"Once in a while," he said, "they come here from Loughrea with English Parliament-men, and stand outside of the gate, and call me 'Clanricarde's dog,' and make like speeches at me; but I don't mind them, and they see it, and go away again." Of Mr.Burke, the evicted tenant here, Mr.Crawford, the Protestant clergyman at Portumna, told me that he was abundantly able to pay his rent.

The whole debt for which Burke was evicted was L115; and Mr.
Crawford said he had himself offered Burke L300 for the holding.

Burke would have gladly taken this, but "the League wouldn't let him." When his right was put up for sale at Galway for L5, he did not dare to buy it in, and he is now living with his wife and children on the League funds.

Lord Clanricarde's agent offered to take him back and restore his right if he would pay what he owed; but he dared not accept.

This farm comprises over one hundred and ten English acres, which Burke held at a rent--fixed by the Land Court--of L77, the valuation for taxes being L83.
To call the eviction of such a tenant in such circumstances from such a holding a "sentence of death," is making ducks and drakes of the English language.