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married Eliza, daughter of Gore Townsend, Esq., of Appendix A. 

 Honington Hall. He held large West Indian estates, 

 and being interested in the Indians, he backed Moly- 

 neux the black prize-fighter against the well-known 

 Cribb. The encounter took place at Shenington Glebe 

 farm at the back of the Temple pond at Upton, while 

 the Rector of Shenington was away from home. Cribb 

 won the fight. After his wife's death he left Warwick- 

 shire and went into Hampshire. One of his most 

 no ted horses was Sprawlo Brazilias, commonly called 

 "old Sprawlo." Well do I remember Mr. Evelyn 

 John Shirley, a short time before his death, and my 

 father speaking of this horse and relating many an 

 anecdote of their old hunting,days, while I stood listen- 

 ing with intense interest. 



GEORGE MILLER. 



