Birthplace : Limber Magna 



to fit, no racing plate too delicate for him to manipulate. 

 When my brother first started what I may call serious racing, 

 Grimbleby determined that he would thoroughly master the 

 blacksmith's finest art, the racing plate, and with such infinite 

 care did he study the matter, that never once did he fail, nor 

 a horse that he had shod lose a race through bad shoeing, as 

 is so frequently the case. 



From the blacksmith's you come to an open space, and on 

 the south side, facing the New Inn, is a broad, iron-railed, 

 gravel road, leading to a pair of finely wrought gates, which 

 bring you to Limber's famous and most cherished building, the 

 Mausoleum of the Earls of Yarborough. This dome-shaped 

 building was erected under the direction of James Wyatt by 

 the same Squire Pelham to whom Limber owes its background 

 of woodlands, in memory of his much-loved wife, who has 

 gone down to posterity in Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous picture, 

 entitled " Mrs. Pelham feeding her chickens." She died at the 

 age of thirty-two years. 



This grand tomb stands on a grassy insulated eminence 

 known to have been a Roman tumulus, many Roman sepulchral 

 urns having been found there when digging the foundations, 

 right in the heart of the woods, where they are broadest, and 

 is surrounded by magnificent specimens of the cedar of Lebanon, 

 the seeds of which were brought from the East and planted on 

 the spot where they now flourish, by Squire Pelham's own 

 hands, over a hundred years ago. 



The interior of the Mausoleum, consecrated by Dr. Prettyman, 

 the then Bishop of Lincoln, in 1794, is circular, and is divided 

 into four compartments by eight fluted columns supporting a 

 vaulted and highly decorated stained glass dome, which when the 

 door of this mortuary chapel is closed throws a soft and beautiful 

 light upon the interior of the building. This light, as was 



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