in Ireland, he told me a curious story.
One woman, a widow, whom he named, owed two year' rent on a holding in Ulster at L4 a year.

She was abundantly able to pay, but for her own reasons preferred to be evicted, and, finally, by an understanding with him, offered her tenant-right for sale.

A man who had made money in iron-mines in the County of Durham was a bidder, and finally offered L240 for the holding.

It was knocked down to him.