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had watched all night) swore most terribly that there 

 had been much Roguery (before y e Fishing) last 

 Summer and last spawning time. Mr. Hawley look'd 

 very blanck, and said they had not got one Water- 

 cart of Fish : all the Fishermen were either swearing, 

 cursing, or looking quite out of countenance. I went 

 to look at the Fish in y 6 stew and found it as they 

 said, but now and then they got a Flashet out of 

 y e Thrashing hole (I think they call it) below the 

 Pond, where the water was so muddy it kill'd the 

 Perch and Trout. I could not comprehend that the 

 Pond could have been robbed in so strange a manner ; 

 so I advised immediately to let down a Flash of 

 water through the Trunck, and w th - that water there 

 came some hundreds of Fish, which made us all 

 alive and merry again, and so made a tollerable 

 Fishing of it, tho' not like last time ; but, as I said 

 before, the water in that hole being so muddy and 

 it could not be lett off, kill'd a vast many Trout* 

 and Perch, and allmost all the Fishermen too, for 

 they were obliged to be many more hours in y 6 

 water than usuall ; and the Potts in the Brook and 

 att y e end of this Hole were too wide, so that they 

 let out a great many Eels and some small Tench ; I 

 wanted some Eels alive for the Harehurst Pond, but 

 they foolishly put some straw into the little pool they 

 were kept in and killed them all, so there was not 

 one came home alive. So much for this dry account 

 of this wet fishing.* * * * Thursday night the fisher- 

 men were allmost killed with snow and rain. But 

 let the weather change as itt will I am always the 

 same that is, D r - Sir, entirely y re -' T. F. HUNT. 

 P.S. Money: Coat" 



On the Qth May, 1747, Lady Holt Park being 



in the height of its beauty, " The Duke of Richmond, 



My Lord and Lady Kildare, &c., were to see it 



two coaches and six."* The Duke's letters show 



* C. C, 28,230, Vol. III., p. 403. 



