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so famous. The '' Druid " tells us that Lord Ply- 

 mouth, who could never be called a hard rider, gave 

 Sir Bellingham a thousand guineas for Beeswax 

 and Freemason, and that he seldom sold the 

 horses of his own riding for less than four hundred 

 guineas each : Parchment, The Baron, and Treacle 

 all went to Mr. Maxse at this figure ; so did that 

 handsome grey horse Hesperus, a wonderful 

 animal over deep country, who went into Mr. 

 Foljambe's hands at the same price ; but Will 

 Butler, to whom he was assigned, had to do all his 

 cub-hunting on him that season before he could 

 get him quiet enough to suit them there. 



There seems no record of what became of those 

 celebrated hunters Paul, Jerry, and Norton 

 Conyers, a chestnut horse who could manage 

 twenty stone and was a splendid gate-jumper. 



From the pictures of these horses which are in 

 my possession it seems as if most of them could 

 have carried at least eighteen stone, not far off 

 the weight which their owner must have required 

 from them. 



In the portrait of Treacle there is a likeness 

 of John Pulfrey, the old stud groom, who after 

 many years of long and faithful service was 

 settled in one of the Norton farms, where he died 

 on the 1st July 1864, aged eighty-three. 



One year during the summer months a country- 



