Family mansion described—Library—Garden—Anecdotes of my
family—State of landlord and tenant in 1760—The gout—Ignorance of
the peasantry; extraordinary anomaly in the loyalty and
disloyalty of the Irish country gentlemen as to James I., Charles
I., Charles II., James II., and William—Ancient toasts—My
great-grandfather, Colonel John Barrington, hanged on his own
gate; but saved by Edward Doran, trooper of King James—Irish
customs, anecdotes, &c. p. 1