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took his place. In that year a handsome piece of plate in the 

 form of a silver-gilt urn, with a hawk killing a hare, well 

 modelled on the top thereof, was presented to the Colonel by 

 the club. (This urn was exhibited in 1 889 at the ' Sports and 

 Arts ' exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery by the present Lord 

 Orford, who purchased it from a descendant of Colonel 

 Thornton.) The inscription on the urn, and the list of names 

 which is engraved on it, are interesting as recording something 

 of the progress of the chief hawking establishment of a hundred 

 years ago, and the names of those who patronised the sport at 

 that date. The inscription runs as follows : — 



Col. Thornton, the 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 Falconers' 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, he has brought them, and when unable 

 to attend to them any longer, he made them a present to the 

 Earl of Orford. Barton Mills, June 23rd, 1781. 



MEMBERS OF THE CLUB 



Earl of Orford Mr. Vaughan 



Mr. Sturt Mr. R. Wilson 



Mr. Snow Mr. Musters 



Mr. Smith Mr. Barrington Price 



Mr. Stephens Mr. Daniel 



Earl Ferrers Hon. W. Rowley 



Hon. Thos. Shirley Lord Mulgrave 



Sir John Tancred Mr. E. Parsons 



Mr. A. Wilkinson Captain Grimstone 



Mr. B. Wrightson Captain Yarburgh 



Mr. Drummond Earl of Leicester 



Sir Cornwallis Maud Mr. Stanhope 



Duke of Ancaster Mr. Leighton 



Mr. Williamson Mr. Francis Barnard 



Mr. Baker Mr. Nelthorpe 



Mr. W. Baker Mr. Potter 



Mr. Pierse Col. St. Leger 



Mr. Chaplin Mr. Serle 



