332 KINGSCLERE 



Years Mounts Wins 



I87O 15 2 



1871 40 3 



1872 180 27 



1873 422 104 



1874 53o 147 



1875 605 172 



1876 662 207 



1877 602 218 



1878 619 229 



1879 568 197 



1880 362 120 



1881 532 220 



1882 560 210 



1883 631 232 



1884 577 241 



1885 667 246 



1886 5 12 170 



8,084 2,748 



regarded as a national event. Such a scene, or succession 

 of scenes, as Newmarket presented on the day of the 

 ceremony had never been witnessed before, and perhaps 

 never will again. Every class participated, from those who 

 shared the thousand loaves of bread, the thousand pints of 

 ale, and the roasted ox on ' The Severals,' to the profes- 

 sional inhabitants and friends of bride and bridegroom 

 at ' headquarters/ to the very highest in the land. The 

 wedding presents were on a regal scale in number and 

 costliness. They were typified by the gifts of Prince 

 Batthyany, ' a bracelet set with a pearl as large as a Brazil- 

 nut, round which were circled girdles of diamonds,' of Lord 

 Falmouth, ' a solid silver dinner service,' and of Sir Henry 

 Hawkins, a loving tankard, bearing the inscription ' From 

 Sir Henry Hawkins to F. Archer.' It was a splendid 

 beginning to what promised to be a happy married life, 

 but Mrs. Archer only lived to give birth to their first child, 

 and poor Fred, was left a broken-hearted widower. After 

 his bereavement he took a trip to America for change of 

 scene. On his return, no doubt benefited by the voyage, 

 he in due course resumed riding, but he was never the 

 same man again. He had wasted excessively to ride St. 

 Mirin in the Cambridgeshire, and was not at all fit for work 

 when he went to the Lewes meeting to fulfil his engage- 



