52 JOHN BAYNTON STARKEY, ESQ. 



judgment was signed ; and as it was then inconvenient 

 for me to find £600, and as Mr. Starkey could not or 

 would not pay the money, I had, in order to save un- 

 pleasant consequences always best avoided, to make 

 terms with the kind-hearted West-End scrivener; 

 which ended in my having to pay him £725 — the 

 odd £125 for expenses and interest, for a few weeks' 

 delay, notwithstanding that I never directly or in- 

 directly benefited one shilling by the transaction. 

 And I need not say I never had any redress ; for 

 Mr. Starkey decamped, and left me to fight the battle 

 single-handed, as best I could. 



Mr. Starkey was born in 1834, he sailed for 

 Australia in 1870, and died at Singleton, New South 

 Wales, in September, 1872. On his attaining his 

 majority he is supposed to have come into but little 

 ready-money, certainly some. The estate, however, 

 was entirely unencumbered. His stud was sold by 

 Messrs. Tattersall (at Spye Park) in 1863, and the 

 next year the estate followed it. The Deny Hill and 

 Brougham portions brought £175,000 together, the 

 former being bought by the then Lord Lansdowne 

 and Mr. Golding, and the latter passing into the 

 hands of the Crown. And I believe Major Spicer 

 gave £100,000 for Spye Park and the remainder of 

 the property, making the total, as I have said, 

 £275,000. 



