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but I cannot think that in my endeavours to 

 perpetuate this breed, and thus improve the 

 horses in the country — an object of general 

 interest at the present moment — I have done 

 anything to incur your lordship's censure. I am 

 fully aware — as I think your lordship must be, 

 too, by this time — that legal proceedings upon 

 your part would be powerless against me, and 

 if, therefore, I resign the living which I hold 

 within your lordship's diocese, it will not be 

 from any consciousness of wrong, or from fear of 

 any consequences which might ensue in the. 

 ecclesiastical Courts, but simply because I 

 desire to live the remainder of my days in peace 

 and charity with all men, and to save your lord- 

 ship the annoyance, and the Church the scandal 

 of futile proceedings being taken against one 

 who has retired for some time from parochial 

 ministrations, and is lying on the bed of sickness 

 at this moment." 

 Mr. " Launde " in his time possessed first-class race- 

 horses, but he failed to carry off the big tliree-year-old 

 events until the year when, with Apology, he won the 

 One Thousand, the Oaks, the Coronation Stakes at 

 Ascot, and the St. Leger. By his death. Holy Friar 

 was disqualified for the Derby, the Bentinck Memorial 

 Stakes, and the Rous Stakes at Goodwood, the Zetland 

 Biennial and the Great Northern Leger at Stockton, 

 the Great Yorkshire Stakes, the Doncaster Stakes, and 

 the Don Stakes at Doncaster, the North Derby at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the Lambton Stakes at 

 Durham. The nominations of Hypocrisy, Apology, 

 Militant, Monk (by Hermit — Thorsday), Analogy, and 



