270 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



associated with the prowess of Apology in the One Thousand Guineas, 

 and the St. Leger of hei- year. 



Yours is a profession in which it happens that even the just and 

 upright man may fall under suspicion, but so well ordered has been 

 your conduct that at no time has the slightest whisper of falseness been 

 heard against your name. It is in recognition of a life so manly, so 

 blameless, that the subscribers to this testimonial now address you, and 

 we trust for many years to come we may yet see you in the active 

 discharge of the duties of your profession, the same modest, straight- 

 forward, unpretending man of principle that we have always known 

 you. We trust that in your public life you will continue to experience 

 the success which your sterling abilities cannot fail to command, and 

 that in your domestic relations happiness and peace may attend you. 



Signed on behalf of the Subscribers — 



'O 



H. F. C. Vynee, Newby Hall. 



R. C. Vyner, Fairfield. 



Mr. "Laundb." 



R. Jardine, Castlemilk. 



R. N. Batt. 



James Snarry. 



Wm. Greaves. 



Viscount Lascelles. 



Richard Johnson. 



Henry Bragg, Hon. Treasurer. 



Joseph James Walton, Hon. Secretary. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, June SOth, 1875. 



Death has been busy with the majority of those 

 whose names are affixed, those now no more being 

 Mr. H. F. C. Vyner, Mr. " Launde " (Mr. King), Mr. 

 R. N. Batt, Mr. Greaves (the Pontefract Giant), Mr. 

 Richard Johnson, Mr. Henry Bragg, and Mr. Walton. 

 Old "Judge" Johnson, Mr. Harry Bragg (of Grand 

 Flaneur and Victor Emanuel fame), and Mr. J. J. 

 Walton, a well-known North-country pressman, had 

 each a " Life " which, if told, would make a world of 

 Turf experiences. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. 



