In connection with the opening chapter I am also indebted to Mr. Flemming, of the well-known firm of saddlers, Whippy and Steggall, in North Audley Street, for assistance in establishing the fact that the use of the curved hunting-horn lingered in South Devon after the straight horn had come into general use elsewhere. I feel grateful in an especial way for assistance received from complete strangers. Among these, Lord Robert Manners, who has no interest in the hunt, took the trouble to verify the facts concerning the draft that Templer sent to Belvoir, and to supply in addition some very interesting particulars concern ing it; Sir John C. H. Seale tried, as his father had done, to find for me the record, known to exist, of Sir Henry Seale's hunting career, and though uh successful ih this, he was able to supply a photograph of that popular master of old Miss Turner, the Hon. Sec. Of the Hambledon, is to be thanked for giving, through the kind offices of Mr. C. B. Fry, leave and Opportunity to copy the only known likeness of John King of Fowlescombe, which is in the archives of the Hambledon Hunt; and Lady Mary Leslie put at my disposal all the information she had concern ing her father's mastership, including his diary, and cheerfully submitted to the ordeal of two visits from a photographer. Indeed, but for her kind aid, it would have been difficult, at this distance of time, to glean any reliable particulars concerning Captain Haworth's day.
