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gold cup, on which is engraved the names of the original 

 founders of this once celebrated club. The inscription 

 runs thus : — 



" Presented by the original and underioritten members 

 of the B.D.C., as a testimony of their regard and a 

 token of their good wishes for the happiness and 

 prosperity of the club. 



"a. axesley h. villebois 



Sir Heney Peyton T. Whitmoke 



T. Harkison Capt. Hamilton 



H. F. Okeovee." 



The first on the list is Arthur Anesley, Esq., a 

 gentleman of Oxfordshire, whose portly figure I remem- 

 ber well, sitting behind his four red roans, and exhibiting 

 all the skill and accomplishments of a first-rate artist. 



Sir Henry Peyton, Bart., was long a most active 

 member of the club, and took considerable interest in the 

 well-doing of several professionals, whom he liberally 

 patronized, and when in town would frequently and 

 separately visit them at the ofiice from which their drags 

 set out, mounted on his handsome grey cob, criticizing 

 and passing encomiums on all that he admired. He 

 always drove four greys, a good-looking team, though 

 slow, which he handled well, and was looked u^ to by 

 his fellows as a Nestor, experienced in the art, both 

 willing and capable of giving instructions to the younger 

 practitioner. 



With him was associated a gentleman I have had 

 occasion to name before — the late Henry Villebois, Esq., 

 of Marham, in the county of Norfolk, brother of Mr. 

 Truman Villebois, who for so many years was Master of 



