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men behind him, rode madly in pursuit. The fugitives 

 had got too good a start, and the chase was as fruitless 

 as ' the racing and chasing on Cannobie lea ' after the 

 lost bride of Netherby and Young Lochinvar. But 

 when old Sir George's wrath had cooled he missed his 

 pretty Dorothy, and right glad was he when, some twelve 

 months later, she brought her first-born to receive his 

 grandsire's blessing. Then all was forgotten and for- 

 given, and the son of John Manners and Dorothy his 

 wife became the heir of Haddon Hall. 



Belvoir Castle was roughly handled by the Round- 

 heads, who left it almost in ruins, but it was rebuilt after 

 the Restoration, and in the Revolution of 1688 its 

 hospitable gates were opened to the Princess Anne 

 when she fled in terror from Whitehall. She never 

 forgot the kindly protection of John Manners, the ninth 

 Earl, and, when she came^ to the throne, showed her 

 gratitude by creating him Marquis of Granby and 

 Duke of Rutland. 



Under the second Duke commenced the sporting glories 

 of Belvoir. There were hounds kept at the Castle certainly 

 as early as 1730, and probably before that date. But 

 they were no doubt mainly, if not entirely, used for stag- 

 hunting. The kennel records can be traced back to 

 1750, at which time the Duke's eldest son, the Marquis of 

 Granby, appears to have been Master of the Hunt. A 

 gallant and dashing figure was this same Marquis among 

 his contemporaries. You may see his portrait in the 

 National Gallery, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a jolly, 

 devil-may-care gentleman he looks there on his mettle- 

 some stepd. There was, perhaps, no finer cavalry leader 

 in Europe than John Manners, Marquis^of Granby, and 

 the great victory over the French at Minden, on the ist 



