122 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



' cheeriest of huntsmen and the most civil of servants. 

 ' Four better-known men, and whose loss would be more 

 ' deeply mourned for, could not be found anywhere. 

 ' Requiescat in pace. The days of the York are numbered 

 ' for the present — never, I am afraid, again to equal the 

 ' last few years.' 



The foregoing extracts are from The Field of February 

 13th, 1869. A curious incident with respect to the accident, 

 which is referred to by Col. Meysey-Thompson, should be 

 mentioned here. His father, who was attending a Board 

 / Meeting of the Directors of the North Eastern Railway 

 Company, was informed of the catastrophe at exactly 

 2-30 p.m., which was twenty-five minutes after the capsizing 

 of the boat, as shown by the watches ot those who were 

 drowned. 



A subscription was got up at once for the widows and 

 families of the drowned ferrymen, and within a month of 

 the accident, the handsome sum of ^265 was collected 

 for them. 



It was also very rightly considered that a memorial 

 should be erected to the memory of Sir Charles Slingsby, 

 and the Vicar of Knaresborough made an appeal that a 

 stained-glass window should be placed in the parish church. 

 This suggestion was heartily approved, and a window was 

 placed in the church at a cost of some ^,400. Messrs. 

 Clayton & Bell, of London, designed the window, the 

 subjects being taken trom the lessons ot the day on which 

 the accident took place. There are two from the Old 

 Testament and two from the New, the former being 'The 

 deliverance of Israel,' with inscription, ' Seeing the salvation 

 of the Lord'; and 'Healing the bitter waters of Marah,' 

 inscription, ' I am the Lord that healeth thee.' The New- 

 Testament subjects are 'Jesus asleep in the storm,' 

 inscription, 'Master, carest Thou not that we perish.'^' and 



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