Clarke informs Thomas Conolly that ‘…Leixlip was advertised the Tuesday after you went away and to my great surprise nobody has bid for it since, or taken any notice about it except Sir Harry Cavendish, who I had some discourse with today, and by what I can find he is deterred from bidding anything for it, as he says your demand is so very large and he would not offer any rent that might have the appearance of undervaluing anything belonging to you, and as for Mr. Trevor I am well assured that he has not the least thoughts of taking it on any terms. Sir Harry told me that he had spoke to Will Clements about it, and between you and me I make no doubt but he has undervalued the land and is in hopes of getting it for his brother [Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim] for much less than you offered it to him for, though you paid him a compliment about it. I begin to despair of getting it off our hands so soon as we had reason to expect, yet I would not recommend it to you to be too hasty in parting with it except Clements should close with you for what you first proposed, as his father [Nathaniel Clements] told me that he had wrote to him, and that if he had any thoughts of matrimony, he would consent to his taking it, and that he would enable him to keep it.’