48 Presidentship of the Earl of Macclesfield 1754 



It may be remarked here that at the end of each minute 

 of the business transacted at the Annual General Meeting 

 the Treasurer carefully records that " Josiah Colebrooke 

 was continued Treasurer and thanks were ordered him for 

 his care." .This entry concludes the minute, but as years 

 go on it grows shorter, until at last it becomes merely 

 " Colebrooke, Treas r with thanks," but it is never omitted 

 even up to the last minute in his handwriting. 



The year 1754 was another year especially marked in 

 the annals of the Club by gifts for the table. The Earl of 

 Marchmont, who was not infrequently present as a visitor, 

 had a special dainty to bestow in the shape of " pickled sal- 

 mon," which is duly recorded by the Treasurer as having 

 been found " most excellent." It was apparently so good 

 and the company of the donor so agreeable that his health 

 was toasted and he was made an honorary member of 

 the Club. This Marchmont fish appeared at successive 

 dinners, and was continued from time to time for a number 

 of years, until the Earl forfeited his membership by non- 

 attendance for twelve months. Gifts of venison came 

 from Lord Royston, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Marquis 

 of Rockingham, Mr. Charles Stanhope, Sir Matthew Feather- 

 stonehaugh, and Dean Lyttelton. So great was the supply 

 of venison that an additional dinner was called for. The 

 Treasurer's minute on nth July is to the following effect : 



" The Company being this day entertained with venison from 

 Rt. Honble. Viscount Royston his health was drank in claret and 

 the Extra reckoning paid by the Company present and not out of 

 the Fund. The Earl of Shaftesbury having sent halfe a Buck to 

 entertain this Society, it was agreed to meet on Saturday next the 

 13 of July to eat the same and ordered that his Lordship be regis- 

 tered an Honorary member." Accordingly, on the day appointed 

 the dinner is recorded as "an extra Mitre on account of venison 

 sent in by the Earl of Shaftesbury and Vise* Royston." 



On the 5th September the Club partook of a turtle sent 

 for its entertainment by the First Lord of the Admiralty, 

 the illustrious Admiral Lord Anson. Josiah Colebrooke, 

 with his accustomed care, records that this turtle weighed 

 115 Ibs. Later in the same month James West, who had 



