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ll^-in. The weight I could not obtain. I was anxious to procure it as a 

 specimen, but it was in the hands of a Frenchman, whose sole idea was to 

 cook it. It was absolutely perfect, and of a rich deep colour. — Edward 

 LovETT (Addiscombe, Croydon). 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



Mementoes of Hawking and Hunting in the Last Century. — On 

 the 11th .lune last, Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods sold, at their 

 auction rooms, King Street, St. James's, several pieces of silver plate 

 presented to Col. Thornton, of Falconer's Hall and Thornville Royal, York- 

 shire, a noted sportsman, who flourished at the end of the last and beginning 

 of the present century. This plate, the property of Major Thornton Wode- 

 house, R.A., was sold by auction, at so much per ounce, as follows : — A 

 silver-gilt tea urn, formed as a globe, surmounted by a group of a hawk and 

 dead hare, with this inscription — " Col. Thornton, proposer and manager of 

 the Confederate Hawks, is requested to receive this piece of plate from 

 George, Earl of Orford, together with the united thanks of the members of 

 the Falconer's Club, as a testimony of their esteem and just sense of his 

 assiduity, and of the unparalleled excellence to which in the course of nine 

 years' management he has brought them. When unable to attend them 

 any longer, he made them a present to the Earl of Orford. — Barton Mills, 

 June 23, 1781." Then follow the names of the members of the Falconers' 

 Club; 136 oz. at 15s., £lV-i. A silver-gilt epergne, with oval open-work 

 basket on chased stand, with four fluted dishes, inscribed, '■ Col. Thornton 

 received this piece of plate of Sir Harry Featherstone and Sir John 

 Ramsden, Baronets, as a compromise to a bet made in honour of a 

 Harableton fox. Col. Thornton, by his original bet, engaged for 300 gs. 

 P.P. (play or pay) to find a fox at Hunts Whint, or in the Easingwold 

 country, that after Christmas, 1779, should run twenty miles. The day to 

 be fixed and the morning approved by Col. Thornton, and to be determined 

 by Sir J. Ramsden and Sir H. Featherstone or the company up." On the 

 bottom was this certificate: — "We, the undermentioned, do declare that 

 on a day appointed for the decision of the bet made by Col. Thornton with 

 Sir J. Ramsden and Sir H. Featherstone, that a fox broke off in view 

 of the hounds and company, which fox was killed after a continued burst, 

 there not being one check, by the different watches, for two hours and 

 thirty-eight minutes, and we, being the only gentlemen up, do believe that 

 the said fox ran at least twenty-eight miles. Col. T., being a party 

 concerned, gave no vote. — Lascelles Lascelles, Henry Hutchinson, Val. 

 Kitchinman, W. Dawson, Randolph Marriott. N.B. — There were only 

 eight horsemen out of seventy up." 108 oz. at 99s. per ounce, £156 12s. 

 A two-handled cup and cover, won by Mrs. Thornton, inscribed, " Col. 

 Thornton's Louisa, by Pegasus and Nell (dam of Kill Devil), rode by Mrs. 



