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with no road work except for those who took it from choice or 

 necessity. 



The water was large and it took half-an-hour before we 

 captured our hind. I rode home by Theydon Schools, Hill 

 Hall and Sworder's F'arm at Stapleford, where we refreshed 

 men and horses, See. 



Thomas Mashiter 



Thomas Mashiter. known as Thomas Helme when livincr 

 in Essex — he only assumed the name of Mashiter twelve years 

 before he died — was father of the present Master of the Essex 

 Union Hounds. He hunted up to the age of seventy, and 

 hunted twenty-five years in Essex. On leaving the county he 

 became Hon. Sec. and Treasurer to the .Surrey Union Hounds 

 during the Masterships of Captain Barnard Hankey and the 

 Hon. Francis Scott, and on resigning was presented by the 

 members of the Hunt with a beautiful picture by Stansfield. 

 In 1882 he assumed the name of Mashiter, and fourteen years 

 afterwards died at the ripe old age of 92. 



