DEATH OF HENRY GREENE, ESQ., M.F.H. 



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eight bells in the tower than is allotted to a whole peal at 

 the present day ; which may account for their peculiarly 

 sweet silvery tone. Memory recalls that upon these bells 

 the chimes used, with other tunes, to play the following 

 pretty air : — 



i)i^ J'l ^ J "* ^^ U >/^^ 



te/ e^ ' BOiiR. ma 'Soi*-^ ^m. «e yewi me. ih 



My ^IFE- ^ I ^V6 m ^'^^, * 



til mmasH^ m ^^ • ■^'^ 



And although the proposal in the opening stanza may 

 be apt to shock the moralist, the precept of love and 

 constancy inculcated in the reply will, I hope, banish, or at 

 any rate counterbalance, any such impressions. 



Although a covert previously existed, probably on the 

 same site, it was Mr. Greene who, I believe, planted the 

 fine covert known as Norton Gorse. 



Mr. Greene outlived his successor. Sir Richard Sutton, 

 passing away very suddenly from heart affection on 7th 

 November 1861, his death being a great shock to his many 



