v THE HERALD - OUR 30TH YEAR - 1994-2024 v 20th June 2024 • The HERALD • Page 23 Heather’s Flower Studio New florist delivering flowers to Waterside and New Forest areas, with over 20 years of experience in floristry. Any time you need flowers, be it a happy or sad occasion,we would like to be by your side to provide great quality flowers and service. We are delivering to Holbury, Fawley, Blackfield, Hythe, Marchwood, Beaulieu and Lymington areas. To order the flowers, please order online heathersflowerstudio.co.uk or call us on 023 8089 0332 or 07849 272164 or via email: info@heathersflowerstudio.co.uk The next Herald is out on 11th July THE SALE AT EAGLEHURST by Robin Somes, Fawley and Blackfield Memories Previously, we heard about Petruchio the racehorse, stabled at the Eaglehurst estate; late in 1780, he and a great collection of household e ects from Eaglehurst, were put up for sale. Luttrell’s Tower had been built that year for the estate’s owner, Temple Simon Luttrell – an Anglo-Irish politician of some notoriety, with a reputation for smuggling activities. It is said that he had some aversion to paying taxes; perhaps that is why the sale was advertised “By Order of the SHERIFF of Hampshire”, in late December 1780. On the other hand, Luttrell was in the middle of a ruinously expensive legal case against the Prime Minister, Lord North, which may equally well explain the sale. At any event, the Hampshire Chronicle carried the advertisement on Christmas Day 1780: “EAGLEHURST, near FAWLEY, Hants. To be SOLD by Auction, on the Premises, by Mr. HOOKEY, on Wednesday the 3rd of January 1781, and the following days, the superb HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Plate, Linen, China, Capital Paintings, Prints, Stud of high bred HORSES, &c. Carriages, a beautiful PLEASURE YACHT, and numerous other elegant and valuable effects, at EAGLEHURST, near Fawley, in the New Forest. The Furniture is comprised of a complete Drawingroom suite, consisting of cabriole chairs, sophas, and window curtains, of strip’d blue and white silk Manchester*, beautiful festoon beds and window curtains, of pink and white muslin, Satin counterpanes, cabinet work of satinwood, finely inlaid and ornamented in the marine taste, suitable to the situation, the whole being in a style singularly elegant. Among the Stud (which chiefly consists of high bred Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies) is that noted brown horse PETRUCHIO, late the property of Jennison Shaftoe, Esq., deceased; a pair of well-seasoned grey Ponies, 13 hands high, with their Harness and a low Phaeton, a One Horse Chaise and Harness complete, a grey Forest Poney, a market cart, two Norman Cows, sundry brewing and farming utensils, &c. The YACHT now lies at her moorings at Calshot Castle. EAGLEHURST is opposite Cowes in the Isle of Wight, 8 miles down the Southampton Water, 13 from Lymington, 12 from Lyndhurst, 12 from Romsey, 12 from Redbridge, 6 from Titchfield, 14 from Gosport, and 7 from Hythe. Catalogues may be had in due time on the premises, the Crown at Lyndhurst, the Angel at Lymington, White Horse, Romsey, the Anchor at Redbridge, the Printing Office, Barrackstreet, Portsmouth, Fountain Inn, West Cowes, and of the Auctioneer in High-street, Southampton. The whole may be viewed the day preceding, and each morning till the sale begins, which will be precisely each day at eleven o’clock”. *A type of cloth, woven in the mills of Manchester – the term is still in use in Australia, among other places. Mr Jennison Shafto’s bay racehorse”, by Francis Sartorius the Elder (1734 – 1804)
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