commonly called, for short, amongst his friends, Sir Condy Rackrent, was
ever my great favourite, and, indeed, the most universally beloved man I
had ever seen or heard of, not excepting his great ancestor Sir Patrick,
to whose memory he, amongst other instances of generosity, erected a
handsome marble stone in the church of Castle Rackrent, setting forth in
large letters his age, birth, parentage, and many other virtues,
concluding with the compliment so justly due, that "Sir Patrick
Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality."





CONTINUATION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE RACKRENT FAMILY.



HISTORY OF SIR CONOLLY RACKRENT.


Sir Condy Rackrent, by the grace of God heir-at-law to the Castle
Rackrent estate, was a remote branch of the family: born to little or
no fortune of his own, he was bred to the bar; at which, having many
friends to push him, and no mean natural abilities of his own, he
doubtless would, in process of time, if he could have borne the
drudgery of that study, have been rapidly made king's counsel, at the
least; but things were disposed of otherwise, and he never went the
circuit but twice, and then made no figure for want of a fee, and being
unable to speak in public. He received his education chiefly in the
college of Dublin; but before he came to years of discretion lived in