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at Lady Holt, after the great run upon it at the 

 festivities. It is an interesting record of the wine 

 which a country gentleman would store in the earlier 

 part of the last century, and doubtless had in a great 

 part been smuggled through the hands of Robin the 

 postman and other worthies, into Lady Holt Park. 



doz. bot. 



Burgundy ... ... ... 2 8 



French Claret ... ... ... 6 4 



C a booke (?) 8 6 



Hermitage ... ... ... 9 2 



Mahen (? Madeira) 9 7 



Fruntinah (Frontignac) ... 2 8 



Red Port 2 4 



Mountain ... ... ... 15 o 



Sack O 2 



56 - 5 



" So" continues Lady Mary " I have ordered one 

 hogshead of Red Port, and one of French White, wh., 

 with these two that we expect from France, and 

 the half hogshead you bespoke of hermitage, will I 

 hope be enough for the present. You kill every year 

 eleven braces of bucks the keeper tells me, and three 

 braces of them goes each year in presents." . . * 



Next follows mention of another or two of Lady 

 Mary's little quarrels. " Mrs. Peacham has given me 

 leave to go thro' her field to Uppark, but in so un- 

 gentle a maner, that I have writ her word I wou'd 

 not accept of it." A second grievance of a more 

 serious character concludes this interesting letter. 

 The reader will note that it is caused by one of 

 those betes noirs, the Jones, who seems to have 

 started a general Harting row, by her pranks with 

 the boys cricketing on the hill, on Sunday, June 5, 



