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funds of the local branch of the Surgical Aid Society 

 —about eighty pounds being raised. In olden days 

 the Belvoir were famous for their Ash Wednesday 

 fixtures, meeting at Saltby Church 

 about twelve o'clock, but in 1889, 

 by the express wish of the late 

 Duchess of Rutland — Lady John 

 Manners — the fixture was aban- 

 doned never to be revived. Last 

 year in the Field, Captain Pennell, 

 Elmhirst, called to mind a mem- 

 orable occasion in 1880 : " I in- 

 voluntarily turn to the big brush 

 hanging on the wall above me. 

 I reach it down to read the in- 

 scription ' Ash Wednesday with 

 the Belvoir, 1880,' a remnant 

 token of a great gallop from 

 Coston covert and Woodwell 

 Head, to a kill in the Ashwell 

 Vale. The master elect of the Cot- 

 tesmore, General John Brockle- 

 hurst, will remember it well." 

 Others in that distinguished gathering with Frank Gil- 

 lard, and his famous whipper-in, Will Wells, included 

 the present Lord Lonsdale, Lord Esme Gordon, Mr 

 George Drummond, Mr Rhodes, Mr Gerald Paget, 

 Mr Arthur Brocklehurst, Colonel Gosling, Captain 

 the Hon. H. H. Molyneux, Captain Byng, Captain 

 Arthur Smith, and Mrs Candy. Trophies of a 

 Belvoir fox killed on Ash Wednesday were much 

 sought after, and Captain the Hon. H. H. Molyneux 

 had quite a collection of historical masks hanging 

 over the fireplace of his dining-room, when hunting 

 from Sanham House ; a comfortable residence within 

 sight of Great Dalby Station. 



Tom Firr. 



