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178 SINGULAR TENURES.
if Providence permitted her to survive him, she would
avenge her conjugal sufferings, by occasionally dancing
on the turf that covered his remains.
On Tuesday, November 20, 1796, was buried at Bar-
row, near Wenlock, Shropshire, Mr. Thomas Moody,
the well known whipper-in to G. Forester, Esquire’s fox
hounds for thirty years. He had every sporting honour
paid to his memory. He was carried to his grave by a
number of old earth-stoppers, and attended by many other
sporting friends, who heartily mourned for him; directly
after the corpse followed his old favourite horse (which he
used always to call his Old Soul}, thus accoutred, carrying
his last fox’s brush in front of his bridle, with his cap, his
whip, his boots, spurs, and girdle across his saddle. The
ceremony being over, he (by his own desire) had three
clear rattling view halloos, given him over the grave, and
thus ended the career of poor Tom.
Singular Tenures, by which many Estates are held in
this kingdom.
Berk-holt.—County of Suffolk.
1 HE men of Berk-holt, in the county of Suffolk, say,
that in the time of King Henry, grandfather of our Lord
the present king (Henry III.) they used to have this cus-
tom ; that when they would marry their daughters, they
used to give to the lord for license so to do, two ores,
which were worth thirty-two pence. These ores (which
were Saxon coins) are declared to be in value of our money
sixteen pence a-piece; but after by the variation of the
standard, they valued twenty pence a-piece. And this
fine
if Providence permitted her to survive him, she would
avenge her conjugal sufferings, by occasionally dancing
on the turf that covered his remains.
On Tuesday, November 20, 1796, was buried at Bar-
row, near Wenlock, Shropshire, Mr. Thomas Moody,
the well known whipper-in to G. Forester, Esquire’s fox
hounds for thirty years. He had every sporting honour
paid to his memory. He was carried to his grave by a
number of old earth-stoppers, and attended by many other
sporting friends, who heartily mourned for him; directly
after the corpse followed his old favourite horse (which he
used always to call his Old Soul}, thus accoutred, carrying
his last fox’s brush in front of his bridle, with his cap, his
whip, his boots, spurs, and girdle across his saddle. The
ceremony being over, he (by his own desire) had three
clear rattling view halloos, given him over the grave, and
thus ended the career of poor Tom.
Singular Tenures, by which many Estates are held in
this kingdom.
Berk-holt.—County of Suffolk.
1 HE men of Berk-holt, in the county of Suffolk, say,
that in the time of King Henry, grandfather of our Lord
the present king (Henry III.) they used to have this cus-
tom ; that when they would marry their daughters, they
used to give to the lord for license so to do, two ores,
which were worth thirty-two pence. These ores (which
were Saxon coins) are declared to be in value of our money
sixteen pence a-piece; but after by the variation of the
standard, they valued twenty pence a-piece. And this
fine