[133] Ibid., p. 14.
[134] Report of the Fry Commission, pp. 18, 19.
[135] Ibid., pp. 12-26.
[136] Ibid., p. 15.
[137] Report of the Irish Land Commission to March, 1900, p. 64.
[138] It is but just to the Land Commission to state that the reductions of rent made by the County Courts were somewhat higher than those it made. But this was notoriously because rack-rented tenants, for the sake of expedition, rushed first to these tribunals.
[139] Report of the Irish Land Commission, p. 64.
[140] Report of the Irish Land Commission, p. 3.
[141] See a remarkable instance in the Evidence taken by the Fry Commission, p. 683: ‘The holding was let in 1771 at 30s. the Irish acre, equal to about £1 per statute acre. The Sub-Commissioners have now cut it down to less than 12s. 6d. per acre.’
[142] Evidence taken by the Fry Commission, pp. 496, 609, 670.