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white buttons and frock sleeves, buft" waistcoat and breech- 

 es, and a bhick velvet cap. 



Thus equipped the provincial hunters took the Held, 

 and rarely sat down to the hunting dinner, without the 

 display of a Brush, frequently two or three were the tro- 

 phies of the morning's chase. 



In 1775, the hey-days of the Club prosperity, the 

 pack consisted of about sixteen couple of choice fleet 

 hounds, the prized property of a full company of gallant 

 huntsmen. 



A period of war intervenes and supercedes all aflairs of 

 the chace until October 1780, when a slender meeting was 

 obtained at the City Coffee House, and the President Mr. 

 Morris, produced his accounts for the two last years, 

 which were examined by Messrs. Donaldson and Lard- 

 ner and a balance found due him of £ 3553 15 9 1-2 

 which was ordered to be paid by collecting £ 187 10 a 

 piece from nineteen reckoned purse contributing mem- 

 bers, amongst whom are rated Sharp Delaney, Thomas 

 Leiper, William Turnbull and Blair M'Clenachan: the 

 country gentlemen, viz. John Boyle, Colonel Thomas 

 Robinson, Joseph Ellis of Burlington, George Noarth, 

 Jonathan Potts, Mark Bird and Colonel Benjamin Flow- 

 er, being only registered as privileged hunters, were not 

 regularly assessed. In this emergency however a contri- 

 bution was assessed of a voluntary nature of five hundred 

 dollars on each of these gentlemen, to pay off all the ex- 

 isting old debts. 



