434 HUNTING TOURS. 



" To the Right Honourable the Countess of 

 Yarhorough. 



" May it please your Ladyship : We, the 

 tenants of the Earl of Yarborough and gentle- 

 men of the Brocklesby Hunt, have the plea- 

 sure to meet at this ancient seat of the 

 Pelhams, to request your acceptance of an 

 equestrian portrait of your ladyship painted 

 by an artist eminent in the profession. We 

 reflect with delight on the day when, from 

 the sister isle, came the bride of the repre- 

 sentative of the noble family of Pelham — a 

 family so famed for generosity and kindness, 

 and which receives additional lustre from 

 those amiable qualities which endear your 

 ladyship equally to both rich and poor. We 

 hope your ladyship will accept this portrait 

 in acknowledgment of our appreciation of 

 your condescending kindness and affability 

 which have been so constantly shown to us in 

 the field as well as to all in the neighbourhood. 

 We profit by the occasion to tender to the 

 Earl of Yarborough our grateful acknow- 

 ledgments for the handsome manner in which 

 it pleases his lordship gratuitously to hunt 

 the country, and for carrying out so nobly 

 the many examples of his illustrious ances- 



