text:  But no decree can be granted in ejectment cases until _a clear year's rent_ shall have been proved to be due; and yet we find this man Patrick Ring who it is asserted _owed no arrears of rent up to 1842 and the sale of whose crops and stock paid his rent up to autumn 1842_ evicted in summer 1843 when only _half a year's rent could have accrued due_; and this too by a Roman Catholic assistant barrister (Mr O'Gorman ) a judge above any suspicion and who if we are to believe the statement contained in Ring's own letter was not at all partial to his persecutor