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Gorry's br. h., and Mrs. Orme's b. h. entered for the 

 ^loo Plate which Her Majesty had given. 



Owing to Swift's objection to riding, the world is 

 without his description of the race, for he writes in one of 

 his letters to Stella, under date August 13th, 1711: "I 

 missed the race to-day by coming too late, when every- 

 body's coach was gone, and ride I would not." On August 



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loth, 1711, he writes also: "While at Windsor, Dr. 

 Arbuthnot, the Queen's physician and favourite, went out 

 with me to show me the place ; we went a little after the 

 Queen and overtook Miss Forester, a maid of honour, on 

 her palfrey, taking the air ; we made her go along with 

 us. We saw a place they have made for a famous horse 

 race to-morrow, where the Queen will come." 



In regard to the making of the Course, some interesting 

 particulars are found in the Declared Accounts of Charles, 



17 c 



