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After the season of 1876 a cup was pre- 

 sented by Messrs, C. Pigou (15th Regt.) and 

 C. F. Watkins (Scots Greys), who had been 

 hunting in the country, to be run for by 

 members of the Hunt and farmers residing in 

 the country. The event took place at Middle 

 Leaze Farm, Coleshill, on April the 8th, 1876. 

 It was won by Mr. Goddard's Lottery, ridden 

 by Mr. G. Drewe. 2nd, Mr. T. Fisher's 

 Kingfisher, ridden by Mr. F. M. Butler. 



A match was then run between Mr. G. 

 Adams's Aylesbury, ridden by Mr. Percy 

 Crowdy ; and Mr. Pigou's Grey Friar, ridden 

 by the owner, and was won by the former. 



A scurry race followed, which was won by 

 Mr. G. Reade's King Bryan, ridden by Mr. H. 

 Bayley. 



Hunting was stopped in January, 1881, by 

 the very hard frost, which was very severely 

 felt in Berkshire, and particularly upon the 

 Downs, where several deaths occurred of 

 people overtaken by the snow, which fell with- 

 out warning and with extraordinary rapidity. 

 Communication with London was suspended 

 by the blocking of a train in the Molesford 

 cutting. Mr. Thatcher, of Longcot, had sent 

 four carts to deliver coal at the gas-house at 

 Lambourne. The carts were in charge of a 

 man named Patient, who was accompanied 



