text:  But suppose the rents in Ireland were exorbitant who would be to blame?--the landlords who accepted them or the people who _swore_ to their extraordinary moderation? Let us look to the registry courts:--[36] "There the landlords were found opposing the admission of their tenantry to the register and stating on oath that they considered the rents received by them as the full value of the land--_while the tenants and their neighbours and the liberal 'valuators ' were proving 'that it was let by those rack-renting and heartless men' grossly under its value_