. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introductory—Masters of the Buckhounds and other EminentSportsmen—Mowbray Morris and Lord Southampton—VarsityRaces, Roger Palmer and the Crimean Steeplechase—ProfessorNeate—The Romance of Cheslyn Hall—Lord Chesterfield andthe Election of Speaker Abercrombie—Grants Picture of theRoyal Hunt—Count DOrsay : his Change of Clothes, hisKnife-spinning, and his Sketches ... ... ... p. \ CHAPTER II. Elections at the Time of the Reform Bill of 1832—AylesburyContests— Potwallers a
. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introductory—Masters of the Buckhounds and other EminentSportsmen—Mowbray Morris and Lord Southampton—VarsityRaces, Roger Palmer and the Crimean Steeplechase—ProfessorNeate—The Romance of Cheslyn Hall—Lord Chesterfield andthe Election of Speaker Abercrombie—Grants Picture of theRoyal Hunt—Count DOrsay : his Change of Clothes, hisKnife-spinning, and his Sketches ... ... ... p. \ CHAPTER II. Elections at the Time of the Reform Bill of 1832—AylesburyContests— Potwallers and the Ancient Franchise—Briberyand Treating—The Chiltern Hundreds—Anecdotes about SirRichard Bethell : his Election Contests and Expulsion fromthe Conservative Club—A Tie between Smith and Went-worth—My Hunt Breakfast—How Arkwright made hisFortune—Lord Nugents Election Fights—Winthrop Praed——Voters and Refreshments : Curious Account-keeping —Amersham Elections and the Reward for the Fair ... p. 20 CHAPTER III. Disraelis Early Political History—His Election
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