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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XI
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on the judicial rents, and 40 per cent.

on the others.

This also being refused, Father Ryan had his way, and the "Plan of Campaign" was adopted.

The O'Grady's writs issued against several of the tenants were met by a "Plan of Campaign" auction of cattle at Herbertstown in December 1886, the returns of which were paid into "the Fund." For this, one of the tenants, Thomas Moroney, who held, besides a a farm of 37 Irish acres, a "public," and five small houses, at Herbertstown, and the right to the tolls on cattle at the Herbertstown farm, valued at from L50 to L60 a year, and who held all these at a yearly rent of L85, was proceeded against.

Judge Boyd pronounced him a bankrupt.
In the spring of 1887, after The O'Grady had been put to great costs and trouble, the tenants made a move.


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