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as he must have done if he put into practice his ' at 

 the hour ' selecting rule. And, further, it is against 

 common-sense to suppose that some half-dozen lads 

 were made acquainted with a secret for their master 

 to select — one. 



The formation of a racing establishment and a 

 'villa' at Newmarket no doubt involved a heavy 

 'embargo' on Lord March's cash. Now, whether 

 these anticipated and actually made outlays led our 

 Nimrod to consider that a sum of some ten thousand 

 pounds would be more useful to him than in the 

 hands of its assignee, cannot be determined. But 

 his lordship's contesting the validity of a bond for 

 £10,575 which his mother had assigned to Mr. 

 Sawyer, her second husband, on June 26th, 1747, 

 certainly shows a desire to, at least, keep the money 

 in the family. 



In a work of this character it will be unnecessary 

 to follow the legal quibbles resulting from Lord 

 March's action against his stepfather. However, 

 both commoner and peer carried their cause to its 

 dernier ressort — the House of Lords, when his lord- 

 ship or his legal advisers seem to have adopted 

 procrastinating tactics, as the Earl of March was 

 ordered to answer peremptorily Sawyer's appeal, 

 and ultimately judgment was given in Mr. Sawyer's 



