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that time passed in front of Marcham House, 

 close to the hall door. Mr. Duffield had given 

 strict orders that farm carts were never to 

 pass that way. He was at the hall door when 

 a cart came by, and angrily demanded why 

 his orders had been disobeyed. No answer 

 was given. The labourers with the cart 

 silently removed a rick-cloth with which it was 

 covered, and exposed to the horrified parent's 

 view the dead body of his eldest son. 



Mr. Duffield had also by his marriage two 

 other sons and five daughters : Henry, who 

 took the name of Elwes, died in 1833 without 

 issue, and Charles, who took the hounds on 

 Mr. Morrell's retirement ; Caroline, the eldest 

 daughter, who married Mr. Edwin Martin- 

 Atkins, of Kingstone Lisle, Berks, a name well 

 known in the Old Berks Hunt ; Maria, who 

 married Mr. Best, of Donnington, Berks ; Anna, 

 who married Mr. John S. Phillips, of Culham ; 

 Susan, who died, 1841 ; and Elizabeth, who 

 married Mr. H. J. Ashurst, of Waterstock, 

 Oxon. 



In 1838 Mr. Duffield married en secondes 

 noces, Augusta, second daughter of Colonel 

 Rushbrooke, M.P. for West Suffolk, and 

 had, besides three children who died un- 

 married, a son, Thomas, of whom we shall 

 have more to say hereafter. 



