The dispute continued for many months, but as the charges on the estate had to be met, the agent was obliged to give way, and allow an abatement of four shillings in the pound on these judicial rents.
Some of these charges, to meet which the agent gave way, were for money borrowed from the Commissioners of Public Works to _improve the holdings of the tenants_.

For these improvements thus thrown entirely upon the funds of the estate no increase of rent or charge of any kind had been laid upon the tenants.
When a settlement was agreed on, those of the tenants who had adopted the Plan came in a body to pay their rents on 3d January 1888.

They stated that they were unable to pay more than the rent due up to November 1886, and that they would never have adopted the Plan had they not been driven into it by _sheer distress_.

After which they handed Mr.
Richardson a cheque drawn by John T.Dillon, Esq., M.P., for the amount banked with the National League.
An article appeared shortly afterwards in a League newspaper, loudly boasting of the great victory won by Mr.Dillon, M.P., for the starving and poverty-stricken tenants.

Two of these tenants (brothers) were under a yearly rent of L7, 10s.