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with Sir Lawrance Dundas, progenitor of the spotty ' 

 Earls of Zetland), but for his performances with 

 hounds; not only for the thoroughbreds he possessed, 

 but for the valuable paintings (representing sporting 

 subjects of various kinds, and including a portrait of 

 the notorious Mr. Tregonwell Frampton and a view 

 of the Earl of March's, that is, ' Old Q.'s,' famous 

 * carriage-match ') he had collected. His feat in 

 1759, when at the peril of his own life (so well worth 

 living with his many advantages) he saved Miss Howe 

 from imminent drowning, after a run with the hounds, 

 (in the melancholy fashion of Sir C. Slingsby of the 

 York and Ainsty in later days), when his liberal offers 

 had failed to tempt anybody with less to lose, would 

 have earned him the medal of a certain excellent 

 societ} 7 at the present time. His horse Thorn ville 

 (bred by Colonel Thornton, by Herod out of Cleopatra, 

 by Spectator) is said to have run four miles at York 

 August Meeting, 1782, in 7J minutes ; but Mr. Orton 

 (in his ' Annals ') merely says that the race (for the 

 Great Subscription) was ' supposed to have been run 

 in less time than any race since the year 1766, when 

 Bay Malton beat Jerkin,' &c, and then it was run in 

 7 minutes 43J seconds. But * clocking ' is altogether 

 unsatisfactory ; for by that means you may seem to 

 prove that Merry Hampton and Ayrshire were better 

 over the Derby course than The Flying Dutchman, 

 West Australian, and Ormonde. 



Mr. Wilbraham, who ran Shakspeare for a Jockey 



