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the Holderness country under the regime of the late Mr. 

 James Hall. Mr. Lowish's father and another man each 

 had fields of wheat adjoining a very favourite covert, and 

 the field belonging to the latter was cut up to such a 

 degTee, that it looked as if there would be no crop to 

 harvest at all. However, no claim was put forward, so 

 Mr. Hall sent a cheque for £25, stating that he felt sure 

 that the field must have sufiered considerably. But this 

 honest Yorkshireman returned the cheque, and said that 

 that particular field of wheat had been the best crop on 

 the farm. So delighted was Mr. Hall, a grand old sports- 

 man, and a most just and generous man, that he sent both 

 Mr. Lowish and his neighbour not £25 each, but £50. 

 No wonder fox-hunting flourished in those days, and that 

 landlords and the fox-hunting gentry were on such excellent 

 terms with the tenant farmers. 



Doctor Buckland, Dean of Westminster, and father of 

 the well-known naturalist, used to visit at Brocklesby in 

 the time of the first earl, and he once remarked to Lord 

 Yarborough — " Your tenants are of very high character ; 

 where do you get them from ? " " Get them ! " replied 

 his host, proudly, "get them! I don't get them, I breed 

 them." And so it was, many of the families having been 

 on the estate when the Pelhams came to Brocklesby, while 

 at the time of the first earl there were many who dated 

 their holdings from even before that time. 



