Squire forester auD TLom /llbooDv *5 



I bequeath the sum of one guinea. And I do hereby 

 direct that my old chestnut horse, commonly called the 

 Aldenham horse, shall be shot as soon as conveniently 

 may be after my decease, by two persons, one of whom 

 to fire first, and the other to wait in reserve and fire im- 

 mediately afterwards, so that he may be put to death 

 as expeditiously as possible ; and I direct that he shall 

 afterwards be buried with his hide on, and that a flat 

 stone without inscription shall be placed over him. . . . 

 I request that my body may be carried to its burial place 

 in the dusk of the evening.' 



So, on a cloudy summer night, just as the bells were 

 chiming ten, they buried the old fox-hunter by torch- 

 light in the family vault beneath the family pew in the 

 ivy-grown old Norman Church of Willey. 



