^K^t^BHWR^^^^S^ 
 
 I 
 
 
 ■ 
 
 ^jt. 
 
 m 
 
 IK 
 
 
 S 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 PmM 
 
 B 
 
 
 
1^1^ 
 
TUFTS UNIVERSITY LI 
 
 II' 
 
 3 9090 014 537 '886 
 
 r^ 
 
u 
 
Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine 
 
 Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at 
 
 Tufts University 
 
 200 Westboro Road 
 
 Norili Grafton, MA 01536 
 
The Annals 
 
 "Warwickshire Hunt 
 
 From 1795 to 1895 
 
 Under the Management of 
 
 Mr. John Corbet Mr. Thornhill 
 
 Mr. Bernard Granville 
 Mr. Barnard 
 Mr. Spencer Lucy (twice) 
 Mr. Henley Greaves 
 Hon. W. H. J. North 
 
 Lord Middleton 
 Mr. E. J. Shirley 
 Mr. Hay 
 
 Mr. R. Fellowes 
 Mr. J. Russell 
 
 AND Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
 
 A braver choice of dauntless spirits never 
 Dash'd after hound." 
 
.TI9'fB9W .T 
 
 .nobrtoJ .anr 
 
Mr. John Corbet and his Foxhounds. 
 From the engraving by R. D. Woodman, after the picture 
 
 by 
 
 T. Weaver. 
 
 In the possession of Harold Weaver, Esq., 
 
 Manchester Square, London. 
 
Annals 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Warwickshiee Hunt 
 
 1795-1895 
 
 FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS 
 
 Sir CHARLES MOUDAUNT, Baut 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Hon. AM) Eev. W. R. VERNEY 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 Volume I. 
 
 LONDON 
 SAMPSON LOW, MAESTON AND COMPANY 
 
 Limited 
 
 ^i. <E)un6fon*6 Jgouse 
 
 Fetter Lane, Flket Street, E.C 
 
 1896, 
 
LONDON : 
 PRINTED BY HORACE COX, WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAm's BUILDINGS, E.C. 
 
 
The Master and Members of the 
 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT 
 
 AND 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE HOUNDS 
 
 AND 
 
 HUNTING FARMERS 
 This Work is Respectfully Dedicated 
 
 BY 
 
 THE AUTHORS. 
 
MAKING FOB THE GATE. 
 
 Still the same crowd may be seen at the cover, 
 Still the same rush wheu the fox goes away. 
 
 Lord Granville Gordon. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A WORK of tliis kind does not require miicli apology for its 
 publication. The interest in foxhunting is so widespread, 
 and the Warwickshire are a pack of such long standing, 
 that to record their annals for the benefit of future 
 generations cannot be a sujDerfluous task. We should like 
 to point out, in anticipation of our critics, that we have 
 chosen our somewhat desultory method in imitation of 
 the " Old Book " by " Venator," and we trust that the 
 introduction of a few anecdotes &c., will brighten what is 
 necessarily a somewhat monotonous record from the diaries 
 of sport so kindly supplied to us. We call attention 
 to the illustrations, nearly all of which are entii'ely new 
 
VIU 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 to the public, and we have to thank Lord Middleton ; Mr. 
 Shh'ley, of Ettington ; the late Mrs. Granville, of Welles- 
 bourne Hall, and Major Granville ; Lady de Clifford ; Mr. 
 Eobei-t Fellowes, of Shotesham Hall ; Mr. Hay, of Duns 
 Castle ; Lord Willoughby de Broke; Lord North; Mr. J. 
 T. Arkvvright, of Hatton; Mr. George Greaves, of 
 Winslow ; and Mrs. Field, of Talton House, for permission 
 to reproduce portraits and pictures from paintings in their 
 possession. We have also to thank that talented amateur, 
 Mr. E. 0. Milne, of Oakfield, Leamington, for his photo- 
 graphs of the four famous gorse coverts in the Red Horse 
 Yale— Ladbroke, Watergall, Oxhill, and the Golden Cross. 
 Captain Arthur Smith, so well known in the hunting field, 
 has supplied an etching for a tail-piece to the final chapter, 
 and some interesting sketches for head and tail-pieces have 
 been supplied by Mrs. Walter Verney and Lady Mordaunt. 
 For the letterpress, we have to offer our sincere thanks 
 to " Castor," of the Banhiirij Gitnrdian, who placed his 
 interesting work, "A Century of Foxhunting," at our 
 disposal. Mrs. Middleton, of Oxhill, supplied us with 
 Edwin Stevens' most interesting diary. The Rev. William 
 Miller, whose recollections go far back, has also given us 
 his records of sport, which were of great value, as we had 
 nothing of that date to draw from. Mr. Robert Worrall has 
 given us a graphic account of his life, supplemented by short, 
 but continuous diaries; while Lord Willoughby de Broke, 
 Lord North, and Colonel Norris, of Swalcliffe Park, have 
 show^i the greatest interest in our work, and have helped us 
 with diaries, records, and many valuable suggestions. The 
 Hon. E. C. Leigh has contributed two excellent accounts 
 of runs. Mr. Frank Glover, of the Leamington Sjja Courier, 
 has allowed us access to the files of his long established 
 paper; and Mr. Walter Gore Marshall, of Hambleton; Lord 
 Mountgarret, Captain Jennings, and Mr. George Smith 
 
Introduction. ix 
 
 have also assisted us. It is very satisfactory to record that 
 the greater part of those above mentioned, either liave been 
 or still are ardent supporters of the Warwickshire Hounds. 
 In the long winter evenings, we trust that a perusal of our 
 work may keep alive the memory of sport and wile an hour 
 away. One advantage of our book is, you may take it up 
 and lay it down whenever you please; we have spoken of 
 men and things as they are, and we hope that in days to 
 come our readers may see many more runs as good as those 
 which we have endeavoured to describe. If they weary in 
 reading these records of days gone, by, it will not be our 
 fault, and we will say to each long suffering subscriber by 
 way of comfort, so exactly have we tried to reproduce 
 the past : 
 
 Delicta majoruni ii/i merit ns lues. — Horace, Book III. Ode VI. 
 
 Or again : 
 
 Be to our virtues very kind. 
 
 Be to ovu" faults a little blind. — Prior. 
 
 Singula de nobis anni predantur euntes ; 
 
 Eripuere jooos, venerem, couvivia, ludum. — Horace, Ep. 11., 72. 
 
 Years foU owing years, steal something ev'ry day, 
 
 At last tney steal us from ourselves away. — Pojjes iranslaiion. 
 
 Dear subscribers and kind readers, we hope for a long 
 acquaintanceship, and that it will not be merely a case of 
 
 TOUCH HANDS AND PAKT. 
 
 VuL, 1. 
 
PREFzVCE 
 
 up to the inoimtain, boy, at earlv dawn, 
 Just when the huntsman winds his cheerful horn. 
 While the lark warbles forth his matins t^'ay, 
 And soars to meet the rays of golden day. 
 Well mounted, follow where the sly fox flies. 
 For the grand base of life is Exercise. — Old Poem. 
 
 Breathes there the man, with soul so dead. 
 Who never to himself hath said : 
 This is my own, my native land I 
 
 Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto (>tli. 
 
 As no contiiHious and accnrate record of the Warwickshire 
 Hunt has been published since that which was written l)y 
 " V^enator" and published in 1S87, with the e.vception of a 
 " Century of Foxhunting," by " Castor," published in 1891, 
 which perhaps does not deal with the whole question in 
 the complete manner which such an important record 
 demands, and because the former book has been for so 
 many years out of print, and many hunting- men have 
 not seen it, we trust that the "Annals of the Warwickshire 
 Hunt " will be of interest to our readers, because they 
 include all records, which are most worth reading, of days 
 gone by, and have been continued up to the latest jDossible 
 time before publication.* 
 
 * The earliest book on t'oxliuntiug was publisla'd in 1481. 
 
 6 2 
 
xii rrc/dcc. 
 
 Hunting- iilvvuys has been, and always will be, regarded 
 as the most popular amusement in England, because it is 
 the only sport in which everyone — either riding, driving, 
 or on foot — can participate. It is therefore of great interest 
 to compare past with present hunting, and the progress 
 made in most respects with the decline in some few 
 particulars. There is an old saying, which we quote for 
 just what it is worth, that in former days scent was so 
 good that when after a run the fox was not killed, hounds 
 were laid on in the early morning of the next day to 
 liunt u]) his drag, and under these conditions he would 
 he more easily killed than another. In those days the 
 country was not drained, and held scent better, the fields 
 were not so full of cattle as now, there were more grass 
 fields and less cultivation, and therefore fewer people 
 emplo^'Cd who might head a fox. There were also but 
 few railroads, and a small field. Now the country is inter- 
 sected by railways, but at the same time it must be said 
 that they largely contribute to the enjoyment of sport, 
 because many can reach the best meets by train, and return 
 in the same way, who otherwise could not hunt. Foxes 
 and good coverts are more plentiful than they were. 
 Hounds are kept in finer condition, and combine greater 
 pace and quality, with as much hunting powder and more 
 endurance, than they formerly possessed.* We shall record 
 
 * In 1779 Mr. Smith Bai-ry estiiblislied a pack of t'oxhouiids in Cheshire, 
 which he kept entirely at his own expense. He matched his celebrated hound Bluecap 
 and a bitch named Wanton to riin against Mr. Meynell's Richmond and another, over 
 the Beacon Course at NewTiiarket, for 500 guir.eas. Mr. Smith Barry's hounds were 
 trained at Tiptree Heath, Essex, by the well-known huntsman, Will Crane. Their 
 training was to run a fox drag three times a week over grass for eight or nine miles. 
 They were kept to this exercise from the 1st August to the 28th September, being fed 
 on oatmeal and sheep's trotters. On the .30th September the match was run, by making 
 the accustomed drag from the Rubbing House to the starting point of the Beacon 
 Course, the four hounds being immediately laid on the scent. Mr. Barry's Bluecap 
 came in first, and Wanton, close behind, second. The Beacon Course was run in a 
 few seconds more than eight minutes, about the same time as an ordinary plate 
 horse will take to do the course in with 8st. on his back, and within which time the 
 celebrated horse Eclipse is said to have done the same distance at York with 12st. up. 
 
Preface. xiii 
 
 an occasion when formerly a fox could not l^e killed at the 
 end of a run because a sufficient number of hounds were 
 not left to do this, whereas now their condition has so 
 much improved that but few are missing at the finish of 
 the severest run. At the same time it is a great mistake 
 to suppose that hounds were not bred for speed as well as 
 nose in olden days. The pictures that we have of 
 celebrated packs and individual liounds go to jjrove this, 
 and the records of the care taken in their breeding, at all 
 events in certain packs like the Belvoir, the Brocklesby, 
 and the FitzwilHam, &c., are certain^evidences of the same 
 fact. No sport is perfect without its difficulties, and these 
 are now increased by the size of the field and by the large 
 number of drivers in carriages and pedestrians, who have 
 as much right as anyone else to enjoy the sport. There is, 
 fortunately, less barbed wire in this country than in some 
 of the remaining shires, and in no county in England is 
 foxhunting more warmly supported by all classes of the 
 community. One of the most striking and gratifying 
 evidences of this is not only the way in which the farmers 
 of Warwickshire have always been favourable to the sport, 
 but also the keen interest shown in it by the labouring- 
 class. We have heard a very keen foxhunter* declare that 
 one of the things which made him regret his no longer 
 being able to reside in the county was this, that the people 
 he met about the fields took, comparatively speaking, so little 
 interest in the chase. In Warwickshire one only has to 
 say " Grood morning ! Have you seen the hounds ? " to be 
 
 In this match Mr. Meyiiell's hound Richmond was beaten 100 yards, while his partner 
 did not run the course through. Of sixty horsemen only twelve came in with the 
 hounds, Mr. Barry's huntsman, Cooper, being first, having "rode" the mare that 
 carried biui quite blind. Mr. Mejniell's hounds liad been fed on legs of mutton during 
 their training. This match is very interesting to us, as showing the pace that hounds 
 could go even before the close of the last century.- — [Rev. T. E. G. Pui.eston's 
 " Wynnstay Country."] 
 
 * The Rev. Hugh Holbech, late of Wliittington Rectory, Salop ; now Vicar of 
 Farnborough, Warwickshire. 
 
XIV 
 
 Preface. 
 
 met with a ready and generally intelligent response. We 
 i-enu'inher that in a poaching affray, when a keeper was 
 seriously injured, the case was tried before the Kineton 
 Bench, and one of the witnesses for the prosecution was 
 absolutely unable to give his evidence without explaining 
 that he thought that the noise (hooting, he called it) which 
 he heard proceeded from the hounds, and that he said to his 
 mate, " There be the hounds, Bill ; let's go and have a hnnt !" 
 Jjong may this good feeling flonrish and j)revail. We 
 trust that these volumes may not only recall to the 
 remembrance of our readers many happy and brilliant 
 days of sport in which they have participated amongst 
 the green pastures of Warwickshire, but that they may tend 
 to keep alive this interest in the chase, and cement the 
 good feeling towards it which still exists amongst all 
 classes of our fair county. As Surtees made the immortal 
 JoiTocks declare, " There is no colour like red, and there 
 is no sport like 'untin'." At the last moment we have 
 enlisted the facile pencil of the Hon. Mrs. North, who has 
 given us a charming sketch of the Warwickshire Hounds 
 
 fOMINfi DOWN EDGE HILL. 
 
A quotation written on the title page of the present Lord WiUoucilthij de Brcke'i< 
 Edition of the Old Book of the Wanrirk^hire Hunt : 
 
 " He counted them at break of Jay, 
 But when the sun set where were they ? " 
 
 Kote added hy Lord Willoughby : 
 
 " Why, all on ! " 
 
 CONTEIST'TS, 
 
 CHAPTER I. PAOE 
 
 Description of the Country ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Soraerville — Mr. Wrightson — Mr. John Warde — Mr. Corl)et — His 
 
 Famous Found Trojan — The Epwell Himt 13 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Lord Middleton — The Famous Ditchley Run — Mr. Holbech, of Farn- 
 
 horough — RadboTU'n Gorse — Will BarroAv ... ... ... ... 41 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Mr. Sliirley, of Eatington— Jack Wood— The Rev. John Lucy— The 
 
 Dehdale Run— Mr. Cockbill 66 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Mr. Hay, of Duns Castle — Run from Bowshot — Mr. Robert Fellowes — 
 
 Two Runs from Barton Grove — Severe Run from Wolford Wood 79 
 
XVI 
 
 Con fails. 
 
 CHAPTER YI. 
 
 Mr. Rnssoll 97 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Mr. Thoniliill — Crack Riders of Warwickshire — Bill Barrow — The 
 Debclale Hunt — Great Run from Ufton Wood — Mr. Bernard 
 Granville— Seasons 1833-38 108 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Mr. R. J. Barnard — The New Kennels at Kineton — Edwin Stevens — 
 
 / His Hunting Diary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 137 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Stevens' Diary — Mr. Hugh Williams and Ladhroke Gorse — The Hill- 
 
 morton Run ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 157 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Edwin Stevens" Diary continued — Captain Jennings and Jack Hicks 
 
 —Public Dinner to Mr. R. J. Barnard— Other Noted Riders ... 168 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Gentlemen Hunting from Leamington — Warwickshire Sportsmen — 
 Squire Little — Mr. Bolton King — Mr. Brondey Davenport — Rev. 
 W. S. Miller — Mr. Geoi'ge HaAvkcs — Bangalore Cunningliam — 
 Lord Leigh, &e., &e.^Hunting Farmers — Division of the Country 
 — Constitution of the Pack — George Ridler's Oven, &c 205 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 Mr. H. SjHMiccr Lucy 233 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 The Hon. W. H. J. North— Tom Mattliews— The Constitution of the 
 
 Pack— Some Good Sport— Mr. North's Diary 261 
 
Contents. xvii 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. PAOK 
 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy's Second Term of Office— Robert Worrall— His 
 Hunting Diary— Fine Run from Slmckhurgh— Complimentary 
 Dinner to Mr. Lucy— Good Riders amongst the Farmers— Charles 
 Orvis 284 
 
 Index 
 
 359 
 
 I, pete unguentum, puer, et coronas, 
 Et cadum Marsi meinorem duelli, 
 Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem 
 Fallere testa. 
 
 Die et argutffi properet NeajrsB 
 Murreuru iiodo cohibere crinem : 
 Si per invisum mora jauitorem 
 Fiat, abito. 
 
 Lenit albescens auimos capillus, 
 Litium, et rixaj cupidos protervae, 
 Non ego hoc ferrem calidus juventa 
 Confide PUinco. 
 
 Hor. Lib. III. Carm. xiv.* 
 
 For a lil)eral translation of the above, please see Vol. II., p. vi. — W. R. W. 
 
Segnius irritant animos demissa per a.urem, 
 Quam quffi sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et qune 
 Ipse sibi tradit spectatur. — Hor. ^»-.s Poefica. 
 
 LIST OF PLATES. 
 
 As tlie portraits in tliese volumes are neeessarily of small size, it is of 
 great ailvantage to look at them through a magnifying glass. 
 
 Mr. Cor))pt purchaseil tlie grey liorse Dapple for 160?. from the Rev. 
 Geoi-ge Biggs, i-eetor of Upton Warren, in Worcestershire, and he refused a 
 much larger sum for him. He also bought the horse on which Bill Barrow is 
 mounted from Mr. Biggs. 
 
 Although Trojan undoubtedly appears in this picture in the right-hand 
 corner. " Cecil " (Cornelius Tongue) says, on four separate pages, 67, 68, 70, 
 and 71 (1854 Ed.), that it is not possible he could have formed a part of the 
 working pack, as he was entered in 1780, and it was not till about 1792 that 
 Mr. Corbet entered upon the whole country and had kennels at Stratford-on- 
 Avoii, though before that time his headquarters were at Shenstone, near 
 Lichfield, frcfUi whence lie hunted some of the boundary coverts of Warwick- 
 shire 
 
 The Rev. Cecil Legard says Ti'ojan was entered in 1782, not 1780. 
 
 Mr. John Corbet and his Foxhounds. From the engraving by 
 R. D. Woodman, after the pictiire by T. Weaver. In the posses- 
 sion of Harold Weaver Esq., Manchester Square, London Frontiepiece 
 
 Lord Middleton. From the picture at Birdsall House by Barber, 
 
 of Nottingham. The property of Lord Middleton... facing page 42 
 
 Lord Middleton and his Friends Riding to Hounds near 
 Chesterton Wood. Chesterton Windmill in the dis- 
 tance. From the picture by Pierre Reingale. The property of 
 Lord Middleton. at Birdsall House 46 
 
XX List of Plates. 
 
 Lord Middleton's Hounds Vanguard (ling-grey) and his 
 Sister Vanity. Will Carter (Huntsman), Tom Carter 
 (First Whip). From the picture by Piei-re Reingale. The 
 property of Lot(I Micldletou, at Birdsall House . . . facing page 50 
 
 Mr. William Holbech, of Fabnborough. From an engraving 
 l)y J. J. Chant, after tli(> picture l)y A. R. Venal)h^s. The property 
 of Archdeacon Hollx'cli ... ... .. .. ... . ... 56 
 
 Mr. Evelyn Shirley, of Ettington. By Pickersgill. The 
 
 property of Mr. Shirley, of Ettington 68 
 
 Portrait op Jack Wood (Huntsman) on Marmion ; Bill 
 Boxall (First Whip) ; and the Warwickshire Hounds. 
 Artist unknown. Tlie property of Mr. Shirley, of Ettington ... 72 
 
 Mr. Hay, of Duns Castle. From the picture by Sir Francis Grant; 
 with his favourite hounds painted by Mr. Grant, of Kilgraston. 
 The property of Mr. Hay, of Duns Castle 80 
 
 Mr. Robert Fellowes. From a portrait by Swinton. The property 
 
 of Mr. Robert Fellowes, of Shottesham Hall 84 
 
 The Warwickshire Hounds : Tom Day (First Whip) in front; 
 Mr. Russell (Master) and William Boxall (Huntsman) 
 
 IN the CENTRE; JaCK RaNSOM (SeCOND WhIP) IN THE 
 DISTANCE ; ThOMAS GoDDARD (SbCOND HoRSEMAN) OFF HIS 
 
 Horse. From the jiicture ])y Webb, of Tamworth. The property 
 
 of Lord de Clifford, of Clmdleigh 98 
 
 Portrait of Mr. Thornhill. From tlie engraving after the 
 
 picture by J. B. Black 108 
 
 Portrait of Mr. Bernard Granville and the Warwick- 
 shire Hounds ; Tom Day, Huntsman ; Jack Ransom, First 
 Whip ; Jack Day, Second Whip. From the picture by Webl). 
 The property of Major Granville, of Wellesbourae Hall. Hounds 
 that appear in the portrait of Mr. Bernard Granville and his pack : 
 Baronet, Crier, Bluecap, Bounty, Woodman, Watchman, Dexter, 
 Duncan, Delicate, Halifax, Concubine, Craftsman, Mermaid, Harper, 
 Rector, Whipster, and Welcome ... ... ... ... ... 130 
 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke (Mr. R. J. Barnard), Master 
 of the Warwickshire Hounds, 1839-.56 and 1861-62. 
 From the engraving l^y R. J. Lane (1863) ; after the picture by 
 Lowes Dickenson, at Compton Verney, Warwickshire ... ... 138 
 
Z?.v/ of Vhdcii. xxi 
 
 Edwin Stevens (Huntsman) on his White Make Jumping a 
 Brook. From a picture by Webl). The property of Mr. John 
 Arkwright, of Hattou fachuj inuj^ 154 
 
 Portrait of Saffron. ArtLst unkuowu. From the picture at 
 
 Kinetou House ... ... ... ... ... 202 
 
 Mr. GtEORGE Hawkes. From the picture by Bott. The property of 
 
 Mrs. Field, at Taltou House 214 
 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote. From a photograph by 
 
 Graham, of Leamiugtou... ... ... ... ■■ ■■. •■ 234 
 
 Mr. Henley Greaves. From a photograph by Graham, of Leam- 
 
 iugtou ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..• ••• 242 
 
 Portrait of the Hon. W. H. J. North, the Hon. Mrs. North, 
 Master W. F. J. North, Tom Matthews (Huntsman), and 
 the Warwickshire Hounds; Baroness North, Colonel 
 THE Hon. J. S. North on the Doorsteps of Wroxton 
 Abbey; F. Smith and W. Hemming (First and Second 
 Whips). From the picture by T. Lewis. The property of Lord 
 North, at Wroxtou Abbey 280 
 
 Robert Worrall on Oremorne. By Wlieeler. With some 
 
 favourite V.W.H. Houuds, from the picture in his own possession 290 
 
 Sir Charles Mordaunt (187(->). From a photograpli ))y Elliott and 
 
 Fry 326 
 
 Charles Or vis, Huntsman. From a pliotograph by Messrs. Gow- 
 
 laud, of Leudal, York 330 
 
 When in silence we rest, sball we ever i-emember 
 
 The jolly old fellows, the noisy young chaps ^ 
 Across the Styx stream is there any November, 
 
 Do the ghosts of our fathers still race for the gaps •' 
 
 Lord Granville Gordvn. 
 
No horns Diana's roses bring, 
 'J"bc honey comes witliout the stiug, 
 And many a faithless fair will yield 
 Her triumphs on this battlefield. 
 
 George Templur'6 Poems. 
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 HT Thing 
 
 Making fob the Gate ... 
 
 '"Touch Hands and Part" 
 
 Coming down Edge Hu.l 
 
 A Fox First Hearing Hounds 
 
 "Handles his Fox" 
 
 A WoLFORD Wood Fox ... 
 
 Trojan 
 
 Confidence 
 
 " A True Country Squire " 
 
 A Few of the Right Sort going to do the Rig 
 
 A Few of tfe Right Sort that have Done the Right Thing 
 
 Unkennelling the Hounds 
 
 •'Only One Crutch" 
 
 " Full Cry" 
 
 Death of many a Fox 
 
 Going in and out Clever 
 
 Over a Brook 
 
 Charging an Ox-pence 
 
 "Only just out of a Walk" .. 
 
 Swishing a Rasper 
 
 Facing a Brook 
 
 Some Bold Riders 
 
 The Kennels, Kineton 
 
 "Charging a Flight of Rails 
 
 Next Field " 
 
 The First Flight 
 
 AND Coming Well into the 
 
 PAGE 
 
 vii 
 
 ix 
 
 xiv 
 
 1 
 
 11 
 
 13 
 
 21 
 
 33 
 
 4U 
 
 il 
 
 65 
 
 66 
 
 78 
 
 79 
 
 96 
 
 97 
 
 1U8 
 
 136 
 
 137 
 
 156 
 
 157 
 
 167 
 
 168 
 
 2U4 
 205 
 
xxiv Li>>t of Maps. 
 
 PAOK 
 
 CoMPTON Wyniates 232 
 
 Charlecote Park '-'^S 
 
 •A Gentleman When They See One" 260 
 
 Burton Hill and Windmill 261 
 
 Edge Hill Tower 283 
 
 "Ye be just too late, Miss; the Gentlemen be all gone." 284 
 
 Barton House in a Frost 345 
 
 An Old Partridge 357 
 
 LIST OF MAPS. 
 
 The Warwickshire Country facing page 1 
 
 Great Run from Ufton Wood, March 5tli, 1838 133 
 
 Shuckburgh to West Haddon, Jan. 31st, 1867 (red ink). 
 Shuckburgh to Welton — THE Empress of Austria's 
 Day— Jan. 24th, 1878 (blue ink) 3Ul 
 
 Ladbroke to Edgcote, Nov. 28th. 1871 (bine ink). Shuckburgh 
 Hill to Warmington. March 3rd, 1881 (red ink). Calcote 
 TO Debdale, and from Shuckburgh Hill to Boddington 
 Hill, Feb. 10th, 1886 (orange ink) 332 
 
 Sly. — A good matter, surely : Comes there any more of it ? 
 
 Page. — My lord, 'tis but begun. 
 
 Sly. — 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady : 
 
 Would 'twere done. 
 
 Shakespeare, " Taming of the Shrew." 
 
THJ nVRHKKSHIRE HUNT MAP 
 
All shall join in jolly sou^, 
 Nol)le sports to us belong : 
 Hail the moruing's ruddy face. 
 Now begius tlie sprightly chase. 
 
 " Veiiutor. 
 
 THE 
 
 AXNALS OF THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE COl NTKY. 
 
 0, ye sons of the chase ! while your spirits are gay, 
 
 To the WAEWICKSHIRE COUNTRY let's hasten away ; 
 
 Where foxes in plenty are sure to be found. 
 
 And sportsmen, the best of all fellows, abound. 
 
 Warwickshire was for a long time hunted by only one 
 pack of hounds, but on March 22nd, 1853, a large portion 
 of the woodlands, as well as the fine country between 
 the river Learn and Rugby, was constituted the North 
 Warwickshire Hunt. Since the commencement of the 
 agricultural depression a considerable portion of the 
 coimtry has been laid down in grass, and it is now about 
 two-thirds grass, and the remainder jjloughed land. The 
 boundaries of the country, as at present constituted, are as 
 follows : 
 
 On the south-east we follow a line drawn between the 
 top of Long Compton Hill and Banbury, the actual limits 
 
 VuL. I. B 
 
2 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 being, we believe, the Eollwright Eoad and the South 
 Newington Brook. 
 
 Turning northwards, we have the Banbury and Coventry 
 Koad as a guide as far as the Watergall on the east side 
 beyond Fenny Compton Wharf. Skirting the Worm- 
 leighton, Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston parish 
 boundaries, where the canal is for some distance the outside 
 line, we take the course of the Braunston Brook, and 
 circling Shuckburgh Hill and Flecknoe, we continue, 
 leaving Braunston just on the right, till we meet the 
 Leam at Grandborongh. 
 
 Turning westward, we follow the line of the Leam as far 
 as Leamington, and from there taking in Warwick Castle 
 and Park, and passing still westwards by Norton Lindsey, 
 Wolverton, and Little Alne, we reach the most western 
 extremity beyond Coughton Park. Tnrning southwards 
 along the Ridge Way, once described by Greorge IV. as 
 " the finest drive in England," and taking in Eagley Park 
 and Weethley Wood, we arrive at Salford Priors. From 
 thence we take a line across the Evesham Yale to Honey- 
 bourne, where the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 
 Railway bonnds the neutral country as far as Moreton- 
 in-the-Marsh. The measurements between the extreme 
 points are from the north-east at Grandborongh to the 
 Four-shire Stone on the south-west, thirty miles ; and from 
 Weethley Wood on the north-west to Cropredy at the 
 south-west, nearly the same distance. 
 
 We shall see later on that the projected railway from 
 Rugby to Worcester, so vehemently opposed by the late 
 Sir Hugh Williams when they proposed to destroy Ladbroke 
 Gorse, never was carried out, and till the East and West 
 Junction Railway was made no iron horse traversed the 
 country except that one which ran on the rails of the 
 Great Western. Alas ! wdiile we write we learn that the 
 Braunston and Grandborongh Vales are now cnt up by the 
 extension of the L. and N.W.R. from Daventry to Leaming- 
 ton, and yet another line is projected and being engineered 
 — the Manchester, Sheffield, and Derby and London — 
 
THE WARWICKSHIEE VALE. 3 
 
 which will cut this one at right angles, and do further 
 mischief to the splendid country Ijeyond Shuckburgh 
 Hill. 
 
 What shall we say of the splendid Yale of AVarwick- 
 shire, rich in historic recollections ; once rich, but alas ! no 
 more so, in agricultural produce ; famous for its beauty, 
 especially that of its oaks and elms ; and renowned as a 
 hunting country, where foxes are well preserved and fox- 
 hunters are always welcome. The Vale extends from 
 Shuckburgh Hill on the north-east to Long Compton 
 Hill on the south-west, and a commanding view of it 
 may be obtained from Long Comp,ton, Brailes, and Meon 
 Hills, as well as from Edge Hill and from Burton and 
 Shuckburgh Hills. Lord Willoughby said at the compli- 
 mentary dinner given to him : " When I stand, as T do 
 sometimes, on the high ground near Wolford, or on the 
 Hmington Hills, perhaps, and look over the magnificent 
 ocean of grass, which reaches all the way to Shuckburgh ; 
 and when I think that the foxhounds are free and welcome 
 over the whole of that stretch of country, and that, as I 
 believe, not a single wire fence or a single enemy to oui- 
 sport could be found throughout the whole of that district, 
 then surely I may be pardoned for thinking that I have 
 lived all my life in the best county in England." The Vale 
 is a strongly inclosed country, and even in that part of it 
 which consists chiefly of ploughed land on both sides of the 
 River Avon, plenty of big fences are to be found. Some 
 part of the country lying between the Shipston-on-Stour 
 and Wellesbourne Road, and the road from the former 
 place to Stratford -on -Avon, contains perhaps the stiff est 
 clay soil in creation, and is a cold scenting country. We 
 remember a sexton saying to us : " Master, there be no 
 need to bury folks in coffins here, although we do so ; 
 this here clay is the same thing." And Shakespeare's 
 clown says : "A corpse will last you some eight or nine 
 year." 
 
 On the top of Edge Hill, in the country usually hunted 
 on Fridays, there is a large extent of light ploughed land 
 
 B 2 
 
4 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 which often carries a good scent, and so proverbial has 
 been the sport on the Warwickshire Fridays that you may 
 expect to see the best of it before January, because hounds 
 have, in the early part of the season, killed nearly all the 
 best foxes. The country between Stratford-on-Avon and 
 Alcester, and between there and Henley-in-Arden, com- 
 prises the fine woodlands of the Warwickshire Hunt. 
 
 In the country before mentioned, above Edge Hill, the 
 fences are small, but sometimes you may come to a big one, 
 and to some large bottoms. The Vale carries the best 
 scent, but as a rule Warwickshire never carries a first class 
 scent unless it has been thoroughly wet through. It is a 
 practicable country to ride over, but there are some parts 
 of it surrounding Shuckburgh Hill over which no horse 
 can be ridden anything like straight, any more than over 
 the Skeffington Yale of High Leicestershire. It is not 
 much subject to be Hooded, although the rivers Avon, 
 Leam, and Stour run through it. Foxes do not often cross 
 the Avon, and there are several fords and bridges over the 
 Stour ; but for want of these advantages the Leam is very 
 difficult to cross, and hounds, after crossing it, have on 
 several occasions had the best of a run. We think that 
 Warwickshire, next to J^eicestershire, takes rank with 
 Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire in the first class of the 
 hunting countries of England ; and it is not too much to 
 say that, taking into consideration its famous pack of 
 hounds, so well hunted as they have been by the Master, 
 and the size of the field, which is small by comparison to 
 that which is seen in the three above-mentioned Shires, it 
 is the best country in which to see sport, and those who live 
 within reach of the Warwickshire Hounds may say with 
 
 Horace, 
 
 Ille terrarr.m, milii prater ouiue.s, 
 Angulus ridet, 
 
 for when the whole world has been seen, there is no other 
 country so perfect as England, and no place like home — pro- 
 vided that home is in Warwickshire. One of Warwick- 
 shire's chief charms, as a hunting country, lies in the varied 
 
THE TUESDAY COUNTRY. 5 
 
 quality of the country to be ridden over. One day, say on 
 Monday, you may be hunting on plough, and almost fancy 
 that you are in a provincial country when the meet is at 
 Wellesbourne, Tachbrooke, or Goldicote. But wait a bit. 
 Before the shortest winter's day is over, you may be 
 fairly launched on grass at Brickkiln Gorse, Lighthorne 
 Eougli, Bishop's Gorse, or Chesterton Wood. Then, 
 on Tuesday, the meet is at Wolford Village or Weston 
 House, fixtures for the large woodlands on the south side 
 of the country, always well preserved and cared for by 
 Mr. Freeman' Mitford, of Batsford ; Sir Pery Pole, of 
 Todenham ; and Lady Camperdown," of AYeston House. 
 Wolford Wood or Whichford Wood are drawn. You are 
 not likely, however, to be in them all day. Whatever 
 may be the reputation of the latter wood, the former has 
 not lost its character for good wild foxes. You may, if 
 you manage to get a start, find yourself close to the 
 hounds as they top the stone walls in the Heythrop 
 country, or following them as best you may over the 
 stiffly inclosed vales which border the Evenlode and the 
 Stour ; while, for an afternoon draw, you have that almost 
 ideal gorse covert, planted by Lord Camperdowai, close to 
 the (rolden C-ross Inn, on the Fosse Eoad, and which 
 seldom or ne/er has failed to provide a fox. It may be 
 that the Tuesday meet is fixed for nearer home, at Brailes, 
 or Idlicote, or Pillerton ; and where would you find a 
 more charming bit of country than that wild and varied 
 expanse of vale in which Oxliill Gorse (the gift of Sir 
 Charles Mordaunt to the Hunt, and maintained at his 
 own expense) forms the boss of the shield, the gem in a 
 setting of grass ? And where better fox preservers than 
 Mr. Sheldon, of Brailes ; Mr. Frederick Townsend, the 
 owner of Honington Hall, and the far-famed blackthorn 
 covert; or the Rev. Henry Mills, of Pillei-ton? On Tuesday, 
 too, we ride to hunt, and do not hunt to ride ; the rail- 
 ways have not yet imported their hundreds to spoil sport 
 by over pressure ; there is not much stock in the fields, 
 and hounds have every chance as well as every assistance. 
 
6 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 Then comes Thursday and " Shuckburgh Hill." We 
 remember a good sportsman, who, speaking to a casual 
 acquaintance in the train, asked him if he still hunted ? 
 " No," he said, " I have given it up for years, but there 
 is one meet in England for which I would still box a 
 horse, even from town, and that is ' Shuckburgh Hill.' " 
 You send your best horse to Shuckburgh, just as you used 
 to Tilton AVood, when that old friend " Plancus " was 
 still going. The surrounding country is large and stiff, 
 and, as was said just now, requires a hunter to get over it 
 in safety, but all around is an ocean of grass, and wild 
 foxes, so carefully preserved (for centuries I was going to 
 say) by the Shuckburgh family, travel fast and far over the 
 green pastures of Warwickshire, and seldom fail to make 
 an excursion into the fair regions of the sister county of 
 Northampton. If you can ride straight from Shuckburgh 
 Hill to Badby Wood, or Welton Place, or to Bodington, you 
 need not fear to take your conveyance into any country in 
 England, where flying fences have to be sarmounted, and 
 pace as well as mere jumping powers are required. Then 
 there is Deepdale, or, as we prefer to spell it, Debdale, the 
 property of the Biddulph family, and no prettier sight can 
 l)e seen than a meet on the old fashioned village green of 
 Long Itchington, and no sweeter country can be found 
 than that which lies between here and Shuckburgh or 
 Bunker's Hill. The demon wire has indeed, in places, 
 stretched its treacherous snake-like coils across our path, but 
 we prefer in a work of this description to say little about 
 this curse to foxhunting, hoping and believing that the 
 good taste and the good feeling of the Warwickshire 
 farmers will, even in these trying times, remove what must 
 be always a source of danger to life and limb, as well as a 
 destructive element to that good feeling of comradeship 
 and fellowship which has existed so long between sports- 
 men and the occupiers of the land. And what shall we 
 say of Ladbroke, or of Watergall, belonging to those good 
 sportsmen — Mr. William Peareth and Lord Leigh. No 
 better coverts can be found in any hunt, and no better 
 
TKE ALCESTER WOODLANDS. 7 
 
 country around them, while a baptism in the W'^atergall 
 
 JJrook is something which every young sportsman must 
 
 expect before he can esteem himself " free of the Hunt." 
 
 Even if the meet is nearer home, and Gaydon Inn is the 
 
 fixture, we are still in the Vale and still upon the grass, 
 
 and although the Burton Hills loom unpleasantly near, 
 
 that good covert, Bawcutt's (planted by the late Lord 
 
 Willoughby, and named after a good sportsman and tenant 
 
 farmer of that ilk), is always a sure find, and has provided 
 
 many a good run. Even if Ufton Wood, a jungle as some 
 
 have described it, is a Thursday fixture, do not we have a 
 
 run once in ten years from Ufton Woiod P While there is 
 
 often Itchington Holt, perhaps the most genuine fox covert 
 
 in the Hunt (both these coverts being for the main part 
 
 the property of those good foxhunters — the broth er.s 
 
 Chamberlayne, of Stoney Thorpe and Witherley Hall, 
 
 Atherstone), for an afternt)on draw. Even if occasionally 
 
 Eagley Park, Oversley Wood, or Coughton Court is a 
 
 Thursday fixture, who will wish for tonjours perdria\ 
 
 and who, with any reputation to gain or lose as a thorough 
 
 sportsman at heart, will fail a few times in every season in 
 
 seeing hounds work the large woodlands so carefully looked 
 
 after by Lord Hertford, Sir William Throckmorton, and 
 
 others, and v.hich, after all is said and done, often provide 
 
 as o-ood a run as in the more fashionable district ? The 
 
 woodlands, too, are not what the}' were. Bevington AVaste, 
 
 formerly consisting of 700 acres, has entirely disappeared 
 
 under the stock axe of the woodman, improving the land 
 
 just before the depression set in. Coughton Park has 
 
 always been well rided, and Lord Hertford's woods around 
 
 Ragley are now in the same condition. There is a portion 
 
 of the Evesham Vale not at all to be despised, with little 
 
 Pebworth Covert and Eumer Hill in its centre, and Gaily 
 
 Oak on its outskirts, the former jealously and lovingly 
 
 preserved by Mr. Shekell, who in former days used to be 
 
 a first-class man across country himself. Many a good run 
 
 has been seen in this Vale ; the ditches are wide, and the 
 
 timber is stiff, and the gates are few, so it wants a hunter 
 
8 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 to get over it. The Ilmington and Meon Hill Coverts are 
 neutral, and are drawn on alternate months by the Warwick- 
 shire and North Cotswold. Sometimes the fox sinks the Vale 
 and runs for the Clolden Cross or Ettington Coverts, but the 
 hills are not perhaps a very favourite resort, and, owing to 
 Warwickshire being really a five days a week countrj^ and 
 only hunted four days a week, Ilmington is not so fre- 
 quent a meet as it used to be. 
 
 The Central Coverts now claim our attention. They 
 are generally drawn on Mondays, when the fixtures 
 are at Compton Yerney, Bowshot Cross Roads, Walton 
 Hall, Ettington Cross Roads, (xoldicote, Wellesbourne, 
 Charlecote Park, Snitterfield, Barford, Warwick Park, 
 Chesterton Windmill, Lighthorne Village, or Chadshunt. 
 The largish woods around Compton Verney and Walton 
 are always well stocked with foxes, and occasionally a 
 good run across the Vale southwards takes place from 
 them. 
 
 Sir Charles Mordaunt's keeper, Wm. Butler, and Lord 
 Willoughby's, Jesse Eales and John Creed, the former of 
 whom is a well-known character in Warwickshire, are 
 capital hands at keeping game and foxes together ; and at 
 Chesterton Wood in particular there are always foxes and 
 pheasants, showing that it is perfectly easy to have both if 
 only the keeper is staunch and keen. Chesterton Wood, 
 having been a noted fox covert for so many years, deserves a 
 more than passing notice. It was planted years ago on 
 beautifully light soil, is about 150 acres in extent, it 
 slopes away to the north down Chesterton Hill, is beau- 
 tifully rided, and on the south, east, and west is surrounded 
 by a fine rideable country, perhaps rather too well 
 gated. By Stevens' diary we see that hounds generally 
 began here or at Oakley Wood, about three miles 
 to the north, the property of Mr. Tree, of Ashborne, 
 for the first day's cubhunting. The usual run of 
 the fox from Chesterton Wood is across the old Sitch 
 Field to Itchington Holt, before mentioned, about two 
 miles, and from here there are many possibilities. We 
 
THE CENTRAL COVERTS. 9 
 
 remember that an old fox for one or two seasons always 
 used to make straight from Chesterton to ground under 
 Hurton Dassett Church. Oakley AVood and Fir Tree Hill 
 near it often produce a good fox, but Warwick Park, 
 though generally a sure find, is not such a favourite, except 
 with the carriage folk and fair lady division. However, as 
 we said at the commencement, on Monday one generally 
 finds oneself, whatever the fixture, in the grass country 
 before night. 
 
 The Ettington and AVellesbourne Coverts, including 
 Alveston Pastures and Fir Grove, are perhaps not so much 
 liked, though Wellesbourne Wood, which adjoins Sir 
 Charles Mordaunt's coverts at Smatchley and Oakham 
 Coppice, is always most carefully preserved by the Oranville 
 family. It was from Wellesbourne that the great run 
 started from when Mr. Bernard (Iranville was master, 
 which we hope to describe later. A good run has often 
 commenced from Eoug-h Hill, Knaven Hill, or Ettino-ton 
 drove, while Mr. Mills' good little coverts, Moll's Grave 
 and Brickkiln Gorse, are close by the Fosse Eoad, and 
 edge the delicious Oxhill A^ale. We shall have occasion 
 later to refer to the late Henry Spencer Lucy, both as an 
 all-round sj)ortsman and master of hounds. Fir Tree Hill, 
 above men^^ioned, is on the Charlecote property, and, cross- 
 ing the Avon by the bridge built by the Eev. John Lucy, 
 we come to Hampton AVood and Hampton Gorse. Snitter- 
 field Bushes, once the property of that good supporter of 
 foxhunting, the late Mr. Mark Phillips, and afterwards of 
 his brother, Mr. Robert Phillips, and now belonging to 
 Lady Trevelyan, is a good nursery for foxes, surrounded by 
 a rough but sporting plough country ; while Austy AVood, 
 beyond that again, is a neutral covert with the North 
 Warwickshire. We must not omit one word in favour of 
 Lighthorne Rough, where a fox made his lair for several 
 seasons up an old oak tree at the west end ; or Bishop's 
 Gorse, where they found on seventeen separate occasions in 
 one season, both the property of Lord AVilloughby de 
 Broke ; or AVhitnash Bushes and Chesterton Millpool, 
 
10 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 close to Chesterton Windmill, which generally provide a 
 fox, Bishop's Gorse being an absolute certainty. 
 
 Tlien we come to Friday, and here we have again quite 
 a different class of country. The plough is more frequent, 
 though light, the fences smaller, and the brooks come 
 oftener. There are no woodlands, and the district is hilly, 
 which makes it difficult always to be with hounds ; but 
 we need only mention such fixtures as Wroxton Abbey, 
 Broughton Castle, Swalcliffe Park, Broom Hill Grorse, Upton 
 House, Radway Grange, Burton Dassett, and last, but 
 not least, Farnborough, to remind our readers of many 
 glorious runs in days gone by, filling them with many 
 joyful anticipations of sport in the future. As long as 
 England lasts, foxhunting will be popular on the great 
 table land which terminates on the north with the line of 
 the Edge Hills. In no part are the farmers and labourers 
 more friendly to the sport, and nowhere do country gentle- 
 men take more pains to preserve foxes. Lord North's 
 attachment to the chase is too well known to be mentioned, 
 and the drawing Wroxton Coverts blank is to him a dire 
 cahimity. Well do we remember the day when, at a meet 
 after tlie Banbury Ball, it was announced that Miister Fox 
 had broken into the pheasant aviary and slain forty or 
 more of the occupants,* or the cheerful and even school- 
 boy spirit in which his lordship met the chaff of those 
 who had assembled at his hospitable mansion. The 
 sight of the county pack as they meet outside the 
 beautiful and historic abbey is a picture indeed, and 
 long may it be before the central figures of it are missed. 
 In the preservation of foxes he is ably seconded by 
 Colonel Norris, who has succeeded to the best traditions of 
 Swalcliffe Park, and takes that interest in Wiggington 
 Heath and its surroundings, which the historic character of 
 this ancient gorse and broom stronghold demands ; while the 
 present tenant of Broughton Castle, Mr. Fane Gladwin, is a 
 genuine foxhunter, and makes up a trio of " Three Jolly 
 
 * What he enjoyed most was packing them up in a hamper and sending them to 
 Colonel North in Arlington-street. — W. R. V. 
 
THE FEIDAY COUNTRY. 11 
 
 Huntsmen." Captain Paul (late E.N.), of the Highlands, 
 Tadmarton, looks after Bloxhani Gorse and Wiggington 
 Heath ; while, farther to the north-west, the Hunt has a 
 good friend in Lord Northampton, although he does not 
 actually live at his beantiful seat of Comptou AVyniates, the 
 very sight of which takes one centuries back, as, hidden in 
 its romantic dell, it suddenly breaks upon one's view while 
 the merry chase sweeps by. Upton House deplores the 
 loss of W. H. P. Jenkins (Mr. Merton), who is now living 
 in South AVales, but has left behind him a name as a 
 sportsman and a good comrade which will long live in the 
 hearts and memories of Warwickshire men.'^ The Rev. 
 W. S. ]\Iiller, the owner of Padway Grange, is known as 
 a staunch friend to foxes, although we now seldom see him 
 holding that place in the chase where for years we always 
 looked for him, close behind the pack when they were 
 going to draw, and not very far off when they wei-e running 
 with scent breast high, " first out, first over, last home I " 
 
 We travel along the side of the hills till we come to 
 Burton Dassett, where Lord Willoughby's popularity 
 as a landlord, and the good feeling of ' his tenants, 
 always supplies a good show of foxes We turn south- 
 wards, and we find the same genial support in the 
 person of Ivir. Aloysius Perry,, the owner of that charming 
 place, Bitham House. A little further, and we are 
 at Farnborough. Truly Warwickshire is a favoured 
 country. The Hunt has no enemies and many friends, 
 and no truer friend than Ai'chdeacon Holbech, the most 
 brilliant of horsemen, and the most ardent lover of that 
 sport which, from conscientious motives as a clergyman, 
 he never suffered himself to partake in. How great has 
 been this self-denial no one perhaps but himself knew. 
 As long as foxhunting continues, the traditions of the 
 house will ensure that Harbage's, MoUington Wood, and 
 Page's Gorse will always hold a fox. White's Bushes, or 
 Long Combe Covert, is part of the glebe of the Vicar of 
 
 * Since writing the above Lord Cliesham, late master of the Bicester Hoands, has 
 bought Upton House and the property from Lord Jersey. 
 
12 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 Shotteswell, and there is one more covert to mention, and 
 that we sorely miss. In old days, and not very old days 
 either, a run from Chamberlain's Gorse was of frequent 
 occurrence. Now the covert seems uncared for, and is 
 seldom drawn, and the small spinney at Hanwell is but a 
 poor substitute. As " Brooksby " wrote, the Friday 
 country consists of the line of Edge Hills, with many 
 spurs running up to it from the south ; every spur incloses 
 its valley, every valley has its brook ; and, we may add, 
 every brook has very often an occupant. The Friday 
 sportsman, however, must not fear an occasional wet jacket 
 if he wishes to be within distance when the huntsman 
 
 HANDLES HIS FOX. 
 
yy / / / // 
 
 A WOLFORI) WOOn KDX. Yy //// 
 
 See my hrave pack ! how to the head tliey press. 
 Jostling in eh)se array, then more diif use 
 Obliquely wheel, while from their op'niug moutlis 
 
 The vollevtHl thuuder l)reaks. — Somerville. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 SOMERVILLE MR. W RIGHTSON MR. JOHN W ARDE MR. CORBET 
 
 HIS FAMOUS HOUND TROJAN THE EPWELL HUNT. 
 
 The earliest record of hunting in Warwickshire is con- 
 tained in a poem written Ijy Somerville, and called " The 
 Chase," in which he shows that he thoroughly understand.^ 
 the art of hunting. He was born in 109.2, and lived at 
 Edstone, in Warwickshire, and died in 174.2. That he 
 kept homids is proved bv the e])itaph on the tombstone of 
 his huntsman Hoilt, who died in 180.2 at the ao-e of 
 eighty-five. It runs as follows : 
 
 Hei'e Hoilt, and his sports and labour past, 
 Joins his loved Master Somerville at last ; 
 Together wont the echoing' fields to trv, 
 Together now in silent dust thej lie — 
 Servant and lord, when once we yield our breath, 
 Huntsman and poet are alike to death. 
 
 The first pack of foxhounds in Warwickshire of which 
 there is any record was kept by Mr. Wrightson, who had 
 
14 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1779-1790 
 
 two kennels, one at Swnlcliffe Grange,* and the other at 
 Stratford-on-Avon, at the AVhite Lion Inn, which at that 
 time, and for long afterwards, was a favourite resort of 
 sportsmen, and they spent many festive evenings after 
 hunting in a room called " The Tempest," in honour of 
 Shakespeare, Mr. Wrightson hunted Warwickshire in 
 1780. He was an excellent sportsman, and had a hunts- 
 man and two whips, supplied with twelve horses amongst 
 them, and he afforded some capital sport. The only 
 account remaining of a day's sport with his hounds, records 
 that it took place in 1780, when Alveston Pasture was first 
 drawn, and a brace of foxes found, which were lost. 
 Eatington (irove was next drawn, and after finding a fox, 
 and running a ring for an hour, he \vas killed. A third 
 was found at Honington Spinneys, and the pack ran him 
 at best pace over Idlicote Heath and by Compton 
 Wyniates, and from thence to Shutford Hill, where they 
 killed him. Mr. Shirley, Mr. Dadley, and Mr. William 
 Barke were alone up at the finish. 
 
 In December, 1779, Lord Sef ton had horses at Banbury, 
 and was hunting from there. — H. C. N. 
 
 A famous sportsman named John Warcle t hunted 
 AVarwickshire between 1780 and 1790 for several seasons, 
 and had kennels at Newbold. He hunted also in Oxford- 
 shire in 1778, and kept hounds for fifty-seven years in 
 various countries. Bob Forfeit was his huntsman in 1803 
 He was celebrated as a breeder of hounds, and he bred them 
 
 * Swalcliffe Grange was originally a public called the Fox and Hounds. The sign 
 used to hang in the elm tree which is still in front of the house. That road was much 
 used in old days as a liighway hetween Wiggington and Brailes, hence the good trade 
 brought to the public. It afterwards became the George, under the occupancy of one 
 Pyewell, and as hounds used fublics, at which to lie out for far meets, no doubt 
 Wrightson used this when it was the Fox and Hounds, and not the Grange. You can 
 sec now where the stables were, at least, there is an appearance of better stabling, or 
 rather better doorways than were used for cart horses. This information was derived 
 from R. Page, the present tenant, who succeeded his father in 1818. — H. C. N. 
 
 t From the Sport hig Magazine, March, 1/97 : " Altera long frost Warde's liounds 
 found at Ardley Thorns, ran by Buckuell, over Fritwell Moor to Somerton, over the 
 Cherwell, between the Astons and Dunsten, by the edge of Worton Heath, over Barton 
 Latours to Sandford and Church Enstone, and over Heythrop Park to Chapel House, 
 to Rowbright and Long Compton ; turned to the right of Whichford to Hook Norton, 
 on to Wiggington and to Swerford House, where the hounds ran into their fox and 
 killed, after a chase of tliirty-five miles without going into a single covert." — H. C. N. 
 
1791] ME. JOHN CORBET. 15 
 
 of great size, and lie built a number of kennels. He was 
 well known as a wit, and he told a friend, wlio had been 
 making remarks upon the big heads of his hounds, that they 
 were of such a weight that, having got their noses well down 
 to the ground, it was not easy for them to get them up again ! 
 We need not further notice John Warde, because his career 
 has been written in other hunting books, and " Castor," to 
 whom we are indebted for various extracts, has a detailed 
 account of him in his " Century of Foxhunting." 
 
 The Warwickshire Hunt may be said to have com- 
 menced when Mr. J. Warde left the country, and the even 
 more celebrated Mr. John Corbet, of Sundorne Castle, 
 Shropshire, took the management of it. Under him it 
 became a first-rate hunting country.* He was an ideal 
 master of hounds, a kind and liberal landlord, and a 
 perfect gentleman, and for such information as we are able 
 to obtain of his career we are indebted to " Scrutator" and 
 " Ximrod."t He came to Warwickshire in 1791, and lived 
 at Clopton, near Stratford-on-Avon, and hunted the entire 
 county at his own expense,! and he continued to do so for 
 a longer period than any man before him in any hunting 
 country. He had seventy couples of hounds, and he dined 
 with the members of the club at the White Lion, Strat- 
 ford, once a fortnight. Mr. W. Barke, the owner of the 
 White Lion, was a welter weight, and a noted rider. On 
 one occasion he was asked the price by Mr. Zouche, of 
 ]\Iilcote, of a very strong, active, shooting pony belonging 
 to him. He rejDlied, " Fifty guineas." " Can he jump ? " 
 
 * From the Sporting Magazine, December, 1795 : " Stratford, December 3, 1795. 
 Corbet's Hounds had a good run from Wolford Heath (sic), near Shipston. Mr. J. 
 Corbet, the Rev. J. Martin, Mr. S. Littleton, Mr. Pigott, and Mr. Hill were up at the 
 death." 
 
 t " Nimrod," after leaving Hinkley Hall, in Leicestershire, removed to Bilton 
 Hall, in Warwickshire, which had been the residence of Addison. 
 
 X The following letter appeared in the Leamington Courier in March, 1884 : " Sir, — 
 Will you allow me to correct the statement made in your article on the Warwickshire 
 hounds that Mr. Corbet liunted them entirely at his own expense. My gx-andfather, 
 •Sir Andrew Corbet, shared the expenses equally with his kinsman, John Corbet — both 
 Shropshire men. My father used to lament — very improperly, I suppose, but from a 
 younger son's point of view — that the WOOl, a year thus spent did not come his way 
 instead of it ' going to the dogs.' — Yours truly, Charlotte M. Corbet, 2, Newbold- 
 terrace, Leamington." 
 
K; the WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1791 
 
 Avas tlu' next (lucstioii. " Fetcli liini out," said Mr. Barke 
 to his ostler. ' and I will show you." The pony was no 
 sooner bi-ouo'ht out than Mr. Barke mounted — not in the 
 i^^'ueral way, lor, to show the leaping powers and surprising 
 docility of the ])onv, the owner sat with his face towards 
 the tail, and having put his head straight, with a quiet 
 ■ come uj) ' he cleared a flight of rails into the turnpike 
 road, to the great amusement of his companions. At their 
 request he repeated the leap in the same extraordinary 
 manner, and sold his pony for the sum he asked without 
 further recommendation. At the Stratford Hunt meeting 
 they sold horses by handicap, and prices were, even in 
 those days, given for hunters which are not exceeded now ; 
 and at one of these sales Mr. Best bought Conlidence from 
 Mr. Lockley for 7oO guineas, this horse having carried the 
 latter throughout a severe run, and then jumped a fence of 
 timber at the end of it. 
 
 Mr. Corbet had a very noted hound called Trojan,* 
 stated, in a letter signed by Somerville, to have hunted eight 
 seasons, and described as a black and white hound. He 
 never was lame or missed a day's hunting, and was not 
 only the fastest hound in the pack, but the best hunter. 
 He was the founder and the mainstay of Mr. Corbet's 
 pack, and his blood became famous throughout other 
 kennels. " The Blood of the Trojans " was always drank 
 after " The King " at the Hunt Club dinners at Stratford,! 
 and Mr. Corbet was called "the Father of the Trojans." | 
 
 * There is a story told that this hound came as a "waif and a stray " to the kennels 
 at Siindorne, and that no one knew where he came from, but that he was so good 
 looking that he was taken out huntiug, and then his excellent qualities were discovered, 
 and he was largely bred from, both by Mr. Corbet and Sir Kichard Puleston, as well as 
 by other leading breeders of hounds in England. (But vide infra.) 
 
 t Amongst Salopian foxhunters, too, at every convivial meeting, there was "one 
 cheer more for the blood of Trojan."— Eev. T. H. G. Puleston's " The Wynnstay 
 Country." 
 
 t Mr. Corbet, we find from his hound lists, bred also from Lord Fitzwilliam's Fatal^ 
 Viper, Hero, Layman. Pontiff, Tipler, and Actor; Sir R. Puleston's Gainer, Dromo, 
 Triumph, Dexter, and Tiviuccer, Sir Thomas Mostyn's Hannibal. His pack in 1807 
 was reinforced by Rally, Venus, Marchioness, Duchess, Darlington, Lawyer, Leicester, 
 Lowther, Rally, Bedford. Baroness, Hero, and Hardwick from Prees' Kennels, probably 
 when Mr. Hill gave up his hounds ; also by Bluster and Gameboy from Lord 
 Southampton's. In his hound-book of 1807-8 we only find Driver, Dasher, Tryal (.-(c), 
 
179.5^ A FAMOUS RUN IN 1795. 17 
 
 " Fuit Ilium et ingens Grloria Teucrorum." The old Siiortlng 
 Magazine, in its number of December, 1795, relates that 
 on the 8th of this month Mr. Corbet's hounds found a fox 
 at Wolford, and ran over Leamington Heath, Norton 
 Common, Evenlode Heath, Longborough Lees, Donington, 
 Scotts Brake, Eyford, Halford Holt, thence over Cold 
 Aston DoAvns, and towards Farmington Grove; then 
 through Sa])erton Grove, over the Gloucestershire Hills, 
 and killed the fox near Sandewell Park, within four miles 
 of Cheltenham, twenty-three miles as the crow flies, and 
 thirty-five miles as hounds ran.* It is said that the first 
 hour and a half of the run was without a check, followed 
 bv the same time of slow hunting, and then fifty minutes 
 more without a check. The head of the fox was preserved 
 for years, and it is not even suggested that there was any 
 change of foxes during such a run. The line traversed 
 during the greater part of it, after passing Donington, was 
 over a down country, at that time without a fence, which 
 makes it possible that the distance stated may have been 
 covered.! Mr. Corbet's huntsman, Will Barrow, was 
 
 Turpin, Tragedy, Thoetis, Trusty, and Tawdry by Trojan. In this book tbere is a 
 Trojan, who is described as by Driver out of Gladness. Mr. Corbet bred a good deal 
 from Driver, and in 180" he had nine couples in his kennel by him. — Ibid. 
 
 Dromo was Sir Richard Puleston's favourite hound. There is at Emral a large 
 headstone to the nramory of this famous hound, with an inscription : 
 
 Alas, poor Dromo ! 
 
 Reynard with dread oft heard his awful name. 
 
 Died September, 1809. 
 
 His name is -wTitten in large letters in Sir Richard's stud-book. — Ihid 
 
 * Sixteen miles is the actual distance on the Ordnance map straight from Wolford 
 Woods to Cheltenham. 
 
 t Mr. Corbet had the head of this fox preserved and put in a glass case in the 
 " Tempest Room," where the members of the Hunt then dined, and on the frame was 
 written the description of the chase ; the head coutiimed to grace the room for forty- 
 five successive years. Every sportsman who knew the history and the achievements of 
 this fox contemplated his stern, grim visage with delight, and many whose hearts never 
 responded to tlie gladsome " Tally-ho," felt some pleasure for a moment in looking at 
 the gallant old fox of Wolford Heath. In 1834 the White Lion changed proprietors, 
 and in the following year the tenant then in possession left the house. This relique of 
 eport had kept its station under every tenancy, and was considered a sort of heirloom to 
 the premises. An old sportsman on entering the room on the day of sale, exclaimed, 
 " Stole away." The fine old fox of Wolford Heath was nowhere to be found. Had 
 this not been the case, Ms likeness here had superseded the necessity of our making 
 this apology. — Vknator. 
 
 A similar loss has taken place at Compton Verney, where the head of the old 
 Hillmorton fox has disappeared from the Muniment Room. 
 
 Vol. I. C 
 
18 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ir«.»5 
 
 chiefly celebrated as a very hard rider and a perfect horse- 
 man. He was mounted on several famous horses, which 
 under his guidance made a great name. His manners, 
 unlike those of his master, were the reverse of polite ; he 
 was killed eventually by a fall from his horse, and 1400/. 
 was found in various places about his bed-room, and suits 
 of new clothes sufficient for a parish. 
 
 During the whole period of Mr. Corbet hunting Warwickshire — and he 
 may be truly said to have " hunted Warunckshire," his counti-y extending 
 upwards o£ forty miles lengthways, and twenty across it, William Barrow, 
 commonlv called " Will Barrow," was his huntsman, and his brother Jack 
 fir.st whip])er-in. How well do I remember every feature in both these men I 
 Could they rise again and enter my room at this moment, their ajjpearance 
 would be as familiar to me as that of one of my own servants now under my 
 i-oof — the effect of the impression they made upon me in the various scenes 
 in which we were engaged. Jack liked his glass, and was a little loose in 
 character, and yet a good man in the field ; but, unless things went pleasantly, 
 unless his " lasses," as he was wont to call his bitch pack, were running 
 without one being out of her place, his countenance seldom relaxed from its 
 natural — I may say constitutional gravity. In fact, the antipodes to his 
 master he was, altlicnigh, unless much provoked by some sport-destroying 
 rider, never absolutely unciA^l — of a stem, if not morose temper, but an 
 excellent servant withal. And although it was the fashion to call him not 
 the best of huntsmen, still, testing him as the pudding is tested, I see no 
 reason for any depreciation of his talent. I can only say, that never since, 
 with one pack of hounds, have I witnessed such a succession of sport as the 
 pack he hunted afforded, and it was a great treat to see him ride to them. But 
 how splendidlv he was mounted. Not ten stone in his clothes, not eleven in 
 his saddle, he rode horses al)le to carry five stone more — all of his master's 
 breeding — and quite perfect in their work. Alas ! his end was a sad one. 
 He died from a fall with the harriers kept by the present Mr Corbet of 
 Sundorne, after having escaped any serious injury during the twenty years 
 or more of his hunting foxhounds, save in one instance, when his horse 
 jumped upon him, when leading him into a hollow way, and fractured one of 
 liis legs. And a circumstance occurred at his decease, corroborative of the 
 character I have given of him, as being deficient in that flow of soul which 
 is generally characteristic of the sportsman, and which his brother Jack 
 possessed. In old stockings and other odd places in his bed-chamber at 
 Sundorne Castle, was foiind gold to the amount of fourteen hundred pounds, 
 besides suits, many of which he had never put on his person ! It appeared 
 that he had not taken any steps to improve his property, by placing his 
 money at interest ; neither had he any wish to settle himself in a farm, for 
 which he possessed sufficient capital, but contented himself with the servants' 
 hall of Sundorne, and hunting the harriers of the old master's representative. 
 Barrow was in the service of Mr. Childe, of Kinlet, Shropshire, the great 
 friend of Mr. Meynell, previously to his living with Mr. Corljet, and he was 
 the only person about his premises that he would suffer to ride any of the 
 horses he (Mr. Childe) rode himself — always saying of him, that he was the 
 
1795J WILL BARROW. 19 
 
 " only servaut he ever had, or knew, fit to trust with his horses' mouths, 
 hai-ing so gentle and good a hand on his bridle." This was true to the 
 letter ; there could not l)c a finer horseman over a country than Barrow, nor 
 one with a finer liaud ; yet, strange to say, he rode almost all his horses in 
 martingales, which, from their length, the rings reaching to the jaw — he 
 said " merely steadied their heads." And he had another ijeculiarity in the 
 saddle. Wheu trotting along the road with his hounds, he always held his 
 whip and reins in his right hand, whilst the left arm hung dangling by his 
 side, as though there was no life in it ; and which peculiarity was honoured 
 with imitation l)y a conceited, but hard-riding, farmer in the hunt. 
 
 I read these lines on poor Barrow's tombstone in the Suudorne parish 
 <;hurchyard : 
 
 Of this world's pleasure I have had my share ; 
 
 For few the sorrows I was doomed to bear ; 
 
 How oft I have enjoyed the noble chase 
 
 Of hounds and foxes, each striving for the race ! 
 
 But the knell of death calls me away ; 
 
 So, sportsmen, farewell ! I must obey. 
 
 I cannot say much for the poetry, and still less for the sense of this 
 epitaph, and I wonder a better had not been substituted by some one. We do 
 not enjoy " the chase of hoimds," but of foxes with hounds. Again, did the 
 fates decree, that Will Barrow should die from a fall, he should have died in 
 the service of foxhounds, with which, for so many years, he lived so well, and, 
 like the old fellow-servant of his younger days — the noted Will Moody — the 
 brush of their last fox should have waved amongst his funeral plumes. 
 
 For could we clioose the time, and choose aright, 
 'Tis best to die, our honour at its height. 
 
 To return to Mr. Corbet. He appeared in my eyes to possess all the 
 qualities requisite to make a man popular in the character of a master of 
 foxhounds. lu the first place, he was, in his general demeanour, a fine 
 specimen of the thorough English gentleman, which goes a great way, under 
 any circumstaufv's, towards ci-eatiug respect and esteem; and when joined 
 with a frank and courteous manner, the result is no longer doubtful. Nor 
 was it with the gentlemen sportsmen in his county alone that Mr. Corbet 
 was in the highest esteem. The kind word, the nod of recognition at the 
 cover's side, were never withheld by him to the yeomen and farmers who 
 attended his hounds in that sporting county ; and with that class of persons 
 he stood — if I may be allowed the expression — on the very pinnacle of esteem. 
 His name and fame Avill not be forgotten in Warwickshire for at least another 
 generation to come. 
 
 When sjieaking of Mr. Corbet as a sportsman, I have always been rather 
 at a loss for a true estimation of him in that character. In breeding 
 hounds he had great advantages. His own extensive estates in one of the 
 most sporting counties in Great Britain, together with those of his 
 neighbours, afforded him the best of walks for his puppies, and he bred 
 to a great extent. Still, I have myself heard him admit that in proportion 
 to relative numbers, he could not succeed so well as his neighbour 
 (afterwards his son-in-law). Sir Richard Puleston, succeeded. He gave 
 him credit for bringing into the field a sort of hound fit for any country, 
 and of a peculiarly marked character, which I always considered Sir 
 Richard's sort to have been. They were closer in their form, but with 
 
 c 2 
 
20 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1795 
 
 leiio-tli. wlioro Iciiytli is iniuirffl ; more sj-nnuctrical in fact; more after 
 the fashion of Mr. Osbaldcston'-s Fnrrier and Vanlter sorts than Mr. 
 Corbet's were. The latter (Mr. Corbet's) were said to have suffered to a 
 certain extent from their owner too long perseveiino- in the iu-aud-iu 
 system of breeding the Trojan blood, as it was called ; Ijut from the 
 following character of the parent tree, wo cannot wonder at the high 
 value the possessor of it put upon its fruit. 
 
 The history of the hound Trojan is an extraordinary one, from his 
 birth to his " death. It appears Mr. Cor])et apjilied to his brother. 
 Col. Andrew Corbet, whom I well remember amongst the Northampton- 
 shire sportsmen of l)y-gone days, to purchase him a pack of harriers, 
 which he did at TattersaU's ; and amongst tliem Avas a bitch called 
 Tidings (a real harrier's name, by the bye), who, being so excellent in her 
 work, and evidently a dwarf foxhound, was kept when the pack was 
 sold, and Mr. Corbet became, in conjunction with Mr. Powys, a master of 
 foxlioiinds. She was sent to the late Earl Spencei-'s kennel at Pytchley, and 
 put to a hound called Trueboy, and the produce was the celebrated Trojan. 
 It has, however, jiever been satisfactorily ascertained that Lord Spencer had 
 at that time a dog called Truel)oy, which has always thrown a doubt over 
 Trojan's legitimacy. Trojan, however, had like to have been drafted, and 
 for a very singular reason, ty^iical, no doubt, of his excellence. He would 
 not look at a hare, to which Mr. Corbet at that period entered his puppies, 
 and was for that reason considered slack, and unlikely to enter well to his 
 own nu)re noble game. He would just stoop to feel what was on foot, 
 when instantly he left his companions, and came to the huntsman's horse, 
 and remained there all the time their hunting continued, seeming to dislike 
 and bo dissatisfied with the proceedings — so much so that Mr. C. and his 
 huntsman despaired of ever getting him to enter. 
 
 But Mr. C. did not end with stooping to hares, his object being first to 
 get his puppies to stoop to scent ; and as soon as this was effectually 
 established he turned cubs before them. Here Trojan showed his nature, 
 for no sooner was he engaged with a fox than he gave instant proof of his 
 skill and suj)eriority in every respect; and Mr. C. congratulated himself 
 that he had waited, and not too hastily parted with such a hound of promise 
 and expectations, and I believe there never was in any pack a more efficient 
 and perfect hound ever entered, and I have reason to Ijelieve, from the well 
 authenticated anecdotes related of hiin, that a more perfect foxhound than 
 Trojan never Imnted a fox ; and it is asserted witli reference to his con- 
 stitution — one of the inducements, no doulit, to persevere with his blood — 
 that from the period of his being entered, which was in 1780, until the end 
 of the season, 1788, he was never lame, nor did he ever remain in his kemiel 
 when it was his turn to hunt. This, it will be seen, was most extraordinary ; 
 not only that he shoixld have escaped the usual trifling accidents from thorns. 
 Sec, but from his great leaping powers, which I shall presently allude to. 
 To sum up his character, however, it is said of him that in his work he was, in 
 every sense of the tenu, to be depended upon. His speed enabled him to be 
 at the head to guide the pack ; he could also hunt over a dry fallow or a I'oad, 
 like a southern harrier; and his stoutness was such that he always came 
 home, after the hardest days, with his stern up, fresh and gay to the last. 
 
 But his leaping powers ! I will relate what has been recorded of them, 
 and on indisputable authority : — 
 
17951 
 
 TROJAN. 
 
 21 
 
 lu liis secoud year's huutiug, Mr. Corbet's hounds found a fox at Chil- 
 liugton, iu Staffoi'dshire, aud ran liim to Weston (Lord Bradford's), whence he 
 returned to Chilliugtou, leaping the wall into the park, at that time entire 
 aud of great height. The jjack carried the scent to the spot, when Trojan 
 at once took the wall, wliilst the rest of the pack, who attempted it, fell 
 backwards. The field rode for the gate, and when they got into the park, 
 Trojan was found at bay with his fox, Avhich he had hunted into a drain. 
 
 A similar exploit was performed l)y the same hound in the sixth year of 
 his hunting. November 9th, 1786. A fox broke from the Perry Woods, near 
 Birmingham, and, leaping the high Ijrick wall into Lord Dartmouth's park, 
 was followed by Trojan only. The field. Avith the rest of the pack, entered 
 the pai-k Ijy the gate, when Trojan was seen carrying the scent across it, and 
 after being joined by the pack, the wall again jiresented itself. As he had 
 
 t^. 
 
 leaped into the park, Trojan leaped out of it, whilst the rest of the pack, 
 attempting to follow his example, fell backwards as Ijefore. The field had 
 again to ride for the gate ; and when they arrived in the London and 
 Birniingliam turnpike road (where the same wall, iu staiu quo, is now to 
 be seen), they Avere informed that one hoimd (Trojan, of course) had gone 
 across it with a scent, into a wood hard by, in which, on entering it, 
 Trojan was heard carrying on the scent by himself ; and, on the pack 
 joining cry, a capital run was the result ; the fox having been killed 
 between Halesowen aud Hagley in Worcestershire, having been found in 
 Staffordshire, aud run through part of Warwickshire. Stephen Goodall 
 hmited them on this day, and he always said that no fox could go above 
 ground on anything like a hunting day where Trojan c(mld not follow him. 
 
22 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 1790-1801 
 
 That such u hard-ruuniiig liouud as this shuuld coutiuue in work to 
 his eighth year is far more than could have been expected from him; 
 but so it was ; and it was in the month of January, 1788, that after a 
 most severe day iu wliich he liad disting-uished liimself, but had showed 
 symptoms of nature liaving cried " euougli," that Mr. Corbet ordered tliat 
 Trojan sliouhl never hunt again. He lived some years afterwards, and, being 
 fond of lying and basking liimself under some fine old elms at Sundorne. 
 Mr. Corbet had liim biiried there. — [" Nimrod " and Somerville's letter,. 
 Sjwrting Magazine, 8th March, 1826.] 
 
 Durins: the season of 1796 Mr. Corbet's hounds met at 
 Ihnington, and found a fox in a small gorse covert near 
 Stoke, and ran at first into the Vale towards Preston Bushes, 
 and back to the hill, and through Stoke Woods and Foxcote, 
 and again into the Vale, through Black well Bushes, and 
 over the Stour between Halford and Newbold ; thence by 
 Eatington and Brick Hill, and leaving Kineton to the left 
 they ran over the finest country nearly to Avon Dassett, 
 where this good fox went to ground. The distance of the 
 run from point to point was thirteen miles, and not less- 
 than eighteen as the hounds ran. Mr. Stubbs, Mr. H. 
 Wyatt, Mr. F. Canning, Mr. K. Canning, Mr. Cockbill, 
 the huntsman, and a few others only saw the finish. 
 
 An extraordinary run took place on the 10th of 
 December, 1801, the only authentic and complete account 
 of which was written by Mr. Pole, of Todenham, and has 
 been seen by or is in the possession of Sir Pery Pole, but 
 has been unfortunately mislaid. He, however, has no doubt 
 that Bourton-on-the- Water was the place reached during 
 the run. The fox was found in the gorse near Epwell White 
 House, and ran down into the Vale near Tysoe, thence by 
 Shutford Hill and Tadmarton, and turned back to Wroxton. 
 He next passed near Banbury, and was viewed in a garden, 
 and from there ran to Bourton-on-the- Water. (Note his 
 probable line to Broughton, and by Wickham and 
 Tadmarton to Hook Norton and (Ireat HollMa^ight, and 
 leaving Chipping Norton to the left, by Sarsden, Cornwell, 
 Church Hill, Bleddington, and between Westcot and Wick 
 Ressington to Bourton-on-the-Water.) The hounds were 
 whipped off beyond this point, still running hard, at five 
 o'clock ; and they ran, according to " Scrutator," for four 
 
i8i»i ksor THE EPWELL HUNT. 23 
 
 liours and a quai-ter, over thirty-five miles of country, the 
 distance from Tysoe to Bom-ton-on-the-Water being twenty 
 miles straight. Many of the sportsmen did not return 
 home on that day. We are bound to notice, as we have 
 before in recording another run of this description, that no 
 mention is made of the possibility of any change of foxes, 
 notwithstanding that an unusual extent of country was 
 traversed, and that the pack must have run through several 
 coverts, and sufficiently near to others to disturb a fox. 
 
 The famous Epwell Hunt ; or. Black Collars in the Rear, 
 was commemorated in a poem by Edward Goulburn, Esq., 
 and took place in December, 1807,, and runs as follows : 
 
 THE EPWELL HUNT; or, BLACK COLLARS IN THE 
 
 REAR. 
 
 By Edward Goulburn, Esq. 
 
 A chosen few 
 Alone the sport enjoy. 
 
 As Epwell's wide heath* t'other day I pass'd over, 
 The hounds, I perceiv'd, were then trying the cover ; 
 Enraptur'd I heard them, and, spurring my horse, 
 Soon discover'd the pack, which had fovmd in the gorse. 
 
 Two hundred gay sportsmen enliven' d the scene, 
 
 All determin'd to ride, and professedly keen. 
 
 Tho' "he morning was cold, and the frost overnight 
 
 Made the country around in terrible plight ; 
 
 Yet reynard broke cover, disdaining to stay, 
 
 And in view of the field went bravely away ; 
 
 But a bad country took, much against all their wills. 
 
 And led them a dance o'er some heart-breaking hills. 
 
 Then fled to some furze, and kept dodging about, 
 
 Till Wanton, good bitch, drove the vagabond out. 
 
 Thus routed, his foes he determin'd to face. 
 And again took them off at a rare sj^litting pace ; 
 O'er a strong and stiff covmtry went forward in style, 
 With the hounds at his brush, in full view for a mile ; 
 Was next seen in a bottom, and then headed back, 
 And whilst climbing the steep fell a prey to the pack. 
 
 * The Epwell Hunt was written in the year 1807, hut we have not been able to ascer- 
 tain the precise time. The hounds met in that year at Epwell, on November 14 and 
 December 7, and the run must have taken place on one of these days. — Venator. 
 
24 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. :i807 
 
 Tho burst (perhaps Melton will sniile while it reads) 
 Was so quick that it took something out of the steeds ; 
 Nay, to speak the whole truth, many found it too fast, 
 And some very crack riders were looking aghast. 
 
 Sqiiire Kynaston,* mounted on Whalebone the tough, 
 Found he'd lost a fore-shoe — that's to say, had enough 5 
 And Cromie, who came just to see them throw off. 
 And at all that he saw predetermin'd to scoff. 
 Allow'd that for once his opinion was wrong, 
 And confess 'd, with a sigh, that they could go along ! 
 
 Many others, contented, went quietly home. 
 
 Little dreaming, I ween, of the pleasure to come ; 
 
 And a few, whilst debating to stay or to go, 
 
 For the former resolv'd when they heard " Tally ho ! " 
 
 Tally ho with a vengeance — for strange to recount, 
 Scarce allowing us time our nags to remount, 
 Another stout reynard went boldly away. 
 For Winderton making most desperate play, 
 Now headed, and forc'd his first point to decline. 
 To Epwell push'd forward as straight as a line ; 
 Finding there nothing left for his Kfe but to ran, 
 He resolv'd to die game, and to show them some fun : 
 So through Swalcliffe's plantations intrepidly went, 
 Passing Hook Norton Heath with a fine burning scent ; 
 Where a few of the oldest put on a wry face, 
 And the young ones no longer comj^lain'd of the pace. 
 
 From thence, quite determin'd to give lis our fill, 
 For Swarford he made, and went right up the hill ; 
 Cross'd the road at a pace that made some people stare ; 
 And was fatal — poor Fretwill,t alas ! — to your mare. 
 
 Close press'd, towards Heythorpe despairing he roves, 
 But in vain, for the scent ev'ry moment improves ; 
 Till at length, having gone twenty miles right on end. 
 At a rate that the oldest man out never kenn'd. 
 Having fill'd the whole country with falls and disasters, 
 Nearly kill'd all the nags, and well pickled their masters, 
 He was kill'd in the Park when just going to ground, 
 Above twenty-three miles from the place he was found ! 
 
 * Mr. R. Kynaston, near Chapel House, Oxfordshire. 
 
 Mr. Fretwill was, at this period, well known in the Hunt. 
 
1807 THE EPWELL HUNT. 26 
 
 By this time, as uij readers perhaps may suspect, 
 The attendants of reynard became quite select. 
 And the few that remain'd never witness'd, I ween, 
 In the course of their lives a more comical scene ; 
 Such confusion — such rolls — of red-coats such a string, 
 To describe them is quite an impossible thing. 
 Here a huch with his skirts cover'd over with mud. 
 There a groom sticking fast on a slim bit of blood, 
 Here a. farmer gives in — there a nobleman lags, 
 Alike anxioxis to make an excuse for their nags. 
 Not a field yoti pass'd thro' but appear'd some sad face, 
 Groaning over a fall, or lamenting his case ; 
 In short, a more strange or more comical sight 
 Never fell to the lot of a Bard to recite. 
 
 Then aid me, ye Nine, to record all the fun 
 That took place in the course of this capital run ; 
 Which, had it at Belvoir or Raby occurr'd, 
 A volume, I'm sure, such a run would afford. 
 
 Regardless alike of thumps, scratches, or knocks, 
 MoRANT Gale* breaks away in full chase of the fox ; 
 A Meltonian of old, and well vers'd in their creed, 
 O'er-riding all scent, for the sake of a lead ; 
 Many tumbles and rolls got this hero, of course. 
 And concluded by dreadfully laming his horse ; 
 Yet with skill unexampled he somehow contriv'd 
 To go hobbling alone, whilst old reynard surviv'd. 
 
 Lord AlvanleyI next him, in close imitation, 
 
 Came sailing along in no very bad station. 
 
 His lordship rode Ploughhoy, and what's an odd case, 
 
 Not a soul seem'd to envy the clodhopper's place ; 
 
 And I've since been inform'd the poor fellow avers 
 
 That he learnt, by this run, the right meaning of spurs ; 
 
 But spurr'd as he was, it's my duty to say. 
 
 He kept well with the hounds the whole of the day. 
 
 On his five-year-old horse, tho" of course in the front, 
 Bob Canning;}: comes next, the crack man of the Hunt ; 
 
 * Mr. Edward Morant Gale, then of Upton House, near Edge Hills, where he kept 
 clever pack of harriers. 
 
 t This nobleman was a distinguished attendant of the Hunt at this time. 
 JMr. R. Canning then lived at Hounds Hill, within a few miles of Stratford-upon- 
 Avon ; he now (1836) resides at Hartpury, near to Gloucester. 
 
26 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1807 
 
 Let him ride what lie will, either hunter or hack, 
 Sure by some means or other to be with the pack ; 
 At the end of the day almost always alone, 
 And scarce ever behind, tho' he weighs sixteen stone ! 
 
 PressincT close in his wake, and on much the same plan, 
 Frank,* his brother, keejts up, tho' a heavier man ; 
 On the General mounted, and what's very queer, 
 Like some of that tribe he preferr'd not the rear; 
 Yet even this vet'ran, tho' warm to a fault. 
 Gave the word of command very often to halt ; 
 Nay, so hard at one time his condition was render'd, 
 Had the action continu'd he must have surrender'd. 
 Still he lasted it out, tho' much weary'd and spent, 
 And no doubt felt miich pleasure in reaching his tent. 
 
 Sticking close to the hounds observe steady Sir Grey,t 
 Riding equally hard in a quieter way ; 
 Sufficiently forward, yet still keeping bounds, 
 His wish to ride after, not over the hounds ! 
 
 In a style rather different came Goulbuen,J the bard, 
 
 Who a long time disdaining the cry of — hold hard ! 
 
 Over fences and ditches kept thoughtlessly fanning, 
 
 Resolv'd at all hazards to follow Bob Canning ; 
 
 To accomplish which end he kept on at a score, 
 
 That his five-year-old nag felt a terrible bore ; 
 
 So at Swarford, unable to climb up the hill. 
 
 At a nasty oak stile stood obligingly still. 
 
 Then he left him in plight not a little distressing. 
 
 The breed of Ai'abians most fervently blessing. 
 
 *' Well, I never did see ne'er a run like this here," ' 
 Cries Dick Bayzant, to-day most unusually near. 
 To see him so forward surpris'd a great many. 
 Who knew not the plot of this Worcestershire zany ; 
 But his friends pass'd it by as a matter of course. 
 Well knowing he wished to dispose of his horse. 
 
 * Mr. F. Canning, of Foxcote. This gentleman died on January 17tli, 1831. 
 tSir Grey Skipwith, Barfc., then of Snitterfield ; he now lives at Newbold-upon- 
 Avon. 
 
 X The facetious Mr. Goulbum, not at the bar, formerly hunted in "Warwickshire, 
 and seeing a Worcestershire squire laughing violently, he went up to him and said : 
 " Quid rides ? " My friend, not much of a linguist, replied : " My Magog horse." — 
 
 NiMROD. 
 
1807. THE EPWELL HUNT. 27 
 
 Now creeping thro" gaps, now trailing down lanes. 
 When noticed he leaps, and when not, slvly cranes. 
 Now concealing a stumble, now hiding a trip, 
 Like a horsedealer's man paid to show off a rip ; 
 In short, if allow'd I may be the expression, 
 What we deem a pleasure, he made a profession. 
 
 Little GriLLiBR.VND,* too, now began to make plav, 
 Tho' he rode mighty shy the first part of the day ; 
 And averr'd, as if fibbing, I ween, was no sinning, 
 That his horse, to go pleasant, was just then beginning ; 
 And if stumbling, and rolling, wide op'ning his throat, 
 And convulsively sobbing, can pleasure denote ; 
 Or, if joy be attended with symptoms like these, 
 Master Gillibrand certainlv rode at his ease ! 
 
 Nor let us, my friends, in this place overlook 
 The fate of poor Whyniate. who fell in a brook. 
 And who, had it not V)een for that woful disaster. 
 Must have se^n all the sport, had he gone even faster 
 A lesson to sportsmen — take warning from hence — 
 How much safer to ride than turn over a fence ; 
 Tor the Chesnut, indignant at being led over. 
 Threw him flat on his back — not exactly in clover ; 
 Nay, to tread on his master the rascal made bold. 
 And gave him a bath most bewitchingly cold ; 
 And, what's worse, after playing this dev'lish rig, 
 Of tb3 water he took such a terrible swig, 
 That, tho' Reginald mounted as soon as releas'd. 
 He could never get up till the sport had all ceas'd. 
 
 On Michaelmas mounted, somewhat in the rear. 
 Sailing steady along see Allesley's great Peer;t 
 Now, his lordship asserts, and 'tis true without doubt. 
 That a nasty stone wall, with a ditch, threw him out ; 
 Besides, Goulburn, his crony, declares it's the case, 
 And avows that he stopp'd at the very same place. 
 JacJc Ketch, too, with very uncommon forbearance, 
 At the close of this run never made his appearance ; 
 
 * Mr. Gillibrand, a good sportsman, who frequently joined this Hunt during tho 
 season. 
 
 t Lord Cloumell, well known as an ardent sportsman, who frequently rode twenty 
 miles to cover in the morning, before the hounds threw off. 
 
28 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. _m7 
 
 And, tlio' HoLYOAKE* gave him miK-li legal assistance, 
 
 Was kept by tlie houuds at a very great distance. 
 
 'Tis strange, you will say, that Jack Ketch should be dropp'd, 
 
 Who the 2)ipes of so many, of course, must have stopped ; 
 
 But, alas ! it is true, even he wanted breath, 
 
 And, for once in his life, was not in at the death ! 
 
 On a broken-knee'd chesnut, with very good shape, 
 Tho' in muffle array'd, and without the black cape, 
 PEMBERTONf kept well in the front all the while, 
 And was carried throughout in a Brummagem style ; 
 But not so was his groom, on a hard-pulling bay. 
 Which for some time kept tearing and running away, 
 But at Swarford stood still, and was done for the day. 
 
 With his hat in his hand, looking out for a gate, 
 Neither looking nor riding by any means straight. 
 Mister Stubbs, a ci'ack rider, no doubt, in his time, 
 But who hunting on Sunday once deem'd it no crime, :j: 
 Making desp'rate play thro' some fine muddy lanes, 
 And by nicking and skirting, got in for his pains ; 
 High waving the brush, and with jjleasure half mad, 
 Roarmg out : " Yoicks, have at 'em ! We've kill'd him, 
 my lad ! " 
 
 In a state of delight, far exceeding all bounds, 
 
 See the veteran Squire § in the midst of his hounds. 
 
 How he liv'd to the end of this terrible day 
 
 The Muse nor desires, nor ought she to say. 
 
 That he saw all, 'tis clear, and what more could Old Meynell ? 
 
 And beheld the effects of his care in the kennel ; 
 
 * Mr. Hcilyoake, of Tattenball, Staffordshire. This gentleman generally joined the 
 Warwickshire during the hunting season, and was a true sportsman. 
 
 t Mr. T. rembeiton, of Birmingham, who had some very famous horses, and joined 
 the hunt for several years. 
 
 X "To explain this mystery," says Mr. Goulburn, "it is necessary to inform my 
 readers of an anecdote recorded of this gentleman, who for a long time kept a pack of 
 foxhounds which were the terror of all foxes, and the delight of all sportsmen in 
 the neighbourhood. Xay, so anxious was he for the sport, and so fearful of a blank 
 day, that he kept several bag foxes to afford amusement. In feeding these on a Sunday 
 morning, one of them made his escapa, though not unobserved by this keen sportsman, 
 who exclaimed : ' What I you thought you had me, eh ? But I'll be a match for you, 
 and so saying he immediately let lojse the keen pack, which killed poor reyuard, after a 
 run of about twenty miles, in a village where the inhabitants were just returning from 
 Divine service." 
 
 § Mr. Corbet, master of the hounds. 
 
i8orj NOTES ON THE EPWELL HUNT. 29 
 
 Saw his hounds, unassisted, make out a cold scent. 
 The' misled and o'errode ev'17 yard that they went ; 
 But when once settled on it, to me 'tis quite clear, 
 Go a pace that leaves many great folks in the rear. 
 In short, such a run, in so perfect a style, 
 No country has witness'd a pretty long while. 
 
 Then let Leicestershire vaunt of its far-renown'd speed, 
 
 Let them jostle, or cross, for a start or a lead ; 
 
 Upon selling their nags, more than hunting, intent, 
 
 And scarce knowing the meaning of what is called — sceni. 
 
 All declaiming at once — such a shout, such a yell, 
 
 Doing only what monkies* might do full as well ; 
 
 Where sport depends quite upon knowing the cover, 
 
 And the very best run in ten minutes is over. 
 
 May such hunting as this never fall to my lot, 
 
 Let them race, if they like it ; I envy them not. 
 
 The blood of Old Trojan is all I desire. 
 
 So give me the hounds of the Warwickshire Squire. 
 
 Notes on " The Epwell Hunt ; or, Black Collars in the 
 Eear," from the Supplement to Eural Sports, published in 
 1813 by the Eev. W. B. Daniell : 
 
 This account of a foxhunt in verse was written as a sort of paraphrastic 
 companion to the Billesdon Coplow Poetical Chase, and as a quiz upon tlic 
 Mehonian mode of hunting-. 
 
 " Found he'd lost a fore shoe." 
 
 " Lost shoes " and " dead beat " are synonymous terms in the Leicester- 
 shire ci'eed. Ldeed, so implicit is this article of the Meltonian belief, that 
 many a horse, in addition to the misfortune of breaking his hoof from losing 
 his shoe, has laboured likewise under the aforesaid unavoidable imputation to 
 his everlasting disgrace. 
 
 " No longer complained of tlie pace." 
 
 WHiat kills is the pace. A favourite maxim of Mr. Forester's, of tlie 
 trutli of Avliicli lie seldom loses an opportvmity of endeavouring to make his 
 friends sen><ible. 
 
 " For the sake of the lead." 
 
 A lead by which is to be understood securing the privilege of l)reakiug 
 yom- neck first, and when you fall of being rode over by an huiulred and 
 ninety-nine of the best fellows upon earth to a dead certainty. 
 
 " He kept ow at a scoi*e." 
 
 Score means the sort of pace which perhaps neither you nor your horse 
 ever went before, and if you have not more luck than falls to tlie share of 
 every first expei'imeut of the kind, 'tis ten to one but he falls before he can 
 (what they call) get on his legs, in which case you may rest perfectly satisfied 
 
 * As iu original. 
 
30 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. :i8o7 
 
 that lio must roll ovor you two or three times at least before you cau pick 
 yourself up aijaiii. 
 
 " And when not he cranes." 
 
 The term derives its origin from tlie necessary extension of neck of such 
 sportsmen as dare to incur the reproach by venturing to look before they 
 
 leap. 
 
 " See Allesley's great Peer," " Lord Clonmell;" " Jack Ketch, too," the 
 Hnntsman; "the Warwickshire Sciuire," Mr. Corbet. 
 
 " In a very good style." 
 
 Style means the best jiossible manner of doing auytliing, as, for instance, 
 when a man rides his horse full speed at double posts and rails, with a squire 
 trap on the other side (which is a moderate ditch of about two yards wide on 
 purpose to break gentlemen's necks). He is then reckoned at Melton to have 
 rode at it in style, especially if he is caught in the said squire trap. 
 
 Mr. Reginald Wynniatt, a Grloucesterslnre man, often 
 hunted with the Warvvick.shire Hounds, and was chiefiy 
 noted as a very jealous rider, who, regardless of hounds or 
 sport, would ride at anything for the sake of selling his 
 horse. He had a mare not quite fifteen hands high, but 
 long and wide, and possessed of every good quality for a 
 hunter. After riding her several seasons, he sold her to 
 Mr. Walsh Porter for 200 guineas, who also at the same 
 time gave Sir Grey Skipwith that sum for much such 
 another animal. These two mares were the extent of Mr. 
 Porter's stud, but one or other of them was always ready 
 for him, and few men in Warwickshire went out oftener, 
 or got better to hounds, than Mr. Porter. But there was 
 a peculiarity in his style of riding — I mean the long stirrup 
 leather. In this instance it had a more remarkable 
 appearance, as he was 6ft. high, and his mare so low\ 
 One feared, indeed, as he charged the rasping fences of 
 Warwickshire — which he did in gallant style — that his 
 feet might strike them, by their hanging so much below 
 the belly of his mare. Mr. P. had likewise an excellent 
 hand. Mr. Wynniatt purchased his old mare again after 
 she had done her work, and sold two hunters out of her, 
 by Fyldener, to Colonel Berrington for 500 guineas. On 
 one occasion he was carried to a farmhouse after getting a 
 very bad fall, and while he was lying insensible two friends 
 of the farmer asked him how it had happened. The farmer 
 replied that the fall had been entirely due to the horse. 
 
1808] RUN FROM UFTON WOOD. -31 
 
 This reference to his horse's character had the effect 
 of restoring Wynniatt, who opened his eyes and said, •• It 
 was not the horse's fault at all," and then relapsed 
 into insensibility. The two friends then went in search of 
 the horse, which they found, and began to gallop and lark 
 over fences, and on being remonstrated Avith replied, " Poor 
 Wynniatt can't live, and his horses must go to Tattersall's, 
 so we thought we would take the opportunity of trying 
 this one to see if he is worth buying." 
 
 Mr. Corbet's hounds, in ISOS, found at Ufton Wood, 
 and ran by Chadshunt, over Edge Hill, and thence by 
 Upton House and near Epwell White House. At this 
 point the fox turned to the left and' ran over Brailes Hill 
 and as far as Long Compton Field. Here a shepherd's 
 dog met the fox, and they fought until the dog carried as 
 much scent as the fox himself ; they separated on the 
 approach of the hounds, and the latter hit off the 
 scent of the dog, which they followed until dark, and 
 where then whipped oif. The distance traver^ed was 
 twenty miles straight, and probably twenty- seven as 
 hounds ran. 
 
 In December, 180S, a fox was found at Wellesbourne 
 Wood, and was hunted through Walton and Compton 
 Yerney Coverts, and from there across the Yale to the right 
 of Kineton Town ; and at this point he turned more to the 
 right, over Herd Hill, and b}' Pillerton and Oxhill, and after 
 passing near Black Maston, or Marston, and through 
 Eatington Park, he crossed the Stour at Newbold. He then 
 ran by Armscott and Whimpstone, and, leaving Preston 
 Bushes and Quinton to the right, he ran over Meon Hill and 
 into the Yale of Evesham, by Mickleton, Norton, and Aston, 
 and he was killed at the village of Weston, a mile short of 
 Broadway. Mr. Corbet, Bill Barrow, Mr. R. Canning, 
 Mr. Eobbins Mr. Bradley, and Mr Handley alone saw the 
 finish. It is remarkable that Mr. Corbet saw the finish of 
 many good runs, because he rarely jumped a fence. His 
 knowledge of the country helped him to a great extent, 
 and he galloped at the fastest pace down lanes and roads; 
 
32 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [18O& 
 
 indeed, at such speed as to show that he had considerable 
 nerve to be after to do it. 
 
 Amonijst the best riders of the Hunt in Mr. Corbet's 
 time were the brothers Canning-. ]Mr. Francis Canning, 
 of Foxcote, the elder and the heavier of the two, had a 
 constitution which enabled him to reduce his weight by 
 taking severe exercise on foot on every non-hunting day, 
 and in summer he walked extreme distances on most days 
 and in any weather. On a hot July day he walked thii-ty- 
 five miles clad in Hannels, and on the occasion of a tour 
 with friends in the Highlands, made chiefly by them in 
 carriao-es, Mr. F. Cannino- walked 1000 miles, and even 
 then he could not ride less than 15st. Mr. Kobert 
 Canning,* of Hounds Hill, was considered the crack 
 rider of the Hunt. He stood 6ft. 4in., and rode nearly 
 as heavy as his brother, and w^as better mounted, and 
 notwithstanding he always rode the same horse all day he 
 invariably got to the end of the most severe runs. His 
 two best horses were a chesnut horse called Favourite 
 and a stallion called Knowsley, but neither appeared to 
 be up to his weight. 
 
 Mr. Boycott, of Eudge-Hall, Shropshire, \\as for many 
 years a leading man in Warwickshire in Mr. Corbet's time. 
 
 Mr. Charles Boultbee was a first-rate rider of great 
 weight, and Mr. H. Eol^erts was another very heavy man 
 of 20st. who rode hard to hounds. 
 
 Mr. John Hawkes, of Snitterfield, was one of the first 
 to ride thoroughbred horses in the hunting field, and he 
 rode them with practised skill and judgment. 
 
 Mr. Lockleyt was a very fine rider, and was fond of 
 
 *Mr. R. Canning had a hoise called Conjuror which could jump anything. On 
 one occasion when the hounds met near him he went to see them find on a little four- 
 year-old mare that he had bred, up to lOst., and which had never seen hounds. 
 Nevertheless he rode her during a sharp burst of half an hour, with his legs almost on 
 the ground, and jumped a brook and a new oaken stile just before the fox was killed. 
 Mr. John Lucy gave him 80 guineas for her. 
 
 t Mr. John Lockley was born at Barton Hall, in Derbyshire, once the residence of 
 the Protector Cromwell, and from thence he went to Boscobel, in Salop, named from 
 the Italian words hosco hello — beautiful wood. It was at this place that Charles II. 
 and his friend secreted themselves in an oak tree after he had been defeated at 
 
18118 
 
 MR. LOCKLEY. 
 
 38 
 
 selling his horses as often as he. could. He had a thorough- 
 bred horse called Confidence, before mentioned as sold for 
 a great price; he had bought it for 100 guineas, and sold it 
 first to Lord Sefton for 000 guineas, and eventually bought 
 it again. 
 
 Mr. Bradley, a noted hoi'sedealer, Avho lived at New- 
 bold, near Shipston, was one of the best of riders, and made 
 liis own horses and sold them well. He was generally 
 known as " Hunter-making Harry." On one occasion he 
 
 ( IIXKIDENCE. 
 
 had sold a horse at the end of a brilliant run, and when the 
 purchaser complained that he could not ride liim, Mr. 
 
 Worcester by Cromwell, and he was concealed for a time in Boscobel House. Mr. 
 Lockley's father weighed iSst., and he himself, by training, reduced his weight from 
 I7st. to L'ist. Kllb. He constantly hunted with Sir E. Lyttleton's hounds on Cannock 
 Chase when tlie meet was at daybreak, and afterwards with Lord Talbot's hounds on 
 the other tide of tlie Trent during the remainder of the day. The late Mr. Stubbs 
 always prefaced his accoun's of runs wiih Sir E. Lyttleton's houcds by saying, " 1 
 breakfasted with Lockley at twelve o'clock at night.' Three times in one year Mr. 
 Lockley rode the same horse from Newmarket to his own house, being 104 miles, in 
 one day ; and a galloway from his house at Northampton and back again the same 
 evening, a distance of 120 miles. He, at the age of seventy-three, left his own house 
 Vol. I. D 
 
34 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. \ms 
 
 Bradley replied, " I regret, sir, you cannot ride him ; but 
 r only sold the horse, F cannot sell the rider.""' His 
 nonpareil boy, Harry, was still a greater artist than his 
 master ; for it is admitted three good runs under his tuition 
 would complete the education of a hunter, even for Lord 
 Jersey. Bradley had generally sixty or seventy hunters in 
 his stable, and his superior riding has sold many horses at 
 good prices to gentlemen who had joined the Hunt. One 
 (lav he got a very bad fall, and lay insensible on the ground. 
 Several of the sportsmen stopped to assist him, and on 
 being bled he recovered, and was taken home. Wlien 
 Bradley got quite well, and the danger of the accident was 
 partly forgotten, his friends used to tell him that after he 
 fell no one of the company had any instrument in his 
 pocket to bleed him, and that a journeyman carjDenter, who 
 came up by chance with a basket of tools on his back, 
 opened the vein with a gimblet ! Bradley laughed as 
 heartily as any of his acquaintances at this joke. 
 
 Extract from "Nimrod's Hunting Tours." 
 
 One of the hardest riders which Warwickshire has had to boast of is Mr. 
 EdAvard Gale Moraut, who resided for many years at Upton House, near 
 Edge Hill, one of the seats of the Earl of Jersey, where he kept a clever 
 pack of harriers, to amuse himself with on the intermediate days. Mr. Morant 
 is an old Meltouian, and one of the heroes of the Billesdon Coplow. I cannot 
 call him a fine horseman, hut as a determined rider over a country he has few 
 equals, and no man in Enofland would beat liiin for fifteen minutes when 
 hounds run very hard, or for fifteen hours if his horses could carry him so 
 long, as he has strength for any exertion, and nerve for any fence. It is, 
 however, " the pace that kills," and this Mr. Morant has too often proved, for 
 so liriskly does he put them along that he never had but one hunter that could 
 carry him through a run of an hour. 
 
 at twelve o'clock one day, was at the fight of Spring and Neate, at Andover, by one 
 o'clock the next day, rode home with " Nimrod " to his house after the fight, and was in 
 London by four o'clock on the third day, making 162 miles on the same horse in fifty- 
 two hours. His thoroughbred horse, Confidence, was eventually, after being bought 
 back by him from Lord Sefton, sold to Mr Best for 750 guineas three seasons after- 
 wards. He hunted for eighteen seasons, only once being lame. He had the power of 
 a caithoise and the docility of a lap dog. Confidence was sold by auction at North- 
 ampton in his twenty-second year for 100?. Mr. Lockley, during the first mile of a 
 severe run in March, 1829, <:ot a fall, and, though bleeding profusely from the nose, 
 both eyes, and internally, he not only refused to quit the field, but afterwards rode a 
 distance of .'■ixteen miles to Audnam, near Stourbridge, the residence of Mr. W. Graze- 
 brook, and intended to hunt on the following Friday. He, however, became worse, 
 and died in the seventy-ninth year of his age. 
 * He certainly sold the purchaser ! 
 
1808] 
 
 MR. BOYCOTT. 35 
 
 Sir Groy was nevev what is called a In-uisiiig- ridev, that is to say, he is 
 not oue of those who will go with a fall i-ather than not go at all ; but he may 
 be said to vide as he lives, quite like a gentleiuau, and is what is termed a 
 very pretty rider to hounds. Being a light weight, he has always ridden the 
 right sort of horse — well bred, near to the ground, and with sufficient sub- 
 stance. Sir Grey is a true friend to foxhunting, and just the kind of man 
 that should be found in every other parish throughout England, as nothing 
 can go wrong in a country where gentleiueu of liis weight and influence 
 reside. 
 
 Mr. Boycott resides in Shropshire. It has been said of him that, as a 
 coachman he can drive, and as a horseman he can ride, anything, and I believe 
 it is truly said ; and had he been cast in the lot of those who are obliged to 
 work for their bread, he woxdd have made the best rough-rider in England. 
 As there are some who never have a goose on iheir pond, so Mr. Boycott 
 never had a bad horse in his stable, but I will do him the justice to say that 
 lie can do more with a bad horse than half the world can with a good one. 
 and a lesson or two from him will complete the education of a hunter. He is 
 also a first-rate judge of the animal, and was at oue time in the habit of 
 selling his horses for large ])rices. As a coachman, Mr. Boycott is well known 
 on the road, and when punishment is wanting he can administer it with effect. 
 If he takes hold of them, they must go, and he has been heard to say that 
 three legs are sufficient for a coach horse. At one time of his life he would 
 buy those which no oue else could drive, and generally got the better of them 
 at last. In early life Mr. Boycott was a soldier, haA'ing had a troop in Sir 
 Watkin Wynn's Fencible CaA'alry, which saw so much service in the Irish 
 Rebellion. Here he was shot in the body, and the ball was never extracted. 
 He suifered much for two years afterwards. Imt he has felt no inconvenience 
 from it since, excepting now and then, when he has been throivn out in a run. 
 l)ut his friends never remember it to haA'e affected him ichen lie could tcike 
 the lead and keep it. When he arrived in England after his wound, a brother 
 foxliunter facetiously obserA'ed that he was come over with a " buEet-in," but 
 many thought it was no subject for a joke, as he had a very narrow escape for 
 his life. Had he been killed we .should have lost a gallant sportsman, and his 
 friends would have missed numy a hearty laugh, for, though no oue can do 
 anything quite so well as himself, lie is a great promoter of mirth in society, 
 and a xn-y good fellow to boot. 
 
 The rolloAving extracts from " Nimvod's Himtiiii;' 
 Tours " are too good and characteristic to be missed. — 
 
 ^y. Ft. V. 
 
 On Saturday, the .5t]i of March, ]82.5, I met the Warwickshire at 
 Witchford (sic) Wood, five miles from Shipston, on the road to Stratford-on- 
 Avon. We did nothing with our first fox, but had a sharp thing with our 
 second, and lost him for want of the needful. We went at a quick pace up 
 one of those hills with which this part of the country abounds, and Avhen they 
 came to the top the hounds threw up, upon the line, from want of wind, and 
 the fox went on and beat them. Wood (the huntsman) accounted for it by 
 my pressing the hoimds u]) tlic hill. Init I account for it by his hounds 
 wanting condition. 
 
 I saw where tliev sto])])cd. and sliowed him ihe place, and it was 
 
 D 2 
 
3H THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. risos 
 
 exactly on the fox's line. I was sixty yards to the right of tliem at the 
 time. After limiting this day, I proceeded into Warwickshire for a week, 
 and took np my quarters at Alscot Park, the fine seat of Mr. West. 
 Mr. West lias an excellent picture of his okl preceptor (Dr. Parr, of 
 Hattou, with whom "Nimrod" had an interesting conversation), and it 
 is esteemed a very faithful likeness. He is represented in somewhat of 
 an epicm'ean character, being in a loose deshabiUe, with a red nightcap 
 on his liead, a pipe in his hand, and with a smile on his face, which we 
 are left to imagine may either be the lively effect of a story he has been 
 relating or the i)leasure he has l)een deriving from repeating one of 
 Anacreon's Odes. 
 
 On Sunday, the 13th. I bade adieu to Alscot, and went to Mr. John 
 Lucy's to dinner, where I was asked to meet two or three s})ortiug friends, 
 and to be near the WarAvickshire on Monday. I had, lioweA'er, had enough 
 of the Warwickshire, being eonAduced that from some cause — bad tneol, I 
 presume — they were incapable of .showing anything worth putting myself to 
 inconvenience for, so sent my huntei's straight on the road for their place of 
 destination. It so happened, however, that they had a pretty thing of 
 twenty-five minutes, l)ut without catching their fox. The Warwickshire 
 hounds had last season a glorioixs succession of sport, but to anyone who 
 knows what hounds sliould l)e, it is obvious that, in the condition they have 
 lately lieen, such another sei'ies of sport was not upon tlie cards — even Avith 
 Jack Wood to hunt them, and I A'ery much admire Wood's method with his 
 hounds. 
 
 Like Harlequin's snuff, however — collected by a pinch out of every 
 man's box — the Warwickshire are of all sorts and sizes, and a very coarse lot 
 to look at ; but they are particularly liandy and steady, and when going at a 
 certain pace stoop Avell to their game ; but further this deponent sayeth not. 
 No animal can do what we require him to do unless he be in a condition to 
 do it. The Warwickshire hounds have also laboured under another dis- 
 adA'antage. They have not been able until last year to spare any of their 
 own bitches to breed from, so have l)een entirely at the mercy of other 
 kennels. In CA'ery other respect they may be said to ha\'e had more than 
 their share of advantages, Mr. Shirley having done the thing Avith a very 
 liberal hand. 
 
 It has hitherto been my intention to continue my account of this 
 county (Warwicksliire) as a hunting country from the time of Mr. Corbet's 
 relinquishing it to the end of Lord Middletmi's reign, but there are so many 
 circumstances to be alluded to. Avhicli I could not allude to Avith 2)leasure, that 
 I had better perhaps not allude to them at all. 
 
 In some respects Lord Middletcni Avas eA'erythiug tliat could be wished 
 for at tlie head of a pack of foxhounds — he was rich, munificent, and eA'en 
 })rofuse in his expenses attending them, aiul he Avas by some aUoAved to lie 
 a sportsman ; in others, he AA'as ill-calculated for the po.st. He came, it is 
 true, after " a Avell-graced actor." but instead of being greeted l)y the 
 county, and hailed Avith applause, there Avas a something about him that tlircAV 
 a mist over the land, Avliich not the bright ett'ulgeuce of his gold could dispel : 
 and I have heard of more fun and nu'rriment at a Welsh funeral than I ever 
 saAv by a covert side in Warwickshire in his lord.sliip's time. There is only 
 one Avay of hunting a country, and that Avas not the way Lord Middletou 
 chose. 
 
1809] 
 
 NIMEOD AND JOHN LUCY. 37 
 
 In the i^aiiw letter "Niinrod '" gives an aecouut of tlie great Diteliley run, 
 and how tlie Rev. John Lucy, out of 150 persons present, was tlie only man 
 who went with the hounds to the (>ud. The two next best, he says, were Lord 
 Molyneux and the late Sir Charles Mordaunt. It appears that the run was 
 described to him at this celebrated dinner he had at Hampton Lucy, and ho 
 says, rather in contradiction of what has lie&n quoted before, that " the pace 
 Lord Middleton's hounds went through the whole of this run, the seA^erity of 
 the c;juutry l)eing also taken into consideration, exceeds anything that I had 
 before seen or heard of. or that I liave seen ever since, and whicli onhj hounds 
 in the very bed condition could have diown." I cannot for the life of me 
 make out whether " Ninirod " is speaking himself here, or whetlier he was out, 
 in this run. They were tough old sportsmen then. Whoever it was who was out 
 had to be at Daventry by ten o'clock the next morning, so he was obliged to 
 turn out at ten o'clock at night from the house of the friend who had mounted 
 him in order to proceed to Stratford-on-Avon to prepare for the next 
 viorniny'^ st(frt. Seven of the sportsmen ' in tlie clul)-ro(mi asked him 
 what had l)ecome of th(> fox, and he could not say. During the run it 
 hailed and rained, witli a cutting north-east wind, and the time was just 
 about Christmas. 
 
 •• Niinrod." having given an interesting pedigree of the rev. gentleman,* 
 mentions that a gentleman of the name of Knightley was of the party 
 at Mr. Lucy's, whose family, he says, have been long seated in this fine 
 county. "The name of the mansion house is Offchurch, so called from 
 having been the residence of King OfEa, but the Knightleys have possessed 
 the estate since the time of Harry the Eighth. Mr. Knightley has 
 not long left the University of Oxford, where he acquired a taste for 
 foxhunting, which, it is to be hoped, will only leave him with his last 
 breath." 
 
 Li the Sporting Magazine, November, 1824, there is a print of the 
 celebrated lumter Confidence, engraved by Webb, from a painting by Clifton 
 Tomson, the property of that celebrated sportsman John Lockley, Esq., 
 and was tvice sold for 700 guineas. See also Vol. 15. new series, 
 p. 409. We reproduce the print on page 33. 
 
 In the Sporting Magazine, February. 1825. there is an engraving of the 
 celebrated hound Trojan. The picture is by Elmer, and is engraved by W. 
 Smith. He is taken in the park under an old oak tree, with a lake and Sun- 
 dorne Castle in the distance. The picture is probalily still at Sundorne. It 
 is evidently the same hound as is re])resented in the right hand corner of the 
 celebrated print of Mr. Corbet and his hounds, but he is not delineated as 
 such a good-looking hound. He has great, strong quarters and thighs, which 
 
 * It was in Sir Thomas Lucy's park — as is well known— that the frolic was played 
 which drove our great Shakespeare to London, but for which, perhaps, his plays might 
 never have been written. This reminds me of a laughable anecdote : " (ioing one night, 
 some years ago, to Drury Lane Theatre with a brother foxhunter, who had sacrificed 
 rather Ireely to the jolly god, we were shown into a box, and saw an actor djing on the 
 stage. My friend, who thought he was going to laugh at a comedy, and had no turn 
 for the tragic muse, called out loudly to the box-keeper, and asked him what the play 
 
 was. ' One of Shakespeare's tragedies, sir,' said the box-keeper. ' D that fellow ! ' 
 
 said my friend ; ' I wish they had hanged him when he stole the sheep ! ' " It is almost 
 unnecessary to add that he was in some danger of being turned out of the theatre from 
 his want of taste, to say nothing of the ignorance he displayed in making our great 
 poet a sheepstealer. — Nimrod. 
 
S8 THE WARWICKSHIKE HUNT. [lsio 
 
 Ik- must liavi' liail. or lu' could not liavc l)t'en such a wall jumper,* Ijut in the 
 picture lie does nat carry liis l)one down, has very middling feet, is rather 
 short in the neck, and throaty. This rather supports a somewhat heretical 
 theory which I liold that at their time lu)unds were not bred as a rule Avith 
 the superlative necks and shoulders with which they are represented in most 
 of the sporting pictures of llic day. I liold that this is a later development, 
 and that the artists of that day have given a wrong impression by drawing 
 their lK)unds on a certain pattern, and reaching a certain imaginative standard. 
 It would not 1k' correct to argue from the pictures of Sir Peter Lely's 
 beauties that all ladies of the Court of that time had such slender and 
 aristocratic hands and arms. (See page 21.) 
 
 In the Siiortiny Magazine, new series. Vol. 15, p. 233, there is an 
 interesting account in one of " Nimrod's " letters of the celebrated Katterfelto, 
 immortalised by the late Major Whyte-Melville. He belonged to a Mr. Abel, 
 of Tiverton, in 1778, and afterwards came into the possession of the father 
 of the Rev. John Russell, the celebrated sporting diA'ine. He was only 14.2 
 hands high, but was a wonderful leaper. He is supposed to have been the 
 sire of the swift and hardy Exmoor ponies. 
 
 December 17. — Foimd a fox at Cubl)ing'ton that ran 
 direct for Stoneleigh Park, over it, and through Bericot 
 Cover. He then took an extensive ring, and we got iip to 
 him in a little cover near Cubbington. He went aw-ay at 
 a very fast pace for Off church ; leaving Ufton Wood 
 a mile on the left hand, he made over the country 
 for Oakley Wood. In the next field to that cover 
 he made a turn, and pointed for Chesterton, crossed 
 tlie road half-way between that cover and Oakley, 
 near to Harwood's House, and close to the village of 
 Lighthorne ; then turned from that place and ran close 
 by Chesterton AVood, and pointed for Itchington ; he ran 
 forward, and passed very near to Lord Willoughby's gorse,t 
 over Chadshunt Heath, through the copses near to that 
 ]:>hice, and then over the grass fields to within one mile of 
 l\iiieton, when the hounds were stopped, it being then 
 s(» (lark it was not possible to ride after them. 
 
 The hounds ran the fox six hours all but twenty 
 minutes. Tlie distance was very great. The horses 
 stopped in all parts (if the country, and only six were 
 u]) at the end of the run. 
 
 * The present Lord W. de Broke entered a hound called Acolyte, who had been 
 taught to sit up and beg when at walk. He was a splendid fencer, as was Furley, 
 who never crept through a fence or gate but always took them flying. — W. R. V. 
 
 t Most likely " Verney's gorse." 
 
l«lU-lSllj 
 
 GOOD EIDEKS. 39 
 
 "Nimrocl," who is modest about his own performances, 
 was no doubt a bold rider. He owned a little horse 
 called Hero, by Hero out of a Welsh pony, which 
 was so restive that no one else would give as much 
 as 13/. for him when four years old, and with much 
 trouble he finallv became the master of this horse, and 
 sold him to Mr. John Yenour, who was one of the best 
 men in Warwickshire in the early part of Mr. Corbet's 
 time.* Mr. Morant Gale, Mr. Edward Goulburn, Mr. 
 Boycott, Mr. Gould, Mr. Giffard, and Mr. Roberts were 
 also conspicuous as good riders to hounds. The well- 
 known Lord Alvanley often hunted jvith the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, and was one of the foremost riders in the " Epwell 
 Hunt." Sir Grey Skipwithf hunted in the country for 
 twenty-five years, and was well mounted, and usually up at 
 the end of a good run. Amongst other followers of Mr. 
 Corbet's hounds were Lord Willoughby de Broke (who 
 always gave an opening dinner each season to the members 
 of the Hunt Club), Lord Clonmell, who lived at AUesley ; 
 the Earl of Aylesford, of Packington Hall; the Earl of 
 Warwick; Sir John Mordaunt, of Walton Hall; Mr. 
 Holbech, of Earnborough ; Sir J. Shelley, Lord Yilliers, 
 Sir Edward Smythe, General Williams, Mr. Cattell, and 
 Mr. Handlev. 
 
 In February, ISll, Mr. Corl)et's ill-health obliged him 
 to give up the country which he had hunted with the 
 greatest success for nearly twenty years. % 
 
 His determination to resign the mastership was received 
 
 * Mr Corbet's popularity was so unbounded that a vulpecide was not known in tbe 
 country, and when be discovered that certain parties were in tbe habit of digging out 
 foxes for sale at Wolford Wood, be paid tbem 4U/. a year to discontinue the practice. 
 
 t Sir Grey Skipwitb bad a family of twenty children, and rode to bounds until late 
 in life with all the keenness of a boy. There used to be a catch that he had twice 
 twenty eliildreu, for " one died before the last was born." 
 
 X Unfortunately ilr. Corbet's foxhunting diary is either lost or mislaid, and thus we 
 lose many valuable and interesting records of foxhunting in those early dajs. — Rev, 
 T. H. G. Pi'LESTOX, " The Wynnstay Country." 
 
 There is a very curious old pictui'e of Mr. Corbet's hounJs runuiug a fox in view up 
 Haughmond Hill, with tbe to^ver on the top, probably much as it is nosv. This is said 
 to have been painted in the lost century. All the scarlet coats have green collars of 
 the same shcule as those n^w worn by the members of tbe Tarporley Hunt Club. — 
 Ihid. 
 
40 
 
 THE VVAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 1811 
 
 witli Avidcsprcad ivorct l)_v all classes, more especially by 
 the farmers. lie advertised most of his hunters for sale, 
 as well as sixty couples of hounds, all of which had been 
 bred by himself. Twelve of his hunters made 1 .2:20 guineas, 
 two of them makini,^ .2.20 guineas each. On i^iving up the 
 hounds, ]\Ir. Corbet was presented with a very beautiful 
 silver vase by the Warwickshire sportsmen in testimony of 
 their esteem and gratitude. On ^lay 19th, 1817, he died, 
 at the age of sixty-five. He was a man widely known and 
 respected as a firm and sincere friend, an affectionate 
 husband and father, an indulgent master, a generous land- 
 lord, a liberal benefactor to the poor, and 
 
 A TRUE COVNTRY SQUIRE. 
 
A FEW OK THE lUfiHT SORT GOING TO 1)0 THE RIGHT THING. 
 
 Tlie dew that bespangles each leaf, 
 When Aurora uuveils her bright face, 
 
 Are tears of the night shed in grief, 
 
 Which depart with the joys of the chase. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 LOUD MIDDLETON THE FAMOUS DITC'HLEY RUN MR. HOLBECH, 
 
 OF FARNBOROUGH RADBOURN GORSE WILL BARROW. 
 
 IjORJ) Middleton became master of the Warwickshire 
 Hounds in 1811, and lie bought Mr. Corbet's hounds for 
 l.:2()() guineas, and it is a curious fact that they fetched 
 nearly the same price for which his horses had been sold. 
 His Lordship had previously hunted in the country when 
 Mr. Willoughby, before he succeeded to his title, and he 
 was well know^n as a good sportsman and a fine rider. It 
 was a difficult matter for anyone to follow Mr. Corbet, but 
 Lord Middleton was singularly well ([ualified to do so. His 
 large fortune, and the liberal manner in which he spent it, 
 showed that he spared no expense, and Warwickshire fox- 
 hunters looked forward to a long continuance of the fine 
 sport which they had been accustomed to enjoy. Soon 
 after having taken the country he gave a dinner at the Sun 
 Rising, Edge Hill, to a large number of guests, principally 
 
42 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [isii 
 
 farmers, and he received the hest assurances on that 
 occasion that foxes would be preserved. Lord Middleton 
 was not so successful as a breeder of hounds as Mr. 
 Corbet, but the pack were always in fine condition. 
 It cannot be said that he enjoyed the same universal 
 popularity as did Mr. Corbet, for various i-easons. 
 In the first place, he declined to support the Club 
 at Stratford, and it was broken up hi consequence. 
 He also refused to allow runs with his hounds to be 
 pul)lished. Thus many of his supporters who could not 
 hunt on each day when the hounds went out lost their 
 interest in hunting, because they could not see the best 
 runs recorded, and such an interdict as this gave grave 
 dissatisfaction to the farmers, one of whom said : " It is too 
 bad, when we take so much care to preserve foxes, and our 
 business will not permit us to go out with the hounds 
 often, to deny us the ])leasure of seeing what they are 
 doing in the newspaper." He also gave up the Meriden 
 AVoodlands, as well as the Combe and Dunchurch country. 
 He thus alienated some of the support which is necessary 
 to the successful hunting of a country. 
 
 W V are not, for the reason above given, in possession of 
 the record of as many good runs in the time of Lord 
 Middleton as could be wished for. Lord Middleton had a 
 s])lendid stud of hunters, and no one could ride better 
 when he chose to ride. He would on some occasions ride 
 at every fence which came in his way, and he got to 
 the end of many fine runs ; at other times he would lead 
 his horse over every fence he met with. 
 
 We found six curious old hunting prints in the library at 
 Walton, published in 181 1, with the accompanying lines : 
 
 INDISPENSABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 
 
 Every species of gTuuiid every liorse does uot svut ; 
 Wliat's a good country liunter may liere prove a brute ; 
 And unless for all kinds of strange fences prepar'd, 
 A man and liis horse are sure to he srared. 
 
 As every country gentleman may noi comprehend the force of this 
 expression, he ought to know that the Meltouians hold every horse cheap 
 
Lord Middleton. 
 
 From the picture 
 
 at Birdsall House 
 
 by 
 
 Barber, of Nottingham. 
 
 The property of Lord Middleton. 
 
9 1 b b i M hi 1 o J 
 
181 ij EUN FROM- BURTON HILL. 4JJ 
 
 wliicli cannot go along a slapping- pace, stay at that pace, skim ridge and 
 furrow, catdi his horses, top a flight of rails, come well into the next field, 
 charge an ox fence, go in and out clever, face a brook, swish a rasper, and, in 
 short, do all that kind of thing — phrases so plain and intelligible that 
 it's impossible to mistake their meaning. That horse is held in tlie same 
 contempt in Leicestershire as a coxcoml) holds a country bumpkin. 
 
 In vulgar countries {i.e., all others), where these accomplishments are 
 not indispensable, he may be a hunter. 
 
 (Signed) Billesdon Coplow. 
 
 We should like to have taken " Billesdon Coi)low " to 
 the toj) of Shuckburgh Hill, and to have asked hiin to ride 
 eight miles straight in any direction to ascertain whether 
 he considered it a vulgar country. 
 
 The first good run recorded with Lord Middleton's 
 hounds was on February .2 .'2nd, 1811. The meet was at 
 Farnborough. The hounds found at Burton Hill, and ran 
 at best pace through Knightcote Bottom, and thence to the 
 right over Fenny Compton Fields, through Wormleighton 
 Bottoms, and on to Boddington Hill. They ran next 
 through the covert, and to Harclwick Field, and from 
 there to Eed Hill Wood, where the first and only check 
 occurred. A fresh fox was viewed away from the covert, 
 and the pack divided, in C()nse(|uence of which the hunted 
 fox was lost.''' "A^enator" in verse describes the same 
 run. 
 
 BY "VENATOR." 
 
 Wheu tlie morn stands on tiptoe 'twixt mountain and sky. 
 How pleasant to follow the hounds in full cry ! 
 When the bright spangling dewdrops the meadows adorn, 
 How delightful to follow the hounds and the horn ! 
 
 While at the glass dull squeamish beaus 
 Adjust with girlish pride their clothes ; 
 Or idly chaunt the morn away, 
 Trimming their whiskers, black or grey ! 
 Give me, well horsd, the chance to seek 
 Rude health o'er hill or vallev bleak ; 
 
 * We publish the account of the same run in verse, by " Venator," not because we 
 admire his poetry, but for the reason that there is so much of it in his book we think 
 it best to give a specimen of it. 
 
44 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1812 
 
 Down sloughy lanes to covert ride, 
 
 And over fences high and wide. 
 
 Led by the all-bewitching sounds 
 
 Of the sweet horn, but sweeter hounds — ■ 
 
 That lusty health, which laboiu*, kind, 
 
 Bestows upon the sturdy hind. 
 
 The meet to-day might proudly vie, 
 In sportsmen choice, of spirits high, 
 With any field that did appear 
 At any time in Warwickshire. 
 
 At Biu'ton Hill a fox we found, 
 
 A better never led a hound 
 
 Over a country — one so good 
 
 Was seldom rous'd in brake or wood ! 
 
 Hark I as the pack uj^on him dash, 
 The clear, harmonious, thund'ring crash ! 
 All silent now — the scent so strong, 
 They dart as swallows swift along ; 
 Beai'ing in style each head and stern. 
 They all with matchless ardour burn ; 
 While scent, that mystic, subtle thing, 
 Is floating, caught on zephyr wing I 
 
 Pug first o'er Knightcote Bottom stray"d, 
 Then to the right a turning made ; 
 Thence over Fenny Ccmpton Field, 
 Too brave and stout to skulk or yield ; 
 Over Wormleightou Bottom ran. 
 And to the hill of Boddington. 
 
 In gallant style the pack pursue. 
 And drive him the thick covert through ; 
 Then off to Hardwick Field he led, 
 Impeded not by check or head, 
 To Red Hill Wood, the killing pace 
 Was seldom equaird in the chace ; 
 Here the first check was timely found. 
 For horse and rider, fox and hound ! 
 
 Reynard, by this, tho' stout and fleet. 
 Had no desire again to meet 
 An enemy who on him press'd 
 Without a moment's time to rest ; 
 
1812-1814] LORD MIDDLETON. 45 
 
 So shifting ground, he doubled sly, 
 And ci-ept into some furze hard by ; 
 Where, trembling for his life, he lay 
 Until the field had gone away. 
 
 The moment he had doubled back, 
 Under the noses of the pack, 
 Another fox, to our dismay. 
 Was loudly tally-ho'd away ; 
 Being divided, baulk'd, and cross'd, 
 The hunted fox, alas ! was lost !* 
 
 The Warwickshire Hounds at this period hunted very 
 late in the season in the woodhmds. The List meet of the 
 season, in 1813, was on April 14 at Birchley Hayes, and 
 the last meet of the season of IS 14 was at Long Meadow 
 Wood on April 29th. 
 
 The Hunt Ball was held on alternate years at Warwick 
 and Stratford-on-Avon. On January .2()th, 1814, the 
 Hunt Ball was held at the Court House in Warwick. The 
 Hoor of the room had been decorated in coloured chalk. 
 On the left w^as represented a full length figure of (luy 
 Earl of Warwick, and on the right, in the uniform of the 
 AVarwickshire Hunt, a gentleman taking a flying leaj) over 
 a barred fence. 
 
 On December /th, 181:3, i\\Q Hunt Ball was held at 
 Stratford. One of the decorations was the appropriate one, 
 " The Flight of Buonaparte across the Rhine." 
 
 The winter of 1813 and 1814 was very severe, and 
 there was no hunting from the .24th of December until the 
 12th of February, and on March 1(5 th Lord Middleton's 
 hounds met at Alscot, the seat of J. M. West, Esq. His 
 lordship on the evening before had given a splendid ball 
 and supper. "Actseon, Junior" thus describes the run: We 
 found in a small gorse cover, called Gaily Oak, a downright 
 good little fox, which instantly broke away in view ; the 
 pack followed close at his brush, and dashed him along the 
 meadows by Preston Bushes, the village of Admington, to 
 
 * This was a most capital run, and the disappointment at the conclusion was more 
 tlian compensated by the diversion it previously afforded. j 
 
THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [lsu 
 
 the foot of Meon Hill, at his very Lest pace. Reynard 
 next tried the earths at tlie toj) ; went through Mickleton 
 Wood, touched Hidcote Coombs, crossed the Campden 
 Eoad, for the Burnt House, then on for Lord Harrowby's, 
 skirted Weston Park, passed near Farncombe, then over the 
 hills to the village of Saintbury, about a mile beyond 
 which place we killed him in the most gallant style in the 
 open flat, after a slashing run of one hour and thirty 
 minutes. 
 
 The pace was quick, and the Vale country deep ; but 
 when we reached the hills the ground was as hard as iron, 
 and covered with snow. Indeed, the northern slopes 
 and side of the fences had scarcely been thawed since the 
 winter. The riding was terrible, and very few, out of 
 one of the best mounted fields, were in a humour to face 
 this rough and gallant chase. Sir Charles Morchiunt, Mr. 
 R. Canning, Mr. H. Willoughby, and Mr. Yates, were 
 determined to go, and distinguished themselves highly on 
 this pressing occasion. Nor must we forget that the Squire 
 of Charlecote (Mr. Gr. Lucy), Mr. J. Lucy, Mr. W. Russell, 
 of Blockley, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Cockbill, sen., and two 
 or three others rode closely in their wake, and were 
 gallantly up at the end of the run. Dick Bradley 
 was one of those that came up at the death ; Harry 
 Jackson, the huntsman, and Tom Smith, the whip, 
 were close to the hounds at the end of this remarkable 
 (lay. 
 
 On December .23rd, 1814, a splendid run resulted from 
 another meet at Farnborough, the seat of Mr. William 
 Holbech. A fox was found at Mollington Wood, and 
 went across the Vale to Edge Hill, and again took to the 
 Vale, but turning before reaching Kineton Fields, he again 
 went up Edge Hill, and turned into the valley near Tysoe, 
 and passing Compton Wyniates, ran by Epwell White 
 House, Sibford, and Traitor's Ford, nearly to Hook Norton 
 Lodge. He then made for Whichford, where he turned 
 for Rollwright, over the hill, and by Long Compton, and 
 hrough Barton Grove and the village. He then crossed 
 
Mr. B. Lawley, afterwards Lord Wenlcck ; Mr. Qarforth ; 
 Mr. Willoughby, grandfather of the present Lord 
 Middleton ; Lord Middleton on the white horse ; Sir 
 Francis Lawley, Lord Middleton's brother = in = law. 
 Also Lord Clonmel in black over the brook, Lord 
 Southampton, Lord Aylesford, Sir Charles Mordaunt 
 on the left in the brook, and Sir C. Biddulph. 
 
Bmno? 
 
T814-1815] 
 
 FINE RUN FROM FARNBOROUGH. 
 
 47 
 
 the road near the Four-shire Stone,* and was killed at Even- 
 lode. Mr. Cockbill, of liadway, and Zac Cloddard, the 
 first whip, were the only two present when the hounds 
 killed their fox, which was viewed just at dusk. Mr. 
 Holbech lirst came up, followed by Lord Middleton and a 
 few others. Some impossible points have been given by 
 " Scrutator " in his description of this run, as, for instance, 
 that the fox after leaving Molliugton AVood ran from 
 licliington, and then i^anh the Vale at Madivay. Also that 
 from a point near Hook Norton Lodge he ran neadif to 
 Aynho. We have recorded the probable course, filling in 
 places which must have been passed. This distance, from 
 point to point, is eighteen miles, and hounds must have 
 traversed about twenty-five miles ; the time recorded to 
 have been taken is two hours and twenty minutes. A two- 
 year-old hound, called Woodman, by Druid out of Wildfire, 
 led the pack throughout the run. 
 
 LORD MIDDLETON'S FOXHOUNDS, 1815. 
 
 Stud. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Wildfire ") 
 
 Traffic 3 
 
 Remnant 
 
 Amazon, V 7 
 
 Bred by Mr. Corbet. 
 Gayman 
 
 Seven Years. 
 Rally wood 
 
 Six Years. 
 Bustler 
 
 Rampart 
 Bonnybell 
 
 Active, V 3 
 
 Beatrice, V 
 
 Roguish 
 
 Basket, V 
 
 Tansy 
 
 Trojan 
 
 Archer, V 
 
 Bachelor 
 
 Beauty 
 
 Carnage 
 
 Ranger 
 
 Bred by Mr. Corbet. 
 
 Mr. Chaworth's Lifter 
 
 Five Years. 
 
 Raymond 
 
 Mr. Chaworth's Lifter 
 
 Bred by Mr. Corbet. 
 Carver 
 
 Regan 
 
 His Tuneful 
 
 Active 
 
 His Bluebell 
 
 Tawdry 
 
 * Tlii.s well-known stone is on the Chipping Norton and Moreton-in-Marsh Eoad, 
 near the latter place, and just beyond WoKord Wood. It marks where portions of the 
 four counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire join 
 one another. 
 
48 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1815 
 
 LORD MIDDLETON'S FOXHOUNDS, 1815— coH^///Me(/. 
 
 Namks. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 DAMS. 
 
 Five Years — coiitd. 
 
 Couquorov [ Fcariioiis^lit 
 
 Duciu'ss 
 
 Fcnniouu^lit, V. 
 R;i(li;iiicv. V . 
 Rih.stcr.V I 
 Remus. V ) ' ' 
 
 Sarnsiu't 
 
 Taster 
 
 Tifter 
 
 Truelove 
 
 Barmaid ) 
 Bowler 3 
 
 Bashful 
 
 Cah-iu 
 
 Cheerfvil 
 
 Columbiue, V 
 
 Coi'a 
 
 Fiuder 
 
 Guiler, V 
 
 Juuiper.V "^ 
 Jessica. V [• 
 Jezebel, V ) 
 Jasper ") 
 Juuket 3 
 
 Jointress 
 
 Rookwood 
 
 Roman. V 
 
 Terma^'ant 
 Vaneter. Y 
 Wilful 
 
 Darling.. 
 Dauntless, V ) 
 Desperate, V 3 
 Fencer ') 
 Frolic 
 Fairniead i 
 
 Duncan 
 Rallywood 
 Ranuf(n- .... 
 
 Basker 
 
 Mr. Smith's Saladin 
 
 Traveller 
 
 Traveller 
 
 Traveller 
 
 Futir Years. 
 
 Twister 
 
 Dreadnouglit 
 
 Climeliank 
 
 Climebank 
 
 Mr. Smith's Courtier 
 
 Furrier 
 
 Fearnouo-ht 
 
 Ravasi-cn' 
 
 A Soliliull Beagle 
 Modish 
 Fairmead 
 Regan 
 
 Sir H. Harpur's Bitch 
 
 Gargle 
 Whimsey 
 Languish 
 Laura 
 
 Lord Lonsdale's Jailor 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Woodman 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Woodman 
 
 Driver 
 
 Rallywood 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's General . . . 
 
 Vigilant 
 
 Tarquin 
 
 Blossom 
 
 Beauty 
 
 Tempest 
 
 Tasty 
 
 Bounty 
 
 Comely 
 
 Tragedy 
 
 Gipsy 
 
 Rliaps(i<ly 
 
 His Desperatt 
 
 His Blowsv 
 
 Rally 
 
 Rosebud 
 
 His Tarnish 
 
 Active 
 
 Wildfire 
 
 Three Years. 
 Basker ' Abig-ail 
 
 Sir M. Svkes's Wonder 
 
 Basker 
 
 Bouncer "^ 
 Bounty f 
 
 Blueball r 
 
 Bonnylass J 
 Blucher, V ) 
 Boaster, V '> ... 
 Bridesmaid, V j 
 
 Conway 
 
 Chir])er ) \ ,, ^,, .i • /-n 
 
 Conquest 3 i Mr. C1.aw..rthsChamp,.m. 
 
 r Trojan ^ 
 
 ' < Duke of Gi-afton's Dread- [- 
 (_ nought 3 
 
 Bountv 
 
 Mr. Heme's Bedford ; Bounty 
 
 Barrister Carnage 
 
 Traffic 
 
 Damsel 
 
 Gossamer 
 
 Mr. Chaworth's Barrister 
 
 Fa 
 
1815] 
 
 HOFND-LIST, SIXTY YEARS AGO. 
 
 49 
 
 LORD MIDDLETON'S FOXHOUNDS, ISU—continued. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Noctar, V 
 Nelson, V 
 Normaii, V 
 
 Rallvwooil i Mr 
 
 Ruler, V ~) 
 
 c 
 
 Three Years — contcl. 
 Mr. Heme's Nectar 
 
 Dam.s. 
 
 Reg-aii. V . 
 Rarity, V ) 
 Rector, V 
 Royster, V 
 Raiiti))ole, V 
 Ravag-er, V . 
 Sultan, V . . . 
 Tantrum ... 
 Valeutine, V 
 Vanity, V 
 Veng-eauce,V 
 Valiant, v.... 
 Wellington . 
 Woodman 
 
 iral") 
 
 1 1 no _j 
 
 icloer"^ 
 )iou >■ 
 
 Admiral' 
 Alfred 
 Amity 
 Brazier 1 
 
 Buxom j 
 
 Bauble 
 
 Cathcart 7 
 Chacer j 
 Costly ■) 
 Cowslip J 
 
 Coaster 
 
 Commodore ") 
 
 Cliantress ) 
 
 Chantick 
 
 Champi 
 
 Oountes 
 
 Darter ) 
 
 Driver ) 
 
 Lascar 
 
 Lazainis 
 
 Loyal 
 
 Ranter | 
 
 Rummager 3 
 
 Ranger 
 
 Topper "^ 
 Tragedy ( 
 
 Trinket { 
 
 Tricksy J 
 
 Tempest 
 
 Terrible 
 
 Vestal and Verity 
 Witchcraft '.. 
 
 Cliaworth's Rallywood 
 
 Radnor 
 
 Radnor . 
 
 Radnor . 
 Sweeper 
 Tartar . 
 
 SteUa 
 
 Flourish 
 
 Parasol 
 
 Gadfly 
 
 Costly 
 
 Amazon 
 
 Tempest 
 
 Vigilant Rapture 
 
 Vigilant 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Wonder . 
 Druid 
 
 Two Years. 
 
 Duncan . 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Triumph 
 
 Trojan 
 
 Bachelor 
 
 Conqueror 
 
 Mr. Chaworth's Champion 
 Mr. Chaworth's Champion 
 
 Champion 
 
 Trojan 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Triumph , . . 
 
 Rallywood 
 
 Breed unknown. 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Wonder 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Triumi^h 
 
 Vaulter 
 
 Sir M. Sykes's Wonder . 
 
 Active 
 
 Captive 
 
 Wildfire 
 
 Amazon 
 
 Blossom 
 Beatrice 
 Captive 
 
 Active 
 Beauty 
 Radiancy 
 
 Jessica 
 
 Darling 
 
 Lavish 
 
 Comfort 
 
 Traffic 
 
 Truelove 
 
 Wildfire 
 Tuneful 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
50 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1815 
 
 LORD MIDDLETON'S FOXHOUNDS, 1S15— continued. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Bridegroom "^ 
 Barrister > 
 Bustler j 
 
 Balancer 
 
 Carver 
 
 Comrade ") 
 Conms > . 
 Constancy j 
 
 Conjugal 
 
 Danger "^ 
 Denmark > .. 
 Damper ) 
 Jester "^ 
 Joker [• 
 
 JoyfuU 
 
 Roderick 
 
 Ragman 
 
 Ringlet 
 
 Stormer 
 
 Tosser 
 Tomboy 
 Tantalus 
 Tenderness 
 Tidings 
 Tarquin ") 
 Timon ) 
 Vanguard "^ 
 
 One Year. 
 Conq\ieror 
 
 Bachelor 
 Vaulter . . 
 
 Mr. Cliawoi'tli's Cliampiou... 
 
 Calvin 
 Yaulter. 
 
 Jumper . 
 
 Reveller 
 
 Reveller 
 
 Mr. Chaworth's Royster 
 
 Mr. Cliaworth's Cliampion . . 
 
 Tosser 
 
 Mr. Cliawortli's Rovster. 
 
 Yaulter . 
 
 Victory 
 Yiceroy "^ 
 Yampire I 
 Yillager f 
 Yigilanty 
 Wildboy ^ 
 
 Wanderer > Yaulter 
 
 Wizard j 
 
 Warrior i Yaulter 
 
 Second Littei 
 
 Bashful 
 
 Yengeance 
 Carnage 
 
 Jessica 
 
 Beauty 
 
 Duchess 
 
 Radiancy 
 
 Bluebell 
 Racket 
 Truelove 
 Sarsnet 
 
 Columbine 
 
 Termagant 
 Traffic 
 
 Yaulter i Remnant 
 
 Wildfire 
 Wildfire 
 
 Bred by Sir R. Puleston. 
 
 One Year. 
 
 Patriot Forester 
 
 Palemon "^ } 
 
 Prettylass > Torment 
 
 Playful 3 ! 
 
 Pastime 1 Di*eadnought 
 
 P'-f^^P^^^I Forester ..... 
 
 Pilgrim ) 
 
 Plunder Sultan 
 
 IS:] '^»««"' 
 
 Pander . . Sailor 
 
 Lady 
 
 Truelass 
 
 Susan 
 
 Darling 
 
 Wanton 
 
 Frolic 
 
 Proserpine 
 
Lord Middleton's Hounds Vanguard (ling-grey) and his sister 
 Vanity. Will Carter, Huntsman ; Tom Carter, first 
 
 Whip. 
 
 From the picture by 
 
 Pierre Reingale. 
 
 The property of Lord Middleton, at Birdsall House. 
 
flBV 
 
 iiBsbTia 
 
18151 ME. STUBBS OF BECKBURY. 51 
 
 LORD MIDDLETON'S FOXHOUNDS, 1815— continued. 
 Bred by Lord Foley. 
 
 Names. 
 
 SiuKS. 1 Dams. 
 
 dii-istopher 
 
 Rauclom 
 
 One Year. 
 
 
 Raudoui 
 
 
 
 Rattle 
 
 
 
 ToTAli. — Eighty couples and a half. 
 Tlie hounds marJced with Y are from Si(dburij. 
 
 The hounds were sometimes at the meet at seven 
 o'clock in the morning, and they never met hiter than 
 at eight o'clock, both in Mr. Corbet's and Lord Middleton's 
 "time. 
 
 Mr. Stubbs, of Beckbury, in Shropshire, resided at 
 'Stratford, and was an enthusiastic foxhunter, although he 
 never rode over a fence, but he went about nine miles an 
 bour at a canter, and was sure to arrive soon after the day's 
 sport was concluded, and no day was too long for him, 
 He had a curious habit of keeping one eye shut, which, on 
 •any occasion of surprise or alarm, as invariably opened. 
 Having made a bet one day in the ring at Newmarket and 
 lost it, he was suddenly accosted by the winner of the 
 money ; this had the usual effect on his eye. On looking 
 into his face the stranger apologised for his mistake, and 
 Tode away, observing " That the gentleman he had bet 
 with was a one-eyed man." 
 
 From Tebruary 6th, 1816, Lord Middleton's hounds 
 bunted live days a week, and during some weeks on six 
 •days ; and he kept eighty and a half couples of hounds. 
 
 The following was published in Chambers' " Book of 
 Days," Vol. II., page 491 : 
 
 Though the expense of maintaining a hunting stud is considerable, 
 amounting, in the case of the aristocratic frequenters of Melton Mowbray, to 
 1000?. per annum and upwards, whilst the yearly sum incurred in keeping 
 up a pack of foxhounds with accessory expenses will fall little short of 5000?., 
 there are, nevertheless, some remarkable instances on record of economy 
 in the management of these matters. Thus the celebrated miser, John 
 
5-2 THE WARWICKSHIKE HUNT. [181(> 
 
 Elwcfi,* wli(>st> iiululiifoiicf" in Imnting found ;i solitary exception to his habitually 
 pLMiurious disposition, c-ontvivcd to maintain a kennel of foxliounds and a 
 stal)lo of luinters reputed at that time to be the best in the kingdom at 
 •m annual outlay of less than 300/. The way in which he managed is said to 
 tiavo l)een as follows : His huntsman, who act<Ml as servant of all work, and 
 lield no sinecure in his office, rose at four every mcn-ning, and after milking 
 the cows, prepared ))reakfast for liis master and any friends that niiglit hapijen 
 to be staying in the house. He then donned a green coat, saddled the horses, 
 and got out the hounds, and the whole party started for the chase. After the 
 dav's run was over he would return to the stables, rub down the horses as quickly 
 as possible, and then hurry into the house to lay the cloth, and wait at dinner. 
 Aft in* this he would betake himself again to his outdoor duties, feed the horses 
 and dogs, litter them down for the night, and milk the cows. Such multifarious 
 avocations would seem almost to have required the hands of a Briareus, and 
 yet Elwes used to call his huntsman an idle dog that wanted to be paid 
 for doing nothing. The other instance of adroit management which wc 
 shall quote is that of Mr. Osbaldestou, not the celebrated master of the 
 Quorn hounds of that name, but the youuger son of a gentleman of good 
 family in the north of England, who, in consequence of having contracted 
 an imprudent marriage, was turned by his father out of doors, and obliged 
 to support himself by acting as clerk to an attorney in Loudon. His salary 
 amounted to only 60/. per auuum ; and yet on this slender income he con- 
 trived not only to maintain himself and his large family without running 
 into debt, but also to keep two hunters and a dozen of hounds. This he 
 managed to accomplish by the following method : After business hours he 
 acted as accountant to butchers of Clare Market, who paid him in pieces of 
 meat and offal. With the first he fed himself and family ; with the last his 
 hounds, which he kept in a garret of his house. His horses Avere stabled in 
 the cellar, and fed with grain from an adjoining breweiy, to the keeping of 
 whose books Mr. Osbaldestou devoted one or two evenings a week. Serving 
 either an indulgent master, or enabled by circumstances to make arrange- 
 ments to that effect, he contrived during the hunting season to obtain such 
 leave of absence as permitted him to enjoy his favourite sport. 
 
 On December .24tli, ISIG, a celebrated run, which we 
 recollect hearing described on more than one occasion by 
 the late Mr. John Lucy, took place from a meet at 
 Idlicote. The hounds had a short run from there, and 
 found again at Clreenhill Gorse, and ran over the brook at 
 Sutton, which was bank high, and only a few out of a field 
 of 150 got over ; they next ran to Sibford, and, turning to 
 the right, passed by Hook Norton and Great Eollwright, 
 and by Over Norton into Heythrop Park, through which 
 they ran, and thence between Chaddington and Enstone 
 into Ditchley Park, where "Scrutator" says the fox was run 
 
 * Major R. Wilberforco Bird, afterwards of Barton House, rented " Stoke- 
 College," Suffolk, Miser Elwes' home, for several years after his return from India. 
 
1816] THE DITCHLEY EUN. 53 
 
 to ground. This is not correct, for Mr. John Lucy has told 
 us that Avhen the hounds were running well in the park, the 
 deer ran amongst them and entirely spoilt the scent. Mr. 
 John Lucy alone got to the end of the run, but Lord 
 Molyneux and Mr. Hugo Campbell came up ten minutes 
 after the fox was lost. We were told by the late ISIr. 
 George Hawkes, of Talton, that Sir Charles Mordaunt 
 went as far as Heythrop on a four-^^ear-old horse, wdiich 
 he had only just bought from Mr. Manning for 450 
 guineas, and it was a pity that he did not jduII up so 
 young a horse sooner, as he died two days afterwards. 
 The early part of the run as far as "Hook Norton was in a 
 severe country, but this was not the case during the 
 remainder of it. It rained, with a cold wind, during the 
 whole run, which occupied an hour and a lialf. The 
 distance was eleven miles and a half from point to point, 
 and about fifteen as hounds ran — not very much out of the 
 straight line after passing Sibford. " Scrutator's " account 
 of the run, both as to where the fox was found and wdiere 
 the hounds ran is erroneous, and both he and "Castor" 
 have overrated the distance traversed. The pace was first 
 class throughout, and this is proved by the fact that 
 neither the huntsman or the whips, w^ell mounted as they 
 were, got "lear the hounds, and could give them no 
 assistance had they required it. The pack remained for 
 the niglit at the Duke of Beaufort's kennels, and the 
 hounds did not hunt on the next day. 
 
 A very hard day was that which took place from a meet 
 at Ufton Wood in 1810. A fox was found in the Holt, 
 and ran by Ladbroke and Eadbourne to Napton, and from 
 thence nearly to Fenny Compton, where he turned short 
 back, and was killed in the open before he could reach 
 Napton, after an hour and twenty minutes run at best pace 
 over the finest country. 
 
 Debdale was drawn next, and another fox was found 
 which, although he did not run over so fine a country, 
 proved quite as stout as the one which had been killed at 
 Napton. The scent was as good as it had been in the 
 
64 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I8ir 
 
 mornmg, and the pack drove the fox at once out of the 
 covert, and ran, leaving Long Itchington to the right, and 
 by Offchnrcli nearly to Eadford ; and thence, leaving 
 Leamington to the left, through the large woodlands into> 
 Stoneleigh Park, and killed their fox in the river Avon. 
 Lord Middleton, Mr. Barnard, and Harry Jackson, the 
 huntsman, were up at the end of the run; Sir Charles 
 Mordaunt left in the middle of it. Harry Jackson 
 rode his favourite horse, Bluebeard, for the last time, and 
 he died at the Warwick Arms, and Lord Middleton 
 gave orders that an armchair should be covered with the 
 horse's skin, and Harry Jackson had it for many years, 
 in his possession. This was a great day's sport, both 
 for riders and hounds, when two such foxes were both 
 killed. 
 
 Sir Charles Mordaunt did not take to hunting until he 
 had reached the age of thirty-five, but he, notwithstanding,, 
 rode hard, and was a fine horseman. He was 6ft. in 
 height, but only weighed lOst. 71b. His best hunter was 
 a grey horse, 15.. 2 in height, and standing over a good deal 
 of ground, a picture of which is at Walton Hall. 
 
 Another very fine run is recorded by " Venator " as^ 
 having taken place from Farnborough on a frosty morning 
 in February, 1S17, when hounds were not put into covert 
 until one o'clock. They found at once, and ran very fast 
 over the Yale below Edge Hill to Compton Wyniates,* 
 and from there over Brailes Hill to A¥eston House, then 
 through Whichford Wood, and nearly straight to Barton- 
 on-the-Heath, and they killed their fox in a large grass- 
 field nearMoreton-in-the-Marsh. It was nearly dark when 
 the fox was killed. There was a great deal of snow on the 
 ground, and very few sportsmen followed to the end of the- 
 run, which lasted two hours and fifty minutes, some part 
 of which was slow hunting. The distance as the crow 
 flies is nearly twenty miles, and it is appro])riately recorded 
 
 * The word Wyniates is derived from Vineyards, of which there are many relics in 
 this neighbourhood, videlicet at Shennington and Horley. The wine made from the- 
 gT&pea was a sort of Canary. " Jorrocks " would not have liked it. 
 
18173 MR. WILLIAM HOLBECH. 55 
 
 that Mr. William Holbecli, the huntsman, and whips alone 
 were close up when the fox was killed.* 
 
 Mr. William Holbech, of Farnborough, hunted in 
 Warwickshire for more than forty years, and w^e have 
 already mentioned his name as having distinguished him- 
 self in several of the best runs. He was a light weight, 
 riding only lOst., and a finished horseman and a capital 
 judge of a hunter. His light weight enabled him to ride 
 the best bred horses well over his weight, and in this 
 way he saw the finish of many fine runs. He was a 
 characteristic specimen of 
 
 A fine old English gentleman, 
 One of the olden time ; 
 
 kind, courteous, and thoroughbred, an excellent landlord, 
 and himself a practical farmer. We remember his showing 
 us his accounts, which he had himself kept for years, 
 recording the price for which his hunters had been bought 
 and sold. The same particulars w^re given as regards his 
 entire farming stock. He wore a blue coat with brass 
 buttons, a buff waistcoat, and breeches and boots to the 
 end of his days, and he lived long enough to be one of 
 the very last of the old country squires. He attended 
 Warwick Market every week, and we were told that on 
 one occasion, on a dark night, he asked the ostler wdiether 
 he had seen his "fellow," meaning his servant. The 
 ostler lifted his lantern up to the Squire's pot hat and 
 
 down to his boots, and replied, " No, I'm if I ever 
 
 did."t 
 
 The portrait which we give was taken rather late in 
 life. He died in 1850, at the age of eighty-four, deeply 
 I'egretted by a very large number of relations, friends, and 
 
 * It is a remirkable fact that Mr. W'llilam Holbech was one of the first, if not the 
 first, up in these two great runs which, starting from Farnhorough, and crossing a 
 great extent of Warwickshire, terminated nearly at the same spot. 
 
 t Our reaiera will doubtless remember that James Pigg made the same uncultured 
 remark to a young gentleman with a hyena-looking cap, cane coloured beard and 
 mouetaohe, on a long tailed, cream coloured hack, on the Pomponius Ego Day. — 
 " Handley Cross," p. 368. 
 
56 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1817 
 
 iieiglil^oiirs, and 1 well remember attending his funeral at 
 Farnborough . * — C . M . 
 
 In January, 1817, "Venator" records: ''We drew 
 Ufton Wood, and after running in the coveii for a long 
 time, went away with a fox, leaving Harbury to the riglil, 
 to Itchington Heath, where the fox waited for us in a 
 brake of gorse. The scent then improved, and the run 
 continued at a good pace as far as Kineton, and thence, by 
 slow hunting, to Pillerton Gorse ; here the scent again got 
 better, and our fox ran on to Tysoe, and, turning to the 
 right, made for Idlicote, and was killed just before reaching 
 the coverts at that j^lace, after a run of three hours. Tlie 
 distance traversed was large enough to reduce the field 
 to a very small number. Mr. Augustus Berkeley, Sir C. 
 Mordaunt, and Mr. Hugo Campbell were up at the finish, 
 and the latter obtained the brush." 
 
 Eadbourne Gorse. — About this time (1817-1818) old 
 Eadbourne Gorse was inclosed and planted on land belong- 
 ing to the Earl of Guildford. It appears, however, that 
 the subject was mooted some few years before, as there is a 
 letter in the possession of the Hunt from a Mr. Burman, 
 dated Southam, Dec. 28th, 1812, and also a lawyer's bill for 
 expenses in connection with a distress for rent on the same 
 land under the same date. The following letter from that 
 well-known sportsman, Mr. H. AVyatt, dated Stratford-on- 
 Avon, April 1 1th, 1 817, evidently takes up the subject again : 
 
 Dear Sir, — Sir Cliarles Moi-daimt, as well as many other of my sport.'iig 
 friends in this Hnut, have requested me to state to you tliat it would be very 
 desirable to acquire one or two gorses as a connecting chain of coverls 
 between Ladbroke and Farnborough ; and as tliere are two small gorses iu 
 
 * I rememter that in a drawer in a cabinet at Farnborough seveial half-btirLt 
 pieces of newspapers were found. Mr. William Holbecb, during his latter days, used 
 often to read the newspapers by himself with a hand candle in one hand, and he eo 
 doubt went to sleep and set fire to the newspapers, the remains of which he must have 
 placed in the drawer. — C. M. 
 
 We very much regret that we have not been able to place any portion of Mr- 
 Holbech's diaries before our readers. 
 
 Farnborough is one of the most beautiful country seats in England, the grass 
 terrace being quite unique. I remember once, when out with the Bicester, taking 
 Lord Alexander Paget in to have a glass of sherry. " What a beautiful house ! " said 
 "Dandy," as we rode through the gates. "Who lives here?" "Archdeacon 
 Holbech," I eaid. "Do all Archdeacons live in houses like this?" answered my 
 friend.— W. R. V. 
 
Mr. William Holbech, of Farnborough. 
 
 From an engraving by 
 
 J. J. Chant, 
 
 after the picture by A. R. Venables. 
 
 The property of Archdeacon Holbech. 
 
1817-1818] EADBOURNE GOESE. 57 
 
 Radbourne pai'ish, as Ave understand, belongiug to the Earl of Guildford, at 
 present uninclosed, we entreat your good offices witli Lord Guildford to let 
 us one or both of these gorses on lease, in order that it may be inclosed and 
 preserved. As a sportsman, I feel that you will enter into our views, and 
 promote the wish of any man Imnting within reach of so desirable, and in 
 many respects so superior, a part of the Warwickshire Hunt. If I have not 
 described the situation of these places so intelligibly to you, I think, perhaps, 
 a ride thither any morning that you would appoint next week (when I shall 
 be happy to meet you) would enable us better to judge of the expediency of 
 appropriating one or both of these gorses for the purpose I have mentioned, 
 before any application should be made to Lord Guildford. 
 
 I rt>main, dear Sir, yours very much, 
 
 Henry Wyatt. 
 To William Walford, Esq., Panlniry. 
 
 Sir James Musgrave seems to have been also a prime 
 mover in the acquisition of this favourite covert. He writes 
 to Mr. Walford, under date Wellesljourne, January 29th 
 (I presume in the same year, 1817), to say that he had 
 been to Eadbourne {-sic) and seen Bond (the tenant), and 
 had marked out a j^iece of land of about fifteen acres : 
 
 Part of it is already covered with gorse sufficient to become a cover 
 vei*y soon ; the remaining part of it it will be necessary to plough and sow 
 with gorse seed, as the plants are not at present thick enough. Bond seems 
 perfectly well disposed to meet the wishes of the Hunt, and promises to pay 
 all the attention in his power to the preservation of foxes, &c. He is to 
 receive fifty shillings an acre, and the inclosure to begin as soon as he has 
 received Mr. Walford's permission. 
 
 Mr. Wyitt also writes to Mr. Walford, under date 
 April 25th, ottering to show him Lord Middleton's hounds 
 in kennel, and inviting him to " eat his beefsteak " at his 
 house, which he calls " quite a cottage, wdth no spare stall," 
 but he adds that he hopes soon " to have a larger house." 
 
 Lord Middleton's Hounds had a very fast run in 1817 
 from Pillerton Grorse, down the A^ale, over Herd Hill to 
 Compton Yerney, thence to Moreton Wood, and through 
 Oakley Wood, and over Highdown Hill to Whitnash 
 Fields, where the fox was killed. This run lasted an hour 
 and twenty minutes. Mr. R. Barnard, Mr. Hancox, and 
 Mr. H. Campbell went well, and were up at the death. 
 Lord Middleton staked his favourite grey horse, for which 
 he had given 500 guineas, near Moreton Morrell, and the 
 horse, although he reached his stable, afterwards died. 
 
68 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [m^' 
 
 The only run of any importance afterwards recorded 
 occurred during the season before Lord Middleton gave up 
 the hounds in 1819. The pack found a fox at Eatington 
 (Jrove, and ran through the park nearly to Fulready, and 
 from thence, turning to the right, went on without a check 
 towards Hell Brake ; and from there, leaving Oxhill on the 
 left, nearly to Tysoe, and thence, leaving that village on 
 the right, to Eadway, where the fox went to ground, after 
 a capital run of fift}^ minutes. "Actseon, Junior," relates 
 that Lord Middleton refused 800 guineas for a horse 
 called the Eoan Banker, ridden by Tom Smith, the first 
 whip, on this occasion. 
 
 Mr. Hugo Campbell, Mr. Sheldon, of Brailes, and Mr. 
 H. Wyatt, were noted riders to hounds in Lord Middleton's 
 time. The latter was 6ft. 3in., and weighed 15st. His 
 best hunter, Morgan Eattler, was long and low, and of 
 great girth and power. Amongst other good riders were 
 Lord Brooke, Mr, John Biddulph, Sir William Parker, 
 Mr. Lloyd, of Drayton, Mr. Augustus Berkeley, Mr. 
 Pickering, Mr. Eussell, of Blockley, Mr. Frank Lawley,. 
 Mr. Shuckburgh, of Bourton, and Mr. Morant Gale. 
 
 The following song was composed by the Eev. H. E. 
 Wooley, Lord Middleton's chaplain, and sung by him at a 
 supper given by Lord Middleton at Stratford. When the 
 song had been sung, Lord Middleton said : " Wooley, I'll 
 remember that." A year afterwards Mr. Wooley called at 
 his banker's in London, who asked him wdiat was to be 
 done with a sum of money which had been lately paid to 
 his account by Lord Middleton, amounting to 800/. These 
 particulars have kindly been given to us, together with the 
 true copy of the song, and the music to which it was set, 
 by Mr. Wooley's grandson, Mr. H. Crompton. 
 
 HUNTING SONG. 
 
 By Rev. H. R. Wooley. 
 
 I. 
 The triumphs of heroes let others declare, 
 Or in ecstacy sing of the charms of the fair, 
 Of love, or of war, bid the verse freely flow ; 
 
1820] MR. WOOLEY'S HUNTING SONG. 6J> 
 
 Let the glass aid the song, while those pleasures I trace, 
 Those enlivening joys which arise from the chase. 
 Tallio, Tallio, 
 May the Warwickshire hounds ever gallantly go. 
 
 II. 
 A southerly wind, and light clouds in the sky. 
 The air mild and fresh, nerves and spirits all high, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, to the cover we go ! 
 Hark ! " Bachelor's "* speaking, by Heavens, 'tis good. 
 Get forward, and cheer them well out of the wood. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 See the Warwickshire hounds how they gallantly go. 
 
 III. 
 
 Erect in his stirrups, with listening eye. 
 
 See "the Peer,'" how he's catching old " Bachelor's" cry, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, all seem anxious to go. 
 Eestrain your wild ardour, as yet within bounds, 
 And learn to ride after, not over the hounds. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 IV. 
 
 With eye beaming cunning, and light tripping pace. 
 See the fox steals away, hear the pack in full chase, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, how they gallantly go. 
 Hold hard for a moment, and give them fair play, 
 You'll want your top speed if they once get away. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 V. 
 
 Now, some fairly mounted go striding along, 
 Wliile others hard labour with bit, steel, and thong, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, how they struggle to go. 
 " Hold hard ! " is the cry, but I shrewdly susj^ect 
 Not the hounds, but some horses are brought to a check, 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 Yon fence seems a tickler, get on to the charge. 
 
 The turf's sound and good, though the ditch may be large, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, get forward. Sir, go. 
 One tops it, one balks it, and craning turns round, 
 A third scraml)ling and blund'riug falls crack to the ground. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 * Bachelor. — This hound was presented to Lord Middletou by Mr. Musters, and was 
 hunted with the pack for three or four years, and then returned to his former owner. 
 He was a good cold hunter, and his Lordship was very partial of him. 
 
m THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. L1820 
 
 VII. 
 
 For a mouient a sheep-walk now baffles tlie scent, 
 
 See them stopping and questing, each tries where he went ; 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, how they cautiously go. 
 Old "Vanguard ''* has hit it, no doul)t can remain, 
 Not a moment is lost, they're together again. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Now, swift o'er yon valley, how motley the scene. 
 Here men want their horse?, there horses want men. 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, very few seem to go. 
 One loses a shoe, and another votes lame, 
 Who is that in the hrooh ? Oh, ask not his name. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Once more, nobly struggling, poor reynard is viewed, 
 By few, save the pack, any longer pursued. 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, how he labours to go. 
 Nor speed, plnck, nor cnnning the chase can prolong. 
 Whoop is the word, and whoop to my song. 
 Tallio, Tallio, &c. 
 
 X. 
 
 But how can your liard in the chase take delight, 
 In person too heavy, in pocket too light, 
 
 Tallio, Tallio, he's a slow one to go ! 
 Since a seat in the saddle to keep he's unable. 
 Oh ! give him, in pity, a seat at your table. 
 Tallio, Tallio, 
 
 May the Warwickshire pack ever gallantly go. 
 
 {For the Ball.) 
 
 Ere yet I am silent, or you may advance 
 
 That my rhymes are but tediously hindering the dance, 
 
 One wish I'll express, from all hearts let it flow. 
 May the fair maids who trip on the Avon's fam'd shore, 
 Still receive us with smiles when the chase is no more. 
 Tallio. Tallio, 
 
 Those smiles make the heart of each sportsman to glow. 
 
 * Vanguard. — This hound was by Vaulter, a famous hound, presented by Lord 
 Vernon to Lord MidJleton, out of Mr. Corbet's Traffic. He -was a first-class hound 
 either for hunting a cold scent or for fast running. He was so great a favourite of 
 Lord Middleton's, and so valuable as a stallion hound, that for some time he was not 
 taken out hunting ; but finally Harry Jackson obtained his lordship's permission to let 
 him run with the pack ou account of the valuable assistance which he would give 
 
1820] LORD MIDDLETONS FALL. 61 
 
 On the last day of the season 1820-1821 the meet was 
 at Admington. As Lord Middleton was galloping round 
 the field his horse fell and threw him, and rolled over him, 
 injuring his thigh and shoulder. He was taken to Mr. 
 Corbet's house at Admington, and, although not seriously 
 injured, he was seldom seen to ride anything but a pony in 
 the field afterwards, and he resigned the hounds. In the 
 second season after he had become master forty-nine and a 
 half brace of foxes were killed, and no greater number were 
 ever killed in any subsequent season during his manage- 
 ment. His stud of hunters were sold at Leicester in 
 November, 1823, and fetched large .prices. 
 
 The Earl of Warwick, when Lord Brooke, was often seen 
 at the covert side at this time. His lordship's stud was 
 selected with, great care and judgment, and his hunters in 
 general cost high prices. He was a capital rider to hounds. 
 After his lordship met with a severe accident when hunting,^ 
 he was not often seen in the field. He had a famous grey 
 horse, a great favourite, and upon him he has frequently 
 held as prominent a place in the field as any in many a long 
 and hard day. This fine animal met with an untimely 
 end. 
 
 Will Barrow, Mr. Corbet's huntsman, hunted the 
 hounds onb for a short time after they were taken by Lord 
 Middleton, and Will Don and Tom Steej)les each hunted 
 them for one season afterwards. The latter was succeeded 
 by Harry Jackson, who continued to hunt them until 
 1818, when he was disabled by a bad fall, and received an 
 annuity from Lord Middleton. He had previously been 
 huntsman to Lord Yernon, and especially distinguished 
 himself in the kennel, although he was not very quick in 
 the field. Zac Goddard, Tom Smith, and Jack Stevens 
 were his lordship's whips, and Tom Smith hunted the 
 hounds for the last two seasons of his mastership. 
 
 them. On this occasion tliey found at Pillerton Gorse, and ran to ground at Brailes 
 Hill, On the way to draw again at Compton Wyniates, Vanguard tried to leave the 
 pack to get back to the earth, but was prevented from doing so ; he eventually, however, 
 got away unperceived, and was never seen again, and it was supposed he had entered 
 the earth too far, and oould not get back again. 
 
«2 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I82f> 
 
 Lord Middlcton died on the lOtli of June, 1835, at the 
 age of seventy-tive, at WoUaton, in Nottinghamshire. His 
 title was derived from Middleton,* in Warwickshire, at 
 which phice he resided for ten years, during which time he 
 was master of hounds. 
 
 The will of AVilloughby Dixie, of Bosworth Park, was 
 about this time often read from manuscript for the amuse- 
 ment of those wdio remembered him as a thoroughly good 
 ^sportsman, a capital judge of a horse, and a fearless and 
 good rider to hounds throughout the longest day. The 
 will shows him to have been most benevolent, and his ready 
 wit had no doubt delighted his company on many festive 
 •occasions. 
 
 I, Willougliby Dixie, of Bosworth Pai-k, 
 Without the aid of scribe or clerk, 
 Or pettyfogger of the law 
 Ready to make or find a flaw ; 
 With ev'ry symptom of decay, 
 And wearing dev'lish fast away, 
 With haggard phiz, and tott'ring limb, 
 With moonstruck mind a prey to whim, 
 A stupor seizing both my eyes. 
 All my effects do thus devise : 
 
 To Sister Eleauor,t of Bourn 
 
 (Lest she the fate too long should mourn 
 
 Of her lamented brother dear) , 
 
 In rent twelve hundred pounds a year. 
 
 And on dear Eleanor I fix 
 
 To be my sole executrix. 
 
 To Rosamond :J: (whose joyless bower 
 Of bliss ne'er knew one single hour) 
 Twelve pence I give — far more than due 
 To such a cursed vexatious shi'ew. 
 
 To Elder Drakeley§ (faithful found 
 Thro' all my life's eccentric bound, 
 
 * Lord Middleton lived during the hunting season at a house which he built near 
 Stratford, where he also had large stables and kennels. Nothing could be more perfect 
 than the arrangement of the house, and the dining room was for its size one of the 
 most complete rooms in England. The place afterwards bacame a young ladies' 
 seminary. 
 
 t Mra. Poohiu. t Mrs. Kinnersley. § The Steward. 
 
1820] WILLOUGHBT DIXIE'S WILL. 63 
 
 A jaekall constant to provide 
 
 Whate'er could feed my lust or pride) 
 
 A sacrifice, to liim I doom, 
 
 Of bullocks, half a hecatomb ; 
 
 In cash, a bill, no little sound ! 
 
 The sum of seventeen hundred pound. 
 
 To younger Drakeley, firm and true, 
 Who did all th' elder could not do. 
 Thro' fire and water e'er would go 
 To please me, or to spite my foe ; 
 Of sheep I leave two hundred head. 
 As good as Bakewell ever bred ; 
 My pointers, spaniels, guns and stocks. 
 By Egg, by Man ton, or by Nocks. 
 
 To Dick, the groom, who swore my stud 
 Surpass'd by none in shape or blood ; 
 And that no Squire of high degree 
 Could choose a horse or ride like me, 
 I leave my hunters, hacks, and all 
 That grace the mead or fill the stall, 
 With saddles, bridles, boots likewise, 
 Spurs, whips of every sort and size. 
 
 To Sam, the bailiif, who knows how 
 To handle either ox or cow. 
 Well skilled to take the jolters in 
 (His bargain never fails to win) . 
 To him I freely do assign 
 The residue of sheep and swine, 
 Calves, lambs, and plenty of store beast. 
 Worth full five hundred pounds at least. 
 
 Unto the butler I resign 
 My stock of every kind of wine, 
 Puncheon as tight as any drum, 
 Well filled with brandy, gin, and rum. 
 Pipes, juglers, glasses, everything 
 That makes the jocund table ring. 
 
 To James, the brewer, all the ale 
 And porter, too, both mild and stale, 
 With barrels, cocks, hops, malt in store. 
 That when all's drank he may brew more. 
 
64 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1820 
 
 Unto the gardener — rake and spade 
 And every tool that sitits his trade ; 
 Fruit yet unpnlled, potatoes, greens, 
 Carrots and turnips, kidney beans, 
 Seeds of all sorts, with hives of bees, 
 Celery plants, and nursery trees. 
 
 To her who keeps the house in awe, 
 And rules supreme by kitchen law, 
 I give the sugar and the tea, 
 The plumbs, and spices, and coffee. 
 Preserves, and pickles, peppermint. 
 And other waters, without stint. 
 
 Unto the housemaid's noisy crew 
 The chairs and tables (not a few), 
 Brushes and brooms, dusters and wings. 
 And sundry other useful things ; 
 The mats, the carpets, every screen, 
 And all that they have used to clean. 
 
 To Dorothy, the dairy-maid 
 
 Who reared of lambs, full many a cade, 
 
 I give pemiission for to seize 
 
 The chiu-n, the butter, and the cheese ; 
 
 Bowls, buckets, puncheons, lead and all 
 
 That to the lot of dairy fall. 
 
 To her who keeps the linen clean, 
 The laundry maid's the girl I mean ; 
 The shirts, the sheets, the napkins white. 
 With tablecloths shall be her right. 
 
 And to the cook, whate'er befits 
 Her occupation ; pans and spits. 
 The poker, tongs, the fork that toasts, 
 And all with which she boils and roasts ; 
 Hams, tongues, and bai'on, be her lot, 
 And everything that goes to pot. 
 
 Unto the scullion, all the cook 
 By choice or chance may overlook ; 
 Grease, matches, coals, and candles good,. 
 Fagots, and billets of dry wood. 
 
 Aiid that no varlet may rejiine, 
 To labourer Tom I give the swine, 
 Snouters collected at great pains. 
 With all the stock of swill and grains. 
 
1820] 
 
 ME. JOHN HAWKES. 
 
 65 
 
 John Hawkes, trainer to George III., resided for 
 several years at Snitterfield, and he was well known by 
 all Warwickshire sportsmen as the best gentleman rider in 
 the country, and he frequently rode in sweepstakes and 
 matches over Warwick Racecourse. "Nimrod" says "he 
 was the model of a light dragoon, and a famous jockey ; " 
 and Mr. Buckle says " he was not only clever in his saddle 
 but right in his attics." He rode a steeplechase for the 
 Prince Regent, who asked him if those were the best spurs 
 he had. He replied, "Yes, your Highness." "Here, 
 then," said the Regent, "take mine." On one occasion, 
 when asked how he liked a particular horse, he said, 
 
 " I like very few horses, very few women, and few 
 
 men." Hawkes well understood hunting, and was the 
 author of a book called " Meynellian Science." The spurs 
 given him by the Prince Regent were hung up at Norton 
 Hall after his death. 'No doubt, after a day's hunting in 
 the Shires, he often rode home with 
 
 A FEW OF THE RIGHT SORT THAT HAVE DONE THE EIGHT THING. 
 
 
 
 
 K\ 
 
 Vol. I. 
 

 
 UNKEXXELLIXG THE HOUNDS. 
 
 Witli nostrils opeuiug" wide, o'er hill, o'er dale 
 The vig'roHS hounds pursue, with ev'ry breath 
 Inhale tlie grateful steam, quick ])leasures sting 
 Their tingling nerves, while they their thanks repay. 
 And in triumphant melody confess 
 T]w titillating joy. Thus on the air 
 Depend tlie hunter's hopes. — Soinerville. 
 
 CHAPTER lY. 
 
 MR. SHIRLEY, OF EATINGTON JACK WOOD — THE REV. JOHN 
 
 LUCY THE DEBDALE RUN MR. COCKBILL. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Evelyn J. Shirley, Esq., of Eatington Park, who was 
 elected in 18'3() as a Conservative for South Warwickshire 
 succeeded Lord Middleton as master of the hounds in 1S.'21 , 
 and tlie first meet was on Wednesday, November 7th, at 
 Edge Hill. Mr. Shirley was popuhir, and very well known 
 as a county gentleman and a good sportsman, and his long- 
 residence in Warwickshire had made him well acquainted 
 with the country he had to ride over. It will be noticed 
 that Mr. Shirley got to the end of several severe runs 
 afterwards described, and he was a practised rider to 
 hounds. He had a celebrated chesnut horse called 
 IMannion, which he rode with more confidence than any 
 other of his hunters. Mr. Shirley mounted his men in 
 
1822] JACK WOOD AND BILL BOXHALL. &7 
 
 capital style, and during his time the attendance on his 
 liounds was even larger than that of his predecessor. His 
 highly accomplished manners, added to the great worth of 
 liis character, made him a general favourite, and the 
 reputation of the pack rather increased than suffered in his 
 hands. 
 
 Lord Middleton having given his pack of hounds to 
 Sir Tatton Sykes, it became necessary for the Hunt for the 
 first time to raise a subscription, and to build new kennels, 
 and to purchase a pack of hounds, a considerable under- 
 taking which was liberally carried out ; and Mr. Shirley, in 
 IS.^.^, bought the Cranbourne Chase Hounds, consisting of 
 twenty-four couples. They were a very good looking and 
 steady pack of working hounds, but were rather too small 
 for such a country as Warwickshire. A new kennel was 
 built at Butlers Marston, and a subscription of .2000/. was 
 raised. 
 
 Jack AVood who had been for some time huntsman to 
 Lord Althorpe and Sir Charles Knightley in Northampton- 
 shire, and to the Duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire, now 
 entered Mr. Shirley's service. He was a first-class hunts- 
 man and a very fine rider. "Nimrod" says that there was 
 no better horseman than Jack Wood. He had a graceful 
 seat and light hands, and rode like a gentleman. He had, 
 however, the bad luck to have some falls which laid him 
 up for some time, and included a broken thigh, leg, and 
 collar-bone. Bill Boxall was the first whip. 
 
 The first good run recorded by "Venator" took place after 
 a meet at Alscot on February 3rd, 18.22. The morning 
 was cloudy, -^Ndth a cold drizzling rain ; the pack found a fox 
 at Fir Grove, and ran by Alderminster, over the Stour, and 
 tlience over Crimscote Downs to Ilmington Hill, and close 
 by Mr. Canning's house at Foxcote ; they then ran down 
 into the Vale by Ditchford, and again over the Stour to 
 Todenham, and killed the fox in a field between there and 
 Wolford Wood. This was a fast run over a good extent 
 of country, and lasted an hour and forty minutes. Mr. 
 Shirley, on his chesnut horse Marmion, Mr. Napier, Mr. 
 
 F 2 
 
68 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1822 
 
 Hugo Campbell, Mr. John Lucy, and Captain Lewis, and 
 Jack AYood were up at the death. 
 
 Extracts from " lieminiscences of an Old Farnborough 
 Boy " between 1822 and 1832, sent to Archdeacon Holbech, 
 June 12th, 1888: 
 
 I was boru in your villao-e, was edneatecl in your village school, have 
 plaj-od on the village green, ran over the hills after the foxhounds. I think it 
 is reasonable now, in the closing years of my life, that my thoughts should 
 sometimes turn to the happy days and scenes of my childhood, and as you are 
 about my own age (71) I thought it possible that they might not be altogether 
 without interest to you. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Thomas Hall. 
 The Venerable Archdeacon Holbech, Farnborough, near Banbury. 
 
 N.B.— This Thomas Hall, who lived at 20, North-street, Derby, is a 
 relative of Agnes Hall, now Mrs. Marriott, who was tlie present Lord 
 Willoughby de Broke's nurse. 
 
 Among the many "reminiscences" recorded is the 
 following : 
 
 Old Dame Berry lived near the town pool {i.e., just opposite the present 
 school). One Saturday the foxhounds came to Farnboro', and having found a 
 fox they gave him chase. Reynard, finding himself sorely pressed, ran into 
 the village, and from Welch's Orchard jumped upon the roof of the dame's 
 house, and then down the chimney. The old lady was much annoyed at this, 
 for she had just cleaned her hoiise, and by the fox coming down the chimney 
 it was now covered with soot. She came out and locked the door, leaving the 
 fox in the house as tenant or prisoner In due time the huntsman came up 
 with the dogs, and she told them where the fox was, but in consecpience of the 
 dirt he had made in the house she would not allow him to be taken out for 
 less than a shilling. The money was soon forthcoming, a bag was procured, 
 and the fox was taken to the top of Windmill Hill, Avliere he was liberated, 
 but lie only ran to the middle of the meadow below, and then took refuge in a 
 drain, where we boys had the best of the sport by seeing one dog after another 
 brought from the kennel in " Hall's Orchard " to fetch him out, but refused 
 to do so, and he was at last dug out with a spade. 
 
 Li 1822 the Warwickshire hounds had a fine run from 
 Edge Hill by Arlescote, over the valley to Warmington, and 
 thence to the right across the Banbury Eoad near Wroxton 
 New Inn, and through Shutford Spinneys towards Swal- 
 cliffe ; they then turned to the left, and ran by Bloxham to 
 Bodicote Brook, and thence again across the Banbury Road, 
 and between Deddington and Adderbury to Aynho, where 
 they killed the fox. This was a run over such an extent 
 
Mr. Evelyn Shirley, of Eatington. 
 
 By 
 
 Pickersgill. 
 
 The property of Mr. Shirley, of Ettington. 
 
.iioisnitBa lo ;^: 'lay 3 .ilA 
 
 .aoJsnilta to ,^^9Hiri^ .iM to y,Ji9qoiq ^riT 
 
1823] THE BODICOTE BEOOK. 69 
 
 of country tliat the pace, though fast, could not have been 
 sustained throughout it. The distance measured straight 
 by the Ordnance map is thirteen miles, and hounds could 
 not have run less than nineteen miles. Mr. Shirley, Lord 
 (xeorge Forester, Mr. Fellowes, Mr. John Lucy, Mr. 
 Cockbill, Jack Wood, Zac Groddard, and the second wliij) 
 were up at the end. Mr. Cockbill alone cleared the 
 Bodicote Brook, clearing, according to Tag's account, 
 twenty-seven feet of water which was bank high. Lord 
 Forester got over with a fall, but Mr. John Lucy's horse 
 fell into the middle of it, and, throwing his rider upon the 
 opposite side, swam back to the wrong bank, and the rider 
 was compelled to return through the water to secure his 
 horse, and this on a very cold day. 
 
 On December 16th, 18. 2 3,* there is a short account of 
 a run with a good fox from Edge Hill across the Vale 
 to Farnborough, and nearly to Fenny Compton, where 
 he turned to the left and ran through Itchington Heath, 
 and between Ligrhthorne and Chesterton Wood to Moreton 
 Morrell, and thence to Walton, where he got to ground. 
 The run lasted an hour and fifty minutes, and the pace over 
 a splendid country was very severe. 
 
 It is curious that amongst the few good runs in Mr. 
 Shirley's time of which we have any information, another 
 took place during the following week from Edge Hill, 
 on December .:2.'2nd, 1828. "Hark Forward" relates that 
 a fox was found close to the Bound House, and made for 
 the earths at Warmington, but, finding them stopped, he 
 ran on to Shutford, and nearly to Bloxham ; thence to the 
 left near the tow^n of Banbury, and on to Middleton Cheney, 
 where he was killed after a run of two hours and foi-ty 
 minutes, over not less tlian seventeen miles of country. 
 Jack Wood was with his hounds throughout, and the 
 Master, Mr. Napier, Mr. John Lockley, Mr. Cockbill, and 
 Mr. Bush, and some others from Lord Seagrave's Hunt, 
 
 * Daring the season of 182.3 Mr. Shirley lost twelve couples of valuable hounds 
 during one night from eating flesh and broth which had been allowed to stand in a 
 boiler which was made of copper. 
 
70 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1824 
 
 went well, and were up at the death. Not often, if ever, 
 before or afterwards, were two such rims seen from Edge 
 Hill nearly within one week. 
 
 The last meet of the season was at Hook Norton on 
 April 5th, 1824. 
 
 On January .:21st, 18:24, the Warwickshire Hounds had 
 a severe run through a great extent of plough and wood- 
 land country. They found a fox at Alveston Pasture, and 
 ran through Charlecote Park, leaving the Plesters' Coverts 
 to the right ; thence over the canal and Warwick Poad, 
 and through Leamington, which then consisted of only a 
 few houses ; and from there over the Avon to Leek Wooton, 
 and killed the fox in the turnpike road close to Chesford 
 Bridge. Captain Pussell, Mr. H. Wyatt, Mr. Napier, Mr. 
 Eussell, Mr. Pickering, Mr. P. Holland, and Wood, the 
 huntsman, were in at the death. 
 
 On September 5th, 1824, Mr. Vyner relates: On this 
 day one of the best runs I ever knew in my whole life took 
 place with the Warwickshire hounds. It was an accident, 
 as the bounds broke away, and the men were not mounted 
 to go with them, and consequently could not stop them. 
 They found at five o'clock in the morning at the Bull and 
 Butcher Wood, six miles from Coventry, and killed him 
 close to Crick, in Northamptonshire — fifteen miles from 
 point to point. The pace was tremendous, and no one who 
 started with the hounds was up at the finish except William 
 Boxall, who was then first whipper-in ; there were nearly 
 fifty couples of hounds out, seventeen and a half couples of 
 wbich were of that year's entry, and had only been out 
 four times before that day. 
 
 We extract the following from the supplement to 
 " Eural Sports," published in 1813, by the Eev. Wilham 
 B. Daniel : 
 
 This nudeviatiug perseverance in a foxlionnd took place A.D. 1808, in 
 the counties of Inverness and Perth, and ])erliaps surpasses any length of 
 pursuit known in the annals of foxhunting. On the 8th June, near Dunkeld, 
 Perthshire, were seen on the high road a fox and a hound proceeding at a 
 slow trotting pace. The dog was about the distance of fifty yards behind the 
 fox, and each was so fatigned as not to gain upon the other. A countryman 
 
1824] EUN FROM ALVESTON PASTURES. 71 
 
 very easily caug-ht the fox by running-, and l)otli the fox and the dog wore 
 taken to a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood, where the fox died ; and 
 it was afterwards ascertained that the hound belonged to the Duke of Gordon, 
 and that the fox was started on the morning of the King's birthday on the 
 top of those hills called Mond-liadh, which separates Badenoch from Fort 
 Augustus. From this it appeared that the chase lasted /oh r c?rt(/s, and that 
 the distance travelled from the place where the fox was unkennelled to the 
 spot where it was caught, without making any allowance for doul)les, crosses, 
 and tergiversations, and as the crow Hies, exceeded seventy miles. 
 
 This reniiiRls us somewhat of the sahnoii Usher, who 
 remarked to his " gillie " that he could not understand why 
 they caught so many larger fish on a neighbouring river. 
 "No doubt," he said, "they are better fishermen on that 
 river." " They are better lears (liars) you mean," answered 
 the Scotchman. 
 
 "Hark Forward" relates that during the season of 
 1824 Mr. Shirley met a large field at Alveston Pastures. 
 The hounds were no sooner put into the covert than a line 
 old wild fox went away towards Fir Grove. He then sunk 
 tlie uplands, and crossed the Vale and the Stour, running 
 on to Preston Bushes, and then through Admington and 
 Quinton, and to the top of Meon Hill, where the first 
 check occurred ; and by the time the pack hit the scent oft' 
 the fox had got a long way ahead, and the run continued 
 at a slower pace again over the Vale as far as Pebworth, 
 where the fox was lost, but he was eventually killed by a 
 sheepdog. Mr. John Lucy, * on Merry-Go-Eound, a 
 
 * No annals of the Warwickshire Hunt would be complete without a more 
 prolonged notice of the Rev. John Lucy. He was the third son of the Rev. John 
 Hammond, who was grandson of Alice, daughter of Sir Fulke Lucy, who married the 
 Rev. John Hammond, rector of Gowsworth, near Congleton, in Cheshire. His father 
 was vicar of Charlecote, and afterwards rector of Hampton Lucy, and, having succeeded 
 to the Charlecote Estate on the death of his relation, George Lucy, in 1780, took the 
 name of Lucy by His Majesty George HI.'s sign manual, dated 'Jth of February, 1787. 
 The subject of our memoir was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 He was ordained in 1814, and in 1815 became rector of Hampton Lucy, liis father 
 (who lived to the age of eighty-nine, and died January 12th, 1823) having resigned 
 in his favour. Here he lived till his death, which took place in 18(59, at the age of 
 seventy-nine. He was a sporting parson, not altogether of the old school, for his 
 manners were most refined, and in the interest he took in ecclesiastical work, and 
 especially church restoration, lie was far before his time. We have heard that he 
 visited every cathedral in England and Wales in a dog-cart. His great work was the 
 rebuilding of St. Peter's Church at Hampton Lucy, the beautiful apse being added 
 entirely at his own cost. At the close of his life he contributed largely to the 
 restoratiou of St. David's Cathedral, of which, to his great gratification, he was made 
 
72 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1824 
 
 famous horse, wliicli he had just bought for a hirge price, 
 led the field as far as Meon Hill ; but by some means he 
 lamed the horse during the course of the run, and, thinking 
 he could not recover, he sold him to Mr. Eussell for 50/., 
 who rode him for eight or nine seasons afterwards, and he 
 always went well on a fast and long day. 
 
 The perfect sportsman, it has been remarked by the 
 intelligent author of the " Sportsman's Cabinet," whether 
 the hounds are drawing or running, is never seen in a place 
 to incur disgrace by heading the game or obstructing the 
 hounds. The chase is a business in which he is a proficient, 
 and he is never at a loss in the execution. From an innate 
 
 an liou. eanon. He also erected the iron bridge over tlie Avon at Hampton Lucy at 
 his sole expense. It was begun in 1829, and completed in January, 1830. Mary, Mrs. 
 Lucy, said in her biography of the Lucy family : " The bridge is not only an elegant 
 structure in itself, but the greatest accommodation to the whole neighbourhood. Well 
 do I remember the poor old wooden footbridge, and how, when the ford was not ford- 
 able, I used to venture on horseback mth fear and trembling over it, and many and 
 many a good dinner at the Rectory has been lost to the invited guests owing to an 
 inoppoitune flood." These good dinners were for years quite a feature of the Hampton 
 Lucy Eectory, and many a good story, almost too good to be repeated, is told in con- 
 nection with them. Many great patrons of the chase partook of Mr. John Lucy's 
 hospitality, amongst others Mr. Apperley (" Nimrod "), the late Lord Henry Bentinck, 
 and others. Loi-d Henry, on his departure, was pleased, in his precise manner, to express 
 his entire approval of his host's menage, with one ejreptioti. Colonel Henry Lane (late 
 Hammer Lane) was sitting in the hall at Hampton Lucy, and saw Mr. J. Lucy go into 
 the dining-room, and heard him say to his butler, " What are those ? " " Those are 
 the Apostle spoons, sir." " When did I tell you to put those out ? " " When it was a 
 first-class dinner-party, sir." "This," said Mr. Lucy, "is not a first-class dinner 
 party." On one occasion he pressed his friend and fellow sportsman, the Rev. Henry 
 Knightley, to partake of some special sauce. The answer was characteiistic also : ' ' No, 
 thank you, I never eat messes." It was some years before Mr. Knightley was again 
 invited. We never heard of his being anything of a gunner ; but with respect to 
 hunting, he was attached to the sport all his life, and in his younger days must have 
 been a first-class man to hounds. He always engaged the most excellent curates, and 
 was most particular that they should be gentlemen as well as earnest workers. This 
 gave him more time to pursue his favourite amusement. When quite an old man he 
 was constantly seen at the covert side in the most irreiDroachable get up — black coat and 
 beautifully cleaned leathers, mounted on his favourite bright bay horse, Man Friday, 
 and attended by his faithful groom. We remember once having to borrow his dress 
 clothes, and his telling us then that in the whole course of his life he had never had his 
 portmanteau packed for him. At the same dinner party at which we were asked to take 
 the foot of the table, most minute directions were given as to the exact quantity of soup 
 we wei'e to help to each guest. He is supposed to have been the originator of the term, 
 " inferior order of the clergy," as applied to the assistant curates of the Church. We 
 remember hearing that on one occasion he was staying at Wroxton Abbey, at a time 
 when gas had for the first time been introduced into the house. When he went to bed, 
 instead of turning off the gas, he blew it out. Fortunately, the fire had burnt low, and 
 soon went out. Early the next morning, the maid thought there was a smell of gas 
 near the door of the bedroom, and took the precaution to enter it without a liglited 
 caudle and at once to open both windows. — C. M. — W. R. V. 
 
Portrait of Jack Wood (Huntsman) on Marmion ; Bill Boxall, 
 
 first Whip ; and the Warwickshire Hounds. 
 
 Artist unknown. 
 
 The property of Mr. Shirley, of Ettington. 
 
, : ::.3a urn- ^norrrr'sM no (r.- " r-bBl lo JfB-iiio9 
 
1825J THE PEEFECT SPORTSMAN. 73 
 
 and invincible attacliment to the sport, and implicit 
 observance of its strictest rules he becomes constitutionally 
 insensible to the less attentive part of the company, but is, 
 nevertheless, incessantly alive to every tongue of a hound. 
 Not a promising whimper, an exhilarating challenge, or a 
 palpable hit, but vibrates sympathetically upon his anxious 
 ear, and his whole soul seems absorbed in the earnest and 
 eager hope of transmitting the enli\'ening signal of a view 
 to his distant friends who surround the covert in equal 
 expectation. The chase once more commenced, his utmost 
 judgment is exerted to lay as well to the hounds as the 
 speed of his horse and the state of the country will 
 permit ; at which time he stands upon no specious 
 ceremony with, or servile subservience to, local superiors. 
 This alone is the happy spot, as well as the critical and 
 exulting moment, where all are equal, where personal pride 
 can assume no consequence, dignity can claim no prece- 
 dence, and wdiere even an immensity of wealth is of no 
 avail, but superlatively happy he who can excel his peers 
 and take the lead. 
 
 A "Veteran Sportsman" remarks -. "The zealous sports- 
 man will never condescend to be left a great way behind. 
 He know^s his place, and he keeps it ; he is never seen in the 
 body and bitstle of a crowd riding in a direct line with, and 
 pressing upon the heels of, the hounds, but in a true and 
 sporting style, 23arallel wdtli the three or four last couples 
 of the pack. Keeping his ground in this situation, he 
 rapturously enjoys every alternate change and \ariety of 
 the scene ; by lying close to the hounds, and making the 
 necessary observations, he is sure of seeing where and 
 when they throw up, and, of course, knows to a certainty 
 how far they have carried the scent ; consequently those 
 only who are forward and know the state of the chase are 
 the best qualified to give the signal of ' hold hard ' to those 
 behind ; and not, as is too frequently the case, for those 
 behind to transmit inconsistently the petulant exclamation 
 to those before." 
 
 On the 1st of January, 18.25, public notice was 
 
74 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1825 
 
 o'ivon that Mr. Sliirley bad signified his intention to 
 resign the management of tlie Warwickshire hounds. 
 Universal regret was expressed owing to his decisi(jn, 
 as he had sliown fine sport, and had given great satis- 
 faction . 
 
 At a meeting of the proprietors of coverts and the 
 subscribers to the Hunt, lield at the AVarwick Arms on 
 Wednesday, the Oth of March, Mr. F. Canning in the 
 chair, it was arranged that Mr. Hay should hunt the 
 AV^arwickshire country for the next two seasons ; to hunt 
 four days in the week, from the 1st of November to the 
 1st of April. 
 
 It was also resolved at the same meeting, on the 
 motion of Mr. Holbech, seconded by Mr. John Lucy, 
 that a handsome piece of plate be presented to Mr. 
 Shirley for his management of the hunting establishment 
 in this county. 
 
 A subscription was entered into, and in the following- 
 week it amounted to 100/., and considerably increased 
 afterwards. 
 
 We do not know wliether " Nimrod " was actually 
 acquainted with Ireland. He seems to have foreseen, at 
 all events, some of the causes which led to the absenteeism 
 of landlords in that unfortunate country.* 
 
 It appears that at this time Lord Anson hunted the 
 ])unchurch country, and on Febn/arij 13tli, 1826, his 
 hounds had an extraordinary run from Debdale Covert, 
 which afterwards became one of the coverts of the 
 Warwickshire Hunt. 
 
 * " Nimrod " says : " We should not forget the late master of the hounds, E. J. 
 Shirley, Esq., of Eatingtoii, whose family possessed that lordship before the Normau 
 conquest." Dugdale says : ' The only place in this country that glories in an un- 
 interrupted succession of its owners for so long a tract of time.' Mr. Shirley does 
 credit to his ancestry. He has given the most universal satisfaction, and his motive for 
 giving up the hounds, which I had from his own lips, is creditable to his feelings as a mau. 
 ' We cannot do everything,' said he. ' I am building a house on my property in Ireland, 
 where I mean to reside part of the year, and the hounds would be much in my way.' 
 Were some other Irish proprietors to follow Mr. Shirley's example, Ireland would have 
 reason to rejoice, and two hundred Mr. Shirleys scattered up and down that ill-fated 
 country would do more for the souls and bodies of its inhabitants than their religious 
 freedom, great boon as it may be, and three parts of the priests besides." 
 
1825] THE DEEPDALE RUN. 75 
 
 This run, according to Mr. Vyner,* was celebrated in 
 verse by a well known sporting divine, as follows : 
 
 THE DEEPDALE RUN. 
 
 Here's succoss to the pack of the Staffordshire Lord, 
 
 And a healtli to Sir The, who's a man of his word ; 
 
 For two better Britons ne'er joined their address, 
 
 To realise sj^ort with sueli signal success. 
 
 And here's to the day when at Deepdale again 
 
 AVe'U find such a fox as was yesterday slain ; 
 
 A traveller, stranger, stout, gallant, and shy, 
 
 With his earths ten miles oft", and those earths in his eye. 
 
 He was oft' like a shot at the sound of the horn, 
 
 As the stars disappear at the pale pt^ep of morn. 
 
 No uproar to render hounds wilful or wild. 
 
 He was not viewed away by a Leicestershire field ; 
 
 But a snug little party of gens de ijrovince, 
 
 With moderate nags, so the hounds had a chance. 
 
 A party from Birb'ry, from Leamington some, 
 
 A feAV were from Dunchurch, and Napier from home ; 
 
 There was Wyndham and Ladbroke, Kingston and Bowen, 
 
 And twenty I had not the honoiu- of knowing. 
 
 With Applewait, Oliver, Spooner, and Lance, 
 
 The peer on Young Watson, and Coke on Advance. 
 
 The hounds they set-to, as if meaning to run, 
 
 In spite of a gaudy, meridian sun ; 
 
 They settled in earnest we very soon found. 
 
 With thf'ir heads in the air, and their sterns on the ground. 
 
 How th .ry dash up the headlands, and fling up the glades ! 
 
 How they draw the best breath from the Leamington blades ! 
 
 How jealous they render these " Spa-swilling chaps," 
 
 Such whipping, such spurring, such charging of gaps, 
 
 Such very tight neckcloths, such very slack reins, 
 
 Sueh squeezing at gates, and such work in the lanes ! 
 
 In short, I'll defy you to say, in the burst. 
 
 Who were jjressing, or nicking, or tailing, or first. 
 
 The peer had no time to decide which was which, 
 
 Go it Victory, Tidings, and Spiteful, my bitch. f 
 
 Not a word for a farmer, a rate for a flat. 
 
 E'en for me, who at football had played with his hat. 
 
 Quoth he, " If I judge by the line that he ran 
 
 Once before, you may presently press if you can." 
 
 * It does not, unfortunately, come w-itliin our province to reproduce the picture of 
 Mr. Vyner and his hounds. It was painted by " Jones," and we cannot trace its 
 possessor. 
 
 t Three favourite hounds in his lordship's pack. 
 
76 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1825 
 
 He was rig-ht ; for although at first starting the tit 
 
 Could just stay with the hounds, and o'er-ride them a bit, 
 
 We had no sooner left the small fields and light soil, 
 
 Than to live was a pleasure amounting to toil. 
 
 The scent was improving, pace faster, of coixrse. 
 
 The hoinid getting fleeter, and slower the horse ; 
 
 Ev'ry foot o'er the vale the pack beat us at will. 
 
 And were two fields ahead when they mounted the hill 
 
 That's crown'd with the hall of Sir Shuckburgh's descendants, 
 
 Ungraced and unaided by human attendants. 
 
 The check at the earth gave us time to ascend, 
 
 Where 'twas smoking, and piping, and " bellows to mend." 
 
 Fifty minutes so ripping, it must be confessed. 
 
 Was enough for the bad ones, no joke for the best. 
 
 And now o'er the vale where the Welshman* presides. 
 
 And "High Noble Field,"! with its evergreen sides, 
 
 Where folks 'gan to falter, and justice to yield, 
 
 The peer played a solo for many a field. 
 
 But for this he may thank the address of his man. 
 
 Who brought up his mare fresh, the fleet Marianne. 
 
 We brushed him up smartish to Stavertou Wood ; 
 
 He skirted it down the hill — hang his stout blood I 
 
 AVas headed, and back to the cover he slunk, 
 
 The men in a pickle, the peer in a funk. 
 
 From Stavertou Wood he broke cleanly and dry 
 
 (We've known it before) ; " A fresh fox ! " was the cry. 
 
 The gentleman washed to be knowdug, of course, 
 
 And perhaps he was fresh as compared with his horse. 
 
 Pug managed to make one small field from the cover, 
 
 A. crash and a whimper, " who-whoop ! " and it's over. 
 
 Scarce the fate of this veteran fox had been seal'd. 
 
 When the c[uestion occurred, " What's become of the field? " 
 
 They can't all be beaten, they can't have stood still; 
 
 I've seen but six people from Shuckborough Hill. 
 
 Perhaps the brook stopped them ; I hope they are in it. 
 
 " Don't alarm yourself, sir, they'll be here in a minute ; 
 
 They'll meet with some farmer, a good pioneer." 
 
 The word was scarce spoken, when lo ! they appear ; 
 
 They had fought for a road, and then made a wild cast, 
 
 And the wind-shirking gentlemen came up at last. 
 
 Little else to describe, if to write I was hired. 
 
 But the jest of the fresh and excuse of the tired. 
 
 " What kept you, kind sir, in the background so far'r " 
 
 " Why, I stopped at the village to light my cigar." 
 
 *Tlie late Sir Thomas Mostyn. The country was then hunted by " The Bicester." 
 t Xewbold Field, or Xewbold Grounds. 
 
1825] ME. COCKBILL. 77 
 
 " I sav, my good friend, at the brook wliy so linger ? " 
 "I got such a horrible thorn in my finger." 
 " A thorn in your finger ? " another replied, 
 " You mean that the brook was a thorn in your side ! " 
 " "Why so far in the rear ? Were the spurs of no use ? " 
 " Oh ! I rode to a halloa." " A hollow excuse." 
 Many thanks let us give to the Staffordshire peer, 
 Whose pack has this day left us all in the rear. 
 May his sport be as good as it's hitherto been, 
 May he see as good runs as he's hitherto seen, 
 And before many years have passed over his head 
 He'll beat all the world both in science and speed. 
 
 Mr. Cockbill was a conspicuous rider to hounds for 
 tliii-ty years in Warwickshire. He was a very heavy 
 weight, but a good sportsman, with a capital eye to 
 hounds, and he always rode with a martingale to his 
 bridle. " Don't talk to me," he would say, " of the 
 inconvenience and danger of a martingale. With it I 
 can make my horses put their feet where / like ; without 
 it they generally put them where thcii like, and then I 
 get a tumble, and I fall heavy." There was a good 
 deal of truth in this. Mai-tingales w^re not much used 
 or appreciated at that time, but when afterwards they were 
 put on bridles exactly at the right length, many horses 
 were ridden with safety and pleasure which otherwise 
 might have given a fall to their riders. There is differ- 
 ence of opinion as to which bridle the martingale should 
 be put on ; I think that it should be attached to the 
 snaffle bridle by straps of exactly the right length 
 required to give a horse sufficient freedom, and at the same 
 time to steady his head, and that it should not be attached 
 to the girth, but to the breast plate. — C. M. 
 
 Ben Hollo way, an Oxfordshire man, hunted a 
 great deal in Warwickshire at this time, and was a 
 capital judge of a hunter and a good horseman 
 Mr. Handford, a nephew of Mr. John Lockley, and 
 Mr. Francis Charlton were also both good men to 
 hounds. 
 
 We believe that in these days very few ladies hunted, 
 but we give an excellent sketch by Henry Aiken of a 
 
78 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1825 
 
 lady riding to covert. It is not unusual now to see as 
 many as twenty-five ladies out liunting, mounted, and quite 
 as many more driving in carriages, and seeing as much as 
 they can of a day's hunting. The invention of the third 
 pommel has made all the difference in the way the fair 
 sex now ride to hounds, and it will surprise many of our 
 modern Dianas to learn that the late Mrs. Forteseue, and 
 many other fine horsewomen, rode across countrj^, not at 
 this period indeed, but about twenty years later, with 
 
 ONLY ONE CRUTCH, 
 
 :^^^^W^^<:.k 
 
FULL CRY. 
 
 Should all the g-ay larks, as they soai* in the sky, 
 
 Their notes in concert unite ; 
 The music of hounds, when set oft' in full cry, 
 
 Would give a more tuneful deliglit. — Old Ballad. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MR. HAY, OF DUNSE CASTLE RUN FROM BOWSHOT MR. 
 
 ROBERT FELLOWES TWO RUNS FROM BARTON GROVE- 
 SEVERE RUN FROM WOLFORD WOOD. 
 
 Mr. Hay, of Duiise Castle, near Berwick, but at that 
 time living r.t Wellesbourne, succeeded Mr. Shirley in the 
 management of the Warwickshire Hounds in 1825, with a 
 subscription of 1500/ a year. He hunted them himself 
 with great energy and success. He had a fine stud of 
 hunters, and was a capital rider. He had previously kept 
 hounds in Berwickshire,* and was very popular, and was so 
 well known that he brought men into the country from all 
 pai-ts, and thus much added to its reputation. He kept Jack 
 AVood as kennel huntsman, and Bill Boxall was first whip. 
 There is but a scanty record of spoi-t during Mr. Hay's- 
 mastership. Tlie hounds had a good day's sjjort wdien 
 cubhunting, and it was a pity that it did not take place at 
 
 * Lovers of Surtees' works will remember what Lord Scamperdale said to 
 Mr. Soapey Sponge : " You should be condemned to hunt in Berwickshire for the rest of 
 vuur life." 
 
i) aiana-iT liS 
 (ibiiuori aihuoYBl did dliV^ 
 
 vr? baJnifiq 
 3i;gii>i to ,JnBTD .ilA 
 ^(i .vuH .if A lo vJTtfOOTa a. 
 
1825-182G NOT HALF FAST ENOUGH. 81 
 
 where tliey got on the line of a fresh fox, and as <jnly part 
 of the pack could be stopped by Boxall, the remainder ran 
 on till dark, and most of them did not return until the 
 next day. " Nimrod " says that Mr. Hay alone followed 
 them till dark, but he was unable to say in what direction, 
 as he did not know the country. Very few of the field 
 appear to have got away from Bowshot, as the fox made 
 many attempts to ])reak, before he finally got away, and 
 hounds then ran without a check to Edge Hill, up to 
 which ])lace Mr. F. Holland, Mr. Patrick, Mr. Dewes, Mr. 
 Seagrave, and Mr. Hornihold, with the exception of Mr. 
 Hay, were alone with the hounds. " Nimrod " and all the 
 AVarwickshire old hands were thrown out. 
 
 There only remains one good day's sport which was 
 recorded during Mr. Hay's mastersliip. The hounds found 
 at Liglithorne Rough, and ran very fast by Chadsliunt, to 
 ground near Graydon, in half an hour ; the fox was bolted 
 by a terrier and killed. Shortly before running to ground, 
 Dalliance and Curious headed the other hounds by about 
 fifteen yards, showing their great superiority over the rest 
 in speed, and Mr. Hay said he would back them against 
 any two hounds in the kingdom. Two other foxes were 
 bolted from the same di'ain, and one of these was killed at 
 Edge Hill afi:er a run of twenty-five minutes without a 
 check, which " Hark Halloo," who describes the day's 
 sport, says was the fastest run he ever saw. It happened 
 that a well-known sportsman, named Mr. Whitwick, dined 
 with Mr. Hay on the evening before and complained of 
 the slowness of his hounds, observing, " Your hounds do 
 not go half fast enough for me, I can ride over them." 
 AVlien the fox had broken covert from Liglithorne Rough, 
 and the pack was well settled to him, Mr. Hay said to Mr. 
 AVhitwick, "Now, ride over them if you can."*" That 
 
 * We cannot conceive anything more mortifying to the master of the hounds, the 
 good sportsman, or to the huntsman, than for them to see the heedless and injudicious 
 horsemen in the field ride amongst the hounds at any time, or press upon them 
 on a cold scent or when they have come to a check. By the former many a valuable 
 hound has been struck by a horse and disabled or killed ; and by the two latter the fox 
 has often been lost and the sport spoiled for the day. Mr. Corbet used to retaliate on 
 
 Vol. I. G 
 
82 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ri82f, 
 
 gentleman certainly rode nncommonly liard and well, but 
 lie could not g-o fast enough to occupy tlie first station, 
 being beaten by Mr. E. Greaves and Mr. Patrick, who had 
 the best of the run. Mr. Hay and Mr. F. Holland came 
 up shortly after the fox was run to ground. 
 
 Mr. Hay only kept the hounds one season, and in 1S27* 
 Mr. Eobert Fellowes, of Talton, near Eatington, who had 
 declined to take them at the time when Mr. Shirley 
 resigned, succeeded Mr. Hay in the management. He 
 had a subscription of 2000/. a year, and retained Wood as 
 his huntsman. He was a good sportsman in the widest 
 acceptation of that word, although " Nimrod " finds fault 
 with him for being tempted sometimes to accept an offer 
 for the purchase of one of his servant's horses at the end 
 of a good run. " Nimrod " remarks that " Masters and, of 
 course, then- servants, should ride to hunt, and not to sell." 
 Mr. Eobert Fellowes afterwards lived at Shotesham Hall, 
 Norfolk. It is reported that one day he killed two cubs, 
 then went out shooting and bagged over ten brace of 
 partridges, and finally drove his team to Warwick Eaces. 
 
 From the Sporting Magazine, July, 1826 : 
 
 LINES ON JOHN WARDE.f 
 
 By (pi\os 'iTTiraiv. 
 
 Away with croakiug. tho' lie lias retired, 
 
 Eternal laui-els shall his brow adorn, 
 Still shall his deeds by friendship be admired, 
 
 Still shall his name, and memory be borne ! 
 And eA'ery season — when the chace is o'er, 
 
 And Bacchns warms us round the blazing hearth 
 We'll drink " John Warde," and tell his tales of yore. 
 
 these offenders. When hounds were going at their best pace, and had outpaced them, 
 he would cry out, " Now, gentlemen, ride over my hounds. Now, bran and chaff ! Go 
 along, bran and chaff, and ride over my hounds now, if you can! " Bill Barrow used 
 less ceremony than his master in speaking of these irregularities, and the offenders who 
 knew him took pretty good care to keep out of his way for a time. Bill frequently 
 gave them what he termed — a blessing ! 
 
 * At the commencement of this season (1827) the Duke of St. Albans joined the 
 Warwickshire, making Leamington his headquarters. The Duchess highly approved of 
 this arrangement, and said, " Well, your Grace, if you can find amusement in the field 
 for the day, I will endeavour to provide for the evening, and we will see if we cannot 
 make Leamington as pleasant in the winter as it is gay in the summer." 
 
 t John Wai-de was born in 1752, and died in 1838. He had been M.F.H. fifty-six 
 years. 
 
1826] THE HUNT CLUB STAETED. 83 
 
 From the Sporting Magazine, February, 1828 : 
 
 Jolm Warde, altliougli ho is seventy-eight years iiext birthday, says he will 
 give 1000 guiueas for half his old pack back again if they will give him 
 1500?. towards expenses. 
 
 The Warwickshire Hunt Club was first established on 
 November 8th, 18.26, when a meeting took place at the 
 Warwick Arms. Present : William Hay, Edward Sheldon, 
 John Knightley, Evelyn J. Shirley, John Townsend, Joseph 
 Townsend, J. Boultbee, J. Drinkwater, E. Bolton King, 
 Eev. Robert Barnard, and Sir Grrey Skipwith, Bart. It 
 was resolved — (1) That the meetings should be held at the 
 White Lion, Stratford-on-Avon ; _(2) That gentlemen to 
 the number of thirty be in^dted to become members of 
 the club, and that every addition to that number be made 
 by ballot ; (8) That the sum of six guineas be paid by each 
 member ; (4) That there shall be a club dinner on the third 
 Wednesday in November, December, January, February, 
 and March in each year, and that every member who shall 
 not dine with the club once in the season shall pay a fine 
 of one guinea ; (5) That every member intending to dine 
 shall give notice to the innkeeper on or before the Sunday 
 preceding the day of the dinner, or pay a fine of ^s. to 
 the club, and that if a member, after ha\T.ng given notice, 
 shall not attend, he shall pay 7*. 6^. to the innkeeper ; 
 (6) That each member may introduce at dinner two fi-iends 
 every day ; he will be expected to give the innkeeper the 
 earliest notice of his intention to do so, and will also be 
 responsible for the expenses of his friends there ; (7) A 
 ball and supper shall be given in the month of January 
 every year ; the day shall be fixed at the first meeting of 
 the club, of which each member shall receive due notice, 
 and at the same time shall be requested to apply to the 
 committee for the number of tickets which he shall 
 require for himself and party at least fourteen days 
 previous to the day appointed for it ; for any number 
 above six he shall pay 10.5-. per ticket ; (8) The committee 
 shall order a sufficient quantity of claret and sherry for the 
 five annual dinners of the club, for the exclusive use of the 
 
 G 2 
 
84 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1827 
 
 persons present at those dinners ; the master of tlie inn 
 shall be allowed Is. per bottle for every bottle of such wine 
 drunk at them ; (9) The uniform of the club for all the 
 members not clergymen shall be a plain scarlet coat with 
 gilt buttons, having on them an old English WE ; this 
 uniform to be worn at the club dinners and at the ball. 
 
 "Hark Forward" says: "On November 20th, 1827, we 
 met at Wolford Wood, and found a good fox the moment 
 the hounds entered the wood. After taking one ring 
 round the covert he went away, and the hounds ran at best 
 
 STUD HOUNDS 
 Mentioned in List of 1827. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Guardsman (22) 
 
 Lucy (18) 
 
 Ominous (21) 
 
 Rumsey (19) 
 
 Bred by Sir Bellinghara 
 Graham 
 
 Brocklesby Wildboy 
 
 Lord Althorpe's Orplieus . . . 
 Lord Middleton's Batchelor 
 Mr. Hornyold's Waterman 
 Sir E. Smythe's Admiral ... 
 
 Lord Sondes' Bajazet 
 
 Lord Middleton's Denmai-k 
 Lord Althorpe's Horsa 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Jargon . . . 
 
 Bred by Duke of Beaufort 
 Lord liarewood's Cinder ... 
 Sir E. Smythe's Ransom ... 
 Duke of Beaufort's Dorimont 
 
 Bred by Duke of Beaufort 
 
 Their Warble 
 His Purity 
 His Rarity 
 
 Warrior (21) 
 
 His Lilliput 
 His Careful 
 
 Active (21) 
 
 Blemish (23) 
 
 His Rarity 
 
 Friendly (20) 
 
 H vale (21) 
 
 His Frantic 
 Lord Sondes' 
 
 Juliet (21 ) 
 
 Laundress 
 Mr. Chaworth's 
 
 Daffodil(18) 
 
 Wlmiot(21) 
 
 Coniedy (22) 
 
 Dairymaid (25) 
 
 Lai)wins" (18) 
 
 Violet 
 
 His Wanton 
 His Conquest 
 Warwickshire 
 Bridesmaid 
 
 
 
 pace, leaving Bourton on the left, through Little Compton, 
 and by Chastleton and over Kingham Field, and they killed 
 the fox near Sarsden House, after running for an hour and 
 ten minutes. When on Chastleton Hill a very thick fog 
 came on, and the hounds continued running at such a pace 
 as to distance all the field except ten. Mr. Fellowes made 
 good use of his knowledge of the Oxfordshire country, and 
 led the others until they again viewed the hounds at 
 Kingham." 
 
Mr. Robert Fellowes. 
 
 From a portrait 
 
 by 
 
 Swinton. 
 
 The property of Mr. Robert Fellowes, of Shottesham Hall. 
 
1827] 
 
 WAEWICKSHIRE STUD BOOK. 
 
 85 
 
 We give from this time the Warwickshire entry of 
 hounds each year. Tlie figures in parenthesis refer to the 
 year in which the hound was entered ; thus all pedigrees 
 are readily traced, and there is no danger of confounding 
 two hounds of the same name. The entries are taken from 
 the excellently compiled stud book of the present Lord 
 Willoughby de Broke. 
 
 These hounds were probably purchased by the Warwick- 
 shire Hunt from Mr. Shirley when he resigned the country 
 in 1825. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS, 1827. 
 Mr. Fellowes. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Brilliant . . . . 
 Conqueror 
 Solomon 
 
 Thetis 
 
 Countess .... 
 
 Minister 
 
 Ribster 
 
 Alfred 
 
 Bajazet 7 
 Beatrice ) 
 
 Darling 
 
 Duncan 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Orator 
 
 Virulent ") 
 Viola 5 • 
 Workman ) 
 Warspite ) 
 Songstress ") 
 Sophy ) 
 
 Cymbeliue 7 
 Cowslip ) 
 
 Parasol , 
 
 Cypher 
 
 Falstaff 7 
 
 Fallacy ) 
 
 Gaiety 
 
 Ornament 
 
 Seven Years. 
 
 Lord Middleton's Timon . , . 
 
 Brocklesby Cypher 
 
 Belvoir Roderick 
 
 Six Years. 
 
 Triton 
 
 Lord Middleton's Traitor . . . 
 
 Lord Sondes' Ottoman 
 
 Lord Middleton's Vanguard 
 
 Five Years. 
 
 Lord Sondes' Ottoman 
 
 Lord Sondes' Bajazet 
 
 Sir E. Smythe's Random ... 
 Duke of Beaufort's Duncan 
 
 Mr. Meynell's Bajazet 
 
 Lord Sondes' Ottoman 
 
 Lord Sondes' Ottoman 
 
 Mr. Oxendon's Woodman . . . 
 Regent 
 
 Sir H. Mainwaring's Bangor 
 
 Tarquin 
 
 Mr. Muster's Conrad 
 
 Four Years. 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Waterloo 
 
 Guardsman 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Nectar 
 
 His Bridesmaid 
 Their Empress 
 Their Songstress 
 
 Mr. Baillie's Niobe 
 His Caroline 
 His Madcap 
 His Relish 
 
 Atx'opos 
 
 His Rarity 
 
 His Dashaway 
 His Wary 
 Bacchanal 
 
 Whynot 
 
 Vengeance 
 
 Lord Sondes' Darling 
 
 Sophy 
 
 Comedy 
 
 Plirenzy 
 His Abigail 
 
 Friendly 
 
 Lucy 
 Ominous 
 
86 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1827 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 1827— continued. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 DAM.S 
 
 Rocket "^ 
 Rivers > 
 Rosamond ) 
 Waterloo ... 
 
 Destiny 
 
 Hannibal ") 
 Hebe ] 
 Proseri)ine 
 
 Jovf 111 
 
 Clinker 
 
 Actress 
 
 Batclielor ... 
 Cardinals 
 Caliban ' 
 Comedy ( 
 Curious ) 
 Comus ") 
 Chariot ) 
 Dorimont 
 Danger 
 Dairymaid 
 Diligent 
 Dalliance 
 Damsel 
 Honesty ") 
 Heroine ) 
 Judgement ") 
 Judy 5 
 
 Lapwing .... 
 Victory \ 
 Virgin ) 
 
 Boaster 
 Bridemaid 
 Brevity 
 Benedict "^ 
 Basker > 
 Bobadil ) 
 Denmark 
 Duster 
 Dealer 
 Jester . . . 
 Javelin ") 
 Junket ) 
 Jovial 
 Joker 
 Joiner 
 Jessam v 
 
 Four Years — contd. 
 Duke of Beaufort's Hermit , 
 
 Rumsey 
 
 Warrior ! Whynot 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Pilot j Diligent 
 
 I Hanniljal , Darling 
 
 Mr. Meynoll's Bajazet | Proserpine 
 
 Mr. Warde's Jovial His Galliot 
 
 Mr. Mxister's Conrad His Desperate 
 
 Three Years. 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Jasper ... I 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Chorister i 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Chorister 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Chorister 
 
 f Duke of Beaufort's ") 
 ^ Dorimont ) 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Caliban... 
 
 Benedict 
 
 G-uai'dsman 
 
 Benedict 
 
 Two Years. 
 Rocket 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Rubens 
 
 Duke of Beaufort'sDorimont 
 
 Mr. Muster's Jester 
 
 Mr. Muster's Javelin 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Jasper 
 
 Active 
 Blemi.sh 
 
 ^Vliynot 
 Friendly 
 
 Bridesmaid 
 
 Hyale 
 
 Jidiet 
 Lapwing 
 
 Virulent 
 
 Bridesmaid 
 Brilliant 
 
 Juliet 
 
 Duchess 
 Columbine 
 
 Lucy 
 
1827] WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS, 1827— coutiiiued. 
 
 87 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Valiant ") 
 
 Volatile [ . 
 Vocal ) 
 Wildtiro \ 
 Warblo > 
 Witchcraft 
 
 Two Years — coutd. 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Valentine 
 
 Virulent 
 
 Mr. 0.slmldeston'.s Rasselas I Whynot 
 Workman Daffodil 
 
 ]... 
 
 Benefit 
 
 Butterfly 
 
 Bertram 
 
 Barmaid 
 
 Ba.sliful 
 
 Bonnylai^s j 
 
 Dashwood -) ^y„j.J. 
 
 Doliiliin ) 
 
 One Year. 
 
 ( Mr. Osbaldeston's 
 I quisher 
 
 Van- 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Boxer 
 
 ff I 
 le j 
 
 Emperor 
 Ninirod 
 Platoff 
 Prattle 
 Pilgrim 
 Pilla<?er f 
 Playful ( 
 Policy ; 
 Ranter ") 
 Ruler 5 
 
 Vaulter 
 
 Absolute ") 
 Abelard [ 
 Archer ) 
 Basilisk ■) 
 Blossom { 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Emperor 
 Duke of Beaufort's Nimrod 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Platoff 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Platoff 
 
 Rocket . . 
 
 ( Mr. Osbaldeston's Van- 1 
 I (juisher ) 
 
 Rocket 
 
 Workman 
 
 Blemish 
 Virulent 
 
 Darling 
 
 Judy 
 Friendly 
 
 Whjniot 
 
 Comedy 
 
 Dairymaid 
 Parasol 
 
 ActiA'e 
 
 Brilliant 
 
 Old Hounds 
 Younsf Ditto 
 
 Total 
 
 40^ couples 
 53 couples 
 
 On March 4th, 18.28, the Warwickshire hounds met at 
 Oxhill Village, and finding a fox in Hell Brake, at Idlicote, 
 ran over the Vale to Brailes Hill ; and thence to the left by 
 Sutton, and nearly to Compton Wyniates, which place 
 they passed on the right, and ran over Shutford Hill to 
 Swalcliffe, and from there to Tadmarton, where they killed 
 the fox in the open after a capital run of an hour and 
 ten minutes. 
 
88 THE WARWICKSHIKE HUNT. [1828 
 
 These appear to be the only two runs recorded during 
 an entire season. 
 
 In connection with the commencement of this season we 
 find the following in the Leamiiu/toti Spa Courier of Nov. 
 1st, 1828: 
 
 As we aiitioipatod in our last, we have had this week a great accession of 
 sporting geiitleineii from all parts of the kingdom, and the attendance of the 
 lovers of the cliase at the opening of the Inniting campaign, Avhen tlie War- 
 wicksliire hounds met at Ufton Wood on Thursday last, was both numerous 
 and respectable. Several elegantly dressed females in splendid equipages 
 were present to witness the hounds throw oft" on this occasion, and a nujre 
 brilliant and animated scene has been rarely witnessed.- — [History repeats 
 itself. W. R.V.] 
 
 BY "HARK FORWARD." 
 
 Hark ! hark again ! the horn so gay, 
 The Tally-ho ! and " Gone Away !" 
 The hounds in full melodious cry, 
 And horsemen o'er the fences fly. 
 
 Meet Chesterton Wood, Nov. :3rd, 18.28.— We found at 
 Itchington Heath, and ran across Harbury Heath, and 
 thence to the left, through Chesterton Wood, and In- 
 Claydon to Chadshunt, and the hounds killed the fox at 
 Kineton after a good run of an hour. 
 
 Meet Mitford Bridge, Dec. IJth.— We found this 
 morning at Barton Grove, and ran very fast nearly to Long 
 Compton, and from thence, turning to the right, through 
 Chafford Oaks and by Little Eollwright, and Over Norton 
 into Heythrop Park. The hounds hunted through this 
 without a check, and ran on to Great Tew, and from 
 there between Sandford and Enstone, and killed the fox 
 near Ditchley Park, after a splendid run of an hour 
 and fifty-eight minutes. The distance from point to 
 point was eleven miles, and as the hounds ran sixteen 
 miles, and, taking this into consideration, the run was 
 not much inferior to the celebrated Ditchley run before 
 mentioned. It is also to be noticed that the line of 
 country taken during the last half of both runs was very 
 similar. 
 
1828;, 
 
 SPLENDID KUN FEOM FAENBOROUGH. 
 
 89 
 
 During- the foUowiiio- week, on December 10th,* the 
 AYarwiekshii'e hounds had another tirst-chiss run over the 
 finest country from a gorse brake near Farnborough , by 
 Claydon and Wormleighton, and over Boddington Hill 
 and through Priors Hardwick. They next ran, leaving 
 Priors Marston to the right, nearly to Shuckburgh Hill, 
 and thence turning slujrt to the right by Catesby, and 
 killed the fox near Staverton, after running for an hour 
 and a half over twelve miles of grass country. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1828. 
 Mr. Fellowes. 
 
 Cymbeline (23) 
 Curious (25) 
 
 ISr} B,j,.et<-23) 
 
 Clarion ) 
 
 Conrad Rocket (24) 
 
 Comfort 3 
 
 CobweU Conqueror(21) ! Juliet (21) 
 
 5^^^''^ . ]- Workman (23) Diligent (25) 
 
 Discount 3 ^ ' ^ \ ! 
 
 §'^""**i Hannibal (24) Vocal (26) 
 
 Harper ) ' \ ^ ' 
 
 Pilot ) 
 
 Pontiff '■ 
 Prudence ) 
 Rebel 
 Wonder ") 
 Worthy 
 Whyn.It 3 
 Warriiir 
 
 Bachelor (25) Pi-oscrpine (24) 
 
 Rocket (24) Destiny (24) 
 
 Rocket (24) ; WJiynot (21) 
 
 Workman (23) I Dairymaid (25) 
 
 On December 12 9th '' Venator " relates that the hounds 
 had the best run which had been seen for many years. 
 Again from a meet at Mitford Bridge, and with a find near 
 Barton drove, tliev ran down the Vale, leaving- Louof 
 Compton t(j the left ; and, turning to the right, crossed the 
 hill by Great Pollwright to Over Norton ; and, leaving 
 Chapel House to the right, ran through Heythrop Park, 
 
 * There is an account of tliis run in the Leamington Spa Courier (issue Dec. 27, 
 1828). It say.^i that they met at Farnborough, and after a run of one hour and forty 
 minutes without a single check, lost when in the neighbourhood of Mr. Osbaldeston's 
 property in Niirthamptonshire. 
 
90 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. :i828-i82!^ 
 
 and afterwards through Sandford Park, and killed the fox 
 at Kiddington Village, which lies on the left of the 
 Ditchley Woods. The run lasted an hour and fifty 
 minutes, the distance being eleven miles as the crow flies, 
 and about fifteen miles as the hounds ran. Lord Clonmell, 
 Mr. Shirley, Mr. Hugo Campbell, and Mr. John Luc}' and 
 Jack Wood had good places in the run, and towards the 
 latter end of it the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Dillon, and 
 some other gentlemen joined the field. The pack returned 
 to the kennels on the same evening, a distance of thirty 
 miles, without a hound missing. It is remarkable that 
 two such runs from the same meet, and with a find at the 
 same place, and over a good deal of the same country, and 
 so nearly the same as regards distance and duration of 
 time, should have taken place within one month. 
 
 " Venator " describes a slow hunting run, with a cold 
 scent, as having taken place from Wolford Wood on Jan. 
 8th. He says that the hounds ran by Adlestrop Hill, and 
 then near Stow-on-the-Wold, and by Heyford to Aston 
 Park Wood, where the fox was viewed ; and after again 
 going away from there, was killed near Cheltenham, a 
 distance of sixteen miles straight, and the run occupied two 
 hours. Making allowance for the probable extent of 
 country traversed, it must have taken much longer, and 
 the hounds must have run not less than twenty-two miles. 
 Lord Clonmell, Mr. Pole, of Todenham, Mr. Fellowes, and 
 some other gentlemen and the huntsman were up at the 
 death. 
 
 During- the time Sir Rieluu'd Pulestoii limited the Shropshire .side of his 
 country, a notable affair in the hunting world occurred. The Woore, belonging 
 to Mr. Wicksted, of Betley ; the Shropshire, under the management of 
 Sir Edward Smythe, Mr. E. M. Smj-the. and Mr. William Lloyd, of Astou ; 
 and the Chesliire, under Sir Harry Mainwaring, sent seven couples of hounds 
 each to a meet at Shavington, tlien the seat of Earl Kilmorey, on the 7th 
 April, 1829. It was a trial of speed between the three packs. Will Head, 
 of the Cheshire, as the senior pack, was ajipointed huntsman ; while Will 
 Staples, of the Shropshire ; and Wells, of the Staffordshire, were in attendance. 
 It was a brilliant sight, for not less than two thousand horsemen made their 
 appearance, of whom seven hundred were in scarlet, and there were carriages 
 full of ladies without number. At eleven o'clock the hounds were thrown 
 into the great wood at Shavington, found a fox iinmediatelv, had a fast 
 
1829] JACK MYTTON'8 DAEING. 91 
 
 ringing run for tliirty minutes, and lost liiiii. They had a scurry with another 
 which tliey killed in Lord Conibermere's park. Then came the run of the 
 day. Finding a fox in the sedges by the side of the lake, they went away at a 
 good rate, with the hoimds well at him in al)ody, and carrying a good head. 
 Flying through the i>ark, they crossed the Chester Road, and got somewhat 
 dear of the crowd of horsemen that pressed upon them. The pace served 
 the liounds, and so did a " regular yawner " that made the leading men 
 swerve from the line to look for a weak place; it was a sunk fence, l)road and 
 deep, with stiff rails on the top; the height and the width made it nearly 
 impossiljle for a horse to clear it iu his stride. "While they were hesitating at 
 the obstacle, the voice of Jack Mytton was heard saying, '' Out of the way, you 
 fellows ; here goes for the honour of Shropshire." Down came his Hit or 
 Miss mare with Myttim * under her, l)leeding, hatless, and torn. He 
 remount I'd his mare, which had been lirought back to him, and rode l)ai-e- 
 hcadfd through the rest of the run. The liounds, with a greatly diminished 
 following, were stopped at the end of an hour, as they were then running a 
 vixen heavy in cul). "Will Head, never having left the hounds, and as it were 
 first up, was awarded the l)rush. "Will Sta])les, of the Shropshire, however, 
 won two sovereigns from "Will Head, on the wager of whoso hounds should 
 first taste blood. — [Rev. T. H. G. Puleston, " The "Wynnstay Country."] 
 
 "Hark Forward," relates that the seasou of 18:29 had 
 been \'ery open, and that on March 7th but little 
 disappointment was felt when Ladbroke, Watergall, and 
 Ead])onrne Coverts were drawn blank. A good fox w^as 
 found at Itchington Heath, which led the field through 
 Chesterton Wood, and from there by Lighthorne, and over 
 the \'ale, to the right of (xaydon, to Edge Hill, where he 
 was killed, after a brilliant run of fifty-four minutes with- 
 out a check 
 
 Another very fine and sporting run is described by 
 " X'enator " as having taken place from Wolford Wood 
 during the same week, on March 10th. The fox broke 
 covert at the Moreton end of the wood, with the pack close 
 to him, and they ran very fast over Moreton Common, and 
 through Evenlode to Chastleton, and thence to Adlestrop; 
 here they tm-ned back again down the Vale, and over the 
 Evenlode Brook to Broad well, and through Upper and 
 
 * Jack Mytton used to hunt a good deal from Leamington in Mr. Barnard's time. 
 He used to stay at the Bedford Hotel, which was opposite the present Regent. He had 
 a horse called Mad Tom, which lie rode up the steps into the dining-i-oom. He was with 
 difficulty dissuaded from jumping him, or attempting to jump him, out of the window 
 over some iron railings into the street. Mr. Arkwright, of Hattoii, remembers him 
 well, iiiid told me that lie once stopped with liim wlien he had had a bad fall from 
 Shuckburgli, and his horse was hurt. He kept on saying, " Oh, I should not have 
 minded if it had been my own horse, but he was lent mo by a friend." — W. K. V, 
 
92 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. i82'j 
 
 Lower Swell, and Upper and Lower Slaughter, and by Cold 
 Aston, and between Turkdean and Farmington Groves, 
 nearly to Northleacli, where they killed the fox, after 
 running for two hours and thirty minutes, over eighteen 
 miles of country, and thirteen miles as the crow flies, the 
 first hour of the run being without a check. 
 
 An excellent season's sport ended with a meet at Mitf ord 
 Bridge on March 28th, LS29. 
 
 SEASON 1829-30. 
 
 " Anonymous " tells us that the first meet of this well- 
 conducted pack took place at Compton Verney on Nov. 
 2nd, 1829, and on the following day they had a run from 
 Farnborough, such as is not often seen at the beginning of 
 the season. They found in the gorse near Mollington 
 Wood, and ran by Clay don and over Boddington Hill, and 
 through Priors Hardwick ; thence leaving Priors Marston 
 to the right, they went through Griffin's Gorse, Hellidon 
 Village, and the Charwelton Spinneys to Preston Capes, and 
 from there to Church Wood, just before reaching which 
 the hounds were stopped, as the wood was known to be full 
 of foxes. The run lasted an hour and fifty minutes, and 
 extended over thirteen miles of country ; the distance from 
 point to point being nine miles. 
 
 On Monday, Nov. 7th, the meet was at Oxhill Village, 
 and a capital fox was found at Hell Brake, which ran over 
 Brailes Hill and by Sutton and Cherrington, straight 
 through Whichford and Long Compton Woods and Eoll- 
 wright Coombs, and was killed at Over Norton, after a run 
 of an hour and forty- five minutes. This was a very severe 
 run for horses, taking place as it did so early in the season. 
 Captain Gregory's horse died near Halford Bridge. 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds had a very fast run over a 
 fine line of country on Nov. IGth, from Lighthorne Rough, 
 through Compton Verney Woods, by the Eed House, and 
 across Brookhampton Fields to Butlers Marston, where they 
 had a short check ; but the pack soon hit off the scent again, 
 and ran close by the kennels, to Blacklands and Pillerton 
 
182Q] 
 
 RUN FROM WOLFORD WOOD. 
 
 93 
 
 Hersey, thence down the Vale to the right of Oxhill to 
 Hell Brake, and from there to Compton Wyniates, where 
 the fox took refuge in the icehouse and was soon killed. 
 This was one of the severest runs of the season, and lasted 
 an hour and forty-five minutes. Colonel Gilbert, Mr. 
 K. Grreaves, Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Cumins, and Mr. Cockbill, 
 junr., were up at the end. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1829. 
 Mr. Fellowes. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Bounty 
 
 Cliampiou"^ 
 Comedy > 
 Countess 3 
 Doriniont ") 
 Daffodil j 
 Justice ") 
 Judy j •■ 
 Minister 
 Roval ^ 
 Ruby ( 
 R(>sel)ud r 
 Rally j 
 Rector 7 
 Racer j 
 Rubens ^ 
 Redrose I 
 Ruin \ 
 Relish j 
 Yansfuavd... 
 Vanity") 
 Verity • ... 
 Viola" 3 
 Windsor ") 
 Wildboy ) 
 
 SlEES. 
 
 Hannibal (24) ' 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Boxer... 
 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Minister (22) 
 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Rubens. 
 
 Bachelor (25) 
 
 ( Duke of Beaufort's ") 
 I Vangiaard ) 
 
 Workman (23) 
 
 Damk. 
 
 Bashful (27) 
 Cymbeline (23) 
 
 Destiny (24) 
 
 Jessamy (26) 
 Diligent (25) 
 
 Proserpine (14) 
 Warspite (23) 
 
 Darling (23) 
 
 Virgin (25) 
 Virulent (23) 
 
 Dairymaid (25) 
 
 A short account is given of a run on December 1st 
 from Wolford Wood, in which the fox ran for an hour, but 
 at last went away by Leamington Hastings and Ditchford, 
 and, leaWng Ilmington to the right, was killed at Shed- 
 combe, between Campden and Cheltenham, after a run of 
 an horn- and twenty minutes without a check. At the 
 death the Leamingtonians found themselves with a distance 
 of thirty-four miles to ride home on tired horses. 
 
 Regarding the extreme steadiness of the Warwickshire 
 
94 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1829-1830 
 
 hounds ill hunting, it is related as follows by Mr. Yyner 
 in his " Notitia Venatica : " 
 
 It was in Docoiubin- of tlio voar 1829, Avlieii the pack were iiudei' the 
 iiianag-euieut of that well known and excellent sportsman, Mr. Rohert Fellowes, 
 that the following incident occnrred : An afternoon fox Avas fonnd at Wliit- 
 nash Goi-se, and it l)eing a good scent, and the hounds getting away at his brush, 
 a tremendous burst over a severe country was the consequence. Pointing at 
 first for Oakley Wood, and then bending to the left, the direction taken was 
 over part of the Chesterton iuclosures and Hai'bury Field. At this point a hare 
 jumped up in \'iew of the whole pack, who were at that time driving along 
 with a breast high scent, and continued to run for at least half a mile in the 
 exact direction which had been taken by the fox. The anxiety and despair 
 depicted in their huntsman's face at this moment may l)e lietter imagined 
 than described : the pace was so great that to get at them, or attempt to stop 
 them, would have lieen impossible. Tuniing to me, who happened to be at 
 
 that moment in a pretty good place, he exclaimed, " By , sir, they are 
 
 running hare ! And yet," said he, pausing for a few moments, " they cannot 
 be. for old Bashful is leading." He was right in his second supjiosition, for 
 the hare, finding herself distressed, turned short across the field, and the 
 gallant pack ke])t straight forward on the line of their fox, without one single 
 hound deigning for a moment to look in which direction she had taken herself 
 off out of their way. Forty-three minutes completed this excellent run up to 
 Itchiugton Heatli, and in four more minutes the fate of the fox was sealed, aiul 
 his death proclaimed by a thrilling who-whoop. This incident, to the common 
 run of riders, might appear to be without interest ; but to me, to whom the 
 behaviour of the hounds and the manner in which they perform their work 
 are ever of the first consideration in a day's sport, it was particularly striking. 
 
 After the middle of December the hounds did not 
 hunt on account of severe frost for two months. 
 
 On February 13th, 1830, the hounds met at Chesterton 
 Wood, but the riding was very bad, and " Hark Forward " 
 says : On the north and east side of the fences the 
 ground still remained hard, and to leajD was highly 
 dangerous both to man and horse ; but a few of those 
 sportsmen which you will find in most countries, and who 
 know very little about hunting, were hunting mad, and 
 hunt they must, at all risk. Jack Wood took out 40-|- 
 couples of hounds to Chesterton Wood, and, as often may 
 happen after a long frost, there was a burning scent. 
 Tliree brace of foxes were soon on foot, and the hounds 
 went away at once with one of them, and, keeping well 
 together, ran without a check over Itchiugton Heath, and 
 left Harbury to the right ; and from thence our fox turned 
 
1830] SEVERE FEOST. 95 
 
 to the left over Whitnash Field, leaving Warwick Park on 
 the right and Oakley Wood on the left, he then went 
 through Carter's Bushes to Chesterton Wood. The hounds 
 ran right through the wood without a check, and passed 
 by Harbury and between Radford and Whitnash, and, 
 leaving Leamington to the right, killed their fox on the 
 bridge over the Avon in Warwick Park. Every hound, 
 except one called Wonder, was up at the death. The run 
 lasted an hour and twenty minutes, with but one check 
 near Highdo'wni. Most of the crack horses were completely 
 knocked up, and some few, long previous to the death of 
 the fox, were bled on the field. Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Pole, 
 and Mr. ]yiitchell, and only a few 'others were in at the 
 death. 
 
 Between the years of 1790 and 1830 a great extent of 
 country, once open and grass, was inclosed and cultivated. 
 In many places the plough is giving way to the grass 
 again. 
 
 From the Lcdniinc/ton Courier : 
 
 The Warwickshire Hounds, Febmaiy 13th, 1830. — After a loug 
 severe frost, from December 22iul, 1829, to February 13tli, 1830, a period of 
 about seveu weeks, the meet Avas at Chesterton Wood, wliere Will Boxall 
 gave the sig'ual for his favourites to make the best of their way iuto that 
 well-presei'ved covei't of the canis vulpis, where they soon found " one of the 
 olden time," and ran him in the wood for some time. Eventually he broke 
 away for Itchiigton Heath, and, leaving that to the right, on to Harlmrv 
 Heath ; from thence bearing to the right of Chesterton Village, straightway 
 to Whitnash Gtn-se, but finding there no shelter, made the best of his way 
 tlirongh Highdowii Clump, and, leaA-iug Tachbrook Village to the right, on 
 to Oakley Wood, which he lu^rriedly passed through, running nearly 
 parallel with Banbury turnpike road, by Ogbrook to Harwood's house, which 
 he left on the right, l)earing away to his old rendezvous — i.e., Chesterton 
 Wood. Finding his home barricaded, he hastily left, crossing those beautiful 
 grass fields on towards Chesterton ViUage, which he left on his right, then 
 over the green liiU, on which stands the notorious windmill, which, it is said, 
 was constructed under the direction of the celebrated architect, Inigo Jones — 
 wending his way from thence to Whitnash Village, which he skirted, then 
 l)assing the Leamington Windmill, leaving the Shrublands on the right to 
 Warwick Park, where he forfeited his life to the superiin- stamina of his 
 merciless pursuers, after a chase of — with only two short checks — three liours 
 and twenty minutes. In consequence of the long, severe frost, the ground 
 was very heav)% and the pace in many parts of the run was very fast; tliere- 
 fore, only six were up at the death. 
 
 Octogenarian. 
 
96 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 1830 
 
 Mr. Vyuer, in " Notitia Venatica," relates as follows 
 an extraordinary instance of running a polecat to ground, 
 wliicli occurred with the hounds when Jack Wood hunted 
 them : 
 
 I was vory young at the time, and had only just begun to take notice of 
 tlic work of hounds, but knew pretty well when they turned in a big wood of 
 300 acres, or if they were running in two or three bodies. 
 
 HowcA'er, to hunt up my story, we found a fox in the Kenilworth Woods, 
 and after giving him a devil of a dusting for about two hours, ran him to 
 ground in a small head of earths in Long Meadows Wood. 
 
 I was attending to the cry of the liounds just before they went to ground, 
 expecting to hear them stop and kill their fox, when suddenly they were 
 divided into two liodies, both of which ran to ground at the same place, and 
 within one minute of each other. Upon going down to the earth, I remarked 
 to Jack Wood that there were two scents, and I fancied a brace of foxes were 
 gone to ground. " There were two scents," said Wood, " but I am sure 
 there never have been two foxes before the hounds this morning ; it certainly 
 did apx^ear very strange for them to divide as they did during the last ring, 
 but we shall see." 
 
 We dug down, and first of all found a huge polecat, and in a few more 
 minutes (the terrier still keeping at work) the hunted fox. 
 
 " Well done. Master ! " said Jack Wood ; " you have got the best ear for a 
 young one, I ever met with in my life ! " 
 
 I felt half a foot higher upon the strength of such a compliment from 
 such a quarter. 
 
 Mr. Vyner was entered well, and when hunting his 
 own hounds compassed the 
 
 DEATH OF MANY A FOX. 
 
 
 
 
 

 J^^J^ 
 
 Happy tlie man who, witli lun-ivall'd speed, 
 Can pass liis fellows, and with pleasure view 
 Tlio stniggliug pack ; how in the rajiid conrse 
 Alternate they preside, and jostling push 
 To ffuide the duliions scent. — SomerviJJe. 
 
 CHAPTEE VI. 
 
 MR. RUSSELL. 
 
 SEASONS 1830-31, 31-2, 32-33. 
 Mr. Fellowes having signified his intention of giving 
 up the hou'ids at the end of the season of 1830, the 
 subscribers to the Hunt and owners of coverts met at the 
 Warwick Arms on Wednesday, December 2nd. During 
 the meeting, Mr. J. Russell, of Upton House, expressed his 
 willingness, in case no other offer was made, to hunt the 
 Warwickshire country for seven years, provided the sum of 
 .■2000/. was subscribed annually. The retirement of Mr. 
 Fellowes was deeply regretted, the more so because during 
 his too short period of management he had shown very 
 fine sport. 
 
 The offer of Mr. John Russell, of Upton House, to hunt 
 the country was accepted. Jack Wood left the Warwickshire, 
 and Bill Boxall was promoted to the office of huntsman.* 
 
 *"A liuutsman," says Mr. Beckford, "should be attached to the sport aud 
 indefatigable in the pursuit of it. He should be sensible, good tempered, sober, exact. 
 Vol.. 1. H 
 
98 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1830 
 
 Mr. Russell entered upon his duties as master with 
 much in his favour. He was a capital sportsman, 
 and his character stood high in both public and social 
 life. The anticipations of good sport raised by his excel- 
 lent arrangements for hunting the country were fully 
 realised. 
 
 At a meeting held at the Royal Hotel, Leamington, in 
 1880, Mr. Russell undertook to hunt the Woodlands two 
 days a week, and it was agreed that a kennel, stables, &c., 
 should be built near to the town for the better accommoda- 
 tion of those sfentlemen who resided at the Sna and in its 
 vicinity, and made it their headquarters during the hunting 
 season. The inhabitants subscribed liberally in order to 
 carry into effect the resolutions passed at the meeting, and 
 Mr. Robbins agreed to complete the whole by the following 
 September, and the buildings were erected at Lillington, 
 about a mile north of the town, and gave entire satis- 
 faction. Leamington, from this time, greatly rose in 
 popularity as a hunting resort. 
 
 "J. R." gives, unfortunately, a very vague account of 
 the first fine run in Mr. Russell's time, early in the season. 
 The hounds found at Idlicote, and after running for some 
 time round the coverts, forced the fox into the open ; they 
 ran without a check down the Vale and over Edge Hill, 
 where the pace became slower, and the fox was killed in a 
 turnip field between there and Banbury, after a run 
 sufficiently severe for the huntsman to tire out three 
 horses ; and Mr. Greaves, on his favourite and famous old 
 mare, jumped the last fence first, and took the fox from 
 the hounds. 
 
 "J. R." again, without giving particulars, tell us that on 
 Monday, Nov. 29th, the hounds had a splendid run from 
 
 and cleanly, a good groom and an excellent horseman ; his voice should he strong and 
 clear, with an eye so quick as to perceive which of his hounds carry the scent when all 
 are running, and where they throw up as well ; an ear so excellent as always to distin- 
 guish the leading hounds when he does not see them. Such are the qualities that 
 constitute perfection in a huntsman. He should not, however, be too fond of displaying 
 them till called forth by necessity, it being a peculiar and distinguishing trait in his 
 province to let his hounds alone when they can hunt, and strenuously to assist them 
 when they cannot." 
 
The Warwickshire Hounds. Tom Day (first Whip) in front ; 
 Mr. Russell (Master) and William Boxall (Huntsman) 
 in the centre ; Jack Ransom (second Whip) in the 
 distance ; Thomas Goddard (second horseman) off his 
 horse. From the picture by Webb, of Tamworth. The 
 property of Lord de Clifford, of Chudleigh. 
 
jv^ibW 9fIT 
 
 Jia^t ; a-iinao adi ni 
 
1830] ME. RUSSELL. 99 
 
 a small gorse covert near Ladbroke, to ground near 
 Rugby. So great was the pace that the greater part of the 
 field were distanced, but nobody went better than Mr. 
 Russell himself. " Venator," wuth only the same in- 
 formation, writes a long poem about this run, which was 
 no doubt about as good as could be. 
 
 On Thursday, December 17th, the meet was at Ufton 
 
 Wood. 
 
 See we the well-knowu covert's side, 
 
 Each fav'rite hound the huntsman's pride ; 
 
 Each friendly voice, each note, each cheer, 
 
 Again vsdth thrilling ardour hear, 
 
 And picture still in fancy's glow 
 
 The wild, the madd'ning Tally-ho ! 
 
 An hour elapsed before the fox broke covert, but, as 
 often happens, the scent was imjM'Oved by his having been 
 well bustled in the wood before going aw^ay.* The hounds 
 ran at their best pace to Whitnash Gorse, and from there 
 through Chesterton Wood to Lighthorne Rough ; from 
 thence they skirted the coverts at Compton Yerney, and 
 ran in the direction of Brickhill Gorse, but they pressed 
 the fox so hard that he turned back, and was killed at 
 Walton Wood after a run of two hours and twenty 
 minutes. A large field had assembled at the meet, but 
 very few we/e in at the death. 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds had good sport until the 
 end of the season, without any very fine run taking place, 
 and the exertions of Boxall to show sport, together with 
 the style in w^hich the hounds were turned out, gave 
 satisfaction to every sportsman. 
 
 At a time when all the world is run mad about fox- 
 hunting, an " Old Sportsman " remarks, I am surprised so 
 few gentlemen have learned to enjoy it rationally. The 
 fashion of the present day is hard riding, and at night, 
 when at the convi^^ial board, their only pleasure seems to 
 be in relating the exploits or disasters of their own or their 
 friends' horses, not a word about the best or the worst 
 
 * Perhaps they got away close on his back. — W. R. V. 
 
100 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1831 
 
 houud in the pack, or any idea started to ascertain whether 
 by system or by accident they had contrived to carry a 
 scent twenty miles over a conntry to kill a fox, and how 
 so o'l-eat an event has been achieved few modern sportsmen 
 can with any degree of accuracy relate. The "Old Sports- 
 man " is very severe, but perhaps not unjustly so, on his 
 generation in 1S;31, and we hope that more true lovers of 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1880. 
 Mr. J. Russell. 
 
 Benedict (26) Warble (26) 
 
 Col. Berkeley's Pagan 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Ranter (27) 
 
 Bobadil (26) ,. 
 
 Ranter (27) 
 
 Brusher "^ 
 BoAvmaii I 
 Baronet C 
 Blameless J 
 
 Bugler 
 
 Cryer 
 
 Denmark 7 
 Dewdrop 5 
 
 Dmieau 
 
 Harmony ") 
 
 Harndess ) 
 
 Marmion 
 
 Manager 
 
 Mover 
 
 Madcap 
 
 Modish 
 
 Remiis 
 
 Remnant . 
 Rifleman . 
 Ramliler 
 Ringwood 
 Ruler 
 
 Vaidter ' Duke of Beaufort'sVanguard 
 
 Voucher Duke of Beaufort'sVanguard 
 
 Welcome Col. Berkeley's Woldsman 
 
 Workman , Workman (23) 
 
 His Bravery 
 
 Cymbeline (23) 
 
 Destiny (24) 
 Darling (23) 
 Honesty (25) 
 
 Minister (22) Dairymaid (25) 
 
 Rocket (24) Vocal (26) 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Rul)ens His Waspish 
 
 Rocket (24) Playful (27) 
 
 Rocket (24) ' Wildfire (26) 
 
 Diligent (25) 
 HisEcho 
 His Racket 
 Volatile (26) 
 
 the noble science are to be found amongst the field of the 
 present day. 
 
 On June 16th, 1831, in consequence of the Anson 
 Hunt relinquishing the , hunting south of Coventry, the 
 followino- coverts were transferred to the Warwickshire : 
 Weston Wood, Wappenbury Wood, Waverley Wood, 
 Bericote Wood, Baggington, Princethorpe, Byton Woods. 
 Bubbenhall, and Cubbington Woods. 
 
S.31J 
 
 MEETING AT THE WARWICK AEMS. 
 
 101 
 
 • SEASON 1831-32. 
 
 The first meet ^of the season was on October 31st, at 
 Upton. The hounds were in fine condition, the huntsman 
 and whips well mounted, and they had a good day's sport. 
 Several more good days are recorded, and a good number 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1831. 
 Mr. J. Russell. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Bachelor"^ 
 Bluecap > 
 Bounty ) 
 
 DiliiJ^ont I Edwin 
 
 Bachelor (25) 
 
 (•23) 
 
 Haclriau * 
 
 Bachelor (25) 
 Rocket (24).. 
 
 Harbinger Surrey Harlequin 
 
 Hymen Benedict ( 26 ) 
 
 Hercules ") 
 Hopeful ) 
 Ottoman ") 
 Ornament ) 
 
 Racer 
 
 Register > 
 Rosemary ( 
 Rivers T 
 Rakish ) 
 
 Solomon 
 
 Vyner ") 
 Vanity ) ' 
 
 Wliimsey ") 
 
 Woodman > 
 
 Woeful 3 
 Watchman ") 
 Willing [ 
 Wisdom ) 
 
 Warspite Belvoir Whipster 
 
 Woldsman Belvoir Whipster 
 
 Rocket (24) 
 
 Belvoir Solomon f 
 
 f Duke of Beaufort's Work- 
 (_ man 
 
 f Duke of Beaufort's Work- 
 ((_ man 
 
 Belvoir Whipster J 
 
 Dairymaid (25) 
 
 Destiny (24) 
 Their Welcome 
 Hebe (24) 
 
 Prudence (28) 
 
 Ornament (24) 
 Butterfly (27) 
 
 Blossom (27) 
 
 Benefit (27) 
 Yiruleut (23) 
 
 Brevity (26) 
 
 Wildfire (26) 
 
 Rosebud (29) 
 Rally (29) 
 
 * By Lord Tavistock's Hercules— Mr. Ward's Misery. Bought by Mr. Rut^sell as 
 a five-year-old in the spring of 18-31. 
 
 t By Belvoir Boderick — their Songstress. Bought by Mr. Fellowes as a nine- 
 year-old in 182'J. 
 
 I Belvoir Lifter — their Wanton. Bought by Mr. Russell as a five-year-old in 
 1830. 
 
 of foxes were killed, but there was no first-class run 
 before Christmas. 
 
 On December :21st, 1S31, at a meeting held at the 
 "Warwick Arms, it was resolved that, on consideration of 
 Mr. Russell's proposal of continuing to hunt the country, 
 
102 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1832 
 
 including the additional woodlands, a subscription of 2100/. 
 be entered into for one year. 
 
 The issue of the Leamington Spa Courier, Jan. 22, 1882, 
 contains an account of the following runs : 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds met at Hounds Hill on Thursday. Having- 
 drawn, and found a good fox in Alveston Pastures, off they went at a 
 slapi)ing pace in the direction of Alveston Tillage. He then turned short to 
 the right for Wellesljourue Wood, Walton, and Bowshot, and after leading 
 his pursuers to Lighthorne Rough, returned to his old haunts near Alveston 
 Pastures. This run, which lasted from eleA'en o'clock till past five, and at 
 times going the very best pace, proved that the Warwickshire hounds are 
 what they always have been — " out and outers." Almost every nag wa» 
 knocked up, and their riders were obliged to say " Enough ! " 
 
 On Saturday these hounds met at Avon Dassett, and after vainly trying 
 a snuill gorse, started a fox in a fallow field. After giving a circle, he went 
 away towards Boddington Hill, but, being headed, he led his -pursuers a chase 
 back to Farnboro", where he jumped into a pond in the vain hope of eluding 
 his pursuers, and was killed. In the excitement of the scene, the horse of a 
 gallant Nimrod sprang with his rider into the water, thus inflicting an 
 unnecessary ducking on his master, but affording him the honour of di-agging 
 dead reynard out of the pool. 
 
 On Jan. 26th, 1S32, "Anonymous" tells us of a very 
 severe run from Eadhourne dorse, which was the crack 
 covert of the Hunt, a sure find, and noted for stout and 
 wild foxes. Sportsmen came long distances from Leicesterr 
 shire and Northamptonshire to see it drawn. On this 
 occasion a fox went away at once, and ran nearly straight 
 to Itchington Holt, and through there to Chadshunt 
 Spinneys, and part of the way to Kineton. He next 
 turned back to the Holt, and, after going twice round the 
 covert, went away again towards Kineton, and, turning to 
 left ran to Burton Dassett, wdiere the hounds were whipped 
 off. Out of a field of three hundred only six saw the 
 finish, and one gentleman kijled his horse. 
 
 The Leamington Spa Courier had an account of this run 
 in its issue of Jan. 28, 1S32, evidently by the same writer 
 quoted above. 
 
 The Warwickshire had a tremendous run on Thursday. Drew Radbourue 
 Gorse, and found almost instantly. This is the third time this covert has 
 been drawn this season, and it has the rare credit of furnishing the best 
 description of foxes, and it is almost a certain find, and they have never yet 
 been disappointed of what in sporting phrase is termed an "out an outer.' 
 The fox this morning added fame to the Radbourne breed, and went off 
 
1832] 
 
 EUN FROM CHESTERTON WOOD. 
 
 103 
 
 straight away to Itehiugton Holt. The i^aee was good all the way, and 
 lasted thirty-five to forty minutes. Here unfortunately they changed foxes, 
 and he led them direct to Chadshunt, and thence in tlie direction of Kineton, 
 and the liouiuls were finally whipped oft" at Burton Dassett. 
 
 On March 15tli a fox was found at Chesterton Wood 
 that went for Lighthorne Eough, but, leaving that covert 
 to the right, he ran to Chadshunt Spinneys and Itchington 
 Heath. After a ring round the covert he went back to 
 Chesterton Wood, and through the covert to the Windmill 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1832. 
 Mr. J. Russell. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Damr. 
 
 Bajazet 
 
 Boxer ) 
 
 Bauble) 
 
 Bluebell 1 
 
 Brilliant] 
 
 Challenge 
 
 Damsel 
 
 Benedict (26) 
 
 Bachelor (25) 
 
 Belvoir Whipster 
 
 Lord Scarborough's Rattler. 
 
 Pilot (28) ; 
 
 Blucher (28) 
 
 Lord Scarborough's General. 
 Lord Scarborough's General. 
 
 Hadrian 
 
 Hatlrian 
 
 Bashful (26) 
 Welcome (30) 
 
 Benefit (27) 
 
 His Captious 
 Dewdrop (30) 
 
 Dairymaid ^ 
 
 Dairymaid (25) 
 
 Dalliance ) 
 
 Governor 
 
 General 
 
 Hadrian 
 
 Harasser 
 
 His Ruin 
 His Syren 
 Rally (29) 
 Bonuylass (27) 
 
 Jessamy ') 
 
 Hadrian 
 
 Jessamv (26) 
 
 Jessica ) 
 
 Midnight 
 
 Orator 
 
 Sir H. Goodricke's Manager. 
 Ranter (27) 
 
 His Rarity 
 Ornament (31) 
 
 Richmond 7 
 
 Hadrian 
 
 Ranter (27) 
 
 Lord Scarborough's Justice. 
 Hadrian 
 
 Rosamond (27) 
 
 Rosamond j 
 
 Rhapsody 
 
 Solomon 
 
 Destiny (24) 
 His Sylvia 
 Volatile (26) 
 
 Vengeance 
 
 Woodbine 
 
 Belvoir Whip.ster 
 
 Rosebud (29) 
 
 Wanderer ) 
 
 Belvoir Whi])ster 
 
 Belvoir Whipster 
 
 Butterfly (27) 
 Wildfire (26) 
 
 V\ ant on ) 
 
 Winifred 
 
 and Wliitnash Gorse, and thence through Ufton Wood to 
 Print Hill, and to the left over the Fosse Eoad. Here the 
 hounds were whipped off, when it was found that two fresh 
 foxes were in front of them. 
 
 SEASON 1832-33. 
 The first meet of the season was on Nov. ist, 1832, 
 and the hounds hunted five days a week. 
 
104. THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1832-1833 
 
 The Leamington Spa Courier of Nov. 24, 1832, has the 
 following notice of the Warwickshire hounds at this date : 
 
 This ■well-appointt'd pack, under the spk^iidid uianagenieiit of J. Russell, 
 Esq., have conniieuced the season most auspieiously. Even tlius early they 
 liHve had some excellent runs, and on Thursday last afforded as brilliant a 
 day's sport as was perhaps eA-er enjoyed. Chesterton Wood was the appoint- 
 ment, where a numerous and well-appointed field assembled. The liounds 
 killed their tir.st fox at Ladbroke Gorse, where another fox of the right sort 
 was immediately found. Reynard made neither feint nor double, but at once 
 broke covert, with the hounds close at his brush. He led them at a slapping 
 pace to Odeuhill, tlience to Chapel Ascot, Ladbroke, and Bishojj's Itchiugton, 
 and was run into in gallant style on Itchington Heath, after running over a 
 fine country, without a moment's check, of full sixteen miles {sic). The 
 distance was done in oSmin., and was pronounced to be by experienced sports- 
 men as lirilliant a run as they ever witnessed. [This account appears in 
 " Venator's " book, but sixteen miles in 55min. mnst be taken cum grano 
 salis, witli a little cayenne pepper. — W. R. V.] 
 
 From the Sporiing Magazine, December, 1832 : 
 
 In tlie winter of 1830-31 the Warwickshire hounds liad a tremendous run. 
 in whicli several horses died in the field. Four only were up at the deatli, 
 three of which died immediately afterwards. Wroxton, by Militiaman, the 
 property of Colonel Gilbert, was the only survivor. Mr. W. F. J. North has 
 a print of this horse, from a picture probably by Herring, presented to liim 
 by Colonel Norris. 
 
 On Jan. 3rd one of the best runs took place which had 
 been seen during the mastership of Mr. Kussell. The 
 hounds found at Eadbourne, and ran very fast to Watergall, 
 and through the covert ; and, leaving Fenny Compton to 
 the right, ran by Avon Dassett to Farnborough, and from 
 thence to Knoll End, and by Upton and Shenington to 
 Epwell White House, where the fox got into one of the 
 drains leading- to the cellars. In two different accounts of 
 the run it is said that there was a change of foxes, and 
 probably a large part of the run was at hunting pace, as it 
 lasted three hours. It extended over about seventeen miles 
 of country, and the distance straight was nearly thirteen 
 miles. 
 
 The Leamington Sjja Courier has an account of this 
 day's sport, in which it says that the pleasures of the day 
 were considerably enhanced by the reappearance of the truly 
 estimable nobleman, Lord Clonmell, among the numerous 
 field of sportsmen who assembled on this occasion. 
 
1833] SIR HAEEY GOODRICKE. 105 
 
 One more run only worthy of notice is recorded during 
 Mr. Eussell's time. Tlie hounds found at Windmill Hill 
 (no doubt the same as Burton Hill), and ran to Farnborough, 
 and from there to Boddington Hill, and through the gorse 
 nearly to Priors Marston ; and then, inclining to the right, 
 ran near Priors Hardwick, and afterwards turned still more 
 to the right, and, leaving Fenny Compton to the left, ran 
 back to Farnborougli, where the fox went to ground, and 
 was bolted and killed after an hour's run at best pace over 
 the finest part of the country. 
 
 Splendid run witli Sir Harry Cxooclricke's hounds, 183:3 : 
 
 Oil Wednesday last, Feb. 13tli. the above hounds met at Oadby Gate 
 Covert, and, as nsual, Avere attended by a brilliant retinue of Euoflish and 
 foreign noblemen. The field consisted of upwards of 300 horsemen, 150 of 
 which were " scarlet-coat "' gentry. It being a bye day (sic) with several 
 other packs in the neighbourhood also caused an additional muster. The 
 mo'rning was very favourable, although a great deal of rain had fallen the 
 night preA-ious, and at eleven o'clock 
 
 A southerly wind and a cloudy sky 
 Proclaims it a hunting morning. 
 
 Derry. all alive, soon ))ut the hounds in the gorse. and in about three 
 minutes after a favimrite hound gave tongue, and the Old Meltonians Avere 
 immediately on the look-out. Reynard socm peeped out at tlie bottom of the 
 covert, and. looking at his pursuers, immediately started off at a rattling 
 ]tace towards the back of Strettou Hall ; and bearing away towards Bu.rton, 
 Overy, wliich he passed, the hounds Iteing in full cry, followed close after by 
 Sir Harry. Count D'Orsay, Sir John Kaye, Mr. Little Gilmour, and the 
 Russian Ain>assador. The fox then ran to Carlton Clump, and took shelter 
 in a small covert at the bottom, but after a check of five minutes he again 
 ])eeped out. and away went hounds and horsemen in the direction of Noseley, 
 taking tlie water that runs into the Welland from Langton, commonly called 
 Langton Brook. Here reynard thought to evade his pursuers, the brook 
 appearing a complete sea, but Sir Harry, like a true Leicestershire foxhunter, 
 immediately jumped in, and gallantly with his horse swam across. This Avas 
 no joke.no soul knoAving the depth, but Count D'Orsay.* Avho had taken some 
 tremendous leaps during tlie run, and had seA^eral falls. folloAved, but with 
 some difficulty reached the opj^osite shore. Sir John Kaye, determined, as 
 he said, not to be beat by a foreigner, next jumped in, but he soon 
 found the riA'er too Avide and deep, and once was completely under 
 water. Mr. Gilmour shared the same fate, and both horses and men 
 Avere to be seen together, struggling to reacii the opposite bank. This 
 tliey did in safety, saA'e a good ducking and a narrow escape of their 
 lives. The appearance of tlie party on emerging from the brook Avas truly 
 
 * We have seen some old sporting prints by Aiken representing the Count taking 
 jjome of these tremendous leaps, and we believe there is one print depicting this very 
 scene at the Langton Brook. 
 
106 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1833 
 
 laughablo, their leather breeches apin'jirin^- like tripe. After killing the fox, 
 it was amusing to see both iudividnals holding each other up by the legs to 
 let the water rim out of their boots. Many of the field who did not like a 
 good ducking pulled up, and crossed a ))ridge further down the river. On 
 clearing the brook, the party again went away in good style, and after a 
 .severe run of one hour and a half the fox was killed in Laugton Caldwell. 
 Count D'Orsay distinguished himself on the occasion, and on going over a quick- 
 set hedge his left boot Avas comidetcly ripped from top to bottom, and though 
 not up at the death, the brush, out of compliment, was given to him. A 
 second fox was found, which was killed at Wclland, in Northamptonshire. 
 
 The above account of this run with the Quorn and 
 Leicestershire hounds was taken from the Leicester Herald, 
 February 20th, 1833, and a Mr. Pole, of Todenham, was out. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, March 3()th, 1(S33 : 
 
 On Monday this crack pack met at Wliimpstou Bridge. The snow was 
 lying thick upon the hills near the residence of the master of hoimds (Upton 
 House), and excited fears that the weather would not admit of hunting, 
 and a strong number of Nimrods assembled at the place of meeting were, for 
 a time, in anxious suspense. About twelve o'c'ock, however, their apprehensions 
 were allayed by the appearance of Mr. Russell. The order was given to 
 draAV Gaily Oak, but not tinding there, went to Preston Bushes, and in 
 about five minutes as grand a fox Avas found as ever crossed a countrj-. His 
 course was straight, and unflinching as it was fast. He went to Mickleton at a 
 good pace, and, although everybody had a good start, there were many 
 absentees even at that place; and at Baker's Hill, about seven miles from the 
 Bushes, the field became very select. Here there was a check for two or 
 three minutes, which was most acceptable to everyone From Baker's Hill 
 they went direct for Weston Park, which the fox ran through, and made an 
 attempt to get over the stone wall into Gloucester.shire ; but his fate was 
 sealed, for poor reynard was obliged to return to the wood, and as a last 
 chance he passed the corner of Weston Wood a second time, and hounds 
 finally ran into him at Newcomb's White House, after a run of one hour and 
 three minutes, as good and as fast as any sportsman conld desire. There 
 were twenty-five i;p at the death. Distance not less than fourteen miles (sic). 
 On the whole, the run forms a brilliant close to one of the most brilliant 
 seasons of the Warwickshire. The season commenced with good sport, and 
 within the last month this pack have killed elcA-en out of fourteen foxes. 
 [The account of this run occurs word for word in "Yenator's" book. — C. M.] 
 
 The Leamington Sj)a Courier, Marcli 30th, 1833, says : 
 
 Captain Russell will retire from the management with the esteem and 
 respect of the whole Hunt. His urbanity of manners, with the liberal spirit 
 which has distinguished all his hunting arrangements, left nothing to be 
 desired, and we cannot indulge in a lia]>j)ier aspiration than that the gentlemen 
 of the Warwickshire Hunt may enjoy as much good sport under the auspices 
 of the gallant Captain's successor as they have done under him. 
 
 During this season the pack hunted eighty days and 
 klled and accounted for ninety-four foxes. 
 
1833] 
 
 DEATH OF MR. RUSSELL. 
 
 107 
 
 Mr. Eussell gave up the hounds on account of failing 
 health at the end of the season of 1833. 
 
 " Scrutator " copies the following notice from the 
 county paper of the sad and early death of Mr. Eussell. 
 
 John Eussell, Esq., of Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershii'e, 
 and late of Upton House, in this county, died at 32, 
 Lansdowne-place, Leamington, on the 27tli of April, 1833, 
 in the thirty-ninth year of his age, sincerely and deeply 
 regretted by all who knew him. Mr. Eussell was Master 
 of the Warwickshire Hounds for three seasons, and acquired 
 great and deserved popularity in that situation. In him 
 were happily united the sound judgment and energy of a 
 first rate sportsman with the conciliatory and polished 
 manners of a gentleman, and he was much beloved for his 
 gentleness of deportment and excellent temper, which, 
 though often tried in the field, was never ruffled. Mr. 
 Eussell was the second son of Lord William Eussell, 
 brother of the Duke of Bedford. He entered early into 
 the navy, and served many years in the Mediterranean and 
 other parts of the world. 
 
 " Tlius early called to everlasting rest, 
 Death spares not long the bravest and the best." 
 
UVER A BROOK. 
 
 CHAPTER YII. 
 
 Nothiug- lias this gay world to give 
 Equal to the life we live ; 
 Nothing on earth our hearts cau cheer 
 Equal to the horn we hear ; 
 ^'othing our ^jleasure can annoy 
 When we note the huntsman's cry ; 
 Nothing can vie in syren sound 
 With the niaa'ie voice of hound. 
 
 MR. THOKNHILL — CRACK RIDERS OF WARWICKSHIRE BILL 
 
 BARROAV THE HEBDALE HUNT GREAT RUN FROM UFTON 
 
 WOOD MR. BERNARD GRANVILLE SEASONS 1833-38. 
 
 Mr. W. p. ThornhilIx of Hounds Hill, became the master 
 of tlie Warwickshire hounds in 1833, in succession to 
 j\[r. Russell. He had been for several years well known 
 in the country as an enthusiastic spoi'tsman and a very 
 hard rider to hounds, and his acceptance of the office was 
 heartily welcomed. The country, as before, was hunted 
 by subscription. Bill Boxall continued huntsman. Tom 
 Day was first, and Jack Ransom second whip. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill increased the number of the hounds. 
 Mr. Russell had kept 49i couples, and Mr. Thornhill's first 
 entry consisted of 17^ couples, and amongst the sires were 
 
Portrait of Mr. Thornhill. 
 
 From the engraving after the picture 
 
 by 
 
 J. B. Black. 
 
.tiirimortT JiBiiio*^ 
 
1833] CRACK RIDERS. 109 
 
 hounds from the Belvoir, Mr. Muster's, Mr. Osbaldeston's, 
 
 and Lord Ta^nstock's, Mr. Drake's, and the Duke of 
 
 Beaufort's. 
 
 SEASON 1833-34. 
 
 The first meet was on October 28th at Hounds Hill. 
 The 2)ack hunted five days a week, and some capital sport 
 was shown during the season. 
 
 CRACK RIDERS OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
 
 {Abstracted from " JSTlMROD.") 
 
 Lord Denbigh lias always been well luoiinted, aud is a true fneud to 
 foxlumtiug, but now oonteuts himself witli wliat lie can get from liis seat in 
 Warwicksliire, liaviuo' given up his seat in Leicestershire. 
 
 Lord Clonmell has always been well liorse'd. Although never appearing 
 to wish to be a first flight man in a run. where is there a dearer loA'er of 
 sport, or any man Avho has tried to be Avith the hounds harder than he 
 has ? 
 
 The Lawleys all ride — " Sir Lawley." as he was so called at Melton, 
 then Sir Robert Lawley, late Lord Wenlock, at the head of them. But the 
 crack man of the three is Frank Lawley (now Sir Francis Lawley), as he 
 was called. He was a prime man over a country, and what we call a 
 beautiful horseman. The third and youuger brother, Mr. Beilby Lawley, 
 now Mr. Beilby Thompson, was also a pretty performer, liut I lielieve he has 
 long since done with hunting. 
 
 Mr. Robert Canning, who resided at Hounds Hill, was sent amongst us 
 to show what that fine animal the horse can do. He measured 6ft 4in., 
 and weighed 17st., and the rare faculties aud powers he possessed 
 arose from a quick eye, a clear head, a fine hand, extreme coolness, and 
 undaunted resolution. A gentleman, a very old Meltonian, and a very good 
 judge, came inio Warwickshire for two reasons — one to see Mr. Corbet's 
 hounds, and the other to see Mr. R. Canning ride. When he got l)ack into 
 Leicestershire he described him as follows : " The morning was uufavouralile, 
 and the scent so liad that we could not get on with our fox, and I saw nothing 
 remarkable in Mr. Canning. At two o'clock we found a fresh one. The 
 liounds went at their very best pace, when Mr. Canning came out of the 
 crowd like a bee oixt of a hive, and beat every man that was out." Mr. 
 Canning's stud was five or six. He rode Favourite for eight seasons in 
 succession. His best hunter was Knowsley. a stallion, purchased from 
 Mr. Boycott ; with him he lost his start in Leicestershire. Init afterwards got 
 a front jjlace. What Warwickshire sportsmen can forget his '" conie-u}) " 
 when riding his horse over a flooded lirook or a tremendous fence. 
 
 Mr. John Ltjcy signalised himself liy being one of three that went the 
 tremendous run Lord Middleton had from out of the Warwickshire Yale 
 country to Ditchley Park, twelve miles from Oxford — every other man being 
 beaten to a standstill, and the hounds taking iip their abode for the night in 
 the Duke of Beaufort's kennel at Heythrop. Not one of Lord Middleton's 
 men. capitally mounted as they were, could get in reach of their hounds. 
 Thei'e were also a few crack Meltonians at starting, but all, save one, shared 
 
110 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1833 
 
 the same fate. One of the best of them declined when I cut it, about six 
 miles from the finish. 
 
 I call Mr. Hay a capital horseman. In fact, no man need ride better 
 than he did, in every one's ojjinion, when his hounds hunted Warwickshire — 
 very straightforward and very quick. 
 
 Mr. Boycott, of Rudgehall, Shropshire, was for many years a very 
 leading man in Warwickshire, in the early period of Mr. Corbet's hunting it. 
 
 Mr. Charles Boultbee, brother of Mr. J. Boultbee, of Baxterley, near 
 Atherstone, a clipping rider of a great weight. There are but few Charles 
 Boultbee's. 
 
 Mr. Hugo Campbell was a leading man in Warwickshire in Lord 
 Middleton's time. 
 
 Mr. F. Charlton, a superior sportsman in his day, was also a regular 
 attendant, for many years, of the Warwickshire. 
 
 Mr. Henry Williams — better known as Harry Williams — son of the 
 General of that name, is a proper dare-devil over a country, and a very good 
 rider withal. The last time I saw him was in Warwickshire, about six years 
 ago, when he was going in his usual dread-nought style. But do I not 
 remember seeing his father do the same thing ? To be sure I do, as the hard 
 riding " Hai-ry Williams of my boyish days, and to whom I looked up, I fear, 
 with more reverence than to any other being, because I had heard that he had 
 swum the river Severn, when bank-full, after hounds." General Williams 
 was, however, one of the best as well as boldest riders of his day in Shrop- 
 .shire and the counties ueighboui-ing to it. 
 
 Mr. Charles Gould, son of the late Colonel of the Notts militia, and 
 nephew of the late Lord Dormer. He is an excellent horseman, with 
 plenty of nerve, and has shown much judgment in selecting young horses, 
 and perfecting their education as hunters — no bad test of hand. 
 
 Mr. Holland also distinguished himself for the last ten years over 
 Warwickshire. All who saw that fine run with Mr. Hay, from Lighthorue 
 Rough to Edge Hills, can speak of his excellent pei-formances on that day. 
 But he is a hard and good rider. 
 
 Mr^ Sheldon, of Brailes, son of the late R. Sheldon, Esq., of Weston, 
 that perfect sam])le of an old English gentleman, is one of the best "War- 
 wickshire lads,"' and a good sportsman withal. 
 
 Mr. J. Hawkes, of Snitterfield, used to say, " Warwickshire can't show 
 a run — there's no room in it." But I am hapjjy to say I saw this harmless 
 conceit once taken very fairly out of him. We found our fox one day — and 
 let those who know the country follow me — at Walton Wood, Sir J. Mor- 
 daunt's, and, passing over the fine lordship of Lighthorne, Long Itchingtou, 
 and Ufton, killed him at Watergall House, about a mile and a half from 
 Soutliam. Mr. Hawkes rode Featherlegs that day, but he, as well as a very 
 large field, with the exception of three, were beaten out of sight for the last 
 four miles. "Now, then, Mr. Hawkes " (said Mr. R. Canning to him when 
 he came up, raising his A'oice to the highest pitch), " can Warwickshire show 
 a run ? " A finer than this could not be seen, for we had but two momentary 
 checks, and, after the first mile, over grass. 
 
 Now what shall I say of the late Mr. Hancox, so many years in War- 
 wickshire, and one of the best horsemen there ? Why, he did not see one 
 run in ten. Who put his horse to a fence in a more workmanlike style ? 
 No one. And yet, having a bad eye to hounds, and persisting in taking his 
 
1833] EUN FROM ITCHINGTON HEATH. Ill 
 
 own line of country, liis general fate was to be beaten. Speaking of him as 
 a horseman, he was, however, decidedly a good one. 
 
 Thei-e was a very heavy man in Warwickshire some years since, who rode 
 well to hounds. I think he coiild not be under 20st. I allude to Mr. H. 
 Roberts, who resided at Stratford-on-Avon, and was for many years a 
 constant attendant on the Warwickshire hounds. 
 
 Mr. Vaughton, who resides near Coventry, is a very good man of his 
 weight, about 18st., and a thrusting rider. 
 
 Mr. J. Venour was one of the best men over Warwickshire in the early 
 part of Mr. Corljct's hunting it. He particularly distinguished himself on a 
 little horse called Hero, which I sold him when in my teens. 
 
 Mr. Burton, a tanner, of Nimeaton, on a small animal only 14J hands 
 high, called Jack, was a match for most men. Tom Smith, when hunting in 
 Leicestershire, dashed at a high timber fence, over which he thought it 
 was not possible anyone else could follow him. The huntsman's horse knocked 
 down the top bar, when Mr. Burton easily jumped over, and, in the next 
 field, was still close at his heels. 
 
 Ben Hollow ay, an Oxfordshire man. was a good horseman, and well 
 known in Warwickshire. I have now known him upwards of thirty years, 
 and when I saw him last he was in his old place, "close to their heels," as 
 Mat Wilkinson says. 
 
 Decidedly the best man Warwickshire ever saw, next to Mr. R. Canning, 
 was Mr. H. Wyatt, a native of that sporting county, 6ft. Sin. high, and 
 weighing 15st. — Mr. Canning beat him hj an inch — who was chiefly con- 
 spicuous in the period of Lord Middleton and Mr. Shirley hunting the 
 counti'v, although he commenced in Mr. Corbet's time. A more daring 
 rider than Mr. Wyatt there not only could not be, but need not be, for if it 
 were in the powers of his horse to carry him to hounds, thei'e was nothing 
 wanting on his pai't, and it is due to him to say that a more gallant horse- 
 man England never saw. I have seen him in all situations with hounds. I 
 have seen him on the wrong side of a large cover at starting, and I haA^e seen 
 hounds .slip aAvay from him from other causes. I have known him meet with 
 falls and perpbxities, and appear in his place again in a trice, as though he 
 had been dro])ped from the clouds; but I never heard of or saw a good run 
 that, if Henry Wyatt was out, he did not see the best part of it, and made his 
 appearance at the finish. I never shall forget one fence I saw him ride over, 
 after his horse had been going some time. It was a hog-back broken stile, 
 quite as high as his horse's back, on a narrow, slippery footpath, and on a 
 considerable ascent. I certainly did not consider it a practicable fence, 
 situated as it was, and was surprised to see him well landed in the next field. 
 To be sure, he was upon a rare Int of stuff — his Morgan Rattler horse, long 
 and wide, but not tall. 
 
 On October 31st the hounds had a brilliant run from 
 Itchington Heath to Chesterton, and from there to Bishop's 
 Itchington, through the covert there, and on to Ladbroke 
 Spinneys ; thence through the village, and leaving Southam 
 to the left, they ran near lladbourne Gorse,and lost the fox in 
 Napton Village, after running for an hour and five minutes. 
 
112 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 December .t^iid, when the meet was at Ihiiington, was 
 a memorable day. It was intended to draw Foxcote, but 
 owing to complaints made by some of the farmers near 
 Meon Hill, that a fox in that neighbourhood had taken 
 their poultry, it was decided to draw for him ; this fox was 
 so well known that he had been coursed regularly once a 
 week for the last two months. He did not care for this, 
 as greyhounds were not at this time fast enough to catch 
 a good fox, but at a later period they became much more 
 destructive, whenever this unsportsmanlike pursuit was 
 practised. As soon as the lioTuids had drawn some of the 
 small coverts on the hill, there was the holloa of a fox 
 gone away, the hounds at once went to it, and got away 
 close to him. He left the hill at once, and took to the 
 Evesham Yale. Leaving Lower Quinton to the right, and 
 Lower Peb worth on his left, he passed through Marston 
 Grrounds, over the brook, and between Marston and 
 Dorsino'ton to Hillingdon Farm, where he was hard 
 pressed about the yards and buildings, and again took to 
 the Yale ; and, skirting Pebworth Grorse, he was killed in 
 the open, on the top of Rumer Hill, after a run of an 
 hour and live minutes without a check, the hounds not 
 having been cast once during the whole time. The head 
 of this fox, a present from Mr. Thornhill, was preserved in 
 a glass case and placed in the Hunt room at the Warwick 
 Arms, with an account of the run written imderneath it. 
 Only five saw^the run : Mr. Thornhill, on his brown horse 
 Posby, Mr. Woodward, Mr. Smith, Bill Boxall, and Tom 
 Day. 
 
 The anxiety, perseverance, and resolution of a hunts- 
 man occur to us here. On one occasion Bill Barrow had 
 been thrown out by his hounds, and a gentleman farmer 
 living near the ^^covert in which they wTre running heard 
 them. He was not out on tluit day, but he was too good 
 a sportsman to mar the enjoyment of others by heading a 
 fox, so he pulled up his horse and stood still by a hedge- 
 side, and ill a few minutes the fox went away, and passed 
 across the field within sight of him ; the hounds were then 
 
1833] BILL BARROW. 113 
 
 but a field behind the fox, going at their best pace, and not 
 a single horseman was within sight of them. In a few 
 minutes Bill Barrow came up alone. " Have you seen the 
 fox, sir ?" said he. " Yes." " And the hounds ?" " Yes." 
 ''AVho was with them?" "Nobody," was the reply. 
 "Which way are they gone?" "I see them now," said 
 the yeoman. "AYliere? Where?" asked Bill, eagerly. 
 " Don't you see them driving up the hill, yonder, as fast as 
 legs can carry them ?" " I do, I do," answered Bill, and 
 he instantly dashed, as fast as he could, point blank for the 
 spot ; the sun shone at the moment on the hillside, and they 
 could plainly discern the hounds, although the distance was 
 two miles off. Our informant kept his place, and in a few 
 minutes he saw Barrow mount the same hill ; he had 
 e\adently gained on the hounds, and got up to them soon 
 afterwards. Barrow struck off for the hill in a direct line, 
 he first took a moderate hedge, and next dashed through a 
 strons: willow fence, and cleared a brook on the other side. 
 " I thought," said the yeoman, " that no man on horse 
 Tvould dare to attempt such a leap, and expected to see 
 them either fall backward or tumble headlong into the 
 brook. They cleared both with apparent ease. As the 
 willows were too high to top and too strong, as I thought, 
 to give way, I went to see how they had made their way 
 through them. Two of the willows, right and left, much 
 thicker than my wrist, had been twisted nearly off by the 
 force of the horse, and he had dropped fairly on his feet on 
 the opposite side, a great distance from the take-off, without 
 a stumble." The nag Bill rode that day was wdiat I should 
 call a little one, but he was a rare bit of stuff, and I never 
 saw one of his size able to live with him across such a 
 country. His strength, courage, and bottom carried him 
 over everything that came in his way. 
 
 In connection with this subject, we may here allude to 
 the celebrated feat, achieved in 1792 by Mr. Bingham, of 
 leaping a horse over the wall of Hyde Park, the height 
 of which was G^ft. on the inside, and 8ft. on the outside, 
 where a bed of manure was laid to receive the animal. The 
 
 Vol. I. I 
 
114 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1833 
 
 hio-li- spirited steed performed the feat twice, merely 
 displacing a few bricks at the last jump. 
 
 On December 7th, 1833, a run took place over a 
 splendid country from Debdale, by East Leamington, to 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1833. 
 Mr. W. p. Thornhill. 
 
 Namks. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Bachelor ... 
 
 Barrister 7 
 
 Benedict _) 
 
 Fairplay . . 
 
 Phxuder . . . 
 
 Chastity ") 
 
 Comrade ) 
 
 Duncan 
 
 Denmark 
 
 Dexter 
 
 Delicate 
 
 Destiny 
 
 Ferryman 
 
 Forester ") 
 
 Frantic ) 
 
 Hesperus . 
 
 Halifax 
 
 Hasty 
 
 Honesty 
 
 Bobadil 
 
 Morland 7 
 
 Mystery ) 
 
 Myrmidon 
 
 Mariner 
 
 Melody 
 
 Matchless 
 
 Proctor 
 
 Pontiff 
 
 Pastime 
 
 Proserpine 
 
 Wellington 
 
 Waterloo 
 
 Witchcraft 
 
 Wonderful 
 
 Hazard 
 
 Myrmidon * 
 
 Benedict (26) 
 
 Mr. Muster's Forester 
 
 Mr. Muster's Singer 
 
 Belvoir Cormorant 
 
 Bel voir Rummager 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Ferryman 
 Lord Tavistock's Hazard ... 
 Lord Tavistock's Hesperus 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Boaster... 
 
 Bobadil (26) 
 
 Myrmidon * 
 
 Myrmidon * 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Boaster 
 
 Champion (29) 
 
 Lord Tavistock's Hazard , . . 
 
 Blossom (27) 
 
 Prudence (28) 
 
 His Amethyst 
 His Playful 
 
 Benefit (27) 
 
 Daffodil (29) 
 
 Yanity (31) 
 Bonnylass (27) 
 Brevity (26) 
 
 Harmless (30) 
 
 Bashful (26) 
 Rally (29) 
 
 Blameless (30) 
 
 Proserpine (24) 
 
 Welcome (30) 
 Bonnylass (27) 
 
 * Lord Tavistock's Marmion — his Hopeful. Bought as a five-year-old, in 1831, by 
 Mr, Russell. 
 
 Bunker's Hill, and from thence, leaving Dunchurch to the 
 left, to ground at Crick in an hour and thirty-five minutes 
 The distance was twelve miles straight, and the time in 
 which it was traversed speaks for the severity of the pace. 
 
1834] THE DEBDALE HUNT. 115 
 
 THE DEBDALE HUTSTT. 
 
 Attributed to the Hon. E. Plunkett, Princethorpe, Jan. llth, 1834, 
 
 Air — " One Bumper at Parting." 
 
 Come, Clio, delighting in story, 
 
 Come, sing we of Bobby, and how 
 He was only the next thing in glory 
 
 To Sir Guy, or his famous dun cow ! 
 Let the wizard of Abbotsford tell us. 
 
 How they could not come up with their stag ; 
 He thought that perhaps he might sell us, 
 
 By killing Pitzjames's grey nag. 
 
 Chorus — May merry Old England then nourish 
 
 Her pristine affection for sport ; 
 For Foxhunting ever shall flourish, 
 
 While our Squires lend their ready support. 
 Here's a health, then, to all the true lovers 
 
 Of the Chase, while the wine goes the rounds, 
 To Sir Biddulph, who gave us the covers, — 
 
 To Thoenhill himself, and the hounds. 
 
 But I sing the last days of Bobby, 
 
 Te Gods ! what a classical name ! 
 Perhaps I am wrong, but my hobby 
 
 My Pegasus thinks just the same. 
 Princethorpe was the meet, but the cover 
 
 Was Debdale, the gift of Sib The ; 
 At first, we all thought the red rover 
 
 Had determin'd " at home " not to be. 
 
 Chorus, ad lib. 
 
 But I beg to observe that the greeting 
 
 He gave us was just what we ought ; 
 From the very first gate not retreating, 
 
 He remained till we came to the spot. 
 O ! his heart, who can yet feel emotion 
 
 At the soul-stirring sound " Gone away," 
 Can alone form an adequate notion, 
 
 Of the feelings that swayed us that day. 
 
 Chorjis. 
 
 " And now a fair field and no favour," 
 
 Thought Biddulph, is all that I ask ; 
 Many others might think so, but waver, 
 
 Unhke him, when put to the task. 
 
 I 2 
 
116 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1834 
 
 'Tis said so experieiic'd a rider 
 
 Never rode a more excellent nag ; 
 Close to hounds, never known to cast wider, 
 
 Nor his hunter to uselessly fag. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Who, at starting, next him took his station ? 
 
 'Tsvas CuNYNGHAME, late of the Twelfth ; 
 He cares not for my approbation. 
 
 As he's got the best Meade for himself. 
 But who's this from Combe Abbey ? No Craven ; 
 
 At least if I judge from his place ; 
 The one with his hair dark as raven, 
 
 Held on at a desperate pace. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 My muse, you've now got beyond Baring, 
 
 But I am not surpris'd at it, too ; 
 For to give his proud hunter an airing. 
 
 He thought that ten minutes would do. 
 Now fill we our glasses to Gtranville, 
 
 The eldest call'd Bernard, I mean, 
 I'll wager a trifle no man will 
 
 Say a much better sportsman has been. 
 
 Chorals. 
 
 But Warwickshire has yet another, 
 
 As dauntless and skilful as he ; 
 The fact is, the man has a brother. 
 
 And nobody else could it be. 
 Bur, they tell me your going, my Granny, 
 
 And Clio shall bid thee adieu ! 
 In the heart of your friend is a cranny, 
 
 Where a thought shall long linger of you. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 My muse is not given to sentiment, 
 
 Therefore this strain I give o'er ; 
 Just remarking, if any such went, I meant 
 
 Not to hunt here any more. 
 Shall I pit there against either Parker ? 
 
 Who both rode right well on that day, 
 The one an old steeple-chase larker, 
 
 And rather a varmint, they say. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
1834] THE DEBDALE HUNT. 117 
 
 But give me the guardsman so gallant, 
 
 Who rode like a trooper indeed ; 
 I ne'er condescend to a callant, 
 
 To liken a knight of his breed ; 
 I know not if nature intended 
 
 That gentlemen only should hunt, 
 But seldom the scarlets are blended 
 
 With anything else in the front. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Let the Bard of the North sing " Clan Alpine," 
 
 Of his " evergreen pine," and all that ; 
 Roderick Dhu was a joke to M'Alpine, 
 
 At a bullfinch who sprimg like a cat. 
 But talk of a Paddy, there's Plunkett, 
 
 Who may think that he rode like a man ; 
 But his name sounds so very like Funk it, 
 
 That " credat " — believe him who can. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 ! where, and O ! where was my Barnard ? 
 Is the Barnard yet merged in the Broke ? 
 
 He went in, but 'twas only to warn hard 
 
 Riders, ere leaping to look. 
 For lo ! by the dogs of St. Bernard, 
 
 Like a bird from the bushes he bounds ; 
 
 1 saw him by Lester's Piece barnyard, 
 Going well at the heel of the hounds. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 There were some men whom I think deserving 
 
 Of a ducking, for going with Drake ; 
 Their riding till next day reserving, — 
 
 No farther allusion I make. 
 Now Sbfoivler should bring to the larder 
 
 What a butler might serve to "mine host ; " 
 Fowler Butler, however, rode harder 
 
 Than many who came to the post. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 But there's one man who ne'er need look sheepish, 
 
 Although his soft surname is Lamb ; 
 That country must be pretty deepish 
 
 Over which CIaptain TiAmb cannot ram. 
 
118 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1834 
 
 And well has young Mostyn supported 
 
 The sporting renown of his race ; 
 The Aeundells, too, are reported 
 
 To have follow'd their friend to the chase. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 I am told Chandos Leigh was there also, 
 
 If he was, I am sure he went well ; 
 There were other right good 'uns, but all so 
 
 Dispersed, that one scarcely can tell. 
 As for the bold Captain Magennis, 
 
 Who is better distinguished as Dick ; 
 Poor man, why it truly a sin is 
 
 To see a good fellow so sick. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Now sing we the praises of Thornhill, 
 
 Though last, not the least in my song ; 
 In a long run, I'll bet no man born will 
 
 Than Thorkhill go better along. 
 As master of hounds, 'tis notorious. 
 
 There is hardly a better alive ; 
 His career, too, though short, is so glorious. 
 
 That long may he prosper and thrive. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 My muse happens to think that the first flight, 
 
 It were rather invidious to name ; 
 But then there are some who've the best right. 
 
 So proud a precedence to claim. 
 We all know that Bon Ferdinando, 
 
 Although he's a great man in Spain, 
 Yet cannot do more than he can do, 
 
 And never will do it again. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 And this handsome Jack would discover, 
 
 Who, tho' not the Colossus of Rhodes, 
 On that day could not have strode over 
 
 Mtich ground, if it were not for roads. 
 But where, 'mid the many late comers, 
 
 Was Lord Eastnor ; i'faith, I forget, 
 I know one can scarcely set Somers, 
 
 But then one may see Somerset. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
1834] THE DEED ALE HUNT, 119 
 
 Now Clio, revert we to reynard, 
 
 Where away from the covert he broke ; 
 As it lately had happened to rain hard, 
 
 The lowlands we thought were no joke. 
 Scott * says something about his stag bounding 
 
 Across a whole copse at a shy ; 
 But altho' it might well be high sounding, 
 
 My fox without wings could not fly. f 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Now, away for a start, ride the tailors, 
 
 As tailors invariably do, 
 'Tis well they're not also fast sailers, 
 
 Or we ne'er should get rid of the crew ; 
 And next came the hounds, by St. Hubert, 
 
 Unequalled in courage and breed; 
 I really wonder how thro' dirt 
 
 (And tailors) they held on their speed. 
 
 CJiorus. 
 
 Loud swells on the gale the glad halloo ! 
 
 As we all from the hill saw the fox, 
 Away, like a torrent we follow. 
 
 As it flings itself down from the rocks. 
 Tell me not 'tis a jockey who's bred to 
 
 The business, alone that can ride ; 
 A stout heart, a light hand, a good head, too, 
 
 Must nature have given besides. 
 
 Chorits. 
 
 First Bob pointed north-west and by westward, 
 
 Then rather to southward inclined, 
 He seem'd first to have chosen the best sward. 
 
 And next to have altered his mind. 
 How by Leamington Hastings we hasten'd, 
 
 The villagers long shall relate ; 
 The deep plough, tho' bid fair to have chastened 
 
 Our pride, and our speed to abate. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 *Witli one brave bound the copse he clear' d, 
 And, stretching forward free and far, 
 Sought the wild heaths of Uam-Var. 
 
 Lady of the Lake, Canto I. 
 t One of Aiken's most amusing sketches represents a sportsman in scarlet high in 
 the air over an enormous stake and bound. "By the Lord Harry," he says, "my 
 cheenut horse CBJi almost fly." 
 
120 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1834 
 
 A8 the plot appeared rather to thicken, 
 
 Towards Kite's Hardwick Bob cast a hawk's eye ; 
 But perhaps 'twas the ghost of a chicken, 
 
 That afterwards made the fox shy. 
 Now he took the high road to this village, 
 
 Yet neglected the turnpike to pay ; 
 Brass he had when intent upon pillage, 
 
 But copper was not in his way. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 To Bunker's Hill Bobby then pointed, 
 
 Like Prospero, the Tempest of Chase ; 
 Which in taking by storm, disappointed, 
 
 By the left wheeled away from the place. 
 Just after we turned from the latter, 
 
 We crossed a great number of rills, 
 When we pass'd the canal, tho' the matter 
 
 Was how to get up the long hills. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 In short, from where first he broke cover, 
 
 Till at Barby Bob gave up the ghost ; 
 Twelve miles, at the least, were rode over, 
 
 In fifty -five minutes at most. 
 Now BiDDULPH appeared to me, rather 
 
 To have led to the brook from the burst ; 
 Then Thorn hill, his steed in a lather. 
 
 And afterwards Parker was first. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 My muse, whom no prudence can fetter. 
 
 Swears the Lamb must have carried its horse ; 
 Than the Granvilles * no men could go better, 
 
 And the second was first at the gorse. 
 It was truly a sight worth a hundred, 
 
 To see Biddulph lead over thn brook ; 
 The stream was so swell'd that we wonder'd 
 
 If the leap would suit anyone's book. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 But by far the most sporting achievement 
 
 That ever I knew to have been. 
 Was Barnard's,! who, after bereavement 
 
 Of both stirrups, still forward was seen, 
 
 • Mr. Bernard Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall, and the Rev. Gray Granville, 
 Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 1 1 have not been able to ascertain who this Mr. Barnard was. I remember asking 
 the late Lord Willoughby whether it was intended for him, and he said he thought 
 not.— W. R. V. 
 
1834] 
 
 THEEE GOOD RUNS FROM DEBDALE. 
 
 121 
 
 Success, then, to all the fast flyers 
 Who rode to the end of the run ; 
 
 And long, too, may Leamington Priors, 
 In hunting, be second to none ! 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1834. 
 Me. W. p. Thornhill. 
 
 NAUB8. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Daus. 
 
 Barmaid ") 
 Bortha J 
 Barljjira 7 
 Bolivar ] 
 Brideiuaid 
 Bowsprit 7 
 Boaster ) 
 Columbine ") 
 Concubino ) 
 Craft small 
 Daffodil 
 Dorimoiit 
 Delegate 
 
 Dalliauce 
 
 Harlequin ~) 
 Harmony ^ 
 Hannibal J 
 
 Lelia 
 
 Mermaid ") 
 Milkmaid > 
 Marmion ) 
 Paxford ") 
 Prompter '> 
 Pilofrim J 
 Rhapsody 
 Rarity 
 Regina 
 Romulus 
 Rummager 
 Victor '^ 
 Vampire ( 
 Vagrant f 
 Vestris J 
 Workman 
 
 Benedict (26) 
 
 Benedict (26) .^. 
 
 Mr. Drake's Vanquish 
 
 Nimrod (27) 
 
 Belvoir Chanter 
 
 Belvoir Craftsman 
 
 Mr. Drake's Murnmrer 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Abelard 
 
 Nirarod(27) 
 
 Belvoir Lounger 
 
 Myrmidon 
 
 Belvoir Chanter 
 
 Belvoir Chanter 
 
 Bluecap (31) 
 
 Myrmidon 
 
 Benefit (27) 
 
 Bashful (27) 
 Brevity (26) 
 Blameless (30) 
 
 Bounty (31) 
 Blossom (27) 
 
 Daffodil (29) 
 
 Mr. Horlock's Destiny 
 
 Hopeful (31) 
 
 Rally (29) 
 
 Whimsey (31) 
 
 Prudence (28) 
 Rosebud (29) 
 
 Viola (29) 
 Woeful (31) 
 
 In the year 1834 there were 108 packs of foxliouuds. — Sporting Magazine. 
 
 Three famous runs took place from Debdale during the 
 season, and it was ascertained that the fox which was killed 
 at Barby was the same which had been run on the previous 
 7th of December to Crick, and on the 14th to Ashby 
 
122 THE WAR^VICKSHIRE HUNT. [1834 
 
 Sallow Beds. On the day of the Debdale Hunt he broke 
 covert from the same spot, and took the same line of 
 country, even through many of the same smeuses in the 
 hedge-rows. 
 
 Sir Theophilus Biddulph's keeper well knew the fox, 
 as did Bill Boxall and Tom Day, who viewed him several 
 times. Sir Theophilus came up about ten minutes after 
 the fox was killed, and was presented by Mr. Thornhill 
 with the brush, and the head is preserved in a glass case 
 by the master. 
 
 BY "PLINY ENGLISH." 
 
 Farnborough, March 20th. 
 
 There is a philosophy as well as pleasure in hunting to those who think 
 with the poet and myself that 
 
 The proper study of mankind is man. 
 
 There is also amusement in the chase beyond the delight of pursuit for 
 those who have a fondness for the study of character. It is said of the elder 
 Pliny that he carried a book with him to the field, in order to instruct his 
 mind during the intervals of tlie sport. If there was no sporting magazine 
 among the Romans, this was probably only a metaphor. At least, it may 
 have been, since seldom is the book of human life to be read with greater 
 advantage than in the hunting field. I am led to this remark by having 
 witnessed one of the most beautiful assemblages that foxhunting ever perhaps 
 caused at Farnborough, on Thursday. Mr. Thornhill good uaturedly met 
 at a later hour than usual, in order to accommodate the " fantastic toes " that 
 had been " trijjping it" at Leamington ball the preceding night. The 
 collection at Warwick i-aces the day before, and the expectation created by 
 two magnificent runs, induced a greater number to assemble than was perhaps 
 ever seen in Warwickshire. 
 
 The spot selected for the meet (and it was cheered in temporary effect by a 
 brilliant sun) was a bank near Mr. Holbech's house, sloping from the lawn to 
 the sheet of water below, and from eleven to tweh'^e o'clock the gathering of 
 the sportsmen was of unusual interest and brilliance. Not fewer than from one 
 hundred and ten to twenty redcoats made their appearance on the ground, 
 arriving from time to time, with farmers and others less adorned, in equipages 
 and on horses ; some remarkable for their great splendour, some for their 
 neatness, and some even for their eccentricity. The undressing, as I may term 
 the doffing of the upper coat, the shaggy spencer, and fur cravat (I will not, 
 for the credit of sportsmen, call it boa) was rather an amusing process, and it 
 not unfrequently happened that on the arrival of a fresh carriage, the 
 observers, curious in menagerie, crowded roitnd to see how each sportsman 
 would stripe, whether into a green Duke, a blue Duke, a man of blaclcmail, 
 or a scarlet runner. In the meantime, to complete the scene, the elegant 
 ladies residing or visiting at Farnborough appeared on the lawn, and Boxall 
 
1834] BEILLIANT SPORT. 123 
 
 politely paraded the pack before them aloiijj a sunk fence, in order to enable 
 tlieni to have a near view of the hounds * 
 
 Among the sportsmen were three successive masters of tlie Warwickshire 
 hounds— Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Thornhill. In addition 
 to these. I noticed SiR Walter Carew, the popular master of a pack in the 
 West of England ; LoRD Edward Somerset, from his brotlier the Duke of 
 Beaufort's country; Lord Clonmell. with several of Mr. Drake's men; 
 Lord Kinnaird, from Melton, &.c. It is needless to remark upon the 
 splendid studs which such a meeting collected together, or how desirous 
 everyone felt the sport on this day should bear some proportion to the 
 niuubers collected. For some time, particularly on considering the dryness 
 of the ground, there was much anxiety on this point, " mine host " on the 
 island not being at home, and several coverts being drawn with no other 
 result than the opportimity given to old friends of cultivating those kind 
 feelings which belong so peculiarly to foxliunting, and of admiring the 
 striking scenery over which chance carried them. At length, w^hen but few 
 were ])repared for the find, and when the mas's of the field were far in the 
 rear, a fox broke from a small i)iece of gorse on the summit of one of the 
 Dassett hills, and went away 2>ointing for Boddington. But this was up-wind, 
 and far too expensive in breath with homids so near and so determined to 
 kill. Accordingly, making a ring by the Sontham Road, and on his return 
 leaving Famborough on the left, our fox gave us forty-seven minutes down 
 to Itchington. where, in another quarter of an hour in the covert, he poured 
 forth his lofty spirit into the thin air, and instead of taking a " lodging on the 
 cold ground" for his remains, permitted them to be divided among his ardent 
 pursuers. The only take off from the delights of this day was an accident 
 which befel Mr. Holden, whose situation, from a fall on his head, was 
 rendered most alarming. 
 
 The last meet this season was on Monday, March 31st, 
 at Eatington Yilhige. 
 
 The ^.Varwickshire sport this season has been nothing 
 short of brilliant, which all friends to foxhunting and 
 admirers of sport must rejoice at. Mr. Thornhill, with a 
 handsome subscription of 2250/. per annum, started with a 
 zeal and determination that could not fail to command 
 success. 
 
 The hounds this season hunted on 106 days, and 
 killed and accounted for eighty-three foxes. 
 
 • The huntsman feels a secret pride, an inward feeling of self-gratification, which 
 he does not openly express, when he can ride up to the heels of his hounds in a rapid 
 burst, or at the end of a long and very severe run. He has many difficulties to 
 encounter, and duties to perform, which do not, in common, belong to any other person 
 present ; and if he should be fortunate enough to overcome them all, on that day he 
 must be the happiest man in the field. These remarks equally apply to every one of 
 that useful and interesting class of men, who knows his duty, and is determmed to 
 do it. 
 
124 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1836 
 
 SEASON 1834-35. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill continued, for a second season, to be 
 master of the Warwickshire ; Will Boxall was huntsman ; 
 Tom Day first whip ; and Jack Stevens second whip. The 
 stables were furnished with the best cattle, the men well 
 mounted, the hounds in the finest condition, and every 
 arrangement promised to furnish that sport by which this 
 country has become so distinguished.* 
 
 Sir Walter Carew, Bart., of Haccombe and Marley, 
 South Devon, was for many years a well-known Meltonian. 
 He was a heavy weight, but a very hard rider, and in his 
 best days nothing could stop him, while in later years, 
 when he hunted a good deal in Warwickshire t with his 
 two daughters, he showed a marvellous knowledge of the 
 country, and had a wonderful knack of getting to hounds. 
 He rode horses of great substance and breeding, one of 
 the best of which was " Old England." When he gave up 
 competing he rode in corduroy trousers with an oak stick, 
 with which he used to fling the gates open,^ and away he 
 went. He kept hounds in South Devon for many years. 
 He had a celebrated huntsman, Beale, who w^as quite a 
 character. Beale never would have a whipper-in. He 
 always said hounds were just as much afraid of being lost 
 as men, and that they w^ould come better to his voice and 
 horn without a chap behind rating them on. There was a 
 gentleman in Sir Walter's Hunt who changed his name 
 from Taylor to Tayleur. This gentleman was riding home 
 
 * A week or two before the commencement of the present season (November, 1834), 
 Captain Cunynghame, of Wellesbourne, lost four valuable hunters. A flue from the 
 brewhouse, in the dead of the night, partially set fire to the stabling, and the poor 
 horses were suffocated and scorched to death. Captain Cunynghame is a gentleman 
 highly respected, and this accident and misfortune excited the greatest sympathy and 
 regret in this and the neighbouring hunts. A wag, although sorry for the gallant 
 Captain's loss, could not suppress his joke on the occasion, and he wrote : 
 
 I've heard of hunters being fir'd, 
 
 When ring-bon'd, spavin d, curb'd, or lame; 
 
 But firing all the stud at once 
 
 Is what I call a burning shame. — Tom Pipes. 
 
 t Sir Walter said that in all his Melton days, he never saw three young fellows ride 
 better or straighter to hounds than Mr. W. H. Chamberlaj-ne, Captain E. Raleigh 
 King, and Mr. H. Spencer Lucy used to do with the Warwickshire. 
 
1835] SIR WALTER CAREW. 125 
 
 with the pack, and, wishiiiii^ to make himself out something 
 of a sportsman, asked okl lieale the name of a hound. The 
 answer was, " Well, we used to call him Jowler, sir; but 
 now we calls him Jowhv/y." * 
 
 Sir Walter used to u;et in rather a state of mind if his 
 daughters, who rode very hard and well, did not turn up. 
 One day we found a fox at Euddybroke, on the edge of 
 Dartmoor, when ]\lr. Cubitt brought his hounds from 
 Fallapit for a day on the moor, by permission of the late 
 Squire Trelawny. There was such a dense fog that it was 
 not fit to hunt, l)ut the fox took straight o^er the moor for 
 Piles, and we all disappeared in the mist. Someone asked 
 Sir Walter what was the matter. " Matter enough," he 
 answered ; " I have just lost two daughters, a niece, and 
 two nephews, and I shall never see them again." He was 
 a splendid shot, and used often to shoot with the great Sir 
 Eichard Sutton, sometimes using his own percussion guns 
 and Sir Richard's flint and steel alternately, without knowing 
 which was going to be put into his hands. He was 
 also very fond of yachting. — W. E. Y. 
 
 I remember a very old Scotch gillie, who was for 
 some time employed by us, relating that he was with Sir 
 Richard Sutton when he killed a hundred brace of grouse 
 to his ovrj gun on one dav, using a muzzle-loader, which 
 he loaded himself. The gillie characteristically added: "I 
 mind varra weel that Sir Eichard was much troubled 
 because his companion shot his preencipal dog." — C. M. 
 
 By " Whoo-Whoop." 
 
 February 24th, 1835. — Met at Lighthorne this 
 morning, and found at Chesterton, and ran a fox in the 
 
 * In the supplement to the Sporting Magazine, Xovember, 1824, there is rather a 
 good story by " Ximrod." The Hon. Newton Fellowes sent his whipper-in, John 
 Nohle, with some draft hounds to Dr. Troj-te, and amongst them was a hound called 
 Ganymede. Now, in Devonshire, with the provincials the vowel a is sounded soft, and 
 vowel e broad ; so, when the doctor's huntsman heard the name of Ganymede among 
 the draft, and found it was a dog hound, he exclaimed, " Ganymaid ! What! call 
 
 a dog a maid ' What the do you mean by calling a dog a maid ? If it was a 
 
 hitch, there would be some sense in it. It's Gunyhoy to be sure ! " and Ganyboyhe was 
 called ever aft-erwards. 
 
126 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1836 
 
 wood for an hour aud killed liim. Found a second fox 
 at Itchington Heath, ran to Chesterton aud back to the 
 Heath, thence through Graydon Spinneys and byNorthend, 
 over the Burton Hills to Farnborough. Leaving that 
 place to the right, our fox went on to Cropredy, and thence 
 to Bourton and Claydon, where he was lost owing to a 
 false halloo, after a hunting run of three hours and forty- 
 five minutes. 
 
 It is recorded that during a good run from Print Hill at 
 this time, Mr. John Biddulph and several others jumped 
 the river Leam when very high, between Dupper's Bridge 
 and Thorpe's Bridge. 
 
 On the last day of the season, April 4th, 1835, during 
 another run from Print Hill, the hounds crossed a brook 
 near Weston Mill so flooded that there was from sixteen to 
 eighteen yards of water. Mr. Charles Eussell rode at it, 
 and his mare jumped as far as she could in, and then rolled 
 over on to her side owing to the force of the current. Mr. 
 Russell was carried away by it, and only reached the land 
 with great difficulty, and amidst the cheers of the 
 spectators remounted his mare, which had swam out. He 
 came up to the hounds at Cubbington Wood, and after 
 running through Weston and Waverley Woods the fox 
 was killed near Eyton by two couples and a half of hounds 
 only, the remainder having gone after a fresh fox. Mr. 
 Eussell threw the fox across his horse, and found the field 
 and huntsman with the rest of the pack running the fresh 
 fox in Waverley Wood. 
 
 The hounds were out on lOG days during the season of 
 1834-1835, and killed and accounted for eighty -three foxes. 
 
 SEASON 1835-36. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill continued master for the season of 
 1835-36. As Bill Boxall had left the hounds at the end 
 of the last season, Tom Day w^as appointed huntsman, 
 Jack Bansom first whip, and Jack Day, son of the hunts- 
 man, second whip. 
 
 At the beginning of the season of 1835-1830 a large 
 
1835] 
 
 MR. VYNER. 
 
 127 
 
 number of the woodland coverts were given up to Mr. E. 
 Vyner, who resided at Solihull, and established a pack of 
 thii'ty couples of hounds and hunted them himself. At the 
 beginning of the next season Mr. V;yTier had permission to 
 hunt the coverts on the north side of the Avon, and the 
 kennel at Lilliugton was given up to him. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1835. 
 Mr. W. p. Thornhill. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Bruiser 
 
 Bowman (30) 
 
 Viola (29) 
 
 Bertram 
 
 Dexter (33) .'. 
 
 Cheshire Chanter 
 
 Bashful (26) 
 
 Cruiser ") 
 
 Willing (31) 
 
 Charmer j 
 Dragon ") 
 Dauuter ) 
 
 Famous 
 
 Joyful 
 
 Solomon (32) 
 
 Woodman (31) 
 
 Bluecap (31) 
 
 Belvoir Lucifer 
 
 Daffodil (34) 
 
 Famous * 
 Jessamy (32) 
 
 Lifter "j 
 Laslier 1 
 
 Doiaf 
 
 Lounger T 
 Leader ) 
 MonarehS 
 Mentor f 
 
 Mr. Drake's Murmurer 
 
 Hymen (31) 
 
 Bounty (31) 
 
 Magic f 
 Mighty J 
 Hermit S 
 Harper f 
 
 Midnight (32) 
 
 Rakish (31) 
 Termagant J 
 Warble (26) 
 
 Hotspur f 
 Hoyden J 
 Rector 
 Tyrant ") 
 
 Testy 5 
 
 Warble 
 
 Dexter(33) 
 
 Hermit (28) 
 
 Bachelor (33) 
 
 Windsor ") 
 
 Whipster f 
 
 Belvoir Rummager 
 
 Whimsey (31) 
 
 Watchful) 
 
 * By Mr. Horlock's Farmer — his Banquet. Bought as a five-year-old by Mr. 
 Thornhill in 1834. 
 
 t By Mr. Horlock's Dragon — his Dowager. Bought as a two-year-old by Mr. 
 Thornhill in 18.33. 
 
 X By Lord Anson's Dragon — his Twilight. Bought as a five-year-old by Mr. 
 Thornhill in 1833. 
 
 No first-class run is recorded during this season, and 
 only a few good days' sport. Scent lay very badly during 
 the whole season, not only in Warwickshire, but through- 
 out the whole country. 
 
128 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [183G 
 
 A more serious drawback to the wind-up of the season 
 arose from another source. At the beginning of January 
 it became evident that disease had attacked the hounds, 
 and by March nine couples and a half of the best of the 
 bitches and five couples of the dog hounds died. A similar 
 disorder attacked other kennels. 
 
 From " Notitia Venatica ": 
 
 Amongst the clog hounds, which were kept in a separate kennel, there was 
 not one single instance of the malady showing itself, although they had been 
 fed from the same trough and breathed the same air. The disease had 
 evidently been introduced amongst them by inoculation, as it was a well- 
 known fact that about three weeks or a month prior to its first appearance, 
 when hunting at Wolford Wood, the hounds were joined by a cur dog, which 
 was observed by the whipper-in to quarrel with and bite several of them. 
 By taking the precaution of separating the hoimds Avhen the madness first 
 broke out, the remainder, about fifteen couples of valuable bitches, were saved. 
 
 [Jack Boore, kennel huntsman of the Warwickshire, was bitten by a dog 
 in a state of rabies, when administering castor oil to him. He displayed 
 extraordinary and commendable nerve, and never gave way to any dread that 
 he would go mad. A celebrated surgeon told Lord Willoughby de Broke 
 that he attributed the escape of Boore from any evil consequence to the 
 chance that some of the castor oil probably was on his hands at the time. 
 Lord Willoughby provided the men with gloves to wear while the epidemic 
 lasted, but it is thought that they were not always very particular about 
 using them. — W. R. V.] 
 
 In the course of this season new and commodious 
 stables and kennels were erected at Shottery, within one 
 mile of Stratford-on- Avon, and after one season at Welles- 
 bourne, the establishment was removed there. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill gave up the hounds at the end of this 
 season, and they were taken to Wellesbourne, as the lease 
 of the Butlers Marston Kennels had expired. 
 
 The Warwickshire Hunt Ball, for 1836, was held in 
 the Shakspeare Hall, at Stratford- on- Avon, on Tuesday 
 evening, the 12th of January. The meeting was one of 
 unusual splendour and magnificence, being composed of 
 most of the noble and distinguished families in this part of 
 the county. No less than 330 personages were present. 
 The members were dressed in the uniform of the Warwick- 
 shire Hunt. Officiating stewards : Joseph Townsend, 
 Esq. ; Captain CunjTighame ; R. Barnard, Esq. ; and 
 Arthur Shirley, Esq. 
 
IS3G] SALE OF ME. THORNHILL'S STUD. 129 
 
 Amongst the best supporters iind fox preservers of the 
 1 flint were Lord Craven and Jjord John Scott. The former 
 hunted a pack of staghouiids for two seasons, but gave 
 them up for the better sport of liunting the fox. 
 
 C'a])tain Ibbert was an ardt'ut friend of the sport, 
 and a bold and good rich'r. Amongst other noted riders 
 were Lord Howth, Mr. II. (Ireaves, Mr. H. Horley, 
 Mr. Horride. ^Ir. Smith, of Pebworth, and Mr. John 
 Dadk'v. 
 
 Mr. Holyoake, of Studk'v Castle, afterwards Sir F. H. 
 (Toodricke, often hunted with the Warwickshire hounds, 
 and he was well known as one of the crack riders in 
 Jjeicestershire. 
 
 "Scrutator " says that Mr. R. Barnard was a bold and 
 skilful rider, and no fence was too hio-h or wide for him 
 that his horse could cover, and that no sportsman measured 
 his ground better or rode with more judgment. 
 
 SEASON 183(5-37. 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds, during the season of 18;30- 
 1S37, were managed by a committee, consisting of Mr. 
 Shirley, Mr. Townsend, Mr. B. Granville, Mr. Holden, 
 and Mr. Barnard. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's stud of twenty-three hunters were all 
 except one sold at Tattersall's on May 3rd, 1830, and 
 fetched the following prices : 
 
 Horses' Xames. Purchasers. Guineas. 
 
 Goluiupus Mr. Worrall 7T 
 
 Chance Mr. Cripp ,5;^ 
 
 Flirt Mr. Leichwald 41 
 
 Student Mr. Alex. Spier.s 43 
 
 Tlie Tai-tar Mr. Auderson 60 
 
 Forester Bought in at 340 
 
 Red Rose Lord Gardiner 210 
 
 Fauny Mr. Mas.sey Stanley 1L5 
 
 Creeper Lord Lilford 220 
 
 Lady Jane Lord Jersey 160 
 
 Shamrock Sir Francis Goodricke 350 
 
 Labitat Mr. Yates 77 
 
 Patrician Captain Gleii;- 81 
 
 Gainsborough Lord Alfoi-d 81 
 
 Cressida Lord Dorchester 75 
 
 Vol I. K 
 
130 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ri836 
 
 Houses' Names. 
 
 Griinaldi 
 
 Vain])yre 
 
 The Avcliitect 
 
 Tlie Pouy 
 
 Miiss Preston 
 
 Tlie Midge 
 
 Dairymaid 
 
 Tlie Nun 
 
 PnicuASEKS. Guineas. 
 
 L( .1(1 DarIiii,<»-ton 300 
 
 Lord Douolas 170 
 
 Lord Alford 146 
 
 Mr. Anderson 270 
 
 Mr. Hulden 37 
 
 Mr. Beddoes 45 
 
 Mr. George Payne 76 
 
 Mr. Fellowes..! 40 
 
 ^Ir. Bernard Grranville,* of Wellesbourne Hall, acted as 
 field-master, and, in fact, as actual master of the hounds. 
 The misfortune which had happened to the pack caused the 
 numl)er of hunting days to be reduced to two a week, with 
 an occasional bye day. Tom Day continued to act as 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1836. 
 Mr. Granville. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Blossom I 
 Brnsher ) 
 Danger 
 Dapline 
 Dowager 
 Liberty . 
 Rarity 7 
 Racer ) 
 Rally... 
 Striver . 
 
 Mr. Drake's Jangler Bonnty (31) 
 
 Solomon (32) ' Daffodil (34) 
 
 Delicate (33) 
 
 Lord Scarborongli's Carver 
 Lord Lonsdale's Lounger . . 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Racer . . 
 
 Vestris (34) 
 
 Midnight (32) 
 
 Bowman (30) 1 Rally (29) 
 
 Belvoir Striver \ Hasty (33) 
 
 Welcome ") l^^.^^ Scarborough's Carver | Whimsey (31) 
 
 Willing ) , I 
 
 huntsman. This was a great change from the long period 
 during which the country had been hunted five, and some- 
 times six, days in the week, and the sport fell far short of 
 what it had been in former years. 
 
 Mr. Bernard Granville was born Feb. 4th, 1804, and 
 died Jan. ()th, 1809. During the years 1830-1839 the 
 Warwickshire were under his management, jointly with 
 
 ♦Bernard Granville, Esq., of Wellesbourne Hall, J. P. and D.L., was the eldest 
 son of Court Granville, Esq., of Calwich Abbey, Staffordshire, and Wellesbourne, 
 Warwickshire, by his wife Maria, daughter of Edward Ferrers, Esq., of Baddesley 
 Clinton, eo. Warwick. The Gran\-ille family are of very ancient Hneage, and their 
 ancestors, hoth by sea and land, have on numberless occasions maintained the honour 
 of England, and shown their faithful allegiance to the Crown. 
 
Portrait of Mr. Bernard Granville and the Warwickshire 
 
 Hounds ; Tom Day, Huntsman ; Jack Ransom, 
 
 first Whip ; Jack Day, second Whip. 
 
 From the picture 
 
 by Webb. 
 
 The property of Major Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall. 
 

 >niuod83ll9 'tq srfT 
 
1836J MK. BEENARD GRANVILLE. 131 
 
 Mr. Shirley, jMr. Townsend, Mr. Holden, aiul ]\Ir. Barnard. 
 After the retirement of Mr. Thornhill at tlie end of tlie 
 season lS35-3(), Mr. (Iranville acted as field-master. The 
 fine quality of the horses during his mastership M^as 
 particularly noted. The AYarwickshire are said to have 
 never previously possessed such a stud for quality. Mr. 
 Granville's own favourite mount was a horse called The 
 Admiral, for which he gave 300 guineas (a large sum in 
 those days), and afterwards sold it for 400 guineas. It was 
 this horse, we are told, that he gave to Tom Day at the 
 foot of Brailes Hill, in the course of a noted run from 
 Wellesbourne, whereby the huntsman was enabled to get 
 up and kill his fox. 
 
 Mr. (Iranville also kept a pack of harriers at Welles- 
 bourne, which went out two days a week, and were hunted 
 by himself.* 
 
 On Nov. 30th, lb30, from a meet at Bishop's Itchington, 
 Eadbourne Gorse was drawn, and, after running for half an 
 hour in covert, the fox went away, and was killed near 
 Southam after a run of twenty minutes nearly straight at 
 the best pace over grass. 
 
 SEASON 1837-38. 
 
 The next season was one of the worst yet recorded. 
 During tiii. early part of it sport was very poor, and from 
 Dec. Istf very severe frost stopped hunting for three 
 months and a half. 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds were put into Ufton Wood 
 on Monday, 5th March, where they found a fox immedi- 
 ately. He took them two or three turns round the wood, 
 and then went away across the ploughings for AAHiitnash 
 Gorse, skirting which, he held on over grass at a good 
 
 * Major Bevil Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall, the eldest son of Mr. Bernard Gran- 
 ville, was a capital rider to hounds. He served with great distinction during the 
 Crimean War, and was one of five out of twenty-four officers of the 23rd Welsh 
 Fusiliers who was not either killed or wounded at the battle of Alma. He was shot 
 through his coatee, and one of his epaulets was carried away by a bullet. 
 
 1 1 was told by the late Mr. Everard, of Ladbroke Hall, that he remembered the 
 great frost of 1837, and that there was no hunting from December 1st until March 10th. 
 — C. M. 
 
 K 2 
 
132 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1837 
 
 pace to Chesterton Wood, tliroiigli which he ran without 
 dwelling for a moment. On to Yerney's Grorse, Fletcher's 
 Coppice, along the Grrass Bottoms, to Lighthorne Eongli, 
 through which the scent was carried without a check. 
 From thence over grass to Compton Yerney, where, 
 entering the gardens, and scaling the wall, a few minutes 
 elapsed before the door could be opened for the hounds, 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1837. 
 Mr. Granville. 
 
 Names. 
 
 SlUES. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Boaster | 
 Brilliant ) 
 Bertram ^ 
 Blameless f 
 Boimylass t 
 Barmaid J 
 Barrister "^ 
 Brusher [■ 
 Bashful 3 
 Commodore 
 Cardinal 
 Cruiser 
 Comely 
 Caroline 
 Crafty 
 Driver 7 
 Dabehiek j 
 Ferr3'mau 
 Frantic 
 
 Famous 
 
 Manaij-er ... 
 Wonde- ) 
 Witelicraft 3 
 Skilful 
 
 Windsor "i 
 Wildfire [ . 
 Warble J 
 
 Woodman (31). 
 
 Brilliant (32) 
 
 Dexter (33) ! Blameless (30) 
 
 Bluecap (31) , Wliimsey (31) 
 
 Cryer (30) 
 
 Bluecap (31) 
 
 Bel voir Fatal 
 
 Belvoir Fatal 
 
 Hymen (31) 
 
 Woodman (31) 
 
 Brocklesby Gambler 
 
 Baronet (30) 
 
 Matchless (33) 
 
 Delicate (33) 
 
 Bertha (34) 
 
 Woefid (31) 
 Miduig-ht (32) 
 
 Hopeful (31) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 Spangle 
 
 Warspite (31) 
 
 which gave pug a chance.* Here there was another fox 
 seen to enter Bowshot Wood, but it was quite evident that 
 the hounds were not baffled by " the stranger " from 
 Ufton, who, ignorant of the proximity of Walton Wood 
 and the woodlands on his right, kept the open country by 
 
 * Mr. Jesse Eales, now gamekeeper at Compton Teruey, viewed the fox as he 
 passed the gardens at this place. 
 
1S37J GEEAT RUN FROM UFTON WOOD. 133 
 
 Conibroke to the brook near Foss Farm (Mr. Sargeant's), 
 where lie bore away for the left, along the brook side to 
 Brookhampton, where, crossing, he left Butler's Marston 
 to the right, and, being hard pressed by the hounds, he 
 deviated to the left, over the Moorland's Farm, and on to 
 Owlington (Mr. Whateley's), where, again hard pressed, he 
 altered his course a little to the right over Mr. Cockbill's 
 farm, and straight over Edge Hill, where it v\as again 
 evident that he was the " stranger," for he passed the 
 earths untried ; and the pace, though the best that could 
 be looked for at the end of the twenty-fourth mile, showed 
 that he was unable to run away froiji the hounds, and they 
 were unable to overtake him. He then again bore to the 
 ]ei"t, dropped into the valley between Arlescote and 
 Warmington, crossing the meadows for Avon Dassett, which 
 he left to the right ; and, continuing his course below the 
 Burton Hills, over the grass country, and Gaydon Hill, he 
 steered straight for Itchington Holt, before entering which 
 cover the hounds were stopped, there being then only the 
 Inmtsman and some half dozen other men up, with horses 
 unequal to facing the deep country before them at the end 
 of a run of thirty miles, almost without a check, and with 
 a fox clearly anxious to give the hounds another day's 
 work fropT Ufton Wood."''" 
 
 The next best day of which there is any record was on 
 ^ I arch 15th, when the meet was at Long Itchington, and 
 Kadbourne Gorse was appointed to be drawn, but as 
 \V'atergall was only a short distance out of the way, it was 
 decided to draw that covert. The hounds found a fox, and 
 at once went away with him, and ran without a check by 
 Worndeighton and Boddington, leaving the gorse on the 
 left, and skirting Lower Boddington up to Warden Hill, 
 where the fox probably went to ground. The duration of 
 this run is recorded as only twenty minutes, but we who 
 
 * Mr. Daniel Serjeant, of Long Itchington, was otit in this run, and helped to 
 stop the hounds at the last. He was a notable sportsman, and hunted nearly up 
 to the time of his death, which occurred on Dec. 7th, 1895, at the age of seventy-nine 
 years. 
 
134 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1838 
 
 know the country think that this is impossible, even if the 
 lionnds liad run (juite straig'ht, as the distance is seven 
 miles by the Ordnance map as the crow flies. The time 
 occupied was probably thirty-five minutes, making the run 
 so much the more brilliant. In the meantime, a large 
 crowd had assembled at Kadbourne to see the famous gorse 
 drawn, but when it was ascertained that the hounds had o'one 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1838. 
 Mr. R. Barnard and Committee. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Denmark > . . 
 Duchess J 
 Wildboy ") 
 Wellington ) 
 Hermit ■^ 
 Hazard ( 
 Harmless t ' 
 Hasty J 
 Romulus ") 
 Remns ) ' 
 
 Rasselas 
 
 Rambler '^ 
 Royster [• . , 
 Rally 3 
 Cardinal 
 Chorister 
 Cruiser 
 Careless 
 Countess 
 
 Castor 
 
 Cruel ■) 
 Conquest j 
 Sultan 
 
 Rival 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dexter (83) 
 
 Woodman (31) 
 
 Lord Segrave's Draco 
 
 Lord Scarhorougirs Rasselas 
 Lord Scarborough's Rasselas 
 
 Mr. Hall's Roderic 
 
 Mr. Whyndam's Cardinal . . . 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Cromwell 
 
 Sir John Cope's Comus 
 
 Mr. Drake's Sultan 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Harrogate 
 
 Bounty (31) 
 Dairymaid (32) 
 
 Hopeful (31) 
 
 Woeful (31) 
 Warspite (31) 
 
 Barbara (34) 
 
 Bridesmaid (34) 
 
 Ruljy* 
 
 Daffodil (34) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 
 Harmony 
 His Rival" 
 
 * Duke of Grafton's Rustic — his Rapid. Bought by Mr. Granville as a two-year- 
 old in 1837. 
 
 elsewhere, they went into the covert and beat it throughout 
 with dogs and. sticks, the consequence was, tliat not long 
 afterwards it was drawn blank,* on the occasion of Warwick 
 Race Meeting, when a very large field attended. 
 
 * At the present time such a disappointment is not likely to occur, as the best of 
 the rented coverts, such as Ladbroke, Watergall, Welsh Road, and Oxhill Coverts, are 
 looked after by paid watchers. 
 
1838] LEAMINGTON. 135 
 
 Leamiiiiifton, which in Mr. Corbet's time was only a 
 vilhige, had now become a great hunting centre, and its 
 rise was no (hjubt in a great measure owing to its fine 
 mineral waters. Copp's Hotel anus for many years the 
 ])rincipal resort of hunting men, although the greater 
 part of the meets of the Warwickshire hounds were a 
 considerable distance from Leamington. In a diary which 
 we have seen, written by Lord Mountgarret, he speaks of 
 hunting regularly on a Tuesday in the Mitford Bridge 
 country, and on Friday above Edge Hill, with more than 
 twenty miles to ride to covert and on Wednesday he rode 
 as far to meet the Pytchley hoiyids before the railway 
 could assist him, and no doubt many sportsmen had often 
 thirty miles to ride home after hunting with the AVarwick- 
 shire hounds. Amongst those who hunted there in 1886 
 were Lord Eastnor, Sir E. Mostyn, Mr. M. Wise, Capt. 
 Laint, Lord Howth, Lord Ongley, Capt. Sanderson, 
 Capt. Magennis,* Lord W. Lennox, Lord Dillon, Capt. 
 Fairley, Lord Cranstoun, Mr. Vaughan, Lord Hopetonn, 
 Capt. Montgomery, Sir J. Hanmer, Mr. MoUineux, Sir A. 
 Brooke, Mr. Bicardo, Capt. Ongley, Mr. W. Beaumont, 
 Sir P. Payne, Capt. Mostyn, Sir D. Baird, Sir H. Titch- 
 borne, Lord Boss, Capt. Grant, Capt. Burgess, Mr. 
 Fazakerl^v, Mr. Beaumont, ]\L'. Bradley, t Sir John 
 (ierard, Mr. Boycott, tic. 
 
 A club was started by Lord Eastnor at Copp's Hotel, 
 which in its early days was very successful, and the hotel 
 itself was fitted up at enormous expense. Owing to the 
 medicinal ])roj)erties which existed in the mineral springs, 
 the population largely increased, having risen from 543 in 
 1811 to 12,864 in 1841, and in 1851 to 15,724. Li 1834 
 Ml-. IJobert Vyner, of Eathorpe, established a pack of 
 hounds to hunt part of North Warwickshire. T)ui*ing his 
 first season he resided at Solihull, where he had about 
 
 * Captain Magennis rode regularly to hounds with only one arm. 
 
 t Mr. Bradley was a very liberal supporter of the chase, and he kept a pack of 
 hounds, which were used as harriers, and sometimes hunted a stag. He had kennels 
 at Leamington ^see " Cecil," p. 319, 1854 Ed.], but he afterwards removed his pack 
 to near Soutliam. 
 
136 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1839 
 
 tliirty couples of hounds, but next year he removed to 
 Leamington. In ls;i8 lie was succeeded by Mr. Hellier, 
 who hunted the hounds liiniself until 1S43, and the North 
 Warwickshire country as it now exists was not established 
 until about eight years later. In 1850 the well-known 
 Captain Anstruther Thomson, the master of " The 
 Atherstone," hunted the adjoining part of North War- 
 wickshire. This is roughly the foundation of the North 
 Warwickshire country. In 1881 the population of Lea- 
 mington was 25,856. In 1891 it was .2(5,930. Many 
 good sportsmen still come out from the Koyal Spa, and in 
 spite of having been satirised by the " Gentleman in 
 Black " and other sporting writers, they are fond of a 
 hunt, and are first rate hands at 
 
 CHARGING AN OX-FENCE. 
 
 -^ 
 
^2\ ^^^ 
 
 
 " ONLY JUST OUT OF A WALK." 
 
 Hai-k I what loud sliouts 
 Rf-oelio tlivoui,'-]! the o-roves ! He breaks away; 
 Shrill horns pruclaiiii his flight, each straggling' hound 
 Strains o'er tlie lawn to reach the distant pack. 
 'Tis triumph all and joy. — Soinerville. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 MH. K. .). BAH.NARl) THE NEW KENNELS AT KINETOX EDWLN" 
 
 STEVENS HIS HUNTING DIARY. 
 
 SEASON 1839-40. 
 ^Ik. R. J. ]x\KNARi), iiftervvards Lord Willoughby de Broke, 
 succeeded to the mastership of the Warwickshire hounds 
 in LS39, and in doing so he came most opportunely to the 
 assistance of the Hunt at a time of considerable difficult}', 
 for no country can he made the most of or hunted in a 
 satisfactory manner by a committee of management. He 
 had for long past been an ardent supporter of the hounds, 
 and he will always be remembered as a genuine and 
 enthusiastic sportsmen, and under his management the 
 country enjoyed a long continuance of fine sport. The 
 subscribers to the hounds and the farmers shortly had 
 an opportunity to show how much they appreciated his 
 determination to show sport, and very able assistance was 
 given to him in his management by his near relations, Mr. 
 Hugh Williams and Mr. Townsend.* With a quick temper 
 
 * Mr. Josepli Townsend was in the Engineers, but ho left the Army rather early, 
 and lived with his father at Honington, where he married, in 1825, the daughter of 
 Prebendary Barnai-d, of Lighthorne. In 18'}5 he had left Wellesboui-ne,and had settled 
 at Alveston, whore he resided till his death. He seems to have had a great share in 
 koopuig the hounds goiug at a rather critical period of their history. He was one of 
 those who helped to pick up Mr. Thoruhill when he had a very bad accident, and 
 smashed in the side of liis face. 
 
138 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1839 
 
 he united the kindest heart, and we well recollect his many 
 actions of thoughtful generosity in the field and on other 
 occasions. 
 
 We said just now that at the time when the Warwick- 
 shii*e hounds were managed by a committee (always an 
 unsatisfactory arrangement), and their fortunes were at 
 a low ebb, for tliey were hunting only two days a week, 
 and perhaps the sport, though we have scarcely any 
 record of it, was not quite up to the mark, Mr. Robert 
 John Barnard came forward, and was chosen as sole master. 
 This seems to have been the turning point in the fortunes 
 of the Hunt, and although the pack have not always main- 
 tained since the same high level of sport, yet since that 
 date there has been always an onward flow; and, in spite of 
 the ebbs and flows, the high tide of sport inaugurated by 
 Mr. Barnard and his keen and able huntsman has 
 never since entirely failed.' It is an old and true adage, 
 that the more foxes you kill the more you have, and the 
 reason is not far to seek. If a man keeps foxes, he likes 
 to have them hunted, he likes to have them killed ; and 
 Mr. Barnard and Ned Stevens were certainl}^ killers — the 
 former represented perhaps the old, or rather transition 
 style, the latter was a new man in every particular and 
 entire essence. Many a good judge has held that, with 
 the exception of a few men like the late Charles Payne, 
 the late Frank Beers, the late Wm. Groodall, and Tom 
 Firr, no huntsman ever got away quicker on the back 
 of his fox, and no one hunted him with more dash and 
 determination. Mr. Barnard was perhaps slower, but 
 he was no less sure, and his great popularity in the 
 county, arising from his own jDersonal character and 
 unaffected good nature and homeliness, added much to 
 his success. A more popular master and a keener 
 huntsman never joined hands in the preservation and 
 destruction of foxes till the present Lord Willoughby 
 took up the double role in his own person. Mr. Barnard 
 was bred a sportsman. Born at Lighthorne Rectory on 
 Oct. 7th, 1809, his father. Prebendary Barnard, and his 
 
Lord Willoughhy de Broke (Mr. R. J. Barnard), 
 
 /Vlaster of the Warwickshire Hounds, 
 
 *839=56 and 1861=62. 
 
 From the engraving by R. J. Lane (1863); after the picture 
 
 by Lowes Dickenson, at Compton Verney, Warwickshire. 
 
,(b-i: 
 
 31- -I9lt£ : 0-iH 
 
1839J MR. BARNAED. 139 
 
 mother a sister of Henry Lord Willoiig'liby de J^roke, he 
 was taught to ride ahiiost before he could walk, and many 
 and far w^re the expeditions he took on his noted donkey 
 about the country. Prebendary J^arnard was in many 
 respects a remarkable man. An active magistrate, a 
 respected country clergyman of the old school, a noted 
 partridge shot and walker, and a keen, bold rider — he 
 represented an ideal which is fast passing away. Many 
 tales are still told in Lighthorne of his prowess in the 
 saddle. Tradition says that he rode his old mare over the 
 high double gates out of the stable-yard at Lighthorne 
 Eectory, and tliough we may well, disbelieve this, we can 
 credit the story whicli says that he jumped every white 
 gate between Lighthorne and Compton Verney on the 
 same animal. No day was too long for him, and no task 
 too hard, till the time when stricken down by an attack of 
 paralysis (which may have originated in the terri1)le fall 
 he had near Ladbroke, when he was thrown against the 
 branch of a tree), he had to spend the rest of his days in 
 a Bath chair. 
 
 Mr. Eobert John Barnard was sent to Eton and 
 Oxford. At Eton his chief resort was " old George Hall's " 
 and many a day's fishing and bird shooting did the two 
 have tog'^ther. The present Lord Willoughby and the 
 writer have often sat in old (xeorge's sanctum near the 
 Brocas, and heard them tell of their father and his love 
 for the wild sport with the gun and rod that the river 
 afforded. He afterwards went to Christ Church, and 
 became acquainted, amongst others, with the present Lord 
 Macclesfield, Mr. George Lane Fox, the Duke of Somerset, 
 the late Mr. Thornhill, the late Mr. Golding, and many 
 other noted sportsmen. There was one bond of union 
 between them all, and that was "the road." 
 
 In those days, when the railroad was only just coming 
 into existence, the road was still the great highway of 
 transit ; the chorus was still lingering, 
 
 Let the steampot liiss till it's hot, 
 Give me the speed of the Tantivy trot. 
 
140 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1839 
 
 From London to York, from Birming-luini to Oxford, 
 from Oxford to Exeter — on all the great higli roads, and 
 many others — the coaches were still running, and it was 
 under the tuition of Ward and his cotemporaries that 
 Mr. Robert Barnard and his friends learned coaching in 
 a way in which no amateur of the present day has a 
 chance of acquiring the art — by actual stern experience. 
 iS'o one put his four horses together better than Mr. 
 Barnard, and though his hands on a hunter were never 
 iirst rate, he had only to be seated on the box with the 
 ribbons, when he seemed to be able to do with his team 
 what he liked. I remember he used to say to us, " Any- 
 one can drive fast, my boy. Look at my horses, they are 
 only just out of a walk, and yet everyone is doing his 
 share ; " while I have lots of times seen him hit his near 
 side leader under the bars from the oft'-side, not such an easy 
 feat as it sounds to be. Kvpcrio crcdc I remember, after 
 a BuUingdon dinner someone essayed to drive the team 
 home. Whether the potency of the old brand was too 
 great, or the " Bol-o'-wax " chorus had been too 
 inspiriting, it was discovered when we got to Tom 
 Gate that old Taylor's well-trained team of screws had 
 performed the journey unaided by any control from the 
 box, the reins never having been handled fron; the start ! 
 It was not such teams as these that Lord Macclesfield, 
 Lord Algernon St. Maur, Mr. (lolding, Mr. Barnard, Sir 
 Walter Carew, or Mr. Fortescue used to drive on the south- 
 western road, by Whitchurch and Salisbury, on a dark, 
 cold niglit, too, in the snow and rain and wind, and time 
 having to be kept as well. No sport came amiss to Mr. 
 Barnard — hunting, shooting, fishing, drivmg, farming, 
 yachting — he not only had a try at them all, but generally 
 succeeded, not because lie was particularly adapted by 
 strength or physique for any one of them, but because he 
 thoroughly loved the country, and the sporting instinct 
 was, as it were, born with him. He was very nearly killed 
 by his best friend out shooting ; he swam the Compton 
 Lake in his clothes after a day's partridge shooting, just 
 
1839] MR. BARNARD'S DIARY. 141 
 
 to know how it would be it' you were upset. He never 
 overturned his coach as far as I know, but he was very 
 nearly drowned oil' the Land's Knd in the crank Z^///(Y/.s7///'y^ 
 llltc/i, that most unlucky l^oat ; and he was once l^i-ou^-ht 
 home senseless from a kick on the head from old " Dun- 
 church," but he was faithful to the sport to the last, and 
 died in liarness, a master of hounds, deeply regretted, not 
 only by his family and tenants (he was the kindest of 
 fathers, and the fairest and most considerate of landlords), 
 not only by all true Warwickshire sportsmen, but by men 
 and women (»!' all classes and degrees, who mourned him as 
 a true Eno-Hsh "-entleman, one of the olden time. " He 
 dwelt amongst his own people," 'and by them he was 
 universally beloved and honoured. 
 
 We have onlv a few fragments of his diary in Mrs. 
 J^arnard's (afterwards Lady Willoughby's) handwriting, 
 from which we give a few characteristic extracts : 
 
 1843. November 4, Wroxton Abbey. — Did not find till Upton Gorse ; ran 
 to an eartli that was not stopped. Found attain, and did the same. 
 
 November 7, Neicbold Pacey. — Found at Oakley Wood. After running- 
 ill the wood for about half an hour, went away very fast to Coppington. 
 where the fox went to ground, the earth only stopped by a little loose straw. 
 Very provoking of Mr. Court, as the fox was only one field before the hounds, 
 and could not have lasted five minutes. The brook was full of people, and a 
 great many falls. Drew Moreton Wood, found ; but the scent so bad, owing to 
 tlie leaves falling, obliged to leave our fox. Drew Bow.shot blank. Found 
 in the Dog-k^nnel Cojjpice, Comptcm ; ran him to ground in a drain by 
 Russeirs hcmse; bolted and killed. Killed another fox. which was l)rouglit 
 fruin Oakley Wood, caught by some foot ])eople. 
 
 November 9, Hillmorton. — Found immediately ; went away very fast in 
 the direction of Crick, by Telvertoft and West Haddon, and lost a famous 
 fox ; no scent at all. Met a fox in the turnpike road coming towards 
 Dunchurch which crossed the railway for Hillmorton Gorse ; came liack 
 towards Cooke's Gorse, where he was headed ; turned back on the foiled 
 ground, lost at Hillmoi'ton ; shocking scent. 
 
 Monday. November 13, Eatimjton Village. — ^Found in Brickkiln Gorse ; 
 went away very fast towards Liudon's house, over the turnpike road near 
 Halford Bridge, across Eatington Park to the Grove, skirted it. and l)ack l)y 
 the village to Brickkiln Gor.se; (uit again at the bottom for Walton, where the 
 fox was headed, and killed in the open as he was trying to get l)ack to the 
 gorse ; tliree-quar.'ers of an hour, best pace, the fox licing in view the last 
 four fields. Found again at Rough Hill, back to the Grove, and then again 
 to Rough Hill : away at the bottom for West's plantation, on towards 
 Aldermaston; turned to the right, tlirough West's plantation by the keeper's 
 house, on to Fir Grove, where he was run into after thirty minutes, liest pace. 
 
142 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ri8S9 
 
 S((fiird(nj, November 25, OxhUl Village. — Foiuid at Idlicote ; took a 
 ring- very fast towards the house, where tlie fox was very near caught in the 
 laurels. He tried to get back to Hell Brake, where lie was headed, and put 
 his head straight for Pillertou to Brickkiln Gorse, out at the end towards 
 Walton, and lost, after fifty minutes best pace. 
 
 Monday, November 27, Lighthorne Village. — Found at Chesterton 
 Wood; went away very fast througli Lighthorne Rougli to Hurlestane's house, 
 where the fox was lieaded short l)ack, and lost, tlunigh dead beat, close to the 
 hounds. Twenty-five minutes, best pace. 
 
 One of the most auspicious and remarkable events 
 whicli took place during his mastership happened in 1889, 
 and it must he recorded to the honour of the country as 
 quite unique in the annals of foxhunting. It had become 
 necessary to build new kennels, and these were erected at 
 Kineton in the most commodious and substantial manner, 
 and at the same time at the smallest possible cost, by the 
 generous assistance of all who could help in any part of 
 the undertaking ; and so well was the work done that, 
 without having been rebuilt, the same kennels have been 
 repaired and improved at various times, and are there at 
 the present time. The land for the purpose was given by 
 Mr. George Lucy, of Charlecote, and the buildings were 
 designed by Mr. Hugh Williams, who w^as entirely his 
 own architect. The cost of building was defrayed by a 
 .subscription of members of the Warwickshire Hunt. The 
 materials w^ere drawn to Kineton by ISO farmers, who used 
 for the purpose 553 waggons, and this was done at a time 
 of the year when harvest operations had also to be carried 
 on. We have in an earlier chapter taken notice of the 
 splendid spirit shown by the farmers in support of hunting, 
 and it is a great pleasure to find that this has not dimin- 
 ished, and to be able to record such a tribute to the 
 increased popularity of hunting. The first stone of the 
 kennels was laid on July 24th, 1889, and the building 
 was finished on the following 15th of October. The 
 buildings consisted of two good houses for the hunts- 
 man and stud -groom, and rooms for other kennel 
 servants and stablemen. The stabling consisted of ten 
 loose boxes, nine stalls, and another stable for four horses, 
 which could be used as two loose boxes. The kennels 
 
1839] THE NEW KENNELS. US 
 
 consisted of tliree large lodging rooms and two smaller ones, 
 with feediaig rooms, boiling-house, ilesh-house, &c. 
 
 We think that the following statement of Sir Hugh 
 Williams contains so many interesting particulars that we 
 have given it cei'batiiu : 
 
 Kineton, May 'lOtli, 1842. 
 
 Having boon iiitimatoly coiineotod Avith tlie nianagomeiit of the Warwick- 
 shire Hunt siiico the country has boon liuntod on its present footing by a 
 connnittoo, and for some time past having held the respousiblc office of 
 treasurer, 1 ain anxious, now tliat I liave ceased to be so, to give to my 
 friends a short review of how tilings have been carried on for the last six 
 seasons, and to jjut before them the present state of their finances. In doing 
 so, I have thought it would give most satisfaction if I embodied the Avhole of 
 the transactiims as managed by my predecessors in office, together with those 
 which I have had more particulai'ly to deal wi4:h. I believe my statement to 
 J)o cpiite correct, and have vouoliers for all matters of detail tied up and ready 
 for the inspection of any gentleman who may wish for further information. 
 
 I bog now to thank all sup})ortors of tlie hounds, aiul all those who have 
 been kind enough to put an indulgent construction upon my endeavours to 
 .serve the Hunt, and to subscribe myself. 
 
 Their obedient servant, 
 
 Hugh Williams. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 
 
 At a meeting of the subscribers to the Warwickshire Hounds, held at 
 Wellesbourne, on tlie 7th day of April, 1836, Bernard Granville, Esq., in the 
 ■chair, it was, among other things, resolved : That a committee, consisting 
 ■of Evelyn John Shirley, Esq., William Holbech, Esq., Robert John Barnard, 
 Esq.. Joseph Townsend, Esq., Hyla Holden, Esq., Bernard Granville, Esq., 
 and Bolton King, Esq., be requested to conduct the future management of 
 the Hunt, u.n*'l such time as some individual should come forward to hunt 
 the country, upon certain terms agreeable to the subscribers. 
 
 In order to carry into effect the wishes of the said meeting, the 
 committee did from time to time moot together, and after fully investigating 
 the resources of the Hunt, they came to the determination, at a meeting held 
 at Mr. Granville's on the 21st of April, of addressing every subscriber to 
 the Hunt iudi\-idually by a circular, and requesting their attendance at the 
 Warwick Arms, in Warwick, on the 27th of April, to form some definite 
 arrangement as to the future himting of the country. 
 
 A very full meeting of the subscribers was consequently held on the 27th 
 of A])ril, 1836, at the Warwick Arms. Hyla Holden. Esq.. being in the 
 chair; wlien it was dotormiuod tliat tlie afore-nanunl committee be 
 •empowered to keep the hounds, ami liunt tlie country two days a week or 
 more, according to the subscriptions guaranteed to them; and further to 
 make such arrangements as they might tliink proper with any other 
 gentleman coming forward to hunt any part of their present country that 
 they might not want. 
 
 In consequence of the above, Mr. Townsend was deputed to see Mr. 
 Hellior, which he did in company with others, and a great addition to his 
 
144 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [183» 
 
 country, or ratlicr to tliat portion of the Warwioksliire conutry that he was 
 theu hmitiiig, was made over to liiiii ; and the committee thought it expedient 
 for the ends of sporting in general to he liberal on this point, confining their 
 own exertions to the sphere now so well known and defined as the 
 boundaries of their Hunt. Possibly some inconvenience may have been 
 ex])erienced during the cul)hunting season from the cession of the large 
 woodlands to the north of Leamington ; but, on the whole, the arrangement, 
 it is presumed, has tended to the satisfaction of the public, and undoul)tedly 
 Mr. Hellier has done everything in his power to increase the stock of foxes, 
 and maintain the goodwill of occupiers and owners towards the maintenance 
 of hounds in general. 
 
 The first arrangement of the committee was to depute one of their body 
 to act for the rest, as master of the hounds in the field, and he has exercised 
 unlimited power over their direction in every point connected with the sport. 
 The fixtures have been made by him, and he has been as completely master 
 of the hounds as any master of any neighbouring pack. Mr. Bernard 
 Granville, Mr. Thornhill, and Mr. Barnard have successively filled this office, 
 and the hunt liave much to thank them for. Their second arrangement was 
 to depute another gentleman to act as treasui*er, and it has been his office tO' 
 manage the whole of the finance department connected with the yearly 
 expenditure, and especially to remind gentlemen in red coats, at the cover- 
 side, not to let their subscriptions get into arrear as in former days. I say 
 in former days, for on Mr. Thoruhill's retirement from the post of master of 
 the hounds, at the end of the season 1834-5, it was found that the anioimt of 
 subscriptions guaranteed to him by the country had not, for the whole three 
 years of his mastership, ever been realised at the bank, and that there was a 
 deficiency to l)e made up of from 6001. to 7001., Avhich, through the exer- 
 tions more particularly of Mr. Townsend and Mr. Holden, has, after a 
 considerable lapse of time, been put straight. Up to the middle of the 
 season, 1839-40, this post of treasurer was filled by Mr. Townsend ; and, tO' 
 show how ably and zealously he performed his part. I need only refer to the 
 state of the exchequer, Avith a debt as before stated, when he took to it, and 
 the altered state of affairs at the close of the season just ended, 1841-2, with 
 a balance in hand of 203/. 14s. 7d. Since his retirement the office has been 
 filled, to the best of his ability, by your humble servant, who now, being also 
 put upon the shelf, is anxious to render an accoimt of his stewardship, and to 
 put before his friends such matters of detail as occur to him, and with which 
 perhaps many of them are not so cognisant as himself. 
 
 A tliird arrangement of the committee was to set on foot a plan for raising 
 a fund for providing a- stud for the servants, independent of the annual 
 contribution for keeping up the establishment. This fund, for the first 
 three seasons, was strictly confined to that object, and Avas under the able 
 management of Mr. Holden ; but subsequent to that time it was tluraght 
 very desirable to establish kennels as the property of the Hunt, and it was 
 agreed by the subscribers that the fund shoidd be made available for the 
 joint purpose of building kennels and providing a stud. Much incon- 
 venience had been experienced up to this time from the want of a fixed 
 kennel. Previous to Mr. Thornhill's retirement, the hoimds were kejt at 
 Butler's Marston, and the kennels had been allowed to become much 
 dilapidated by the owners of the property, which was so mortgaged that the 
 Hunt had received notice both from the mortgagor and mortgagee to pay the 
 
1889J BUILDING THE NEW KENNELS. 145 
 
 rent (100?. a year) to tlieinselves severally. In order to got away from the 
 lawytn's. the committee nMnoved the hounds to temporary kennels at 
 Wellesbourne, where they remained for the seas(m, 183(5-7. They were then 
 removed to Siratford-on-Avon, and remained there two seasons, 1837-8 and 
 1838-9; bnt this Incality was fonnd so very inconvenient, it being' quite on 
 the extreme outside of the country, that a strenuous appeal was made to the 
 public, and ultimately funds were raised and the buildinof erected at Kineton, 
 that the estahlishment now occupies as the freehold of the Hunt. The first 
 stone of these bnihliug's was laid on the 27th of July, 1839. and the whole 
 estaldi.shment — men. women, children, hcn'ses, and hounds — took up their 
 abode in thi'in on the 19th of October. Althouo^h a sp.ice of only twelve 
 weeks had been occupied in their erection, there was not a single cold 
 eauirht by man. horse, or hound, and this circumstance is mentioned as it 
 was thougOit impossiV)le l)y so many at the time to build and to season them 
 for occupation in so short a period. The whole of tlie haulage of material 
 was done by the fainiers of the country, and to^ their credit be it. said, that 
 on the first day that their assistance was asked there were sixty-one waggons 
 with ionr, five, and even six horses in some, all on the giound togttlu r. In 
 the whole there was 525 days' haulage, with teams of the aboA'e description, 
 contriliuted l)y the farmers. The land, two acres, was given by Georg-e 
 Lncy. Esq.. and the conveyance thereof is also subsequently printed for 
 the information of all subscribers. The total cost of the buildings and 
 property as it now exists was : 
 
 On account of matei'ial and labour, including roads, "] £' s. d. 
 drains, fences, fixtui-es, and kennel furniture. Also. / 
 including bOl. allowed to Mr. Thornhill for fixtures [ 2623 6 
 that were in reality Avorn out before the hounds came 
 
 to Kineton 
 
 The haulage, as above given by the farmers, and valued at 525 
 
 The land given l)y Mr. Lucy, and valued at 200 
 
 Law expen.ses of conveyance 16 10 
 
 £•3364 10 6 
 
 Mr. Holden. as bi'fore stated, had for the first three years the mauag-ement 
 of tlie fund appropriated to the stud. This fund was raised by shares of 251. 
 each : it was arranged that the stud should be sold at the end of three years, 
 and that it should be tlien o])tional on the part of any gentleman to go on 
 with his .stock or to claim his money. The stud was consequently sold in the 
 sjjring of 1839, and the ])articulars of the sale appear forward. At this time 
 Mr. Holden retired, and Mr. Tliornhill took the management, he being also 
 deputed master of the hounds. Under his auspices, tlie fund became con- 
 verted from its original pur])ose to the joint object of providing a stud, and 
 of building kennels, without any limit being set for the after division of it 
 among the subscribers as before. This, however, is to some extent provided 
 for by the deed of conveyance, and to which I must refer you for further 
 information. In the middle of the season 184.0-4.1, Mr. Thornliill gave up the 
 management in consequence of ill-health, and it fell to the lot of your humljle 
 .servant to succeed him ; he thinks, therefore, that he may as well here 
 commence his statement of the management of the fund, as it appears to him 
 upon a careful inspection of the bank and other accounts. 
 
 Vol.. I. L 
 
146 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 1839 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT STUD. 
 
 Names of the Horses. 
 
 The Judge 
 
 Flaci-ow 
 
 Bay Horse (died) 
 
 Chesuut Horse (lamed) 
 
 Black Prince 
 
 Miss Preston 
 
 Clinker 
 
 Master Henry (died) 
 
 Brilliant 
 
 Mr. Shirley's Grev 
 
 Ditto Black 
 
 Frolic 
 
 Pilot 
 
 Baronet 
 
 Cock Rohin (died) 
 
 Buck '. 
 
 Hit or Miss 
 
 Jerry 
 
 Duchess 
 
 Jim Crow 
 
 Emperor 
 
 Victoria 
 
 Napoleon 
 
 Bay Mare 
 
 Barmaid 
 
 Sarjeant's Mare 
 
 Mr. TattersalFs charges on the sale of 
 stud, May 13, 1839 
 
 Road expenses 
 
 Present to Luke Latham 
 
 Expenses of ])reparing stud, for sale, paid 
 to the Warwickshire Hunt Committee, 
 1839-40 
 
 Petty expenses, per Mr. Holden 
 
 JDitto per H. Williams 
 
 Harka way (roarer) 
 
 Sailor (unsold) 
 
 Chance 
 
 Geoffrey 
 
 Forrester ( I)lind) 
 
 Sir Francis 
 
 Sportsman (died) 
 
 The Nun (lame) 
 
 Bay mare 
 
 Grey Momus (roarer) 
 
 Railroad 
 
 Modesty (unsold) 
 
 Greyling 
 
 Nimrod 
 
 Decider 
 
 Harlecpiiu 
 
 Sir Rowland (un.sold) 
 
 Conductor 
 
 Cost Price. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 50 
 
 40 
 
 80 
 
 80 
 
 105 
 
 38 17 
 
 45 
 65 
 
 100 
 
 70 
 
 30 
 
 40 
 
 35 
 52 10 
 40 
 25 
 
 115 
 
 65 
 
 60 
 
 80 
 
 60 
 
 80 
 
 65 
 
 36 
 50 
 80 
 
 180 14 
 
 46 7 3 
 
 20 
 
 93 1 4 
 
 23 18 3 
 
 14 7 
 
 65 
 
 63 
 
 50 
 
 67 5 
 105 
 
 68 
 100 
 
 80 
 
 63 
 
 100 
 
 80 
 
 50 
 
 103 
 
 100 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 
 79 5 
 
 68 
 
 What Sold Foe 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 168 
 
 178 10 
 
 8 
 
 300 
 
 25 
 
 61 19 
 
 336 
 
 50 
 
 94 10 
 
 54 12 
 
 38 17 
 
 73 10 
 
 10 
 
 94 10 
 
 79 16 
 
 110 5 
 
 88 4 
 
 87 3 
 
 105 
 
 50 
 
 33 
 
 57 15 
 
 72 9 
 
 31 10 
 
 84 
 
 50 8 
 
 30 9 
 
 150 
 
 15 
 
 30 
 
 46 4 
 
 330 15 
 
 157 
 
 150 
 
 28 
 
 38 17 
 
 73 10 
 
1840] 
 
 GOOD EUN FROM UFTON WOOD. 
 
 147 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT STTJD— continued. 
 
 NAMES OF THE HORSES. 
 
 Irish Mare 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Hai-k Mare 
 
 Mr. Tattersall's charges ou sale of stud, 
 
 1841 
 
 Road expenses 
 
 Present to Luke Latham 
 
 Expenses of prei)aring stud for sale, paid 
 
 to Warwickshire Hunt Committee, 
 
 1840-41 
 
 VVeutworth 
 
 Rul\v { hime) 
 
 Potter (roarer) 
 
 Rocket 
 
 Pliantom (unsold) 
 
 Herald (unsold) 
 
 Pilot 
 
 Rosamond ( unsold) 
 
 Chesuut Horse 
 
 Groyling (unsohl) 
 
 Bi'own Horse (dead) 
 
 Grej- Mare (unsold) 
 
 Chesnut Hack 
 
 Road expenses 
 
 Total cost of Horses 
 
 Deduct cash I'cceived for Horses sold 
 
 Amount of cash still invested on account 
 of stud 
 
 Cost Prick. 
 
 What Sold For. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 ^l. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. d. 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 43 10 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 4 
 
 100 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 n 
 t 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 H5 
 
 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 . 45 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 4385 
 
 17 
 
 8 
 
 3759 
 
 8 
 
 3759 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 626 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 
 Harry Taylor was liiiiitsinau to Mr. Barnard in 1839, 
 and he continued to be so until 1S42. 
 
 The best run, and the only one recorded during- that 
 period, took place from Ufton Wood on Oct. 2()th, 1840, 
 and at a time when the country which was crossed must 
 have been too blind to ride over. The hounds, after being 
 for some time in the wood, went away with an old 
 fox for Print Hill, but turned back over Mr. H. Horley's 
 farm ; and, leaving Harbury to the right, ran on to 
 Ladbroke Village, and through that to Hodnell, and 
 thence to the right as if for Watergall ; but before reaching 
 the covert they turned to the left, and ran straight 
 by Wornileighton nearly to Boddington Hill, and here 
 
 L 2 
 
148 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ri840 
 
 the fox wtis headed, and turned short back towards 
 Radbourne Grorse, and before reaching the Southam and 
 Daventry Road he turned right-handed towards Napton, 
 and before reaching the village inclined more to the right 
 towards Shuckburgh, and got to ground in Mr. Drake's 
 country. This run lasted three hours and a half, over the 
 finest country, and very few persevered to the finish, which 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1839. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Nambs. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Jupiter ") 
 Jessaiuy ) 
 Racer ~) 
 
 Ruby [ 
 
 Racket j 
 Marplot ") 
 
 Millwood ^ 
 
 Matchless j 
 Modish 7 
 
 Melody > 
 
 Termag'ant 
 
 Lord Scarborough's Mai'plot 
 Bluecap (31) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Mortimer 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Mortimer 
 Bluecap (31) . .. 
 
 Joyful (35) 
 Rarity (36) 
 
 Woeful (31) 
 
 Bertha (34) 
 
 Testy (35) 
 Whimsey (31) 
 Dairymaid (32) 
 Destiny (33) 
 Vanity * 
 
 Whimsey 
 
 Wai'rior 
 
 Lord Scarborough's Marplot 
 
 Woodman (31) 
 
 Woodman (31) 
 
 Bluecap (31) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Pagan . . . 
 
 Heythrop Voucher 
 
 Heyt hrop Vouclier 
 
 Craftsman (34) 
 
 Woodbine 
 
 Viro'iu 
 
 Pilot 
 
 DafPodil (34) 
 
 Plunder 
 
 Victory 
 
 Comely 
 
 Jericho > 
 
 Jewess j 
 
 Their Peevish 
 Their Racket 
 Harmony (34) 
 
 His Jezebel 
 
 Mr. Smythe Owen's Jericlio 
 
 * By Lord Southampton's Vanguard — Duke of Grafton's Fj-autic. Bouglit by 
 Mr. R. Barnard as a five-year-old in 1839. 
 
 was seen only by Harry Taylor and the first whip, 
 Mr. H. Horley,--^-^ Mr. ¥. Ward, Mr. W. Brown, and his 
 son. 
 
 We were told by the Rev. William Miller that during 
 the season of 1841 he saw a very fine run from Bowshot, 
 through Lighthorne Rough ; and from thence through 
 
 * Mr. H. Horley was a very hard-ridiug yeoman and a welter weight. I well 
 remember seeing him still going well many years afterwards, and dressed as he always 
 had been, in a green coat and brass buttons, and wearing a cap. — C. M. 
 
1841] 
 
 EUN FROM BOWSHOT. 
 
 149 
 
 Itehingtoii Holt to North End, and over the Burton Hills, 
 by Farnborongh and Claydon, to Edgcote, and from there 
 to Thorpe ^landeville Gorse, but the fox was not marked 
 mto it. The fastest part of this run was from North 
 End to Edgcote ; the whole of it was over a grass 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1840. 
 Mr. R. Baknard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Bachelor ... 
 Bowman . . . 
 
 Bluster 
 
 Choorly 
 
 Comrade ) 
 Coiu£ueror ) 
 Dowager ... 
 Furrier "^ 
 Famous I 
 Frantic T 
 Flourish j 
 Harlequin ") 
 Hazard > 
 Hotspur 3 
 
 Herald 
 
 Jealousy . . . . 
 Lavender . . 
 Pagan ") 
 Pastime \ 
 Purifv J 
 Pilot" ^ 
 Pillag(-r / 
 Primrose T 
 Prompter J 
 
 H.'grnt 
 
 Rul)ens 
 
 Tarquiu 
 
 Vcngeanee . 
 
 Baehehn- (33) 
 
 Belvoir Blueeap *.. 
 
 Mr. Foijambe's Admiral 
 Mr. Foijambe's Herald .. 
 
 Craftsman {34} 
 
 Dexter (33) 
 
 Brocklesby Furrier 
 
 Halifax (33) 
 
 Mr. Foijambe's Herald ... 
 
 Belvoir Chaser 
 
 Lounger (35) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Pagan 
 
 Belvoir Prompter 
 
 Craftsman (34) 
 
 Mr. Foijambe's Cruel 
 
 Belv(jir Champi(m 
 
 Broeklesby Ring-wood . . . 
 
 Dainty * 
 
 Mr. Foljanilie's 
 
 Sprightly 
 His Bounty 
 His Columbine 
 
 Dairymaid (32) 
 
 Diligent f 
 
 Mermaid (34) 
 
 Careless (38) 
 
 His Rally 
 Jovful (35) 
 Bertha (34) 
 
 Daffodil (34) 
 
 Their Wisdom 
 
 Resolute J 
 His Riot 
 Testy (35) 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 Volatile 
 
 • By Mr. A. Smith's Vainal — his Dainty. Bought by Mr. E. Barnard as a fivo- 
 year-uldin 1838. 
 
 + By Duke of Boaufort'.s Abclanl — Mr. Horloek's Dulcet. Bouglit by Mr. J!. 
 Barnard as a four-year-old in IS'VJ. 
 
 X By Duke of Grafton's Harrogate — his Kival. Bought as a two-year-old in 183!) 
 by .Mr. H. Uiiniard. 
 
 country, and from point to point the distance is nearly 
 seventeen miles, and more than twenty miles as hounds 
 ran . 
 
150 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1842 
 
 We were told by the late Mr. Lanclor, estate agent of 
 Taclibrook, that Bowshot obtained its name under the 
 following circumstances : The land on which the covert 
 is planted belonged formerly to the Mordaunt family. 
 About 400 years ago an ancestor of Lord Willoughby de 
 Broke owned a celebrated greyhound wdiicli Mordaunt 
 wished to possess, and it was agreed that the owner 
 of Compton Verney should receive as much land in 
 exchange for the dog as he should shoot an arrow 
 
 Names. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1841. 
 Mr. R. Babnaed. 
 
 D.\MS. 
 
 Albert 
 
 an') 
 y 3 
 
 Bellman ' 
 Bounty 
 Bluecap 7 
 Bridesmaid ) 
 
 Bugler 
 
 Dauntless 
 
 Fairplay 1 
 
 Mr. Drake's Artist , 
 
 Mr. Drake's Bachelor. 
 
 Lounger (35) 
 
 Brocklesby Furrier.... 
 Wildboy (38) 
 
 Brocklesby Ferryman. 
 Mr. Drake's Bachelor 
 
 Forester 
 Handmaid 7 
 Harrogate ) 
 
 Harpy Halifax (33) 
 
 Hector -- — 
 
 Jasper ") 
 Jovial ) 
 Lavish ~) 
 Lively [■ 
 Lucifer j 
 Nautilus 
 Victory ") 
 Vocal ] 
 
 Mr. Drake's Hector 
 Brocklesby Furrier.. 
 
 Lounger (35) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Nero 
 Dexter (33) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 Captious 
 
 Bertha (34) 
 
 Barljara (34) 
 
 Bridesmaid (34) 
 Diligent 
 
 Destiny (33) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 
 Hostage 
 Blameless (37) 
 Bonnylass (37) 
 
 Joyfid (35) 
 
 Welcome (36) 
 
 His Hasty 
 Vanity 
 
 over lengthways and breadthways with two pulls of his 
 bow. Bowshot Covert^ half of which still belongs to 
 Lord Willoughby, was planted on this and the adjoining 
 land. 
 
 The celebrated Edwin Stevens became huntsman to 
 the Warwickshire hounds in LS4.2. We have often heard 
 him called the prince of huntsmen, and a few particulars 
 of his career will not be out of place in a work of this 
 
1842] 
 
 EDWIN STEVENS. 
 
 151 
 
 description. His father was in trade, and lived at Horn- 
 cluircli, in Essex. There were thirteen in the family, and 
 he was one of the youngest. As a boy he had many 
 opportunities of seeing the Essex hounds at exercise, and 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1842. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Caudid The Vine Grauby 
 
 Clamorous 
 Comus I 
 Crier ) 
 Constauce . . 
 Firebraud . 
 Gaiety \ 
 Governess ) 
 Gaudy 1 
 Gaylass ) ' ' 
 Graceful ") 
 Governor ) 
 Gulliver 
 Halifax ^ 
 Hannibal > 
 Hector J 
 
 Harlot 
 
 Nimrod 
 
 Paradox ") 
 Prizer ) 
 Playful... 
 Pilgrim .. 
 Ra«selas 
 Rhap.sody 
 Rosamond 
 Rosv 
 
 Telltale > 
 Trinket) ■ 
 Tuneful .... 
 Van^^uard ) 
 Vagrant j 
 
 Victor 
 
 Woodman 7 
 Workman ) 
 
 Commodore (37 ) 
 
 Commodore (37) 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Chanticleer 
 Mr. A. Smith's Frederick... 
 
 Sir J. Mill's Gambler 
 
 The Cheshire General 
 
 The Vine Granby 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Governor 
 
 Berkeley Jasper 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Admiral 
 Berkelev Nelson 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Paradox 
 
 Heythrop Plunder 
 
 The Vine Pilgrim 
 
 The Vine Pilgrim 
 
 Mr. A. Snuth's Dreadnought 
 
 The Clieshire General \ 
 
 Hari^er (35) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Vanguard , . . 
 Duke of Beaufort's Matchless 
 Brocklesby Druid ] 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Cres- 
 
 sida 
 Welcome (36) 
 
 Rarity (36) 
 
 His Panic 
 His Bustle 
 
 Ruby (39) 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Dia- 
 dem 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Glory 
 
 His Victory 
 
 Harmless (38) 
 
 His Heedless 
 Duke of Beaufort's 
 Rosamond 
 
 His Parasol 
 
 Racket (39) 
 Careless (38) 
 
 Rally (38) 
 
 His Rosy 
 
 Mr. A. Smitli's Tell- 
 tale 
 
 Testy (35) 
 
 Woodbine (39) 
 
 His Virulent 
 Duke of Beaufort's 
 Warspite 
 
 hounds and horses seem to have been all his pleasure and 
 delight, for he would never take much to his books. There 
 were no School Boards or attendance officers then, and, 
 like some other distinguished men, he was what is called a 
 
152 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1842 
 
 l)a(l Ijoy to ^'o to school. A quotation will apply from 
 Shakespeare's " Seven Ages of Man ": 
 
 The whining schoolboy with his satchel 
 
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
 
 Unwillingly to school. 
 
 One day his father sent him to school under the charge 
 of the village policeman ; we are sorry to say that Edwin 
 fastened on to his custodian's ear. He must have heen 
 quite young when he obtained a situation as whip in the 
 Duke of Grafton's establishment. In the year 1842, when 
 only twenty-nine years of age, he came as huntsman to 
 Mr. Barnard, and for nine years he carried the horn with 
 the Warwickshire with never varying success. He owed a 
 good deal of this to his determination always to be with 
 his hounds and to his intense love of the sport, his whole 
 heart being in it, and some say to the way in which he 
 was helped and seconded by Morris, the first whip. It 
 was a well known saying that it must be a good fox 
 which could get away from Ted Stevens and Morris. 
 The latter who, when Mr. Barnard used to hunt the 
 whole country, carried the horn on two clays in the 
 northern district, used to act as a sort of telegraphist 
 to Stevens. We have often heard the late Lord 
 Willoughl^y (Mr. Barnard) say that when hounds were 
 at fault and Stevens had made his casts, if unsuccess- 
 ful, which was not often, he used to say, " I wonder 
 where Morris is ! " and eight times out of ten there 
 was heard the well-known holloa which soon set the 
 ball rolling again, generally to the discomfiture of poor 
 reynard. 
 
 When Stevens had been hunting the hounds for about 
 five years, at a meeting of the Leamington Sporting 
 Committee, held at the Bath Hotel on the .20th of May, 
 1S4(), it was unanimously resolved : " That the sum of five 
 pounds be given from the fund to open a subscription for 
 the purpose of presenting Stevens, the huntsman of the 
 Warwickshire hounds, with a silver tankard or cup, and 
 the two whippers-in with such presents as the committee 
 
1842] TESTIMONIAL TO STEVENS. 153 
 
 may hereafter determine. Tliat Messrs. George ISniith, 
 li. B. Beach, W. Stanley, l{. Coates, and Samuel Merry be 
 appointed a committee, with power to add to their number." 
 The following were added to their number: Mr. Trench, 
 Mr. H. Horley, Mr. Cowper, Mr. F. Eobbins, jun., Mr. 
 Thomas Taylor. Then follows a list of 135 subscribers, 
 nearly all farmers and tradesmen, showing how popular 
 Stevens was with them, none of the sums exceeding 
 one guinea. AVe notice amongst them the Leamiuf/fon 
 Sjja Co/frier. The late Mr. Daniel Sarjeant, with ^Ir. 
 J. Eose, and Mr. Edward Knott, who are still hunting 
 with the Warwickshire hounds, were subscribers to the 
 fund. 
 
 The amount subscribed, 79/. O-y. Or/., was thus disposed 
 of: 
 
 Stevens' Silver Cup ... 
 
 ,, Cash 
 Morris (1st whip) ... 
 Hicks (2nd whip) ... 
 Liike (feeder) 
 Purses and postage... 
 Dinner at presentation 
 Cash to Stevens to treat tiie men 
 
 The latter item of (5/. 12*. iid. was divided amongst 
 twelve kennel men, the last entry being noticeable — kennel 
 boy, Bobert WoiTall, lO-y. This must be Eobert Worrall, 
 late huntsman to the (Jld i^erkeley and the Vale of White 
 Horse, who before that carried the horn under Squire Lucy, 
 and to whom we shall allude in another place. We have 
 been fav(jured with a sight of the cup, which is a double- 
 handed silver tankard with a fox on the lid. It is now in 
 the possession of Stevens' daughter, who man-ied, as her 
 second husband, Mr. Middleton, of Tysoe and Kirby Farm, 
 and who now resides at Oxhill, not far from the far- 
 famed Oxhill (lorse. Bound the cup are embossed repre- 
 sentations of hounds in full cry, with two mounted figures. 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d. 
 
 21 14 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 5 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 4 18 
 
 
 
 6 12 
 
 6 
 
 ^79 
 
 6 
 
154 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1842 
 
 evidently liuntsman and whip, who have just caught sight 
 
 of their sinking fox. One is turning round in his saddle 
 
 to point him out to the other. The inscription is as 
 
 follows : 
 
 Presented by the 
 
 Leamington Sporting Committee and other Friends of 
 
 FOX HUNTINa 
 
 to 
 
 Mr. E. Stevens, 
 
 Huntsman to the Warwickshire Hounds, 
 
 in acknowledgment of his efficient services in that capacity. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Stevens remained as huntsman to the Warwickshire 
 for four more seasons, and continued to show good sport, 
 and in the year 1851 he went to Lincolnshire as huntsman 
 to Lord Henry Bentinck,* that thorough, hut somewhat 
 eccentric sportsman. We have no record of the sport he 
 showed in that country, which he did not like as much as 
 Warwickshire, but he served under a master who under- 
 stood hunting about as well as any sportsman in England. 
 
 * Lord Henry Beiitinck was a great sportsman and a remarkable man. I 
 remember his coming to see a hunter belonging to Mr. Cooper, of Farnborough, in the 
 summer, when he was as usual dressed in black with a white tie. When he asked to 
 bo allowed to ride the horse, Mr. Cooper, taking him for a Methodist parson, said, " You 
 will never ride him." Lord H. then made himself known, and, gi-eatly to Mr. C.'s 
 astonishment, mounted and rode the horse like the perfect horseman he was, and gave 
 300Z. for him. I also remember dining with him alone at Lincoln, where he lived, 
 after a day's hunting with his hounds, and hearing all that he had to relate of a long 
 life of sport ; and no man living had seen more or better understood hunting, salmon 
 fishing, and deer stalking, and I learnt mvich from him that was of use in after years. 
 I asked him on that occasion if he still owned a horse which, when five years old, had 
 been offered to me for sale, but I did not buy him because he stood over to such an 
 extent that his legs were quite crooked. Lord H. replied, " I have still got him, and 
 although I am very particular, I consider him the best horse I ever had." I after- 
 wards saw him sold at Lord H.'s sale, when he had given up hunting, at the age of 
 seventeen, for more than his original price of 130?., for which sum I might have bought 
 him. Lord H. always interviewed his huntsman after dinner, and told him that he 
 ought to have made certain unsuccessful casts in a different direction. Lord H. hunted 
 the whole of Lincolnshire six days a week, carrying the horn on two days himself. He 
 rented what is now two large deer forests, besides a grouse moor and a large part of the 
 Lochy river, living there, as he did elsewhere, almost alone. He, partly on account of 
 fear of the gout and partly to keep himself in training for hard work, drank Uttle else 
 but water, and he carried nothing for luncheon but a single biscuit in his pocket. He 
 died at Saxby Hall, the residence of my friend the late Mr. Hope Barton, and the 
 cause of death was undoubtedly his state of over training, amounting to actual 
 starvation. — C. M. 
 
Edwin Stevens (Huntsman) on his wliite mare 
 
 jumping a brook. 
 
 From a picture 
 
 by 
 
 Webb. 
 
 The property of Mr. John Arl<wright, of Hatton. 
 
artRtn 9i OBmatnuH) enayaJS nv/rbU 
 
 :0 nd B • 
 
 .noWsH to .jrrf^gi .iM to ^Jnaqoiq dilT 
 
1842] 
 
 EDWm STEVENS. 
 
 155 
 
 There was only one tiling- Stevens objected to, which was 
 tlnit Lord Henry did a good deal of his business with him 
 on Sunday. If anyone has earned a Sunday's rest it is a 
 huntsman t(^ a six days-a-week pack of hounds. In 1852 
 he went to London to see the Great Exhibition, and after- 
 wards spent a week at his old haunts at Kineton. On 
 liis return to Lincolnshire lie was seized with an attack 
 of English cholera, and died very shortly afterwards 
 at the age of thirty-nine. His wife was a relation of the 
 celebrated George Carter, and his grandson, the son of 
 Mrs. Middleton by her first husband, Mr. Ward, is now in 
 the merchant service. If only he was alive now, which he 
 well might be, what a lot more he might have been able to 
 tell us about the grand sport in Warwickshire during Mr. 
 Barnard's mastership, which is now lost, we fear, to our 
 readers for ever. No better or keener huntsman ever blew 
 a horn or cheered hounds on to a sinking fox. 
 
 We append the following extract from Fore's " Guide 
 to the Hounds of England " for 1850, as it deals with the 
 period when Stevens was leaving Warwickshire, and the 
 whip referred to in the passage is probably Morris : 
 
 Name op Coontry or Hounds. 
 
 Master. 
 
 HCNTSMAN. 
 
 DATS OF Hunting. 
 
 Tlie "Warwieksliire 
 
 Mr. Bai'nard 
 
 Stevens 
 
 Monday 
 Tuesday 
 
 Favourite Fixtures :— 
 
 
 
 Wednesday 
 
 Ufton Wood, Ladbroke, 
 
 
 
 Thursday 
 
 Bunker's Hill. Mitford 
 
 
 
 Saturday 
 
 Bridge Gorse, Taclibrook 
 
 
 
 
 Toll Bar, Kineton, Stone- 
 
 - 
 
 
 
 leigli Abbey, Duncliurcli. 
 
 
 
 
 Briekkiln Gorse. 
 
 
 
 
 Mr. Barnard lias a fine liunting country and a very working pack o£ 
 hounds, middle sized, and rather deficient in substance. Stevens is said to be 
 a steady, good man ; liis kennel discipline is first rate, and the hoiuids evince 
 a handiuess in the field surpassed by none. He came from the Duke of 
 Grafton, having been seven years under George Carter as first whip, and he 
 has now entered upon his eighth season with the Warwickshire, during which 
 time Mr. Barnard has been master. 
 
 Leamington is a grand resort for the " visitors " who hunt with these 
 hoimds, and they are said to be not a few. The Warwickshire will only himt 
 
156 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ri842 
 
 four days this seasou instead of tive, wliicli tlicy have liitliertobeon apeustoinod 
 to do ; they have fifty-five couples of lioumls in tlie Kiueton keuuels, and killed 
 forty-four brace of foxes last season. A clever instance of " thought and 
 action " was displayed by the Warwickshire first whi}) some five seasons ago. 
 A fox had been twice found in a small spinney, and after a brilliant niu over 
 a fine grass vale, had saved his life on each occasion by reaching an unstopped 
 oartli ill a distant part of the country. They found him a third time, and the 
 whip no sooner recognised his friend than, recollecting the earth, he put his 
 horse's head straight for it, and reacliiug it, jumped in up to his top ])oots 
 just in time to stop the fox out, who, by-the-bye, almost ran against him with 
 liis nose as he passed over, and never went to ground again. Tlie poet. 
 Somerville, author of " The Chase," " lived and hunted " in this country. 
 
 Edwin Stevens kept a continuous diary of liiinting, 
 whicli has been kindly lent to us by Mrs. Middleton, and 
 from which we have taken many extracts. Since Warwick- 
 shire became a huntinty country, there was no better hand 
 than Ted Stevens at 
 
 SWISHIXG A RASPER. 
 
FACIXG A BROOK. ' 
 
 See ! liow tliey range 
 Dispers'd, how liusily this way and that 
 They cross, examining with curious nose 
 Each likely haunt. Hark ! on the drag I hear 
 Their doubtful notes, preluding to a cry 
 More nol)ly full, and swell'd with every mouth. 
 
 Somerville. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 STEVEN^ DIARY"'' MR. HUlill WILLIAMS AND LADBROKE 
 
 GORSE THE HILLMORTON RUN. 
 
 'Ynv. first c.vtract from Edwin Stevens' diary shows that the 
 first season of his hunting the Warwickshire hounds was 
 1S4.2, when, during- twenty-six days out hunting, he killed 
 twenty foxes, and ran fourteen to ground and left them. 
 
 Nov. 5th, 1842, Wroxton Abbey. — Foimd and ran A ring in the Plantations 
 to ground under A tre. Bolted him and Killed him. Found again in 
 Witliecomb Gorse, and crossed the Brook and Left Broughton village and 
 Castle on tlie Left and Tadmarton and Wiggiugton on the right Pointing to 
 Great Tow and Bare to the right and Left the Heythrop New gorse covert 
 on the Left and Buttermilk Coverts also to ground in Swarford Park a hour 
 and a half very good hunting run. 
 
 21.s/. Chesterton Mill. — Found A fox in Ladbroock Spinny and Hxmted 
 him very Pretty to the New covert at Burton hill to ground 40 Minutes. 
 Found in Itchington Heath and Uuted him by verners Gorse and Chadshuut 
 lieatli to Cliadshunt and Turned to the right by Pool and hill fields to 
 
 We pive Stevens' diary verbatim, exactly a.s he wrote it, and in lii.s own spelling 
 
 and vocabulary. 
 
158 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1842 
 
 Lightlioi-iie rutt" waro lie waited for lis and ran very liard by Morton and 
 tliroiig-h Morton wood and hell hole and Bow.shout and Changed foxes and 
 ran by Walton and frishill and got thre(i foxes before the hounds Stopped 
 them and gave up. 
 
 26th FjinveU White House drew^ about Comptou Wyniates Blank. 
 Found in Mr. Thoruals Gorse and ran very hard up to Compton and back by 
 Tysoe to Upton Edgehill and back through Upton Gorse and over the road 
 by Horuton and Knowl end Alscote and Old Leys and Burton New covert 
 Pointing to Farnborough and went to A Hollow under Fenny Comptou and 
 Lost the fox through it. 
 
 Deeeinl)er 6tli. — Found at Whiohford Wood and Broak away l)y RoUriglit 
 Hooknortou and Wiggington to Lower Tadinarton and ran him Back and 
 killed him by Wiggington Heath 2 hours hunting run. 
 
 20th Hunnington. — Found in hell Break and ran two or three rings about 
 there and away very quick to Compton Winiateand killed him. Found again 
 on Brails Hill and ran A ring on the hill and away by Winderton and 
 Swaclife by Shutford earths to Wroxton Heath were he Waited for us and 
 ran him very hard Back to Shennington Mill and Swaclift and stopped the 
 Hounds at dark Pointing to Epwell White House and we had Been running 
 that fox 2 hours and 3 quarters. A very hard day. 
 
 2'ith Ilmington — had A Blank day. 
 
 January 2d 1843 Chesterton Mill. — Found in the Mill Spiney and ran 
 very quick 30 Minutes and Killed him by Bishops Itchington. Drew Lad- 
 broak Spiness and A fox had moved. Found again in Chesterton Wood. 
 Hunted him to Itchington Holt got up to him and ran him by Gaydon 
 coppices and andertons Spiney and Alrescote. Leveing KnoAvl end on the 
 right down Hornton Bottoms by Whites Bushes and over the Banbury road to 
 ground in Croperday Field in view of the Hounds time one hour and Farty 
 minutes. 
 
 28^/i. Wroxton Neiv inn. — A fox Crossed the road before the Hounds and 
 he ran by uptou gorse and upton House and Hornton and Arlscote Wood 
 and by Avon Dasset and Farnborough to Claydon hill and killed him one 
 hour 5 minutes. Drew A Spiny liy Molington and Han well Spiunies Blank. 
 A brace of foxes got up out of A ditch Between Hanwell and Wroxton and 
 we ran very quick Back over the Brook by Hanwell to Borton and lost him. 
 
 Fehry 2Sth Mitford Bridge, drew Wolford Heath Barton Grove Blank. 
 Found in Wolford Wood and ran A ring in the Avood and away Pointing to 
 Aston Hale and Back ])y the Spinney through the wood and away over 
 Wolford Heath and by the Four shire stone l)y Chastleton to ground at 
 Adlesthorp hill with the Hounds close to liiin. One hour and 23 minutes 36 
 minits from Wolford heath the Best Pace and no cheek. 
 
 March 9th Harwoods House. — Found in Oakley Wood ran A ring in the 
 wood and away by Staroe all through Highdown Hill and over Radford 
 grounds to Ufton Wood and a ring in the Wood and away over Harbury 
 Field to Ladbrook and by Wartergall to ground at Burton hill.. 
 
 April 8th the Last of Hunting Havening been out since the First of 
 November, 75 Days and Killed 21 Brace of Foxes and ran 7 Brace to ground 
 and left them. 
 
 Total Days Hunted 101. 
 
 Foxes Killed 62. 
 
 ran to Ground 40. 
 
1843] 
 
 CUB HUNTING. 
 
 159 
 
 SEASON 1843-44. 
 
 1843 August '24f/i. — Began cub Hunting at Chesterton Wood. Found 4 
 Brace of cubs and i-au about for 4 hours and killed one in Mr Wilkins Barn. 
 
 ■26th Oakley Wood. — Found Plenty of cubs and ran their for 6 hours and 
 Killed one. 
 
 This shows the sort of stuff Stevens and his men were 
 made of. 
 
 Septr 1th. — Wellesbourne Wood 3 o'clock in the Afternoon. 
 
 This must have been an experiment. We do not know 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1843. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 IBrusher | 
 
 Commodore (37) 
 
 Brazen * 
 
 Brazen ) 
 Redcap | 
 Ragman j 
 Flambeau 
 
 Gracious "\ 
 Gii)sy ( 
 Guiltv t 
 Gallant J 
 Junket ") 
 
 Jul)ilee > 
 
 Jason 3 
 
 Minister 
 
 Lord Southampton's Ragmau 
 Lord Fitzwilliam's Flambeau 
 
 Commodore (37) 
 
 Jericho (39) 
 
 Commodore (37) 
 
 Testy (3.5) 
 
 Duke of Buccleuch's 
 Lavish 
 
 Graceful (42) 
 
 Hasty (38) 
 
 Melody (39) 
 
 Duke of Buccleuch's 
 
 Merkin 
 Rival (38) 
 
 Virgin (39) 
 Woodbine (39) 
 
 Monitor 
 
 Sailor 
 
 Vestris "i 
 
 Velvet ] 
 
 Welcome j 
 Windsor / 
 
 Watchman > 
 
 Whipster i 
 Warrior ) 
 
 Lord Fitzwilliam's Flambeau 
 
 Singer f 
 
 Lord Southampton's Sailor 
 
 Harper (35) 
 
 *By Sir Tatton Sykes' Bruslier — Mr. Foljambe's Willing. Bought by Mr. R. 
 Barnard as a five-year-old in 1840. 
 
 t By Mr. Wickstead's Cannibal — his Singer, Bought by Mr. R. Barnard as a 
 four-year-old in 1840. 
 
 if it succeeded, as they only found a brace of old foxes, and 
 gave it up. As a general rule this would not answer, one 
 great objection being, besides the absence of dew, that it 
 would throw the men so late with their work. 
 
IGO THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [18« 
 
 Last (lay of eul) limiting Oetoher 24tli. Hav(Mu,s>- liccii 30 times Si 
 Killed 2(> foxes & ran 8 to ground & Left tlieni. 
 
 October 31st Mitford Bridge. — Found iu Toddenliani Si)iny ran very liard 
 by astou Haile to Dracote lost him. Found again in Woolford he Breake 
 away tlu'ongh Leamington eopices & aston Haile and Cadley Harbour 
 Pointing Sedgccomb Bore to the Left by Blockley into Bourton Wood 45 
 Minutes changed Foxes and Stoped the Houiuls. 
 
 Mr. Barnard's frag-nient of a diary mentions this day. 
 He says : "Drew Todenham Spinneys; found, after three 
 or four dodges went away very fast in tlie direction of 
 Aston Hail ; lost him after thirty-five minutes good 
 running. Found again, Wolford Wood ; very fast fort}- 
 
 five minutes to Bourton Wood ; changed foxes, and came 
 
 1 " 
 
 home. 
 
 November 23rd Bilton Grange. — Drew Captain Hibberts Gorse Cooks. 
 Causton & the Sande Pits Leicesters Peice & Frankton Wood Blank & gave 
 it up. 
 
 Mr. Barnard's diary : " Thursday, Nov. .23rd, Dun- 
 church. Blank day." 
 
 December 18th Clopton House. — Found in the Balls rough & ran 
 Pointing to Billesley Bi'eak curved i;p to the Left up to Stratford &. Leveing 
 Welcome House on the Left and Snitterfield \illage Pointing to Hampton 
 Avood curved to the right Leveing Hatton Rock on tlie right & over the river 
 int'O the Osier bed where we left the" Hounds 42 minutes & tliey ran tlie fox 
 on to Alvestou Pastures & Changed foxes after 1 hour & 5 minutes. 
 
 Deem 27th redliill — Found a brace of foxes in Oversley wood & ran A 
 ring in the wood & away by Hazier & Greathorne through Home wood & 
 Spernall Park & away Pointing to Mays wood & curved to the Left by 
 Studley Park & Washford to Ipsley curved to the Left by Studley village 
 through Rough hill to Crabs Cross & Back to Studley Park wliere we killed 
 him A fox without A Brush the last hour & 14 minutes without A Check. 
 
 In 1843 the Heythrop hounds were termed Lord 
 Redesdale's hounds. 
 
 January 20th 1844 redliill. — Found in Astou grove & Broak away by 
 Billesley & Back Pointing to Wythecomb & curved to the left over thfr 
 Turnpik road througli redliill wood & away by Drayton pits & Shottrey over 
 the Meadows Pointing to Wire Brook & Curved to the right by the side of the 
 Avon Back by Dratou Biishes through redliill wood & the Night Cap & strait 
 through Oversley by Oversley Court curved through exall gorse to West grove 
 & Back through the Devels Niglit Cap Leveing Oversley wood on the right 
 round by exall gorse Leveing exall village on tlie left liy Dra^-ton Bushes & 
 Shottery to the river Avon & Killed by Bardon hill near Ludingtcm after 
 4 hours liard work. 
 
 February 15th Bilton Grange. — Found at hillmorton A: ran A ring of 4.> 
 
1844: LADBROKE GORSE THREATENED. 161 
 
 miuntes to i»-roun(l by Cricke vill:i<>-e in tlio Pitchley couutvy A fox crossed 
 tlio road by Biltoii A; the Hounds ran into him in 20 minutes by Hilhnortou. 
 
 The same day has l)een mentioned by " Castor," who 
 had received information of the first rnn only. 
 
 February 24^// Arlseote Parke. — Found in Brick Kiln gorso & ran him 
 strait as lie could up to the Sun Rising 35 minutes Without A Check and 
 along the hill to Knoll end & Killed him 45 Minutes altogether. 
 
 March .23rd. — The first notice in Stevens' diary of a 
 meet at Shnckburg-h Park, which was (probably abont that 
 time) taken away from the Bicester hounds and given to 
 the Warwickshire. 
 
 April 3d Ufton Wood — Found A he Break away by Stoney Thorpe 
 and by Southam Pointing to Tomebys Si)iunies Curved to the Left Pointing 
 Back to Ufton Wood but Bore to the right to Long Itchington still 
 Bearing to the right u]) to the Dunchurch Road & over the canal l)y Debdale 
 Birdingbnry Nearly to Frankton wood & by Bourtou to Papehills ware he 
 Waited for us & ran very hard to the Sandpits gorse where we changed our 
 fox he came back to the Papehills & we ran a fresh fox to groiind at Caustou 
 Lodge in the Garden and gave it up. 
 
 The last day Haveing Been out A Hundred & 17 times in the Whole 
 Had 3 Blank days in Regular Hunting & Killed Seventy three Foxes & ran 
 31 to Ground and Left tliem. 
 
 SEASON 1844-45. 
 
 AiKjmt I'lth 1844. Begun Cub Hunting Last day on Octol)er 26th 
 Haveing been out 39 times 7 times we found No cubs & Killed 33 Foxes & 
 ran 5 to Gromul and Left them. 
 
 November l4i/( Ufton Wood. — Found & broak away to Printhill ran in 
 the cover for some time & away to ground at Radford hill 45 minutes 
 Found again at Nunns Bushes & ran by Stillgoes Gorse Leveing Knightcote 
 to the right over Burton hill by Old Leys & Arlescote village to Knoll end 
 Changed our fox &. ran along Edge hill to H(n-tins & sunk the hill & away 
 over Tysoe Field Nearly to Oxliill meadows curved to the Right by Herdhill 
 Back to Edgehill & Stoped the Hounds 2 hours altogether. 
 
 Jjidhrokc Goi'.sr rnid f/ic pro/xm'd Worcexlcr rnxJ London 
 and H'lf/hfi find O.rford BaiJirai/. 
 The following correspondence will explain itself. The 
 proposal to cut a railway through Ladbroke Gorse excited 
 the righteous indignation of Mr. Hugh AVilliams (after- 
 wards Sir Hugh, agent to Lord Willoughby de Broke and 
 secretary to the Warwickshire Hunt Club), and Warwick- 
 shire sportsmen of the present day are deeply indebted to 
 
 VoT.. I. M 
 
162 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. isn 
 
 liiiu for tlic j)r()inpt and characteristic zeal with which such 
 a proposal was met and defeated. It does not seem, how- 
 ever, very clear whither the proposed railway was to run, 
 or how its route could have been throuy-h the *;-orse, 
 unless it was a sort of east and west junction which was 
 never carried out. It seems, however, the line would ha\'e 
 been from Rugby to Oxford : 
 
 As secretary to the Warwickshire Hunt Club, I think it right to send 
 you a copy of a letter just received by me from Messrs Muuton. Draper, and 
 Muuton, and my answer to it ; and I hope I may calculate npou your cordial 
 assistance in maintaining the rights of the Hunt against the raihvay jiro- 
 prietors. — I am. yours faithfully. 
 
 Hugh Williams. 
 
 Kinetcm, Nov. •24th. 1844. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 Baahury, Nov. 2i>/(f7. 1844. 
 
 Sir, — In order to coitiply with the Standing Orders of Parliament in 
 reference to the jjroposed Worcester and London and Rugby and Oxford 
 Railway, we find it necessary to inquire of you whose names (Christian 
 names and residences at full length) we ought to return as the occupiers of 
 the Fox Cover at Ladbroke. for which you pay rent to Mr. John Mann. 
 Ought we to describe yourself, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Little as a Committee 
 on behalf of the Warwickshire Hunt f — We are. Sir, your vmy obedient 
 servants. 
 
 MuNTON, Dkaper. and Munton. 
 To Hugh Williams. Esq.. Kineton. 
 
 Nov. 23r(l 1844. 
 
 Gentlemen.- Your h^ter of yesterday's date has greatly alarmed me as 
 secretary to the Warwickshire Hunt, as I gather from it your intention of 
 interfering with our Fox Cover of fifteen acres, at Ladbroke. 
 
 After an enormous outlay, and perseverance for several years in esta- 
 blishing the cover, now that we look to finding foxes in it (in the finest grass 
 country in Europe) you contemplate bringing a i-ailway. either tlirough it. 
 or close by, and thus blasting all our hopes. 
 
 In common fairness I therefore call u])on ycm, if the aljove is your 
 intention, to pay us down without loss of time at least a thousand j)ounds to 
 go elsewhere, and do the best we can in forming another cover. No time 
 should be lost, foi" it will require us four or five years to mature a covei' such 
 as you deprive us of; and we shall be losers even then, putting out of the 
 question our grievous disajjpointment. whicli I value to the Hunt at more 
 than you will CA'er ])ay. Hoping you will put the case strongly l)efore the 
 directors, or at any rate lay. tliis. my letter, before them, I will, in courtesy to 
 you, subjoin a list of the Clul). which I consider will be the best way of 
 answering your letter with regard to " Christian names and residences at 
 full length," of the whole of the gentlemen interested in the tenancy, for it 
 is rented by the Warwickshire Hunt Club; Mr. Little, Mr. Barnard, aiul 
 
I8it THE HUNT CLUB. HiS 
 
 inysi'lf hciiig mero mombcrs of it. l)ut liciug known personally to Mr. Mann. 
 are on that account ni(m> particularly lookefl to by him for the rent. T a hi 
 yours, ,S^t\, 
 
 Hu(3iH Williams. 
 
 List of Me III hers (iffhe W(n-vlckshire Hunt Chib. 
 
 Evelyn John Sliirley. Escj., of Eatington Park. 
 
 Edward Bolton Kin^, Esq.. of Umberslade. 
 
 Lord Willouijhby de Broke, of Conipton Verney. 
 
 John Drinkwater. Esq.. (tf Sherbonie. 
 
 Bernard (Ti-anville. E.S((.. of Wcllesbourne Hall. 
 
 William Holbech, Esq., of Farnborough. 
 
 Joseph Townsend. E.s((., of Alveston. 
 
 John Townsend. Escj.. of Honinjj'ton. 
 
 The Rev. John Lucy, of Ham])ton Lncy. 
 
 Lord Redesdale, of Batsford Park. 
 
 Kelynf>"e Greenway. Esq.. of WarAvick. 
 
 Lord Leig-li, of Stoneleigh Abbf^y. 
 
 Henry (Jhristo])lier Wise. Esq., of Woodcote. 
 
 Matthew Wise. Esi}., of SIirul)lands. 
 
 William Pole Thornhill, Es(i.. of Stanton. 
 
 George Philips. Esq.. of Weston House. 
 
 William Henry Wilson, Esq., of Olton Hall. 
 
 William Judd Harding, Esq., of Baraset. 
 
 Rol)ert John Barnard, Esq., of Kineton. 
 
 John Fullert(m. Esq.. of Stretton. 
 
 Charles Woodmass, Escj., of Tiddington. 
 
 John Little, Es(i.. of Newl)old Pacey. 
 
 Wasliingtdu Hibbert. Es(j.. of Bilton Grange,, 
 
 John Barnard. Esq., of Dunchurch, 
 
 Hugh Holbech. Esq.. of Coleshill. 
 
 Robert John Atty, Escj., of Ligon Hall. 
 
 Tlioma.s Shaw Hellier. Esq.. of Woodh(juse. 
 
 Gustavus TlKunas Smith, Esq.. of Goldicote. 
 
 Janu's Roberts West, of Alscot Park. 
 
 Charles Thomas Warde, Escj.. of Cloptou House. 
 
 Charles Harding, Es(|.. of Wellesl)ourne. 
 
 Darwin (ralton, Esij.. of Edstone Hall. 
 
 Robert Reid. Es(|., of Alveston. 
 
 Sir Francis Lyttleton Holyoake Goodricke. Bart., of Studley Casfle. 
 
 John Sidney North, Esq., of Wroxton Abbey. 
 
 Sir John Robert Cave Bnnvn Cave. Bart., of Kenilworth. 
 
 Christo))her Musgrave, Esq., of Leamington. 
 
 Viscount Villiers. of Uptcm H(»use. 
 
 Robert Philips. Es(|., of Snitterfield. 
 
 The Hon. William Henry Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey. 
 
 Walter Cowan. Es(,.. of Offchurch-Bury. 
 
 Viscount Duncan, of Canqjerdown. 
 
 Maxwell Steele. Es(i., of Mickelfon House. 
 
 Carrington Smythe. Escj.. of Wooton Wawen. 
 
 William Thomas Hitchins. Es(|.. of Idlicote House. 
 
 .M .0 
 
Ifi4 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 "1844 
 
 Cliiiiidos Wren Hoskyus, Esq.. of Wraxliall. 
 Stoplien Newman Kershaw, Esq., of Leaniing-ton. 
 C()r1)ott Holland Corbett, Esq., of Aflmino-fon. 
 Henry Norris, Esq., of Wroxton. 
 Hno'li Williams, Esq., of Kineton. 
 
 To Mes.srs. Munton, Draper, and Munton, Banbnry. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1844. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Amorous 
 
 Buxom 
 
 Barrister 
 
 Crafty . 
 
 Freedom 
 
 Faithless 
 
 Frantic 
 
 Fngleman 
 
 Fatal 
 
 Fearnought 
 
 Flasher 
 
 Harmony 7 
 Hojieful" 5 
 Jessy 7 
 Jewess 5 
 Joyful . 
 
 Justiee 
 
 Lawless "7 
 Legacy [ 
 Lofty ) 
 Pliant 
 
 Prudence . . 
 
 Raki.sh 
 
 Ranter 
 
 Ransom 7 
 Rustic > 
 
 Singer 
 
 Sultan 
 
 Talisman 7 
 Tudor 3 
 To])i)er ) 
 Toilet [ . 
 Tomboy ) 
 
 Testy 
 
 Tragedy 7 
 Trifle 3 • 
 Trouncer . 
 Pickwick . 
 Demon 
 
 SiRKS. 
 
 Albert (41) 
 
 Mr. Drake's Bachelor 
 
 Duke of Buccleucli's Boxer 
 Tarquin (40) 
 
 Belvoir Fatal 
 
 Harrogate (41 1 
 
 Mr. Sniitli's Frederick 
 
 Mr. Yillel)ois' Hannibal. 
 
 Berkeley Jasper 
 
 Mr. Drake's Furrier 
 Mr. Drake's Ferryman 
 
 Mr. Villebois' Hannil)al 
 
 Belvoir Fatal 
 
 Hermit (38) :... 
 
 Mr. Villebois' Hannibal 
 Mr. A. Smitli's Rattler 
 
 Tarquin (40) 
 
 Singer 
 
 Mr.' Drake's Warlder 
 
 Mr. Drake's Artist 
 
 Dam> 
 
 Lord Lonsdale's Harlec(uin ■ 
 
 Hotspur (40) 
 
 Mr. Villebois' Hannibal 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Talisman 
 
 Vine Grampion 
 
 Sir R. Sutton's Dorimont . . 
 
 Brilliant (37) 
 Vengeance (40) 
 Prie.stess* 
 Cruel (38) 
 
 Virg-in (39) 
 
 Flourish (40) 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 Gertrude 
 
 Melody (39) 
 
 Careless (38) 
 
 Jealousy (40) 
 His Jai-gon 
 
 Racket (39) 
 
 Mr. Drake's 
 
 Prudence 
 Pastime (40) 
 Racket (39) 
 Duke of Grafton's 
 
 Volatile 
 
 Rally (38) 
 
 Harlot |42) 
 His Syren 
 
 His Trinket 
 
 Sir W. Maxwell's 
 Termagant 
 
 Testy (35) 
 
 Ternnigaut (39) 
 
 His Florence 
 Their Panic 
 Oakley Caroline 
 
 * By Lord Lonsdale's Platoff- 
 Baninrd as a hrond hitch in ISt-!, 
 
 -Sir Tattoii Svkcs' Pla\'fid. Bought hy Mr. K. 
 
1845] THE HILLMORTON RUN. lt>5 
 
 Stevens" diarv : 
 
 Novenilx'r 22(/ Coiiipiou ViTiii'V. — Fouiul in Liglitlionio Rou<;-li \ ran 
 Very ([uick to Lin-litliornc ^-rounds A: Bore to tlie Left Poi]itiii<>- to Oakly 
 wood Stil Beariu-;- to tlic Left liy Xewliold Paoy to Mr Wlieatli'ys to 
 Frisi'liill up to Bowsliatf C'liaiiycd o\ir fox iS^ ran hy Conipton cV Walton 
 wood Thornton Breakc upcr (ioldicotc Hoiindsliill i^ the Fir Plantation by 
 Alderiniuster over (.•riinscotc field Skirtinj;- the downs I)y the village to 
 quiiiton village to Meanliill to ground at Jarrats Brow time np to Coni])ton 
 50 mimites from tliore A hour A: 35 minutes. 
 
 Nov. 2Sth, Bilfon Gratiye. — " Gave it up cm aeeount of the Field uvec- 
 riding tlie Hounds." 
 
 December 'Id Gaydon Lni. Fouml in Ladlimke New Covert i^ I'aii by 
 Radliourne to Fenny Compton. No seente with liim. Drew Burton cover 
 Blank Found '^ foxes in Itehiiigton Heath & ran quiek by Kingston through 
 Fletchers co])s A; verners gorse tt the fox ran up towards Mr Whitemans & 
 Turned Back Si Governess had Fairley hold' of him &. Let him go we ran 
 quick on to Lighthorne rougli tt liad the fox in the Spiny by the road i^ Mr 
 Barnard Would not let me Kill him A: we let him go away & lost him. 
 
 The Hillmorton Run 
 
 BUtuit Graiuje — Jttn luinj IHf/i 1845. — Found in the Gorse ))y the House and 
 rau very hard Pointing to Brastou Cleve Curved to the Left and Killed at 
 Hilbnorton. Found again in Hillmorton gorse and ran over Crick Fiehl and 
 Yelvertoft Field to Hemplow Hills and away Pointing to Stamford Hall 
 curved to the Right ovei- Walts he Leveing Welford on the Left Back to th.- 
 Hills and Killed him tinu' 1 hour and 25 minutes. 
 
 Letter from W. H. Fortescue Esq., of Octon, Torquay, 
 
 formerly s(}uire of Falhi])it, South Devon, Mr. Barnard's 
 
 brother-in-law. to tlie Hon. and Rev. W. K. Verney : 
 
 The task you have set me is rather like writing ancient history, but I 
 will (hi all I i^'an to jot down a few pai-ti<'ulars that I jiave thought over 
 respecting the Hillmorton run. You an^ right as to the first run from Bilton 
 Grange on the day in (piestion. ))ut we liad lost our fox and Avoro on our way 
 to draw Hillmorton. when tin- hounds suddenly threw up their lieads. and 
 began to run, doubtless our hunted fox. Had they not done this, the fox 
 niiglit have reached the gorse, and so spoilt the run {far excellence). 1 did 
 not know tlie line we took with this fox, as the country was new to me. bur 
 they ran very fa.st for fifty-two minutes to the Hemplow Hills, then van their 
 fox up and down the fences, the fields there lu'ing small, and eventiiallv van 
 into liim in the middle of a large grass field. 
 
 It was computed that there were 300 out at the meet, ])ut I cannot say 
 much respecting the riders in the first run. I was riding a horse called 
 Guy,* which I bought of Henvy Carew, and it was my first ride uu liim i?! a 
 
 * (Juy W11.S .sold })y Mr. Furtt'scue to Mr. Barnard, and he toldhim that the horse \v;is 
 not jrood at water ; Mr. Barnard inoiuitod Stevens on him with the Ucytliroj) 
 Hounds, when they mot at tlio Fox, North Aston. They found, and Stevens, seeing 
 Jem Hills jriillop down to the brook, thouf?ht, of course, tliat he knew of a i^ood plaee t.) 
 jump it, but when Jem came to the ])rook lie jumped off his liorso, haviuir had a jjlank 
 placed aerosis the water, and mounted his second hor.se on the other side. Steven^ was 
 bound to ride at tlie brook. ;uid L'ot intu it. 
 
166 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. \sir> 
 
 tiyiii^' couiiti-y. Hl' juiiipod luc into ;i limok in tin- first niii, Imt liap])ily th^^ 
 bottom was hard, and we wore soon out and ijoin^' aoain. In the second niu 
 he never put his foot wrontr, and can-icd me brilliantly. At tlic first check, 
 on the Heniplow Hills. I counted those up. and flic number was f welve ; but, 
 of eours(>. many stra^g^lers canu" up and sawtlie finisli. I did not know many 
 of tliose Avlio were out. Imt 1 think Lord Howth. Johnny Ma<hh)cks. a hard 
 ridint;- man called Wilson, and Sir John Brownrii^-<>-, and the late Lord 
 Knightley* were in the run, Tlu- hist named was ridintj- a horse which he 
 had lately boug-ht of Lord Chesterfield, and I saw him jump the bii>-^est 
 splasjied fence I ever .saw jum]>ed.f Uncle Fitz ithe Rev. J. Fitzwilliam 
 Taylor, of East Ogwell Rectory. South Devon) sto|)ped his hor.se some 
 distance fnnn the clieck, thoroui^'ldy pumped (mt. Thirteen hoi'.ses died that 
 niylit, in part killed by Ideediny, the old-fashioned way of dealinii' with tired 
 horses, and a .sure Avay of killinji' them. I never saw such a sight as the 
 stableyard at Dunchnrch. Juickets of blood on all sides; and I remember 
 my servant's first anxious (juestion. " How's tlie horse ? "" I do not remember 
 what horse Stevens rode on this memorable day. but I think your father was. 
 I'iding Comet, and gave him to Stevens to finisli lui. Your father and Uncle 
 Fitz and self got back to Compton about ;•.:>(», and we had dinner at a little 
 table set for ns apart from the large talile. I think you know about Hugh 
 Williams' cry of victory, and his waving iiis table napkin over his head 
 wlien he heard we had killed, and the old lord's rejoinder. " Sit down. Hugh ; 
 yon make as much fuss as if we had gained a great naval eiiiiagement." ;J; 
 
 1 was told by Loi^l M<)Uiitt>'aiTet, who wa.s out, that 
 a fox crossed the voad as the hounds were on the way to 
 Hillmovton, and this coincides with Mr. Fortescue's 
 account. This seems the more hkely. ))ecause the fox had 
 proljably only just gone b\ , and the hounds began to run 
 at once, faster than they would ha\e when, after drawing- 
 
 * The Late Lord Knightley. — Lord Kuiglitloy. of Faw.sley, wlia.se death was 
 Liiniounced at the end of last- week, wa.s the .sou of vSir Charle.s Kuightley, the .second 
 T>arouet. He was born in 1810, and was educated first at Eton, and afterwards by a 
 private tutor. He .succeeded hi.s father in the representation of South Northampton- 
 shire in 1852. and retained tlie seat uninterruptedly until the Eedi.stribution of 1885, 
 when he was returned for that portion of his old con.stituency tliat bore the old name. 
 Ho .succeeded to the baronetcy in 1804, and was created a peer in 181>2. Lord Knightley 
 was .senior member of the Pytchley Hunt, and wa.s a famous wliist player. — From the 
 Uraphic, December 28th, 1895. 
 
 Lord Knightley is de.scrihed in Mr. Charle.s Clarke'.- liook, '• Cruinl)s from a 
 Sportsman'.s Table," under tlie soubriquet of the Hon. Peregrine Bayard. 
 
 + The late Rev. Henry Knightley. who was also in the run, told us that he saw Lord 
 Kuightley (theu Sir Eainald Knightley) jump this fence, and that it was so high that his 
 hor.se jumped on to the top of it and off again, thus clearing the wide ditch on the other 
 side. The name of this horse which he rode through the run was "' I Spy J." 
 
 J Lord WiIloughl\v Was a great naval entlm.siast, and the Loutherbourg pictures of 
 the battles of the Nile and Camperdown hang in the dining njom at Compton. In the 
 Gamperdown picture you can just see the figure of " Jack Crawford " on the Admiral's 
 ship nailing England's colours to the mast. It was really done with the butt end of a 
 pistf)!, though here a hammer is reijresented. This feat gave origin to the expression, 
 '■ Nailing one's colours to the m.ist.'' 
 
184.> 
 
 THE HILLMORTON Rim. 
 
 167 
 
 a covert, thev had to l)e got aAvav from it with a hiro-e 
 field out. Many of the field may have thus heen taken 
 (piite unawares, and, not gettmt)- a start, never caught 
 the hounds. There can be no doubt that the great 
 i-uu lasted about fifty minute.s, up to the first check 
 on the Hemplows, and that the time of one hour and 
 twentv-five minutes in Stevens' diary was taken up by 
 the pack running this stout fox again from the hills, 
 iu the direction of Stamford Hall and Welford and 
 back again, 1 efore killing him. I remember Mr. Barnard 
 telling me several years afterwards, when 1 was first out 
 hunting, that this was the best 'run the Warwickshire 
 hounds had during liis mastership, and it was over about 
 the finest country in Kngland, and over so wild a line of 
 country that Yelvertoft is the <mly place marked on the 
 ( )rdnanee map between Hillmorton and the Hemplows. 
 'i'lie distance between these two points is seven miles 
 straight. The head of the fox was preserved for many 
 yeai's in the Muniment room at Conipton Verney.— C. M. 
 In those days there certainlv were 
 
 .SOME BOi.n KIHKKS. 
 
IHK KKNNK1>S. KINKTON. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Better to hunt in fields for health xmbought. 
 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 
 
 KDWIN STKVENS' DIARY CONTINUED CAPTAIN JENNIN(;s AND 
 
 JACK HICKS — PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. R. J. BARNARD — ■ 
 OTHER NOTED RIDERS. 
 
 I REMEMBER lit tliis time, wheii at home for the holidays, 
 jj-oing out hunting on a pony, and a fox, which undoubiedly 
 was a bagman, was enlarged in Bath Hill and killed after 
 running over two fields. T aseei-tained in time, as soon as 
 I got to understand hunting, that foxes had been syste- 
 matically killed at Walton by the keepers, and that the farm 
 bailiff was perfectly aware of this. I shortly had the 
 keepers discharged without a character, and we soon l)egan 
 to find plenty of foxes. 
 
 January 21st 1845 We-ston House. — Found and coped a fox iu tlic Fatlicst 
 Combe. Found again in the Combe & ran Pointing to Witliford Curved 
 up the liill Leveing Roleright on the right Pointing to Swerford Curved to 
 the right to Heytliorpe Park to ground 36 minutes as liard as hounds coidd go. 
 
 After the first fox had been chopped, no doubt another 
 was found in cme of the Rollwrio-ht Coombs, and this w as a 
 very fast and brilliant run. The hounds went at best ])ace 
 over the boundary high road, which Jem Hills said the 
 
laio, GOOD RUN FROM LADBROKE GORSE. 169 
 
 Warwickshire never could cross. They were in the same 
 iiekl with the fox close to Heythrop, when Morris i"ode at 
 him and tried to turn liim, but he got over a stone wall 
 and wTnt to ground. 
 
 •2Sth Clifford Bridge. — Found in Woolfovd wood & ran A ring in the woixl 
 &, away over the Heatli Poiutino- to Barton. Bore to tlie riglit by Norton into 
 the wood again & ran tliere .some time & away by the 4 Shire Stone & A ring 
 through Mr Jones Spinnees Back to the Stone & by Norton to ground Iiy 
 Cha.selton in tlie Heytliorjie Hunt. Lord Redesdale was there & gave us Love 
 to liave him dug out & killed him. 
 
 February '11th Teaehbrouk Village.— Found in Oakley Wood & ran 
 through Chesterton Wood over old Such-by & Yaw tield up to Havbury 
 Heatli Bore to the left over Harlmry Field. Pointing to Chesterton Mill 
 turued to the right through Whitnash Gorse Pointing to Radford Turned 
 Back through the gorse to Chesterton Wood &. through Pointing to 
 Lighthorue Bore to the Left & we Killed him by Checkleys Brake in Old 
 Such 2 hours & 10 minutes. Found agaiu in Itchington Holt & hunted him 
 to Pool Fields k gave him up. 
 
 28//( Shuekburgh Park. — Found .<: ran away down Pointing to the Sande 
 Pits curved back to Shuekburgh A: gave him up. Found again at Ladbrooke 
 New Covert A; Broake away by Mr. Manns Pointing to Napton curved to the 
 Left by the hill Leveing Ladbrooke House on the right & Nuniis Bushes A. 
 Mr Stillgoes crossed and recrossed the Turnpike Road & by Watergall to 
 Fenny Comptou over Knightcote Field. Curved to the Left to Northend 
 over Burton Hill & Old Leys k arlscotes Bottoms Leveing Knowle End 
 over Radway Field & Kinetou Field. Leveing the Holt on the right to 
 Hardwick turned to the Left n]) the hill to ground by Hortins on Edge Hill 
 time 1 hour k 35 minutes. 
 
 March I2th Wellesbourne. — Drew Wcllesbourne & all round to Bowshot. 
 Found A Brace A: ran through hell hole to Friz hill by Wellesbourne turu- 
 l)ike througji Mortem wood A; through Lighthorue Rough k Itchington 
 Holt to North end through the lu'W covert k Harbages gorse by Farnborougli 
 Claydon A: Appletree Pointing to Chip]jen Warden k gave him up. 
 
 2lc}th Compton Verney. — drew Bowshot & the rough Found in Cliesterton 
 Wood k Breake away over old Sush through Itchington Holt Strait over 
 Burton hill by Farnbonmgh k Croperday & over the Canal & up to Edgcott 
 A through the Park. Changed our fox & ran on by Griffins gorse k Fiirnliill 
 and gave it up at Wardington. 
 
 April 19th — Tile Hill for the Last day for the Season Havering Been 
 out hunting since the 28t}i of October 87 times had 3 Blank days Killed ."):! 
 old fox(>s. Total days hunt.'d Vli> times total Foxes Killed 8H A ran to 
 ground A: Left them 2H. 
 
 SEASON 1845-46. 
 
 1845. — First days Cub Hunting August 28d at Chesterton Wood Last 
 day at Walton Wood October 31st Haveing been out 36 days & Killed :>2 
 foxes k ran 11 to groujid A; Left them. 
 
 November lOth Newbold Pacey.— Found k Broke away by Middle hill 
 A C'a])penham A Wasperton to Charlecote mill. Bore to the Left l)y 
 
170 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 1845 
 
 Oliarloi'ote Houso over the Avon and Back over tlie Park to the (j-ardens i 
 KiUed him 30 minntes. Found ag-ain at tlie Briek Kihi end of Wellesbom-no 
 Wood it ran by Ohapmans house Sniatldy Breake Pointing to Thornton 
 curved to tlie hift by Foss Bridsfe over tlie road by Blacke Land by Moreland 
 and Storn all A: Hardwicke & Westeote through Radway Gorse over 
 Edge Hill liy Ratley to AVannington Mill changed the fox at Edge Hill gave 
 him uj). 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 184.5. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 SruE.>- 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Barrister "^ 
 Benedict ) 
 
 Bauble 
 
 Bajazet 
 Clasper ~^ 
 Craftsman [• 
 Comedy ) 
 Chaser ~^ 
 Charmer [ 
 Counsellor ) 
 Countless 
 Fencer I 
 Famous ) 
 
 Freeman 
 
 General 
 
 Loyalist 
 Marplot ^ 
 Magic ( 
 Mischief ( 
 Milliner J 
 Piper ~) 
 
 Pagan [• 
 
 Prosei'pine ) 
 Racer ^ 
 Roderick f 
 Rachel f 
 Rosebu<l ) 
 Random 
 Ruinsey 
 Wi.sdom .... 
 
 Bel voir Fatal Bountv(41l 
 
 Mr. Drake's Satelite 
 Mr. Drake's Bachelor 
 
 His Baulde 
 His Mindfi 
 
 Connnodore (37) i Harlot (42i 
 
 Jericho (391 
 
 Belvoir Clasper 
 Bel voir Fatal . 
 
 Mr. Drake's (iainsborougl 
 
 Belvoir Fatal ' 
 
 Mr. Drake's V.udter 
 
 Cruel (38) 
 
 Jeahmsy (40 ( 
 
 Playful (42) 
 
 His Fl( urisli 
 Governess (42) 
 His Laudable 
 
 Marplot (39) Ro^alllond (42) 
 
 Belvoir Clasper ' Pastime (40) 
 
 Rector*. 
 
 Rector 
 Albert (41) 
 Albert (41) 
 
 Velvet (43) 
 
 Melodv (39) 
 Ruby '(39 1 
 Woodbine (39) 
 
 * By Mr. Foljamhe's Richmond— His Promi.se. liduulit ;is a two-ycnr-okl in 184(> 
 l)y Mr. E. Barnard. 
 
 Decembe ■ 24th Cul)ingtoii Gate. -A By day. Found in Cnbington Wood ct 
 ran A ring in the wood crossed the rtmd Broake aAvay Pointing to tlie 
 Roundels was Headed Back through the wood it Weston wood. Skirted 
 Waverley A: Ryton Woods by Hell Coppices A: Stretton to Lines Sjiiney 
 Changed Foxes had 3 there A: ran hard to Fulliam wood A: over Wolston 
 heath to Fraukton wood and 2 rings round the Avood A: away Pointing to 
 the Bulland Butcher wood Curved the right A back up to Lines Spiney 
 
I8i.y ME. PITT AND A RUN FROM WALTON. 171 
 
 I'lirviMl to the left to Fulliam wood & ran ten minutes in tlie wdod Sc 
 killed him. Time 4 hours & 7 miimtes from the Find<'. 
 
 Jdininry 5th 184H Liglithorne Village.— Drew Clie.sterton Wood Si 
 Spinnies Blank. Found in Ufton AVood and ran in the wood 20 minutes and 
 away over Baseote Heath ))y Stonelh(n-pe over Southam Grounds tlirougli 
 Nmius bushes to Stilogos curved to the Left l)y Ladhrooke Skirted the New 
 Gorse Leveiug the old Radl)ourne Si Mar.ston Doles on the Left up to Prior.s 
 Marston and Curved to the Left to Shuekburgh to Ground. 
 
 Hth Mitford Bridge. — Found in Woolford & ran over Morton Common 
 Curv(>d to the Right tlirough Dunson Leveing Tadingham on the right Down 
 to Mitford Bridge & u]) to Willington it over Brailes Hill to ground by 
 Brailes House. 
 
 ■lOtli Mitford Br id (p. --Fonnd in tiie Little Barton Grove A: ran Over tho^ 
 bill ifc through the grove over the hill again Pointing to Roleright Combes 
 Curved to the Left under Long Comptou to Ground Bolted him Si ran 
 Pointing to Woolford Heath Curved to tlu^ Right through Weston Spinnies 
 by Cherrington by Stourtonmill Sc Lower Brailes & Brailes Building Leveiug 
 the Warren on the Left & Killed him by Cottage yjointing to Shutford — a 
 hour and 15 minutes. 
 
 •H'dh WeUeshourne. — Drew the wood Blank Found in redhill wood .V ran 
 aliout there & Wellesbourne wood 4-") minutes & KillcHlhim. Found again in 9 
 mans mass* Si ran through Comptou Rides \ Bowshote Lighthorne Rough 
 Chesterton Wood >S: Itchington Holt ^S. Over Knighteote Field Pointing to 
 Watergall Si gave him up. 
 
 Mr. Pitt, of Wellesbourne, from wlioiii we have heard 
 an account of this run, sav^s that they found in Eight Men'n 
 Marth at Walton, and ran nearly without a check for an 
 hour and a quarter. After leaving- Chesterton AVood only 
 Mr. Blundle, of Kenilworth, Mr. John Brown, V.S., Mr. 
 Pitt, and Stevens, remained with the hounds to the finish. 
 Mr. Pitt rode a famous hrown horse by Shaver, which Ik^ 
 hunted for six seasons. 
 
 •IWh Dimcliirrch. — Found at Hillmortou Si. ran very (piick into Crick 
 Village Sc Hunted him turning about to Yelvertoft Got up to him i<. ran 
 very (puck to Winwick Warren to ground in the main earth. 
 
 February 12th Grandborough. — Found at Mr Bradleys Gorse & 
 crossed the Brooke up to the Cannal & ran parallal Pointing to Fleckuoo 
 Curved to the Right by Saw])ridg(^ Leveiug Grandborough on the Left over 
 Ensl)un hill crossed the Leam through Bunker Hill A: over the Dunchurcli 
 Tiirupike road under Bilton (irauge to Ground in Cooks Earth time 4:? 
 luinutcs without A Check. 
 
 During this season tlu^y had what we should call now- 
 adays some ver}' long draws. On February oth, from a meet 
 at Ufton Wood, they drew Chestei-ton Wood, Itchington 
 
 * Eight Meu's Marth. So called >)ecan9e " eight men mowed the meadow below it 
 in Diif diiv.'' 
 
172 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. i,sir, 
 
 Holt, Fletclier's Coppice, Chadsliiiiit Coppices, Poolticlds 
 Gorse, Lightlionie Eongli, and Bowsliot, all blank. 
 
 '27t]i HiUmortoii Villaye. — Found in the Gor.se nni hard to Cattli(ir|H' e^; 
 Swinford on tlie Left tlironyli Lilhonrne Gorse & ran Parallal witli the 
 Watling suet [street] road n(>arly to Crick and crossed tlie road again i tlie 
 Railroaded; KiUed liini l)y Barhy -4;^ minutes. Fouiid again in Bradleys Gorse 
 & ran l)y Sawbridge Leveing it on tlie Right it Back through Gorcoi-n 
 Si)iny to ground at Shucklnirgh. 
 
 The L('(Uii'in(jton Courier gives an account of these runs, 
 and adds that ]Mr. Laurence's horse l)roke his back in the 
 first run, and three othei- lujrses were staked, and that the 
 ugly brook stopped "the three Leicesters" (presumal)ly not 
 the celebrated sheep, but Meltonians). All took to the road 
 for a time, when about seven were able to keep near the 
 flying hounds. 
 
 March QtJi Eathigfou. — Found in Alveston Pastures &. Broke away liy 
 Loxley Could not run drew Wellesbouriie Wood Blank. Found again in 
 Walton wood & ran l)y Walton House Curved to the right through Bartliill 
 & Comptou rides along the Water side over the Bridge & through tlie Rough 
 aud Chesterton Wood & over Harhery Field down to the Brooke Pointing to 
 Ladbrooke Curved to the Left and ran Parallal with tlie Brooke to St one- 
 tliorpe & Killed hiin 1 hour A: 50 minutes. 
 
 20th JVroxton New Inu. — A deep Snow went at one o clock iV drew 
 Alveston Pastures Blank. F(jun(l in Brick Kiln Gorse & ran A ring in the 
 
 gorse ct away by Pillerton Heardliill Marston Curved to the right by 
 
 to Ground at Edgehill time 33 minutes in all 28 minutes from the Gorse. 
 
 24th Chesterton Mill. — Found in Ladbrooke gorse & ran by old Radliourne 
 
 over the Canal by Priors marston Pointing to . Curved to the Left 
 
 over Newbold grounds to Shuckburgh to ground dreAv Burton Hill A: Farn- 
 borough Blank it gave it up. 
 
 Last dayfi Huntiuij. — Ajn-il 14th at Henley Days Hunted 109 Regular. 
 
 Cub Hunted 36 Total 145 had 2 Blank days & Stoped 1 day by snow &: 2 
 by Frost makes 140 days. Foxes Killed 101. 
 
 Ran to ground 43 accounting for 144 Foxes. 
 
 Although it is certain, owing to the number of coverts 
 (b'awn 'blank during this season, that there were not a 
 great quantity of foxes, yet Stevens and Morris were death 
 u])on them. This feat of killing fifty brace of foxes was, 
 we believe, only twice ecjualled afterwards, when Jones, 
 huntsman to the late Jjord Willoughby de Broke, killed 
 the same number, and the present Jjord Willoughby, 
 hunting his <r\vn hounds, killed lOl foxes in the season of 
 1^93-1891. 
 
184(i] 
 
 FIFTY BRACE OF FOXES. 
 
 17a 
 
 SEASON 1846 47. 
 
 Cubhunting- l)eiJ-aii in 1S4() on Au"-. lOtli, at Hampton 
 Wood, and ended on October 28th at Frankton Wood, oii 
 which day Stevens' diary records : 
 
 A Fox Stole away drew Linos Si)iniiy Blank Found in Fullunn Wood & 
 Hunted liira Aboute there for A hour. Found again in Bunkershill & ran 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1846. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Areher 
 
 Artist 
 
 Atlas 
 
 Aetseou 
 
 Blossom . . 
 Conimodoi'e"^ 
 Cardinal > 
 Crafty ) 
 
 Dexter 
 Nc'odless 
 MonareJi ~) 
 sif" s 
 
 SiRKS. 
 
 Albert (41) 
 
 ( Duke of Bnceleueh's "^ 
 
 I Sportsman j 
 
 Tarquin (40) 
 
 Duke of Rutland's Render... 
 
 W]iii)ster (43) 
 
 Tlu^ Yine Pickwiek 
 
 Music . 
 Melody ) 
 Pedlar ) 
 Prior ) 
 
 Ramp 
 
 Paradox \-i2) 
 
 Belvoir Yictor 
 
 Rebel 
 Rapture 
 
 Traveller j Tarquin (40) 
 
 Trojan 
 
 Tracer 
 
 Truenian 
 
 Tuneful 
 
 Tiifany 
 
 Wonder. 
 
 Belvoir Truemau 
 
 Whipster (43) 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Harlot (42) 
 
 His Adelaide 
 Buxom (44) 
 
 Clamorous (42) 
 
 Dowager* 
 Hopeful (44) 
 
 Jewel (44) 
 
 Rally (38) 
 
 Redcap (43) 
 Rakish (44) 
 
 Rhapsody (42) 
 
 Yocal (41) 
 
 * By Belvoir Render — Puckeridare Dairymaid. Bought hy Mr. Barnard as a four- 
 y<'av-old in 1844. 
 
 by Duuchurch Straite through Caustou Spinnies Left Lines Spiny & Fulham 
 Wood to tlu^ Left over the Railroad to Church Lawford and Killed him 55 
 minutes. 
 
 The Last day of Cu1)]iunting Haveing l)een out 39 times i*i: Killed 29 
 Foxes & ran 4 to Ground and Left tlieni. 
 
 November Srd. Mitford Bridge. — Found 3 l)raee of Foxes & ran one 
 vtiryhard to ground was HoUowed on A Fox A: ran aboute there 2 hours 
 & away over Morton common Aston Haile & Leveing Aston village on the 
 Left ])y Cadley Harbour Back to the Hail & Killed Jiim 3 hours & 20 minutes. 
 
174 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. imc isij 
 
 'ttlt Gdldicotc. — Found in Alvestoii Pastures and ran 4o minutes to 
 jfronnd. Found in Brick Kiln gorso and i-an a ring away over by Pillerton 
 Field down to Walton Wcjod Curved Sliorte Back by Thornton by the Gorse 
 & Upper Pillerton Crossed the Banbury Road Pointing to Oxhill Ciu'ved to 
 the Left by Herdhill Pointing to the Sun Riseing curved Shorte to the Left 
 by Radway to Ground. 
 
 December 9th Gaydon Inn. — Found in Itehington H<ilt and ran a ring 
 in the Covert & away by Kingstone through Chesterton Wood by Harewoods 
 House iN; along the Foss a mile over Whitnash Field to Teachbrooke & back 
 to Chesterton Pool i Kingstone A: Itchingt<m Holt to Ground at Gaydon 
 Hill Bolted and KillcMl liini 2 hours e*i: 10 minutes. 
 
 19th. — Went to Alvestou Pastures with 57 couples & 4 of Hounds & 
 found A Fox there the riding so bad I was not Near tliem they ran a ring ii]) 
 to Fir Grove & I Believe they Killed a Fox there they ran on again through 
 the Pastures by Upper Goldicote and Houndshill to Eatington road and 
 Stoped the Hounds. 
 
 Jannanj 1st 1847 Church Tysoe. Found at Brcmiehill A: ran very hard 
 37 minutes to Ground at Edgehill. Found again in Upton Gorse dt ran u]) 
 to Sheningtou Village curved to the riglit over Sheington & Tysoe Field by 
 Compt<ni Mill Pointing to Widderton curved to the right through hell 
 Break & Honington Spiuys by Idlicote Hou.se down to the Brook. Turned 
 Back through the Breake up to St Denis by Honington and Idlicote unto 
 Pillerton Field Pointing to Pillerton Prior Stoped the Hounds at Darke. 
 
 Januarij 'Id Hunningham Hill. -Drew it k Ethorpe & Debdale Blank — 
 Foimd in Ufton Wood tt ran A ring in the Avood & away over Bascote 
 Heath i\; Stoney thorpe Pointing to Southam. Curved to the right over 
 Harbury Field ct Heath by Chesterton Church i^i; through tlie wood Down 
 by Oakley Wood & Lost him. We Found our first fox in Ufton Wood l^ i-an 
 ^5 minutes verey hard to Ground at Ratford A: Left him. 
 
 9th Ufton Wood. — Found & ran in the wood some time &. away througli 
 the rough to Stoney Thorpe & Back through the wood & away by Ufton 
 village Pointing to Harbury Turned to the right over Mr Horleys Farme &. 
 over the Foss to Ratford Hill Avhere the Plough Land carried & we coidd 
 hunt him no Father. Found again in Ladbrook Gorse and ran in tlie Gorse 
 20 mintites & away over Ladbrook Hill to Napton Folly & Strait up tlie Hill 
 Pointing to schuckburgh Curved to the Left over the Southam road liy 
 Caldicote Pointing to Tomblow Spinnies i<. gave him u]i at Darke. 
 
 From the Lcdntini/lon ('o//ri>'t\ January 9th, 1S4/ : 
 
 Hunt Ball held at Warwick. — Nearly 400 invitations to this 
 assembly were acce])ted. and the lu-illiant afi'airwas such as might lie expected 
 from th«^ well-known liberality of the gentlemen of the Hunt. The decorations 
 of tlie civic building were replete with good taste, elegance, and judgment, the 
 hall and supper room lieing temporarily draped and lighted in the best 
 possibh^ style.* 
 
 * 'Tween women and wine, Sir, man's lot is to smart, 
 For wine makes his head ache, and women his heart. 
 
 Sporting Magazine. 
 At a provincial hunt ball a man was seen dancing with his own wife. A Melton 
 man observed that " It was all very well in a plough country, biit on the prass it 
 would be thought dead sJoir." — fbid.^T{. C. N. 
 
mj] THE REV. C. CURTIS. 175 
 
 From \'yner's " Notitia Venatica : " 
 
 The follo\nug- anecdote of a fox having been actually roasted and served 
 up at talde by one of the greatest boa vivants of his day is undoubtedly true, 
 as I have heard it from no less than four different persons : The Rev. Charles 
 Curtis, the vector for many years of Solihull, in Warwickshire, was no less 
 celebrated for his attachment to field sports than for his unboinidcd 
 liospitality and for the excellent table which he always kept. So fond was 
 he of the chase that for many years he kept a pack of harriers hiinself, with 
 which he sometimes drew f<n" a fox. as there were no foxhounds in those days 
 which regularly hunted in that ueiglibourhood. On one occasion, when the 
 hounds accidentally crossed the line of })Oor reynard as he was on his travels, 
 and had given him a dressing of upwards of tAvo hours in the old-fashioned 
 style, which had found the l)ottoui of most of the nags, and anuuigst them 
 had completely sewed up that of the sporting divine, who, fiiuling it almost 
 dark, himself unable to proceed, and that " although the spii-it was willing, 
 the flesh was weak," he gave them a parting cheer, and declared to old Joe 
 Pitchford, his huntsman, tliat if he succeeded in ])ringing home the brush he 
 would. Avithout fail, have the carcass dressed for dinner ; in which he was as 
 ^•ood as his promise, for after running their fox hard for a considerable time 
 longer, the hounds gloriously vaiupxished him ; and accordingly he was 
 actually roasted and brought up to table, where a considerable^ peirtion of him 
 was eaten, there being a large party to dinner on that day. 
 
 A master of harriers, mentioned in the Sporting Magazine for 1824. 
 <mtertained a somewhat difPereut idea as to the claim of a fox to be regarded 
 as a delicacy. His hounds one day got on the line of a fox, whereupon the 
 master called out lustily to his whipper-in, " Stop them ! Stop them ! He's 
 nae meat" — meat. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 26th Hunniiigfon Tollyafe. — Found H Foxes on Brailes Hill & ran A very 
 t{uick ring round the hill 25 minutes A: Killed him. Drewe Comj)ton Winiate 
 Blank Found in Hitchcox Gorse & ran Pointing to Compton Curved Shorte 
 Back by Epewell village & Mill Leveing shutford earths on tlie right over 
 Wrcixton Field by Taylors Bushes to Hornton village he waited for us A 
 ran very hard the last 10 minutes i^ Killed him in the road by Ratley 1 hour 
 & 25 minutes. 
 
 2Sth Loiver ShnckbnryJi village. — Found 5 Brace of Foxes & Killed A 
 Brace at the Hill & hunted A Fox over New Bold grounds S: Hellidon Hill 
 to Griffins Gorse ^t very (juick l)ack to Shuckburgh &. A ring at the hill A; 
 away over Fleckno Field Pointing to AVilloughby l)ut wlient to ground in 
 Fleckno Field. 
 
 •19th Chesterton Mill 12 o"cloek.- Found in Ladbrook Gorse A; the fox 
 Broake away Pointing to Najjton. Mr Barnard ordered me to take the 
 Hounds home as the field over rode them Shameful drew Ufton did not 
 Finde a fox Distui-bed from there. 
 
 This was no doubt the day after some ball at Leamington 
 or Warwick. The "dancers" must have been in g'reat 
 force. Mr. Barnard ap])arently relented afterwards, as 
 they drew Ufton Wood. 
 
17() THE WARWKJKSHIRE HUNT. [1847 
 
 A])<)iit tliis time Stevens had a very l)a(l Tall, and there 
 is no entry in the diary l)et\veen February nth and tlie 
 15th ; l)ut the h<)un(]s were hunted during the interval by 
 Morris, and had a splendid run on the lOth, the following' 
 account of which has been given to us by Captain Jennings 
 (late of the 7th Madras Cavalry) : 
 
 On February 10th, 1847, the meet was at Wroxton 
 Abl)ey, and Morris, in the absence of Stevens, hunted the 
 hounds. They found at Withycombe, and ran very fast 
 by North Newington and Broughton Castle to Wykham 
 Brook, where there was a clieck. Morris cast the hounds 
 to the left, but one couple ci'ossed the brook and hitoifthe 
 line of the fox on the other side, and as soon as they were 
 joined by the rest they again began to run hard. Had it 
 not been for the check, perhaps more of the riders would 
 have got over the water, which was bank high and is at 
 all times a very big jump.* As it was. Captain Jennings 
 alone jumped it clear, and Jack Hicks, the second whip, 
 got over with a fall. The latter told Captain Jennings that 
 he thought he had better stop the hounds, but he replied : 
 " You had much better not do so, because they may kill 
 their fox after a fine run, and you will get the credit of it." 
 So Jack left them alone, and they ran on without a check by 
 Wiggington Heath to Swerford, and from thence through 
 (Treat Tew Park, and they killed their fox three miles 
 beyond it in the open close to Enstone, in the Heythrop 
 country, having run thirteen miles from point to point in an 
 hour and a half with only one check. Mr. Barnard alone 
 came up after an interval of twenty minutes. Captain 
 Jennings rode an Irish grey horse, only 15 hands high, a 
 portrait of which we have seen in his house at Milverton 
 Farm. After resting the horse for an hour at Banbury, 
 he rode him back to Leamington, a distance of thirty-two 
 miles from Enstone, and he did not reach home until ten 
 
 * It was very unfortunate for Morris that he did not get over the Wykham Brook, 
 and we shoukl have much liked to have heard the account of the run (certainly the best 
 f)f tlie season) given by Jack Hicks to Stevens and Moi-ris, and how he had killed the 
 fox far into Jem Hills' country — a rare event in the anuals of the Warwickshire hounds. 
 
mr: CAPTAIN JENNINGS. 177 
 
 ■o'clock. He had ridden tlie liorse to covert tVoiii 
 Ijeamingtou in the morning, and could not have ridden 
 this rare little animal less than seventy miles during the 
 (lav. which including such a run was an extraordinary 
 performance for one horse. Captain Jennings was one of 
 few who could ride a young horse with skill and judgment, 
 and he hunted until over eighty years of age. He still 
 rides to a near meet at the age of ninety-one.* 
 
 Stevens" diarv was continued on February 15th. 
 
 February IStli HiUmorton VUlmje — Foxiiid ;v fox or a fox Found for usf 
 Avlieiit away Poiiitiii(>- to Crick & tiirued to tlie ri<>'lit & we Killed liiiii in 
 Hillmortou Field. Found again in Cooks Grorsc and ran Parallel witli 
 Rainsbrook f(n- A mile Curved to the riolit Strait over the canal Leveinji; 
 Kilsbv on the Left on to Barby Hill to Ground 20 minutes very fast. Found 
 again in Willoughby Gorse & ran by Sawbridge Pointing to Buukershill & 
 4he Hounds ran into him in 12 minutes in the middle of A large Grass Field. 
 
 There must have been a rare scent on this day, and y^t 
 it was just before a storm. 
 
 -lord. Wichford ViUagt'. — Drew the wood nnd Combs & Spiunies Blank. 
 Found on Brailes hill I'v ran a ring under tlie hill & away Leveing St Denis 
 to the right to Hunnington hill Pointing to Idlicote House Curved to the 
 Left by Hunnington village to the Back of Shipstone & Willington & over 
 Brailes hill to ground by Clierrington mill ct Left him. 
 
 To draw Whichford Wood blank is a very rare event. 
 
 26th, Church Tijsoe. — Found at Compton A: could not run on the hills 
 Drew Pillerton Gorse B. Found a Brace in Kineton Holte & very quick up 
 to the hill & along by Knowl end & over arlescote Field by Mr William 
 Ledbrokesup to the Burton road Headed Sliorte Back & ran by Mr Andertous 
 up to Chadshunt 1 hour very good c^' he Beat us, 
 
 March -ifh. Princethorpe. — Drew Frankton Blank k Fulam wood & lines 
 Spiny. Found in Paphills A: 2 rings & away by Bourton it Frankton Village 
 through Frankton wood A; Bxill & Butcher woods & Killed him one hour. 
 Foimd again in Debdale & ran ixp to Birbery Wafe over the Dunchiirch 
 Road Pointing to Twemlow Spinneys was headed Shorte Back & we Lost 
 him. 
 
 V.\f}i Henley in arcZe/*. — Found in Mockley Wood & ran in the wood 15 
 minutes to ground. Fouiul again in Upi^er Skilts & ran Pointing to Morton 
 B:igot Curved to the Left through Mockley Avood over Reuals green through 
 the (rardens at Henley in arden it over the road by Wooton Hall & ran into 
 him Pointing to Austy wood 55 minutes. 
 
 * I saw him at Uftou Wood in December, 1895. — W. R. V. 
 
 t This probably means another Ixigmau turned down at the same place as the one 
 enlarged previous to the great run from Hillmorton on Jan. 16th, 18^15, and rather 
 confirms the truth of the statement mw\c nt tluit timo. 
 
 Vol.. I. N 
 
178 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. mr 
 
 2.0th Cuhhinytoii Gate. — Drow Cu)il)iiig-t(m & Wostou & Wavevley spring- 
 &. Rigliton woods Blank Fonnd in Wappenbury & ran in the woods 20 
 minutes & away by Rigliton A'illag-e and Larford Lodge Woolstone & Lines 
 Spinney Pointing to Causton cnrvcMl to tlu^ Left & we Killed him at Lawford 
 1 hour and 10 minutes. 
 
 26#/( Wroxton New Inn. — Drew Claydon Hill A; the coverts about the 
 abbey & Wyckham Park Blank. Found in Gullivers Bushes & ran very quick 
 to J. Attkin's gorse & Killed him Found again on Bloxams Side k ran 
 tlirough the Heath Pointing to Swaekeliffe turned by Tadmartin & Mileote 
 & Barford to Halls of Buttermilk & Hawk gorse into Great Tew Park & 
 gave him u}». 
 
 April 1st, Ufton Wood. — Drew it blank. Found it set full of wyres by 
 the railroaders at Harbury. 
 
 April 6t]i CJntdshfint. — Run a fox frome the Coppices to Ground in Mr. 
 Bulls Field Drew Pool Fudd Chadshunt Heath Taylors Bushes Itchington 
 Blank Found in Burton hill & ran by Fenney Comptou & Harbbadges gorse 
 & Faniborougli Mollington hill Curtis gorse got up to him again at Edgehill 
 Si, ran by Ratley mill over the Bottoms & over J. Gari-etts Farme by Warm- 
 iugton Si Curtis gorse by Shotswell to Horley Crossed the Banbury road 
 again by Hauwell to ground Between the Spinney & Councell Spiny to 
 ground and dug him out dead 1 hour 15 minutes from the hills. 
 
 IGtlt Epivell. — Meet at Oxhill Insted to hunt Mr. Ward's fox Liyiug on 
 his Farme Found him in Pillertou gors & ran very quick over Oxhill 
 Meadowes to Whatcote Field Curved to the Left by Kirby and Thornals 
 gorse he was headed & w^e hunted him on by Compton & Bromehill and 
 EpeAvell to Shutford hill & Killed him, was Hollowed on another fox & ran 
 to Mr. Painters drain Bolted & Killed her a vixen. Found again in 
 Wiggington Heath & ran very Pretty a ring by Mileote to Gullivers 
 Bushes where the Hounds Divided & we had 3 Foxes on Foot Stoped them 
 6u gave it uxj. 
 
 2()th Soliliiil. — The Last day haveing been out siuce Regular Hunting 
 86 days and Killed in all 79 Foxes & ran 29 to ground & Left them. 
 
 SEASON 1847-48. 
 
 1847 August 19th. — Began Cubhuntiug at Oakley Wood Last day of 
 Cul)hunting at Cubbingtou Gate on October 29th haveing been out 36 times 
 & killed 21 Foxes & ran 15 to Ground & Left them. 
 
 The first day of regular hunting was at the Kennels on 
 Nov. 1st. 
 
 November 6t1i Church Tysoe. — Found at compton Wyuiate & ran over 
 Broomhill & Epewell Field by Shenningtou Mill & over Wroxton Field to 
 Hornton & Killed him 55 minutes. Found again at Knowle end & could not 
 run hunted him abouto Ratley and by Arlescote Pointing to Bui-tou hill & 
 gave it lip. 
 
 19th Epwell Village. — Found in Hitchcox Gorse & ran by Shutford 
 clump & village over Mr. Greaves Farme by Tadmartin & Bloxam up to 
 Tadmartin Heath & away by Wiggington Village to Milcome & Bloxam 
 Spinnies Nearly to Atterbury village & Back to the thither Farm & Killed 
 him. 
 
mr: GOOD THING FROM THE HOLT. 179 
 
 •I'.ird Mitford Bridye. — A fox Stole away from Woolford by Barton 
 village Nearly to Witehfonl Mill Turned to the right up to the grove & 2 
 rings there and away over the hill Leveing Little Compton on the right to 
 ground A fox was Hollowed & we ran along the hill to the top of Rolleright 
 Comb where we had 2 lines we turned to the right over the hill to Over 
 Norton Park & turned to the right Pointing to Salford where ho was ran by 
 2 Slieepe Dogs & we Never could run him after 52 minutes. 
 
 ■26th Kineton. — Found in the holt & ran over Kiueton k E,adway Fields 
 over the Banbury Turnpike road Leveing Old Leys on the Left Pointing to 
 Burton Hill curved to the right by W. Ledbrokes Pointing to hunts gorse 
 Leveing Avon Dasset on the left Pointing to Farnborougli Curved to the 
 Left by Harbadges gorse to the railroad Pointing to Mollington Spinnies 
 and Killed him 50 minutes. Drew Mollington hill Curtis gorse Upton gorse 
 Blank Edghill gorse Blank and gave it up. 
 
 Tliis run is also mentioued in Lord Mountgarret's 
 diary as a brilliant fifty minutes over the Vale without a 
 check, and he adds that the place where the fox was killed 
 was close to the G.W.R., and the navvies, who were then 
 making the new line, came in numbers down the 
 embankment to see the fox broken up by the pack. 
 
 December 3rd Wroxtou Abbey. — Found in Greaves Spiney & ran veiy 
 quick to Claydon hill & Back & Killed him. Found again in Wigington 
 Heath & ran over Atkins Farmo & over to Wigg'iugton village ciu'ved to 
 the right over Mr. Pearces farme Nearly to Swacliffe grange & Cm-ved to 
 the Left by Over Norton and he whent to ground in Hook Norton Field 40 
 minutes very quick. 
 
 6th Grove Parle. — Found a Brace of foxes in the gorse & ran a ring by the 
 Back of Hatton & by Calverdon through ganaway grove by Norton over 
 Warwick cG;:;rron into the Park Changed our fox & ran by Oakley wood & 
 gave him up Pointing for Chesterton. 
 
 ~tli Mitford Bridge. — Drew "Woolford wood Barton Spinnies & grove 
 Blank found in Witchford wood and ran by Weston Spiny Leveing 
 Stourton & Cherrington & Sutton mill to the Left along the Brooke side by 
 Witchford mill curved to the right Pointing to the village & turned Shorte 
 Back & we Sloped the Hounds Pointing to Swacliffe. 
 
 A blank draw of Wolford Wood is rarely related in 
 this diary or at any other time. 
 
 9th Harbury Village. — Found in Ladbrooke gorse & ran by Mr. Mamis 
 & all over l)y marston Dole Leveing Priors Marston to the right Shuekburgh 
 to the Left up to Hellidon Church yard where he was Headed back & we 
 Killed heim one Field frome the village 55 minutes. 
 
 14:th Mitford Bridge. — Found in Witeford (Whichford) wood & come 
 away by the village and stourton by Sutton mill & along the side of the hill 
 over the road by Brailes Building & Sheldons gorse Pointing to Shutford 
 turned to the right & by Sibford & Lost him in Hook Norton Field. 
 Found again in Wigington Heath & away by Swacliffe grange & Hook 
 
 N 2 
 
180 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ib4r 
 
 Norton Loclgi^ ik ovev Buiy Field Pointing' to Rolleright Coml) Curved to 
 tlie riglit along- the top of Witchfcnvl Avoofl & Long- Compton Wood to 
 gronnd l)et\ve(Mi tlic wood ^.^ tln^ villag>'i' Bolted him and Killed liini n hour i*k: 
 5 minutes, 
 
 '2od Cnhhiiu/toii Gate. — Drew Cubington & Weston &. Waverley Spiny 
 Wappenhury Dukes vfc Prineethorpe & Franktou Woods Blank Found in 
 Del)dale A; i"an over Birdingbury Field by the Wafe to tomentors spiny 
 Curved to the Left Pointing to Grandboro\igh by Shuckburgh village throug-h 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1847. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Antelope ~1 
 Alderman 
 Artfid 3 
 Baeliehn- ") 
 
 Beatrice ,- 
 
 Brenda j 
 Draco ~) 
 
 Driver 
 
 Dairjnnaid i 
 Dashaway 7 
 Destiny j 
 Frolic' 7 
 
 Fashion ) 
 
 Hecuba Lord Fitzwilliani's Fencer. 
 
 Albert (41) 
 
 The Heythrop Albert. 
 
 Trouncer (44) 
 
 Quorn Fleecer 
 
 Mr. Drake's Artist . 
 
 Monitor Rustic (44) . 
 
 Pyrrhus i Tarquin (4< ») 
 
 Pontiff , 
 Pilot / 
 
 Pansy > i Tarquin (4<t) 
 
 Pleasant I 
 Priestess ' 
 Rufus ^ 
 
 ^''[ K...™m40, 
 
 Riot j 
 Rival 7 
 
 Rubv S 
 
 Whipster (43) 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Clamorous (42) 
 
 Brazen (43) 
 
 Dauntless (41) 
 
 Mr. F. Smith's 
 Dashaway 
 
 Freedom (44 > 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynu's 
 Handmaid 
 
 Matchless (39) 
 Prudence (44) 
 
 Proserpine (45) 
 
 Governess (42) 
 Redcap (43) 
 
 the hill and over Newbold gTound to Catesby Lotlge Curved to the Left to 
 Ground under Helidon Hill one liour & a half. 
 
 This run is also mentioned in the diary of Lord Mount- 
 garret, who gives the time as fifty-eight minutes, witliout 
 a check ; probably the first part of it. The distance is nine 
 miles straight, and considerably more as hounds ran. 
 
 24f/i Sun Rising EdgehiU. — Found in the oak Fields & ran by Whats 
 Spiny and Radway over Knowle end by Warmiugton through Molington 
 
isw, THE GREAT OAKLEY WOOD KUN. 181 
 
 liill over Faruhoroug-h Field & Back ])y PVuuev Com])tou A: North End & 
 Mr. Fairhi-othcrs & alon^ Arle.scote Bottoms to Edgeliill A: Cliaugfed our fox 
 iV: ran to '•roiuid by Tysoc road &, ran on to tlie Tysoo &: Chipping Norton 
 road i^ Sto[)('d the Hounds Pointing to Conii)ton tho First run 2 licmrs v»>rcy 
 good. 
 
 January Ixt 1848 Goldicntc. — Found in the Pastures \ ran hy Stratford 
 Hoatli up to Fir Grove & hy Tucker House and Curved to tlie Left tlirough 
 the New PLintations & rough liill Si Eatingtou grove l>y Upper Eatingtou 
 througli Thoruton hreak Pointing to Smatehk^y Curved to the Left tlirough 
 Oakliani and Wellesbourne Wood under Loxley baek to the Pastures & 
 Changed our fox and ran a ring round tlu^ Goldicote Spinnies & baek into the 
 Pastures &, in the Wood half an hour A: away through the Spiny and again 
 l)y Loxley Si Welle.sbourne Si Little Hill & Cappingtou A; Middle Hill A: 
 Heatheotc into Oakley Wood it got a Fresli fox and Sti)})('d tlir Hounds at 
 Dark. 
 
 ith Mitford Bridge. — Found in Witehford wood A; ran aboute there 
 sonu! time A; Lost him Si Found again iu the Avood and ran by the village & 
 Spinnies & by the mill & l)y Gi*eeuhill gorse over the Brailes road Pointing 
 to Conipt(m Pike A: Lost him. Found again by Compton Pike A; ran by the 
 mill to Tysoe A; curved to the Left by Thonials gorse A; Kirby A: St Harrods 
 Pointing to Brick hill gorse curved to the Left 1\y Idlicote A: over Harford 
 Fii'ld to the village along the water side Pointing to Honnington was Headed 
 by Mr. Harltords A; stoped the Hounds at dark. 
 
 7fh Church Tysoe. — Found at Broomehill A: ran over Epwell Field A: by 
 Shenington Mill A: Balscote Leveing Claydon Hill on the right to Wroxton 
 Parke A; tiu'ued to the Left through the Garden aud on Pointing to Hannall 
 A: gave him up. Foimd again in Counceller Spiney A; ran a ring Si back 
 through the Spiney At away over the railroad Pointing to Chacombhill A: 
 curved to the Left by Little Borton Si Big Ditto A: Cropei'dy Pointing to 
 Farnborough and Turned Shorte back by Hauwell to Neighthorjie to ground 
 on Mr. Goldings Farm Bolted him Si Killed him. 
 
 February oth Goldicote. — Fouiul in the Pastures A: ran a very quick ring 
 Pointing U, Fir Grove A: Back into the Covert again Changed foxes Si ran by 
 Loxley through Wellesbourne Wood by Walton to Frisshill trotted on to tlie 
 rough drew it B. F(juud in Oakley Wood A: ran a ring in the wood Si away 
 over Teachl)rooke Field through Highdown over Whitnash Field A: over the 
 road at Ufton hill by Oifchurch village Si thi'ough the grove by Cubbingtou 
 wood A: Crossed the road by Weston Pointing to Waverley Si turned to the 
 right by Wappenlmry skirtisd Ryton A: Killed him on Mr Hailes Farme Near 
 Brandon Station.* 
 
 All account of the latter tine run has been given to us 
 bv Mr. Darwin Gralton from his diary. It was a wet day, 
 and they found at Oakley Wood at :1 o'ch)ek, and ran the 
 e.vact line recorded in Stevens' diary, and killed the fo.\ in 
 the open, near Wolston, after running for two hours and 
 twenty-five minutes. Out of a large field about seventeen 
 
 * Mr. Vyner deKcribe.s a run in " N'otitin Veiiatica " wliieli was very mncli cm 
 tlii'sc lines, only run the reverse way. 
 
182 THE WAKWIOKSHIKE HUNT. ri848 
 
 were up, among whom were Mr. Barnard, Stevens, Jack 
 Hicks, Mr. Bolton King, Mr. Spencer Lucy, Mr. Corbett, 
 the Kev. ]\lr. Tayh)r, Mr. Frank Galton, Mr. John 
 Ark Wright, Mr. Horrocks, Sir Charles Eowley, Messrs. 
 Hanburv, Harry Horley, Russell of Hodnell, Palmer, 
 Smith of Aklerminster,* and Mr. Darwin Galton. Of this 
 gallant number, alas ! how few remain. The Eev. Fitz- 
 william Taylor, of East Ogwell, only died in July, iSDd 
 Mr. John Arkwright still joins the chase, and Mr. Darwin 
 Galton still drives four horses, and Mr. Frank Galton 
 is alive, but we fancy the rest must be gone over to the 
 majority. There is Mr. Corbett, indeed, but this was 
 not the Squire of Admington, but his predecessor, the 
 ancle of our friend. 
 
 In connection with this run 1 have received the follow- 
 ing letter from ]\Ir. John Arkwright, of Hatton House : 
 
 My Dear Verney, 
 
 I return yoii tlie list as furnished to you by Darwiu Galton of the 
 names of those who saw the end of the fine run from Oakley Wood in 
 1848 ... I believe I am the only man still hunting' . . . You 
 may notice there are no names of men then hunting from Leamington, 
 such as Charles Earle, Lord Mouatgarret, " Jemmy " Montg-omery, 
 Campbell of Monzie, Saunderson, Hyde Clarke, and the rest. I think 
 there were a strong party of yomig.ones located at the Bedford of those 
 days, such as Mytton, Clifton, Sir William Don, Sir Henry Bruce, Brooks, 
 " Peg-leg " Bruce (afterwards ordained) ; most of these have long been 
 
 dead. However, the reason why none of these names appear is the 
 
 Atherstone met at Coombe or thereabouts on that day, and all had gone to 
 hunt with them, and just as we killed our fox in the open, they were coming 
 along the road on tlieir way home after a very poor day. 
 
 Yours very tndy, 
 
 John T. Arkwright. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 iOth Shuchburgh Park. — Drew the hill Blank Found at Willoughby and 
 ran over the ))rooke & over Fleckno Field Pointing to Shuckburgh Hill 
 Curved to the Left over Staverton Bottom & through the wood it Killed 
 him at tlie Back of Badby Lodge 37 minutes. 
 
 From the Lra/zn'm/ton Spa Con Her : 
 
 Shuckburgh was the fixture on Thursday, February 10th. Tlie Park was 
 
 * This Smith, of Alderminster, was probably Robert Smith, and was no relation of 
 "our George Smitli." He was a very hard rider, but died when only thirty yeiirs 
 of n^p. 
 
\84i<j RUN FROM SWALCLIFFE OSIERS. 183 
 
 drawn l)lauk. A fox was found in Willougliby Gorse, aiirf went away by tlie 
 Spa in the direction of Shuckburgli, turned to (lie left by Staverton, and crossed 
 the brook, wliidi only a select few charifed, Mr. James Montj^omery takinj^ 
 the lead, and clearing it in beautiful style. Seven or eight others managed 
 to make terra firino. v\i]u'r by jumping or fording, One gentleman, more 
 unfortunate, fell, with liis horse uixni him. into the brook, and had it not been 
 for the timely assistance of his friends would certainly have ))een drowned. 
 Tlu'v ran througli the plantations, crossed tlie road, and killed in a meadow 
 after a very fjust run of thirty-five minute^;. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 \Sfli Sheninyton Mill. — Drew Shutford Spineys & Hitchcox gorse B. 
 Found in Swacliffe Osier bed 3 foxes Broake away Pointing to Claydouhill 
 •Curved to the Left by Shutford dump Leveing Epwell Mill to the Left 
 Bearing a Little to the right over sheuly hill & along the top of the hill to 
 the sun Riseing where he sunk into the vale* by Bricksfield and Hardwick 
 where wc had a Check hunted him on over Oxhiil & Pillertou Fields 
 Pointing' to Brickhill Gorse Curved to the right Pointing to Walton wood 
 into Mar.ston Field where he waited fen- the hounds and ran very hard 10 
 minutes it Killed him at Tubs End time one hour and Fifty juinutes. 
 
 19f/i EatinytoH Park. — Found in rough hill a leshe of foxes & ran over 
 Wards hill through the Park by Lambcote through Brickhill gorse & over 
 Pillertou Field and Marston Field by Compton Lodge & Poolefields gorse 
 to Chadshuut heath where he waited for us and ran verey hard back 
 in Hill Field where he got in some where Found again in Bathhill and 
 ran over Mr. Dixons Farme throug'h Bowshote by Coml)roke & the 
 oxliouse over Pillerton Field to the Brooke Pointing to Idlicote Curved to 
 the right by Pillerton Priors thrcnigh Brickhill gorse over Eatington Field it 
 
 Park to Talton A: a ring over Wards liill Si round by & Killed 
 
 him 1 hour '/-i ■ 
 
 March '2nd Kytes Hardwick. — Found in Leicesters Peice k. ran up to 
 Thurleston & found he wos 15 minutes gone & gave him up.* Found again in 
 Cooks gorse k away over the Brooke k turned to tlie right Pointing to 
 Willoughby then Curved to the Left over the Canal up to Barby hill k 
 curved to the right by ashliy Lodge to ashby Stt Ledgers where we changed 
 our fox and ran on to Welton Place cV aboute the Spineys k a ring Pointing 
 to KiH)y L^ Back by Welton A: by Dunsland Reservoir into Daintrey it 
 Killed him 2 hours .52 minutes very Fast.f 
 
 10//( KenneU Kiuetoti.—FimmX in the holt k ran to Mr. Arches the fox 
 turned \ 1 thought it was a vixen. Found again in Pillei-ton gorse k ran 
 over Oxhiil Field Pointing to Edgehill Curved to the Left over Lines 
 Farme ))y Mountfords k Marston Field by Brookehampton & Combrooke <fe 
 •over the Water at Comjiton into Bowsliote & a ring by redliill to ground in a 
 tree at Walton House & Left him. A tremendous hail storme. 
 
 * This a very cbanicteristic ctitry. Stevens uevov liked being fur bcliiiid a fox. 
 
 t Lord Forester, of Willey P;irk, Slirojisliire, was the autlior of the well-knowti 
 paying " It is the pace that kills." When Mr. Forester he was a di^tinj^uished rider to 
 hounds in Leicestershire, and with his friend. " Flying Childe," of Kinlet, is said to 
 have introduced the fashion of liard ridinp. wliir.li hns increased up to ;t more recent 
 <lat«.— [" Cecil," p. 2H, 18.5-1 Kd. 
 
iy4 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [ms- 
 
 '21st. — A Deep Snow Could uot liuiit.* 
 
 24;th Church Tysoe. — Found in Wigiii,i>(ou Heath c^ ran aboute there some- 
 time &. a ring by Nell gorse & Back & Left him. Found again in Gullivers 
 gorse & ran by Bloxam & Wiganton tt South Newington &. Tew down 
 Pointing to Wirton (Worton) A curved Back Ijy Hawkhill Si Tew down 
 over South Newington Field to ground )>y Bloxam under tlie road Leading 
 to Atterbnry Bolted him Si Killed liiiu. 
 
 27 til Eedhill. — Drew West Grove Oversley Rolls wood redliill gorse 
 Wythecomb Aston Grove Blank Found in Little alne gorse & ran very quick 
 through alne wood just skirted Spurnal Park curved to the left through 
 some Coppices by Studley mill A: village by Coughton Park & Cold 
 Comfort through 3 Oakhills to ground in the Old Parks one hour and 5- 
 minutes very good. 
 
 ^MHh Priacethorpe. — Found in Frankton \vot)d A: ran a ring in tlie wood i 
 away Pointing to Borton Curved to the Left by Thurlestone Pointing to 
 Custon turned by Thurlstone again Pointing to Leieestei's Peiee was Headed 
 & we Killed him at Kniglitlow hill 45 miiuites verey Fast Found again in 
 Rvton wood & ran to ground in view at Wolstoue 35 minutes very quieke. 
 
 From the Leaiiniigion Sjja Courier, April Stli : 
 
 We understand that a numerous meeting of gentlemen in eouneetiou witli 
 the Warwickshire hounds took place at the Keimels, Kinetou, on Fi'iday 
 week, when a statement of receipts and disbursements was laid before tliem^ 
 after which we rejoice to state many of our country gentlemen and others- 
 liberally increased their subscriptitms U) meet the heavy expenses incidental 
 to tlu^ proper maintenance of a pack of hounds. This is as it shoidd be. and 
 we hope that tbe gentry and tra<lesmen of the Royal Spa will imitate tlie 
 example. W(! are quite sure that our townsmen cannot be ignorant of the 
 many advantages accruing to Leamington from its proximity to the Hunt. 
 It is. therefore, the duty, as well as tlie interest of those who benefit by the 
 sport, to render all assistance in their power. Wo have experienced unusual 
 pleasure in recording many of the brilliant runs which have invariably 
 characterised the late season under the able and efficient mastership of that 
 higlily esteemed gentleman, R. J. Barnard. Esij. 
 
 One of the most remarkable charaeters belonging' to- 
 the Warwickshire Hunt was the Rev. John Hawkes, of 
 Talton. He once married a couple, christened a baby, had 
 his fortune told, and was in at the deatli of a fox before 
 one o'clock. It is said that the Bishop finally dispensed 
 with his services for killing- rats on Sunday. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 Aprll2i)th Coughton Gourf.e. — Drew WyreBreakA: rough hill itCougliton 
 Court Blank Found in 3 Oakhills A ran aboute those woods for a hour A. a 
 half to ground in Old Parks got him out and Eate him 
 
 * This suow no doubt damped the ground wfll. and they seem to have had some- 
 g->od runs lip to the end of the morth. 
 
!,sK ME. JAMES MONTGOMERY. 18.> 
 
 the last (lay for the haveing beoii out «iiiee Rco-ular Hnutiiig lUOl days 
 
 (sic) iV Killed 70 Foxes & ran 26 to ground <t left them had 2 Blank 
 
 Day^. 
 
 April ;{(nli ISiS Ed Stevens. 
 
 W'l' have not beard of anything iv.'«f"'nil)!ing Stevens 
 1001 (lays sinee the 1001 nights in the ••Aral)ian Nights." 
 
 SEASON 1848-49. 
 
 Aiiijifst \~th 184S. — Bt^g-an Cuhhiniting Whent to Chesterton wood 
 Fonnd a good Show of Cubs it ran tliere 4 hours A; Killed one. 
 
 Last day of Cul)liunting October 28tli. Haveing been out ;>(» times 
 .V: killed 2.') Cubs & ran 12 to ground A: Left them. 
 
 Ocfoher 3(>f/( first day of regular hunting. 
 
 Kiiicton Kennel. — Found in Pool Field gorse A: van thnmgh Chadshunt 
 g(n-s(> Fletchers Copi)iee Itchington Holt A: Ijy the back of the village to 
 Cliosterton Poole over Harbnry Field to Wliitnash gorse Turned A: was 
 lioaded at tlu^ Railroad & W(^ ran verey hard into the village of Harl)ury & 
 Lost liiui a lumr & a half good Hunting run Found again in Atkins gorse 
 A ran to Fh-tehers Coppices was Heach^d at the road Back through the liolt 
 over Kiiightcote Field Leveing North End to the right Skirted the end of 
 Burton hill over Fenney Compton Field to ground at Farnlxirougli a hour 
 and T) miniites. 
 
 (ifli Xc)rJ)oM Pacij. — Found in Oakley wood A: ran a ring over Teachbrooke 
 Field it Back through tlm wood A: away l)v Mr. Cummings & Heatheutt to 
 ground under a Tr»H^ at Middleliill Left him Found again 2 brace of Foxes in 
 Chesterton Wood & ran in the wood half a hour & away by Mr Smiths A: over 
 Mr W Pratts Farine by Jessy Bradleys through Itchington holt by Gihnans 
 & l)y Mill pit over the Railroad to Ladbrooke village was Headed Back 2 
 Fields A; Killed him 4U minutes frome the wood very good Hunting run. 
 
 ~th November, Stevtms" notes — ■'there wos 3 or 4 brace of Foxes running 
 aboute "" rou..;! Idlic(»te House. 
 
 \'-)fh OffcTiurcli Btn-tj — Foun<l in Print hill A; Broak away Pointing to 
 Snowfoi-d Bridge eurv(Ml to tlu! right by Oft'church Wafe to Radford hill 
 was Head at the road Si ran l)ack by the Brooke through the Bottom of 
 Itchington wood & a ring by Stoneythorpe & Back into the rough A: away 
 over Mr (Davis ?) Farme & over tlie Warwick road & the Duuchnrch road 
 A: over Southam Field Pointing to Roomlow Spinney &. curved to the I'ight 
 Pointing to Napton A: Killed him on the Southam A: Daventry road after a 
 lutur \ 2.") minut(!s good Hiuiting run. 
 
 \\\' have receive(.l an account of the same run from 
 i^ord Mountgarret, and through Mr. James Montgomery, 
 and it is descril)ed as much more severe than it is recorded 
 to have been in Stevens' diary. It relates that after finding 
 in Print Hill the hounds ran as far as Berricote Wood and 
 ])a('k again by Oifchurch. After that time no one else was^ 
 with the hounds up till the finish except Stevens and Mr. 
 
186 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. isus 
 
 James Montgomery. Either the severity of the pace or 
 else the country being, as usual, very blind at this time, 
 caused the field entirely to lose the hounds. Lord 
 Mountgarret followed on their line to Stoney Thorpe, but 
 never caught them. Mr. James Montgomery says that 
 when they were in a large grass field near Napton, Stevens 
 saw the fox lying down, and that there was only one 
 couple of hounds left, so great had been the pace. Stevens 
 asked ^Ir. Montgomery to watch the fox while he went 
 back to try and collect more hounds. Mr. Montgomery 
 rode round the fox in a circle, and whenever he came any 
 nearer than a certain distance the fox, without getting up, 
 snapped his teeth at him. Stevens eventually brought uj) 
 a sufficient number of hounds to kill this gallant fox. 
 The distance from Berricote Wood to the point where 
 he was killed, between Napton and Priors Hardwick, 
 is fifteen miles, and the hounds could not have run less 
 than twenty miles. Captain Jennings has told us that 
 Mr. James Montgomery on this occasion rode a famous 
 horse called Dusty Bob, and he often talked to him of the 
 run. We remember Mr. Barnard told us' that shortly before 
 Mr. James Montgomery came to hunt at Leamington he 
 w^as at the Duke of Buccleuch's kennels, and the duke's 
 huntsman said to him: " There is a chiel coming into 3'our 
 country who will do ye more harum (harm) than all the 
 railroads and modern invintions." Mr. James Montgomery 
 hunted for many years at Leamington, and died at the age 
 of eight v-seven. He was a very hard and jealous rider, and 
 on one occasion had a serious quarrel with Mr. Campl)ell, 
 of Monzie, who was just such another rider. Each claimed 
 to have had the best of a particular run, and it ended in 
 Mr. Campbell calling out Mr. Montgomery, and the matter 
 was referred to Captain Jennings, who settled it after a 
 good deal of difficulty. 
 
 November llth Edstone Hall. — Drew aiisty & EdgowoU Blank Found 'J 
 or 3 Foxes in Mayswood & ran tlirough Foreiglm & 5 ackers & Pointing to 
 Banliams Ciarved to the right throiigh owls wood & over Barrells Park 
 Pointing to nioekley he was ran by a Dog by Renals Rainge & Lost liim 
 Found again in moekloy wood k ran in the wood 20 minutes & away by 
 
im] STEVENSS SYSTEM. 187 
 
 Tanwortli & througli tlic uin])erslade woods to the Caiinal opper.site Moi-kley 
 Houso ct ran Paralall with the Cauual to Salterstrctt Lodg'o ifc Kilhnl 
 hiiu. 
 
 Stevens often used to say that he would ratlier go down 
 *' Eirminghani way '' than on to the grass near Ladbroke, 
 because tlie former country carried a better scent, and we 
 have often heard (jther huntsmen and masters of hounds 
 say the same thing. Stevens seems to have been death 
 on foxes. His peculiar system, which was not altogether 
 approved of by ^Ir. Barnard, helped him very much in 
 this. He used to keep some hounds always near him or 
 at his horse's heels, and the moment a fox broke covert, 
 away went Stevens after him, clapped his leading hounds 
 on his back, never waiting a moment for the others to be 
 brought up.* Thus he burst his fox at first, and so 
 generally accounted for him. A great deal of the fine 
 sport he showed was owing to this, but he was a terrible 
 fellow to ride, and well mounted as he was by Mr. Barnard 
 nothing stopped him. He would go tearing through ITfton 
 Wood on his hack ; out he would come with his face 
 running down with blood ; he would jump oft" his hack on 
 the first horse that offered, till he got his own, and away he 
 went.f A very good judge, who hunted for many years with 
 the Pytchley and Warwickshire, has told us that he thinks 
 
 * This system is, of course, open to much question. It is not, of course, the same 
 thing as allowing two or three couples of hounds to slip away by themselves, which 
 should never be suffered. " Cecil " [p. 211, 1854 Ed.] says, speaking of Lord 
 Fitzharding's hounds : " Tlie wonderfiil head they carry is another subject for admira- 
 tion. I could not fail, on one occasion last season, observing the judicious .system 
 adopted to ensure this important property, and which is universally practised with them. 
 The hounds had been running their fox some httle time in covert, when he broke over a 
 large grass field, and was viewed by one of the second horsemen, who hallooed him, 
 upon which two couples of hounds got to the halloo in advance of the pack. Coming 
 up at the moment, and therefore enabled to see this, Ayris (the huntsman) stoppe<l 
 them from going on with the scent till the body of the pack arrived^a plan which I am 
 satisfied is perfectly correct, although I have seen many huntsmen of celebrity who 
 would go on with one or two couples of hounds, leaving the remainder to bo brought 
 forward by the whipper-in. The motive for doing so is, that one or two couples of 
 hounds being allowed to carry on the scent, will show the line the fox has taken ; yet it 
 must Ije remembered that hounds will not run so fast single-handed as when they are in 
 a body." From what " Cecil " says, it appears that the point may be an open question, 
 hut I fancy that Stevens' plan was more likely to kill his fox, and that's what we come 
 out for after all.— W. R. V. 
 
 t I remember that Stevens always sat very far back in the saddle when his horse 
 was taking off at a big fence. — C. M. 
 
188 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ISiS- 
 
 hiiu, next to old Charles Payne,* the tiiiest huiitsniaii, aiul 
 the keenest, quickest man after a fo.x he ever saw. 
 Beers was a good huntsman, and no one knew the run 
 of a fox better, or got his hounds (|uieker to him, but he 
 had not, jDerhaps, the fire, dash, and enthusiasm of Stevens^ 
 Payne, and the late William (loodall. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1848. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 SiKKS. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 All)ion 
 
 Albert (41) 
 
 Wilful* 
 
 Banker , 
 Bram.shal / 
 Barl)ara [_ 
 
 Boscobel ■ 
 
 Bashful \ 
 Bridal .' 
 
 Brilliant 
 
 Duster \ 
 Dorcas j 
 Grasper 1 
 
 Garlandj 
 
 Hasty 
 
 Singer (44) 
 
 Tarquin ( 41 > . 
 
 Mr. Drake's Duster 
 
 Mr. Drake's Gras|)er 
 
 Mr. Drake's Hector 
 
 Earl Fitzwilliam's Mentor... 
 
 Earl Fitzwilliam's Mentor... 
 Earl Fitzwilliam's Mentor... 
 
 Mr. Horlock's Rutland 
 
 Singer (44) 
 
 Earl FitzwilliaMis Mentor... 
 Tarquin (4(>i 
 
 Buxom (44) 
 
 Brazen (4:>) 
 Harlot (42) 
 
 Clamorous (42) 
 Gracious (43) 
 
 Lounger 7 
 Languish 3 
 
 Mentor ... 
 
 Purity 
 
 Rutland . 
 
 Lawless (44) 
 
 Roinsey (45) 
 Proserpine (45) 
 Freedom (44) 
 
 Songstress 
 
 Guilty (43) 
 
 Telltale) 
 
 Trinket j 
 
 Termagant | 
 Trimbush ) 
 
 • 
 Testy (44) 
 
 Tragedy (44) 
 
 * By tlie Belvoir Fatal— Mr. Druke's Wayward. 
 Mr. Barnard iu 1844. 
 
 Boufflit as a two-year-old l)y 
 
 28^/;. Weston House. — Found iu Witchford wood ct ran aboute there 4 
 liours and Killed a fox in Longcompton wood idiov running aboute all day. 
 
 It is curious how history of this kind repeats itself. 
 Here is a regular typical Weston House day. 
 
 30^/) Gaydon Inn. — Found in Ladbrooke gorse a Brace of Foxes one 
 whent away but the Hounds where running a Nother fox at the same time 
 ran liim aboute the gorse half an hour &. away 3 Fields & Killed him. Found 
 
 * Charles Payne had the same habit as Stevens ot keeping some hounds always, 
 near him, and I remember seeing a very fine rnii from Kilworth Sticks to Bitte.swell 
 with only seven couiiles of hounds.— C. M. 
 
K^k^ 18«): CLASPER IN THE MOAT. 189 
 
 again iu Itchiu^tj-tou Holt A: rau verey quick to Poolfields was Headed Back 
 to Verueys o-ovse and we dun no more good witli liim. 
 
 Dficemher Ixt Eptnoell village. — Found in Swaclitfo ozicr l)ed & ran by 
 tlic mill up Mr Greaves hill was headed by Mr Painters by his stone pit A: 
 by Mr Greaves spinney ct by William Pages ct North Newington A Mr J. 
 Greaves spinney Sc over Wroxton Park into the Gardens was hollowed on to 
 the fox & ran the Heel way of him it Lost liim Drew Claydon Hill Blank 
 Found betwn Swacliffe Park i*i: the Heatli & ran verey quick through the lower 
 part of Wigington Heath and by Lampit House over the road pointing to 
 Broughton was Headed back to Lampit House & rau Back to Broughton 
 Castle Killed him between the Castle and the Church Clasper and the Fox a 
 Fine site in the Water. 
 
 In Mr. Darwin Galton's account of the same rim, in 
 his diary, we find " Clasper seized the fox whilst swimming- 
 across the moat, and brought him -alive to the rest of the 
 ])ack." Stevens, being in an ecstacy, shouting out, "I 
 would forfeit half a year's salary rather than have missed 
 .seeing Clasper catching that fox in the moat." Clasper 
 was appropriately named for the occasion. 
 
 Ibth Wroxton Abbey. — Found in Wythecomb gorse & ran very quick 
 up to the Chipping Norton Turnpike I'oad was Headed doAvu by Crouch hill 
 to Broughton ct the rain washed the Hounds oft' the scente. Found again iu 
 Wigington Heath & ran there 20 minutes to ground Found again in 
 Swaclifie Spiny two foxes & ran by the hill Pointing to Sheldons gorse 
 turned to the Left by Epwell mill over Sluitford hill by Mr Benuets by 
 Mosshills stone pit to Sheniug-ton village over tlie Field nearly to Upton 
 gorse turned to the Left by Mr Andei-tons & Sheuing-ton Hill over Tysoe 
 Field by Comptou WjTiate Pointing to the Scrubs turned over Wiuderton 
 Field Leveiii?" the village on the right by Brailes Building Pointing to Galby 
 hill turned to the right Ity Brailes village to ground in a Draine Pointing to 
 Cherington & Left him. 
 
 January 12//; 1849 Wroxtou Abbey. — A Frost on the hills Drew Pillertou 
 gorse found &. ran over Pointing to Oxhill Curved to the right by Pillertou 
 through Brickhill gorse over Eatington Field by Thornton & Loxley through 
 Wellesl)ourne wood to ground in Charlecote Park k Left him Found again 
 in Wellesbourne wood A: ran there till Darke & stoped the Hounds. 
 
 loth Billesley Ifo//.— Drew Arston Grove Wythecomb & Redhill Found 
 iu West gi'ove & ran aboute there 2 hours & Lost him Found again iu Alne 
 gorse & ran iu the gorse half a hour & away by Shelfield through Spernal 
 Park Pointing to Studley Curved to the Left over the river to middle Town 
 Pointing to Coughton Park was Headed and Ave stoped the Hounds gowing 
 Back over the i-iver at Dark. 
 
 23(i Mitford Bridge.— -DvQ\y Woolford wood Blank Found iu B;irton 
 Grove & ran over the hill Leveing Little Comptou to the right through the 
 
 Plantations Adlesthrope k by Bledenton tlircmgh Oddington up to 
 
 to ground 55 minutes. 
 
 February 2d Kenneh. — Found iu Pillertou gorse & the fox Avas Headed 
 A; Killed there Found again in Brickhill gorse & ran there 20 minutes A' 
 
190 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. isu> 
 
 away hotweou the 2 Pillcrtous to OsJiillinill Turned to the Left l)y Miimfords 
 Spiny into the Oak Fields & one rin<^' thei'e & away by W Brailes & over 
 Kinoton & Marston Field Pointing to Pillerton gorse Cnrved to the Left by 
 Oxhill mill to Hadliill & Cni'ved to the Left into Kineton Holt & ran thfM-e a 
 hour & Killed him there 2 hours 45 minutes. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, Feb. 1 0th : 
 
 The Warwickshire hounds met at Woodcote on Monday last, and a 
 greater number of red coats never assembled in this locality. Fern Hill was 
 drawn blank, but on reaching Long Meadow out bolted a gallant fox, heading 
 in a straight direction for about twenty miles to Mr. Newdigate's, Arbury 
 Hall, where he turned, and w^as killed near Kersley Church, five miles 
 l)eyond Coventry, the run occupying tAvo hours and twenty minutes. There 
 were a nice few up at the finish, but many horses had to be sent home by 
 train. This is but one among the many good things by which the Warwick- 
 .shire keep up their established reputation. 
 
 We copy the following from the diary ms an instance of 
 an unnsually blank day : 
 
 2or/i Wroxton New Inn. — Drew Taylors Bushes & Wilcox & Garrets 
 Bushes and Hanwell Spiny & Counseller Curtis's gorse MoUington liill 
 Harbagesgorse Edgehill Kineton Holt & the Oak Field Blank k had a Blank 
 day. 
 
 March 12tli Little Alne. — Drew the gorse Blank Found in Spernal Park 
 & ran there 20 minutes & away to the gorse & away by Alne village & by the 
 mill over the Canal by the Golden Cross & into the Cow Bower where he 
 Waited for us & ran A^erey hard through the Bushes & along the Meadows 
 Pointing to Bladons wood & ran into him 2 hours. 
 
 22fZ Sititterfield. — DroAV Luscomb wood & Linge Furlong Blank Found 
 in Calloways rough & ran aboute a hour gave it up for a Anxen Found again 
 in Beirly Bushes & Broake away through Cow Bower & through by the 
 Golden Cross acrosst Edstone Park Skirted the Corner of Austy Avood acrot 
 Mr. Whittingtons farm, CurA'ed to the Left over the Canal through the 
 Reids Wooton Hall & along the meadowes nearly to Henley & over the 
 Birmingham road tlirough mays Avood & Banhams into Spernal Park to 
 ground 1 hour 30 minutes got him out & Killed. 
 
 23f? Epioell Village. — Foimd in a small Patch of gorse liy the cottage & 
 ran in and aboute Wigington Heath a hour to ground got him out & Turned 
 him DoAvn at hell gorse & ran him 5 or 6 Fields & Killed him Found again 
 in the Hook Norton Spiny & ran by Aston & Witchford village into the 
 wood & 3 rings in the wood & away through Long Compton wood Haywoods 
 gorse <fe over the Field by Barton & through the old Cover & along the top of 
 Woolfoi-d wood curved to the right tlirough Leamington Coppices Pointing 
 to Todenham CurA^ed to the Left through Dunson by Leamington Pointing 
 avstou Haile & Killed him one Field from the Morton road. 
 
 On the 27th, according to Stevens' diary, the hounds 
 ran by " where Thornals gorse was," and we hear no more 
 of it. [I fancy it was in Kirby field, near where my father 
 planted a gorse covert, which came to nothing. — W. R. V.] 
 
i,s4i» SPLENDID RUN FROM UFTON. 191 
 
 :ii}tlt Barton Toll Gate.— Dvow tlu' hills Blank Fouiul at Ladln-ooko & 
 rail I)V Hoduell & round tlic liill hy Ladl>rooke Village through Nuuus 
 Bushes liytlie lime Pits & Bishops Itcliington Pointing to Harlniry turned to 
 the Left by Xinis (Christmas) hill through the Sallow Bed Ijy Kingstono & 
 Clieekleys Break over old Such (Sitch) through Chesterton Wood and Killed 
 liim by Mr. Smith's 1 hour 5 minutes. 
 
 April 20th Coughton. — The last day of the Season Haveing Been out 
 Since Regular Hunting 89 days and Killed 62 Foxes and one Found Dead 
 suposed to have been Killed by the Hounds Hunted altogether 12.") days & 
 Killed 88 Foxes & ran 47 to ground & Left them & had 2 Blank days. 
 
 SEASON 1849-50. 
 
 August 23d 1849. — Began Cubhiinting at Oakley Wood Found 3 or 4 
 Culls Init could not run them to do any good no Scente. 
 
 November 2d Comjiton Wy via te.— Found. & ran a ring there and away 
 through Tysoe Village & Lost him Found again in Upton gorse k ran over 
 the Irons by tlie Sun Riseing along Edgeliill to Hortins Down the hill to 
 Kiueton Oak Fields & the Holt & Back through the Oak Fields & by 
 Mumfords Spiny & Oxliill Mill on the right over Hardwick Big grounds & 
 over Tysoe Field up to the Mill and Strait to Broomhill where we got 3 Foxes 
 iS: Changed & Hunted the Line to Hailsmore & Stoped tliem and gave it up. 
 
 22nd Dunchurch. — Found in Hillmortou & Hunted the fox to Crick 
 gorse to ground & from there to ground just under the village Found again 
 in Hillmortou gorse & Hunted him Pointing to the village turned to the 
 right Parallal with the Canal & turned to the Left Pointing to Rugby 
 was Headed at the Canal & ran Parallal with the Railroad to Clifton on 
 Diinsmore & ran into a Taylors Shope & killed him there. 
 
 2(ith Napton on the Hill. — Drew the New gorse a fox Stole away Troted 
 on to Debdale & drew it Blank Found again in Upon (Ufton) wood & Breoke 
 away by Basket village Pointing to Stockton Lime Kilns Curved to the right 
 over the Dunchurch rode & Southam Field Leveing Southam on the right 
 over theWelsh road to Ladbrooke hill & Bore to the Left by old Radbourne 
 as was up to the Canal & ran Parallal to Womleighton where he was Headed 
 Back to Ladbrooke gorse witch he did not Enter but Curved to the right by 
 Mr. Manns House and by Old Radl)ounie oA'er Napton Field by the village 
 to Lower Shuckburgh Curved to the right through the hill & away by Priors 
 Marston to Grifins gorse Pointing to Boding-ton Gorse where he Turned to 
 the right by Bodington Hill to Charwelton Hill Bore to the right Pointing 
 to Pre.ston was Headed & Killed under Charwelton Hill after 3 hours k. 10 
 minutes the First 50 minutes Fast & the Other all a good Hunting Pace. 
 
 This was a run, about as good a one, except for pace 
 all through, as the Pool Field Osiers run, and over more 
 ground even. 
 
 This must be the run recorded by " Castor." It was 
 over the finest part of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, 
 and would have been still better if the fox had not been 
 constantly headed. The distance from point to point was 
 twelve miles, and the hounds probably ran twenty miles. 
 
192 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 1840 
 
 Horses were beaten to a standstill long before the finish. 
 Stevens rode the Dutchman and Tom Browne, but he had to 
 boiTow a I'ariiier's horse before the fox was killed, 
 
 •27th and 'l\)t]i. — Wort' stopped by an oarly frost.* 
 
 rt is remarkable to notice in the whole of Stevens' 
 diary what a few days they were stopped by frost durin"- 
 nine years. 
 
 We have often heard Mr. Barnard say that " hounds 
 could onl}^ run in Warwickshire when the water splashed 
 up in the farrows." It was a sort of cycle of wet, damp 
 seasons. On wet days, however, Stevens often records that 
 there was no scent. Probably many good runs were seen 
 on fine days with a rising barometer, when the country was 
 thoroughly ^vet through by previous rain. 
 
 30t]i Charcli Tijsoe. — Found in the Warrin & ran aboute a hour & Inmted 
 him to Sibford & gave him up Drew Lampit Spiny & Nell gorse blank 
 ■\vas Hollowed a fox frome Wigington Heath & ran to Hook Norton to ground 
 
 under the road Drew the Heath Blank Found in and ran a ring 
 
 into Swacliffe village & round by tlie ozier bed & mill by Wigington lieatli Si 
 
 Hook Norton Lodge to Lampit gorse & to and to Swerford Park 
 
 to round 1 liour l^ 25 minutes. 
 
 From the Leamingtou Courier, Dec. 1st : 
 
 Tlie annual dinner of the Warwickshire Hunt Club took place at tlie 
 Warwick Arms on Friday. Nov. 24th. The respected master, R. J. 
 Barnard. Esq.. occupied tlie chair ; C. B(jlton King, Esq., undertook tlie duties 
 of tlie \'ice-chair. Amongst those present were Lord Guernsey, M.P., 
 Viscomit Villiers, tlie Hon. W. H. Leigh. Hon. C. Finch, Rev. J. Lucy. 
 Messrs. Wise. Mark Pliilips, Parker. H. W. AUfrey, Gladstone, Darwin 
 Gallon. Cowan, Earle. Sheldon. Arkwriglit, Ramsay, Clark, &e. The 
 question of removing the Hunt Ball from Stratford-on-Avon to Warwick 
 was disciTssed, when, a difference of opinion arising, the question was put to 
 tlie vote. A majority of twelve to eight decided in favour of the county 
 town. The reason given for the alteration being the extreme eligibility of 
 the county hall for the purpf)se of the assembly. The Ball was fixed for 
 Jan. 16th. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 December ith Weston House. — Found 2 or 3 foxes in Witchford wood &. 
 Hunted one a ring by the Combs & over the hill by over Bury Field 
 
 * "Cecil" say.s : " This was a bad season generally; there was a considerable 
 quantity of frost. It is a general opinion, if the scent has not been good, and a frost 
 commences, that it will improve afterwards ; but I do not find that the opinion is 
 borne out by facts" [p. 365, 1854 Ed.]. I must say I agree with the general 
 ■opinion, and not with " Cecil," especially if rain succeeds. — W. R. V. 
 
1849J 
 
 BARTON GROVE. 
 
 193 
 
 Pointing to Hook Norton Spiny gave liiin up and Avhont Back to Wliicliford 
 Did not Findo Found in Barton Grovo & ran over tlie liill by Salford Spinnies 
 & up to Bolters Barn was Headed t*v: ran Back by Salford Pointing to Walk 
 gorse Bearing to the right to Chipping Norton Towns End to ground under 
 a gate way oiu; hour 20 minutes. 
 
 It is worthy of remark that Barton Grove seems to have 
 been a very faA'onrite covert in the Warwickshire Hunt ; 
 a very sure find, and a great many good runs started 
 from it. 
 
 We also notice how very seldom the foxes ran up 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1849. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Bedford ") 
 Blossom 3 
 Dauntless . 
 Fortune ~) 
 Flighty ]■ . 
 Factor j 
 Gainsborough 
 Gaylass 
 Governess 
 Hazard 
 Herald 
 Hector 
 Hei-od 
 Handmaid 
 Heroine 
 Hymen "^ 
 Hermit ) 
 
 Parasol 
 
 Random ■^ 
 Regent ' 
 Rosamond ( 
 Rum J 
 
 Remnant ... 
 
 Joker 
 
 Velvet 
 
 Woodman . . . 
 
 Benedict (45) 
 
 Lord Redesdale's Agent . . . 
 
 Oakley Factor 
 
 . Drake's Gainsboroue^h 
 Mr 
 
 Lord Southampton's Hazard 
 
 Hannibal (42) 
 
 Benedict (45) 
 
 Mr. Drake's Fugleman 
 
 Lord Redesdale's Guardsman 
 
 Fatal(44) 
 
 Whipster (43) 
 
 Whipster (43) 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Clamorous (42) 
 Dauntless (41) 
 
 Priestess (47) 
 Rally (46) 
 
 Tuneful (46) 
 
 Bauble (45) 
 Pastime (40) 
 
 Rachel (45) 
 
 Ransom (44) 
 Joyful (44) ■ 
 Velvet (43) 
 Proserpine (45) 
 
 into the Heythrop country without coming back, thus 
 accounting for Jem Hills' boast that the AYarwick.shire 
 hounds could not kill a fox over the Eollwright Road. We 
 have not yet come to the account of the day when Mr. 
 Greaves' huntsman accomplished this fact, and sent Jem 
 Hills the tongue for his supper. 
 
 Vol. T. O 
 
194 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1849 
 
 December 10th Neivhold Facetj. — Found in Oakley Wood ct away Ijy Mr 
 Hiu'lestoues over the Brooke by Middleliill and over the Brooke attain by 
 Mr. Hurlestones ; over the Bai'ford road into Warwick Park to groixud Ihour 
 15 minutes. Foimd again in Chadshunt Copse & ran to ground in Pool Fields 
 gorse 3 or 4 more foxes there & away by Chadshunt to Gaydon &. over 
 the Vale Pointing to North End Curved to the Left over Knightcote Field 
 t<; by Bishops Itchington & Kingstone Pointing to Chesterton Curved to 
 the Left up the Brooke side through Itchington Holt to the Gaydon road 
 Pointing to Gaydon Spiny Stoped them at dark 1 hour 35 minutes. 
 
 A very hard day without blood, and they came all the 
 way from Warwick Park to Chadshunt to find, running to 
 ground, and finding again in Pool Fields, from which 
 covei't the great run took place in February, 1884. Stevens 
 rode Red Pose and Gayman. It is a curious fact, that 
 with these terrible long days he only records about twice, 
 or at most three times, that his horse was tired. 
 
 They were prevented hunting by frost from Jan. 1st 
 till the 24th. 
 
 I860 February 7th Eatington Village. — Found in rougli hill & ran a ring 
 by the Grove and over Eatiugton Park by Lamlicot & Back to the Grove 
 Drew Alveston Pastures Blank Found in Wellesbourne wood & ran through 
 Red hill up to the Keepers house was Headed Back across the Fields throixgh 
 the top of Smatchley Break hj Mount Pleasant to Walton wood Never 
 entered the wood ran Parall with the Brooke over the Foss road to Pillerton 
 Curved to the Left over G. Fennels Farme to the Oxhovels Farme Turned to 
 the right and ran the Brooke side to within one Field of the Marston road 
 witch he crossed by Mr. Pai-kers Bam & on over Marston & Pillerton Fields 
 Leveing Oxhill on his Left by Kirby & Thornels gorse* & compton 
 Wyniates up to Broom hill where we Killed him one hour & 36 minutes a 
 good Hunting run. 
 
 14th Buuchureh. — Found in Coocks gorse & ran by Spinney 
 
 & Barby to ash be St Legers & away by Barby Mill Pointing to Coocks 
 gorse again Curved along the side of the hill down to Hillmorton Warfe A: 
 
 Turned to the right over the railroad up to the road &. Lost him a 
 
 hour & 38 minutes Found again in Hillmorton gorse & ran A'erey quick 
 Pointing to Lilboiime Curved to the right by Winch village & along the 
 Bottom ct up the hill to ground at Mr. Lovels Earths 45 minutes. 
 
 From the Jjeamhn/fon Sjjci Courier, Feb. 23rd: 
 
 Tlie Warwickshire hounds met at Napton-on-the-Hill on Monday last; 
 the attendance was large and the weather fine. A fox was foimd inLadbroke 
 Gorse, and soon broke away across the Banbury road to the site of the old 
 Watergall Covert ; recrossing the road near Fenny Compton "VVliarf . he madr 
 aAvay for Wormleighton Tillage and Boddington Gorse a short distance in 
 front of the homids, but after running through the gorse he escaped. The run 
 lasted one hour and five minutes, over the cream of the Warwickshire country. 
 
 * No doubt where Thornhill's g;orse had been. 
 
1850] LIBERAL HUNTING AEEANGEMENTS. 195 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 25th Ufton Wood.— Found X ran over Radford hill to Whit Nash Field 
 Coukl not run liiin on the Ph)iigh ludd on to Cliesterton wood liit tlie Line 
 
 into tlie wood tt away over Faruie to Wigband wood wliere he 
 
 was Headed l)y Mr. & Hi.j>-lidown into Whitnash Fiekl Pointing to 
 
 Ufton wood Coukl not Imnt liini held tlieni on to ufton wood got on liim 
 again & ran liini verey liard for '10 minutes A: Killed hy the old Bridge 
 Pointing to Print. 
 
 March Wi Boot Inn Honihj. — Found in Wroxali Spiuys & ran into Hay- 
 wood ct away Pointing to Badsk'y was Headed through the wood & Spinys to 
 Frogmore ran a cerkle Pointing to Longmeadow wood through Bloek & 
 Haxkdn'll l)y Honily A: Wakefiekl wood by tlie Bogs to Newkmds & (k)wn to 
 the mill ct up on to Hatton .i Killed 2 hours 15 minutes. 
 
 7t}i Boitrfon Hill. — Drew Papcdiills and Bagshaws gorse & Leicesters 
 Piee Bunkers hill it Suttous gorse Blank. 'Found in Deepdale ife ran very 
 quick Pointing to Eath(n'[)e Curved to the right under Birhury Leveiug it on 
 tlie left aiul Deepdale on the right Leamington Hastings and hill on the Left 
 over the Southam and Dunehureh road Pointing to Shuokburgh Curved to 
 tlu' Left over Graudborough Field Leveiug Sutton's gorse ou the right and 
 
 Bunkershill on the Left and over the Loudon road by Bridge along 
 
 the Brooke side Pointing to Barby Curved to the Left Leveiug Coocks gorse 
 on the riglit through Bilton gorse by the grange to Cawston Spiny and Killed 
 him one hour 2 minutes. 
 
 March 27th Wroxton Abbey. — " To meet Lord Gough." 
 
 From the LeamiiK/foii Spa Courier, March 2nd. 
 
 An interview was held on Wednesday last at the Regent Hotel. 
 Leamington, between R. J. Barnard, Esq., the respected master of the 
 Warwickshire hounds, and the Leamington Town Committee. We hear that 
 the hunting announcement for next week will be on a far more extended 
 scale tlian lifretofore, and that the whole country appertaining to the Hunt 
 in the northern and southern district will be hunted six days a Aveek. 
 
 To effect this, Mr. Barnard has consented to establish a suitable stud of 
 horses, and a second or considerably inci-eased pack of hounds, for the reception 
 of which stables and keiniels contiguous to the Spa, lately occupied by 
 H. Bradley Esq.. will be put in proper repair. We are also informed that 
 Mr. Barnard has accepted the invitation of the Leamington Committee to a 
 public dinner, which is fixed to take place at the Regent Hotel on Wednesday, 
 the 13th instant. 
 
 From the Lcaminxjton Spa Courier, Marcli IGth : 
 
 PUBLIC DINNER TO R. J. BARNARD, ESQ. 
 
 Kickshaws and trifles is tlie Gallic plan, 
 Good beef and porter suit the Englishinan. 
 
 Old Song, Sporting Magazine. 
 
 " No Fox, No Potts.'' 
 
 This was held at the Regent Hotel, Leamington, on Wednesday, March 
 13th. Soon after 6 o'clock the band in attendance struck up the welcome air 
 "Bright Chanticleer proclaims," and C. Earle. Esq., accompanied by R. J. 
 
 o 2 
 
196 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1850 
 
 BaniJivd, Esq., and scvcu'al otlun' i^cutlemon of tlio Himt, all of tliem wearing 
 tlio accustomod nniform. entered the dining room, the former gentleman 
 taking the chair, John Hitohman. Escj., oecnpying the vice-chair. On the 
 removal of the cloth, the Chairman propos(Ml " Her Majesty the Qneen," 
 wliich was druidc with three times throe. The Chairman then rose to propose 
 the toast of the evening, the " Health of his friend, R. J. Barnard, Esq." He 
 would mention that he had received letters from Lord John Scott, Lord 
 Leigh, Lord Villiers, and several other gentlemen of the Hnnt, all expressing 
 their extreme regret that unavoidable causes prevented their attendance. The 
 letter of Lord Leigh was as follows : " Stcnieleigh Al)l)ey, March 9tli, 1850. 
 Dear Mr. Earle, — I am afraid I shall not he ahle to be present at the 
 dinner to be given to Mr. Barnard, to wiiicli jon have kindly invited 
 me, but I am most grateful for the invitation, and am glad to hear 
 (though my lumting has long ceased) that you are going to have 
 an additional day in the neighbourhood of Leamington. I am sure 
 Mr. Barnard's zeal, aetiAity, and perseverance as master of the Warwick- 
 shire hounds are deserving- of the highest praise and the gratitude of 
 all Warwickshire sportsmen. I hope in all my woods abundance of foxes will 
 be found, and I am sm-e that my keeper. Potts, will take care that foxes are 
 preserved. I cannot forget how highly in former days I enjoyed hunting in 
 Warwickshire under the dynasties that preceded Mr. Barnard, nor am I 
 unmindful of the fondness of the sport that is shown by my son. With every 
 wish for the happiness and prosperity of Mr. Barnard and the sportsmen who 
 support the Warwickshire, I remain, dear Mr. Earle, yours most faithfully, 
 Leigh." (Cheers.) His friend, Mr. Barnard, reminded him of a circum- 
 stance which occurred some years ago, and showed how extremely anxious 
 Lord Leigh was that there should be always a fox in his coverts. His lord- 
 ship on one occasion sent for his keeper, Potts, and a short conv(n*sation took 
 place between them to this eifect : " I understand you want me, my lord," 
 said Potts. " I only want to say one thing," said his lordship. "No Fox, 
 no Potts." (Laughter.) He (the Chairman) begged to echo every sentiment 
 contained in that letter with reference to Mr. Barnard. He had had the 
 pleasure of his acquaintance for years, and ever found him animated with one 
 sincere desire not only to promote the sport of the county, but in every 
 respect to meet the wishes of his supporters in all parts of the country. 
 Some persons imagine that to be a master of a i)ack of foxhoimds 
 was a complete sineciire, that he had only to get on his horse, enjoy his out, 
 and, on his return home, his dinner. There was an old saying, "After the 
 feast comes the reckoning." Such a run as they had from Debdale last 
 Thursday might be likened to the feast; the reckoning consisted of lame 
 hounds and horses, damage done, and claims for compensation, and many other 
 matters not particularly conducive to the comfort and hapjjiness of the master. 
 The first Lord of the Treasury might as well attempt to satisfy every one of 
 Her Majesty's siibjects as an M.F.H. to satisfy everyone. All he could say 
 of their master was that he did his best. (Cheers.) Proprietors in different 
 parts of the country were naturally anxious to have their coverts drawn- 
 Tliere was his old friend Mr. Musgrave, whom they all knew was very fond 
 of shooting, and many of them knew from experience that he was still fonder 
 of giving his shooting to his friends. He felt persuaded that that gentleman 
 would rather lose all his pheasants than sign the death warrant of one fox. 
 He knew that Mr. Musgrave had written to the Master of Hounds : " Pray 
 
1850] DINNER TO MR. BARNARD. 197 
 
 come aud rout out uiy foxes, they are really .so iiumerou.s that my keepers 
 scarcely dare yo iiito tlio fovcrts ; " aud tlien. with that felicity of illustration 
 which so distinxuislu's hini, related many anecdotes of the boldness of the 
 foxes, that tliey " sit down in the riding- and stare mo out of countenance." 
 The fact was that the country was too wide for four days a week, l)ut, by the 
 liberality of the inhal)itants and visitors of Leamington, a remedy liad been 
 found for the evil, viz., tliat the county will lie hunted six days a week. He 
 had no doubt Mr. Barnard would do his utmost to promote the sport and 
 meet the wishes of gentlemen in the district, and that the county shall be 
 fairly hunted. He had, therefore, mucli pleasure in proposing, witli all the 
 honours, the " Health of his esteemed friend, Mr. Barnard." (Three times 
 three.) Mr. Barnard arose amid loud and oft-repeated apjjlause. He commenced 
 his speech by stating " that he could assure them he felt extremely embarrassed 
 in returning thanks for the great compliment they had ju.st paid him, and also 
 in inviting him to become a guest at their hospitable board, but first 
 he begged to thank tlioir worthy Chairnmu for the kind and flattering 
 way he had proposed the toast, and also the geutknuen present for the 
 kindness witli which they had responded to it. He assured them that 
 the comjdinient paid him that day was as gratifying as it was un- 
 expected. They must recollect that the post which he held as master of 
 foxhounds was not one of his own seeking, and indeed, some years since, he 
 had not the most distant idea that he should ever be called on to hold such 
 an office, but after his friend, Mr. Granville, had succeeded Mr. Thornhill, 
 and that gentleman was obliged to relinquish the office l)y ill-health, a master 
 was wanted. At that time he had not the slightest idea that he should be 
 required to fill the post, mitil one day, when he was out hunting, his friend, 
 Mr. Hugh Williams, said: "Barnard, we want a master, the county looks to 
 you." After that he felt obliged to respond to it, and he was duly installed 
 in his office. He believed it was going on to thirteen seasons since he became 
 master, and during the last eight years he had had the sole management of 
 them. When he began office the funds were not in a flourishing state, all 
 that they could raise in the county was 1300Z. per annum, and from that, and 
 different causes, there was not the same eoit of good feeling, which he hoped 
 would continue to exist for many years between the gentlemen of Warwick- 
 shire and the inhaljitauts and visitors of Lei.mington. He iiusted tlutt good 
 feeling would never J)e interrupted. (Cheers.) He had said that at that 
 time all tlie money they could raise was alji.ut loOO?., but from difi'erent t auses, 
 in about tliree years, the subscriptions in the county increased to 18U0/., and 
 those from the visitors to Leamington to 1400/., and that instead of reducing 
 the hunting to tliree days a week, he liad been enabled, through the kindness 
 of many gentlemen he saw ai-ound him, to increase it to five days, a course 
 which had Ijeeu adopted for three successive seasons. Unfortunately, the 
 year of famine had made prices dearer, and he was obliged to give up the 
 latter experiment, but he assured them lie gave up hunting this side of the 
 county with very great reluctance, and that it would afford him much 
 pleasure to hunt it again. (Cheers.) He was aware it was not a first rate 
 grass country, but he looked forward to the Chase Woods and other coverts 
 in the neiglilxmrhood, which had long been celebrated for their runs, to 
 maintain tjieir diaracter next f-eason. He believed these woods were full of 
 foxes, and that they had not lieen so well preserved for many years as they 
 were now, and therefore, thanks to Lord Leigh and Lord Guernsey, there 
 
198 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 'I8o0 
 
 would lie no lack of foxes. On tlial head, tlicrcfort', tlioir sport for next 
 st-asoii was very proiuisiiii,'-. (Clu'ers.) He cordially thanked the company 
 for the kind manner in which they had met his wishes relative to the two 
 extra days, and he could assure them that he WH)uld do everything he could in 
 return to promote the sport. They had not tied him down to any particular 
 day in the week, they had left it to him to arrange the fixtures as he might 
 think hest. and he would endeavour to make them with due regard to all 
 parties, so that the county might be fairly hunted. (Cheers.) Before he sat 
 <lown he must allude to the kind feeling with which he had always l)een 
 received l)y the gentlemen owners of the land and the farmers of Warwick- 
 shire. Hi! could not be thankful enough to them for the kindness shown him 
 while riding over their land, as well as the handsome manner in which they 
 preserved the foxes. He thought, that if the farmers were ever obliged to 
 give up that favour, which he trusted they never would be, it would have a 
 verv detrimental effect iipon the hunting. He again begged to thank tliem 
 for the kind complinu^nt they had paid him in inviting him that day, and to 
 drink all their good healths. (Chei-rs.) 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 April Mil Gaydon Inn. — Foimd in Ladbrooke gorse and ran Leveiug 
 Hodnal a mile on the right l)y Water gall into Feimey Compton Field Nearly 
 up to Burton hill Turned to the right Leveiug North end on his Left over 
 Knightcote Field by Bishops Itchington village Leveiug Christmas hill on the 
 Left ami Harbury Heath on the right Pointing to Chesterton Turned to the 
 Left up Kingstone Bottoms through Itchington Holt Pointing to North end 
 was Headed l)ack into the Holt and lost ((fler the Best hoLr I ever saic. 
 
 April nth. — Last day of regular hunting at Alcester Were out 79 days 
 and Killed 72 foxt\s and ran 34 to ground. 
 
 Total 92 foxes during the entire season and 41 run to ground and left. 
 
 SEASON 1850-51. 
 
 1850 August Uth.-Fiv^t day of Culihunting at Oakley. Killed 14 foxes 
 and i-aji 4 to grouiul up to September 24th. 
 
 But there is no record of October, and this is tiie only 
 gap in tlie diary. 
 
 The hrst day of regular hunting was on Oct. .CSth at 
 tlie kennels, and there is no good day recorded in the 
 diary before Nov. 2 1st. The sport during this season was 
 not so brilliant as it had been previously. 
 
 Morris began to hunt the hounds on an extra day in 
 the north and west of the country. 
 
 Nov. Sth. — A long ringing day on the Hills " My horse tierd." 
 November 21st Compton Verney. — Drew the rough Blank Found in 
 Bishops gors(» &. ran to Chadshunt Copse A: ran 30 minutes ^t Killed him in 
 the big ground got (m the Line of a fox frome Itchington Holt & Hunted 
 hiui ))y Kingstone and Verneys gorse to Bishops gorse c't gave him u]» 
 Found again in Bowshot & ran vei-ey quick over Mr. Dixons Farme to 
 
18n0 
 
 HARD DAY FROM WOLFORD. 
 
 199 
 
 Morton Wood Headed back througli Hiirlstons Bank ct tho rouy-li over 
 Mor.'ton field Turned to the Left .t Pointiii.t;- to Chesterton was Headed by 
 Harewoods lionse baek hy Leveiiiy Wigland wood on tlie Left 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1850. 
 Mr. R. Baenard. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Aider 
 
 Bac'liehir } 
 Bh)()mer ) 
 Buxom I 
 Blissful ) 
 Crazv ) 
 Client 3 
 Clamorous 
 
 Gaudy 
 
 Hebe" 
 
 Manager ■^ 
 Mindful f 
 Mermaid (' 
 Messmate J 
 Pastime 
 Prizer ... 
 Partial ") 
 Prodigal ) 
 Rampant 
 Rallywood 
 
 Remus 
 
 Roeket 
 Sampson ") 
 Songster ) 
 Saladiu . 
 
 Stormer 
 
 Sunbeam 
 
 Tapster 
 Teni])est 
 Villager 
 Workman I 
 Woodbine j 
 Warbler ^\ 
 Wonderer [ 
 Wishful ) 
 Willing") 
 WilfuV 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Sir W. W. Wyun's Admiral His Proserpine 
 
 Benedict (45) Bauble (45) 
 
 „ , . .-^ . (I Mr. Drake's 
 
 Belvoir Gamester j^ , Br^i.^jt 
 
 Mr. Drake's Pontiff i His Chantress 
 
 Lord Southampton's Marplot \ Mr. Drake's 
 
 I Ctmstant 
 
 Mr. Drake's Gras^jer ; His Cambric 
 
 Mr. Drake's Hazard His Probity 
 
 Mr. Drake's Monareli 1 Tuneful (4ti) 
 
 Grasper (48) '.. 
 
 Mcmitor (47) 
 
 Mr. Drake's President 
 
 Benedict (45) 
 
 Lord Southampton's Hazard 
 
 Singer (44) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynu's Regent 
 
 Singer (44) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Stormer ... 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Stormer 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Sa£Ei-on 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Wamba 
 
 Belvoir Raglan 
 
 Mr. Morrel's Wonderer 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Resolute 
 
 Brocklosby Herald ] 
 
 Whipster (45) 
 
 Pastime (40) 
 Prudence (44) 
 
 His Gratitude 
 
 Rosebud (45) 
 Rachel (45) 
 Rally (46) 
 His Rarity 
 
 Music (46) 
 
 Mr. Drake's 
 
 Chaplet 
 Mr. Drake's 
 
 Termagant 
 Mr. Morrell's 
 
 Gratitude 
 Testy (44) 
 Tragedy (44) 
 Veh-et (43) 
 
 Wisdom (45) 
 
 Mr. Drake's 
 Welcome 
 
 TifEany (46) 
 
 Crossed the Warwick road by and we ran into liim between 
 
 Hogbrooke and 57 minutes. 
 
 26</i Mitford Bridge. — Found Lots of Foxes in woolford wood it ran :! or 
 
 3 then Settled to one & ran him one ring in the wood & away by & 
 
 Dunson Down to the Brooke & upto the Back of Todenham Turned to the 
 
20U THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. Li850 I85i 
 
 Left l)y Ditehford mill up to the Fuss voad where he was Headed Back over 
 tlie Stour & tlirough Dmisou into Woolford again where we Clianged him 
 
 for R mange Brute & Killed him in Spiny one hour 4 minutes 
 
 Found again in Barton grove & ran there verey hard 20 minutes & away 
 
 over the hill to ground on Mr Farme Bolted &. ran through the 
 
 Gi'ove Pointing to Chastleton Curved to the Left & we Killed him at Little 
 Compton after 30 minutes frome the drain & 30 minutes Before he whent 
 into it. 
 
 28th Offcliwrch Bury. — "I got in the Brooke." 
 
 December 12th Lower ShucJcburgh. — Drew the hill & Cawcote Spiny & 
 Ladbrooke gorse Blank Found 3 or 4 foxes in Itcliington Holt & ran there 20 
 minutes & away to verneys gorse through Gaydou gorse l^y tlie village to 
 
 turned Shorte Back by Chadslmnt tlirough Fletchers copse & 
 
 Gaydon gorse & the Same ring again & Killed him at the Back of Gaydon 1 
 hour 10 minutes. 
 
 16th Newbold Pacy. — Drew Oakley wood Blank & Moreton wood Found 
 in Lighthorne rough & over the hills Field by Chadshuut & over Castle 
 Farme to Kineton & then sent for the Bourton fox & into Mr. Williams & 
 Hands & Griffin into Pig stye Caught him & Turned him down in the Big 
 Field ifc ran by Whats & Lines through the oak Fields by Crabs Castle 
 & Bayliss by the Diament Spiny & Griffins Plantation by Tomliiis over 
 Mr. Kings Farme Leveing Gaydon on the Left to Gaydon Spiny & there we 
 Changed Foxes Si ran through Fletchers Copse A; over old siich (Sitch) 
 A: a i-ing by Jew (Ewe) Field & Checkleys Break Pointing to Itcliington Holt 
 and gave it up. 
 
 Deer. 18th to 2bth.—a. Frost. 
 
 1851 January 1th Whatcote. — William Willson Saw a fox at the Back of 
 Idlicote & ran aboute there a hour & a half ran 3 Foxes & Lost them all Drew 
 Brailes Blank was Hollowed onto a fox on Winderton Warriu & they ran 
 verey quick to Compton House & Curved to the Left over Winderton Field 
 to Sholdons gorse Curved to the right & crossed the Banbury & Brailes 
 
 Turnpike road by Pointing to Greenhill gorse was Headed to the 
 
 right over Mr. Farme to the Oxliill road where I gave it up the 
 
 Hoi'ses all Being Tiard 1 hour 10 minutes. 
 
 97i Hillmorton Village. — Found in the gorse & ran verey Pretty upto 
 Lilbourne over the Railroad & Water upto Shawell Wood through it & to 
 Misterton gorse Left it on the Left & Hunted him to Within a few Fields 
 of Misterton Reids and Lost him Found 6 or 7 Foxes in Biltou gorse and ran 
 one by Coocks gorse over the Canaal to ground by Willoughby was Hollowed 
 on to a Nother fox and Hunted him to Branstane Cleve and gave it up. 
 
 13^/i Goldicote. — Drew the Pastures Blank Foimd in Fir Grove and ran 
 verey hard over Stratford Heath Pointing to Clifford Curved to the right 
 through the Pastures & Wellesborne Wood & redhill by Walton village 
 through Frizhill & Hurlstones Bank to Mr. Oldhams Field Barne at Moreton 
 Morrell & Killed him 1 hour & 15 minutes. 
 
 The following records a terrible blank clay : 
 
 16th Loiver Shuckburgh Village — Drew the hill & Cawcote Spinney 
 pdale Ufton Wood ct Chesterton wood Blank & had a Blank day. 
 
 Probably bad earth stopping more than scarcity of 
 
1851 A VERY SEVEEE RUN. 201 
 
 foxes caused such an extent of couiitry to be drawn 
 blank. 
 
 Yi\m\i\\id Lcaiiii/i(/tun Sjjci Co/^yvVr, January ;25th, 1^551 : 
 
 Oil Saturday last the luoot took place at Heiiley in Arcleu, aud seldom 
 lias there been seen such a large uumbcr of sportsmen present (250 or 300). 
 A fox was found in May's wood, about half a mile distant, which gave 
 nearly two hours' excellent sport, and was eventuallj' lost. Many of the 
 horsemen Avould have to record some falling event of the day ; some with 
 tlieir heads bound, others with their scarlet turned to clay, and hero and there 
 could be seen chemists busily engaged bandaging some favourite animal 
 Avhich had done its best but was ol)liged to yield to reynanl's pace. It is 
 reported that if the fox had l)eeu killed it would have been tlie best day this 
 season with the aristocratic pack.* 
 
 From the Lccuuuif/toH Spa Cui/j'ier : 
 
 February \st, 1851, Saturday. — Met at Red Hill. Drew A.ston Grove, 
 Withyeomb Wood, aud Oversley Wood all blank. Found one of the right 
 sort in Speruall Park, and went away to Barnliam Wood, Brown's Wood, and 
 into Barren's Park, which he crossed. Rejiiard now made his way towards 
 Tamworth, aud went straight for Umberslade Park. Here he was A'iewed 
 two fields ahead of the hounds, and the pace grew so severe that few could 
 live with them. He then ran a circle round the Park aud down the meadows, 
 as if making for Lapworth, when Morris was compelled to stop the hounds 
 owing to the darkness. Had he been fortimate enough to kill, it would have 
 been the best nin this couutiy has afforded for some years. Time, 2^ hours. 
 Distance, 20 miles. Mon-is went extremely well, also the Marquis of Tweed- 
 dale, Colonel Shirley, and a few others. 
 
 Stevens' diary : 
 
 February 10th Grove Park. — Found & ran by the village of Hamptou on 
 the Hill tu iLe Warwick road where the fox was Headed & ran over the race 
 Course to the Back of Hatton & frome there by Mr. Arkwrights farme & 
 Calverdon to austy wood &. a ring in the wood & killed him there 2 hours. 
 
 15th Foxcote — Found H foxes in Stoke wood & ran 2 whide rings & Back 
 to ground by Stoke wood 2 hours good Hunting Pace & Killed him. 
 
 24:th Loioer Shuchhurcjh. — Drew the hill and Cawcote Spiny Blank 
 Found in Ladbrooke gorse and ran through Nuims Bushes Leveing Dufers 
 Bridge on the right through ufton wood to the Canal Pointing to Priuthill lie 
 was Headed got on a fox in Priuthill aud ran verey (piick & Killed one field 
 frome ufton wood 2 hours altogether. 
 
 2bth Sutton Bridge. — "'Mr Davis Headed tlie fox and we lost him." 
 
 March 11th Mitford Bridge. — Found in Woolford Wood & ran in the 
 wood and Heath 30 minutes & away to Chaselton Grove & a ring in the grove 
 & away Pointing to Barton grove Curved to the Left again into the wood ran 
 2 rings in the wood & away through the Newcombs to ground at Chaselton grove 
 a hour & 45 miniites Hunting Drew Barton Grove <t the Coombs Blank 
 Found in Witchford wood &. ran aboute there & Woolford Heath &. Weston 
 Gardens a hour & KiUed the fox in a Spiny. 
 
 • \o doubt Morris was hnntiiip the hoauds on tliis day. 
 
202 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 ISol 
 
 'loth Grove Parlx. Dvl'w it Blank Fouiul in Austy uood \ liad a s^-ood 
 Huutino- vnii of 2 liours to ground on Mr Cannings farinc at Slicrhonie & 
 Left liini. 
 
 April lltli Pile Hill. — Found in the wood A; ran ringing al)out fromo 
 wood to wood for above 2 hours &. Killed at Last in Featherstone grove 
 Mr. King of Leek Wooton the Brush. 
 
 March of this year was a had month for poor Stevens, 
 who was also leaving. We sujDpose the earths were 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1851. 
 Mk. R. Baknaed. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Benedict (45) 
 
 Bauble 
 Barmaid 
 
 Bonnylass 
 Coniniodore 7 
 Cardinal > 
 Freedom .... 
 Guider \ 
 Gaiety j 
 
 Hero Mr. Drake's Herald 
 
 Matchless "\ 
 Magic f 
 
 Matron C 
 Marksman J 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Benedict (45) 
 
 Mr. Liimley's Foiler 
 Counsellor (45) .. .. 
 
 Racer . . 
 
 Saift-onf "] 
 
 Splendour > 
 
 Sprightly j 
 
 Sanguine ") 
 
 Slaughterman j 
 
 Stately 
 
 Skilful 
 
 Trouncer 
 
 Heedless 
 
 Piper (45) 
 
 CEarl Fitzwilliam's RicliO 
 l moud j 
 
 Mr. A. Smith's Saffron 
 
 Piper (45) 
 
 Lord Redesdale's Statesman 
 
 Traveller (46) 
 
 Rally wood (50) 
 
 Bauble (45) 
 
 Crafty (46) 
 Tiffany (46) 
 Gaylass (49) 
 Toilet * 
 
 Mindful (50) 
 
 Telltale (48) 
 Tuneful (46) 
 
 Sougstres.s (48) 
 
 Proserpine (45) 
 
 Prudence (44) 
 Harlot (42) 
 
 * By Lord Lonsdale's Harlequin — Sir William Maxwell's Termagant. Bought hy 
 ^Jr. R. Barnard as a five-year-old in 1846. 
 
 t A very good looking tan dog, aud very good iu hi.s work. The sire of many houiid.-^ 
 in the Duke of Beaufort's, Sir W. W. Wynu's, the Badsworth, the Albright on. Col. 
 Clowes', Mr. Garth's, and other kennels. 
 
 Mr. T. A. Smith's Saffron was by Belvoir Splendour — Duke of Grafton's Purasol. 
 
 unstopped all over the country, as he only handled one fox, 
 but ran nine to "-round and had one blank day at Snitter- 
 field. He got three foxes in April. 
 
 The hounds w^ere out altogether regular hunting 
 
Portrait of Saffron. 
 
 Artist unknown. 
 
 From the picture at Kineton House. 
 
'rfJ moi 
 
1851] SCARCITY OF FOXES. 203 
 
 eighty-four days — they killed fifty foxes, and ran thirty-one 
 to ground and left them, and had two blank days. 
 
 Morris was out twenty-eight days and had three blank 
 days. He did not have the pick of the country, as far as 
 grass and small coverts were concerned ; but the Birmingham 
 countr}' and much of the woodlands ah\ays carried a good 
 scent. 
 
 There is included in Stevens' diary a list of the horses 
 which he rode on each day's hunting, two of the best of 
 which were Grey ling and Harlequin. 
 
 On the 8th of May, 1851, a meeting of the supporters 
 of the Warwickshire hounds was. held at Wellesbourne. 
 It was unanimously agreed that a circular should be sent 
 to all the principal landowners in the Warwickshire Hunt, 
 requesting them most respectfully, but most strongly, to 
 use their best exertions in their respective neighbourhoods 
 for the preservation of foxes. It was stated by Mr. 
 Barnard, and was well known to the meeting, that it 
 would be impossible for himself or for any other person to 
 show sport unless there are more foxes than there were 
 last season ; and as it was the opinion of the meeting that 
 it would be a subject of very general regret if the country 
 should not be hunted, it is hoped that every exertion will 
 be made by preserving foxes to enable Mr. Barnard to 
 continue to hold the situation he now does, and to prevent 
 the hounds being given up. In some coverts foxes are 
 always found, but in others (no doubt often unknown to 
 the owners) foxes are killed by rabbit traps and other 
 means,* which it is earnestly to be hoped will be dis- 
 continued when once attention is generally called to this 
 subject. 
 
 There can be no doubt that the circular which had 
 been sent to the principal landowners throughout the 
 
 * The following appeared in the Scotch Reformer's Gazette : The largest dog fox 
 that has been tilled in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire was shot on Thursday near 
 Lanark by a young country boy while it was in the act of cursing a hare. He weighed 
 181b., and measured from tip of nose to rump, 29| inches; length of brush, 18 inches ; 
 entire length, 47i inches. Length of stretch from tip of fore legs to extremity of hind 
 legs, 2in. more. 
 
204 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1851 
 
 Hunt, together with Mr. i^arnard having threatened to 
 give up the hounds unless foxes were better preserved, had 
 the desired effect. From that time there was a marked 
 improvement in tlie ])reservation of foxes, which continued 
 until, during the mastership of the present Lord 
 Willoughby, there were more foxes than had ever before 
 been seen in the country, and from this period we shall 
 hardly ever have to record a blank day. The greatest 
 enemy to hunting was a farmer named Heath, who lived at 
 Harbury, and began to kill foxes in Mr. Barnard's time, 
 and continued to do so up to the time of his death. 
 Unlike most Warwickshire men, he disliked fox hunting, 
 and had no delight in seeing a good sportsman 
 
 CHARGING A FLIGHT OF RAILS AND COMING WELL INTO THE NEXT FIELD. 
 

 > ^\ 
 
 j:j^ 
 
 
 'It 
 
 Till. ilKSl rLlGUT. 
 
 CHAPTEE XT. 
 
 May merrv old England then nourish 
 
 Her pristine affection for sj^ort ; 
 For foxhunting eA'er shall flourish, 
 
 While our sqi;ires lend their ready su]:)port. 
 
 " Tlie laws of foxliuutiug arc guided by that high sense of lionourable 
 dealing lietween gentleman and gentleman, whieh is more stringent than any 
 legal onaetment." — Sjiorting Magazine. 
 
 (iEXTLKMEN HUNTING FROM LEAMINGTON WARWICKSHIRE 
 
 SPukTSMEN SQUIRE LITTLE MR. BOLTON KING MR. 
 
 BROMLEY DAVENPORT REV. W. S. MILLER MR. GEORGE 
 
 HAWKES BANGALORE CUNNINGHAM LORD LEIGH, ETC., 
 
 ETC. HUNTING FARMERS — DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF THE PACK GEORGE RIDLER's 
 
 OVEN, ETC. 
 
 Amongst those who hunted at tliis time from Leaming- 
 ton were Mr. Charles Earle, IVIr. Campbell, of Monzie, Mr. 
 J. Saunderson, Mr. J. Montgomery, Sir William Don, Mr. 
 Clifton, Jack ]\[ytton. Sir W. Hyde Parker, Captain 
 Jennings, Sir Hervey Bruce, J. liruce (Peg-leg), Captain 
 Brooke, and Captain Weekes. 
 
 Mr. Charles Earle was always riding "the very best 
 horse I ever had." He was a good sportsman, a perfect 
 
206 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I85i 
 
 geutlemau, aucl the must kind hearted geuiul companion. 
 He was kind to us schoolboys, and always had a cheery 
 word for us in the Christmas holidays. 
 
 Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, whom we have before men- 
 tioned, w^as a very hard rider, " and took care to let people 
 know it." 
 
 Mr. Ansell, the father of Messrs. Ansell, of Leamington, 
 was his stud groom, and one of the sons told me the story 
 of how Mr. Campbell jumped the Leam, near Grandborough, 
 on a horse which he rode for the first time. Ansell had 
 been riding it, and told him what a good horse it was. 
 They went to measure the place next day, and it was .^Sft. 
 He gave the shejDherd a sovereign for a spur he lost at 
 the place, so he probably got over with a fall or scramble. 
 They got talking of it at the club, and one gentleman, 
 whose name is lost, made a bet that he had four horses 
 who would jump it. They all tried, and several others, 
 and all failed, tln)ugli young Mr. Ansell says he thinks he 
 has heard his father say that one got over with a fall. A 
 Captain Williams jumped this place not so long ago. 
 ^Vliere Squire Lucy jumped, it was much nearer Birdingbury 
 Hall. I have w^alked down and spotted this very place. 
 I believe the late Lord Somerville also jumped it. These 
 are the only four I ever heard of. — W. E. Y. 
 
 Sir William Don, of Newton Don, belonged to an old 
 Scottish family, and was known as the "eccentric baronet " 
 and when he had spent his fortune on hunting and racing 
 he took to the stage. As he was sitting with others after 
 dinner at an hotel at Leamington, the conversation led to 
 various feats which had been performed across country and 
 on the road. Sir William offered to bet 500/. that he 
 would ride from Leamington to London before 8 o'clock 
 the next morning. The bet was taken, and at five minutes 
 before eleven, in his evening dress, he mounted a grey 
 horse belonging to Jack Mytton, and rode him for the first 
 fifty-five miles of the road. A poster was then hired, and 
 carried him twenty miles, and he next rode a pony for the 
 remainder of the distance, arri\dng at the Burlington 
 
1.S51 
 
 JACK MYTTON. 207 
 
 Hotel, Piccadilly, at half-past seven ou the following 
 inornino-. The distaiiee was ninety-seven miles, and 
 included eighteen toll-gates, and was performed in the 
 middle of a February night, on a road with which he was 
 not acquainted, without any change of his dress. 
 
 Jack M}i;ton, of Halston*, Shropshire, hunted often at 
 Ijcamington, and was a celebrated sporting character and a 
 very daring rider. There is a well known poi-trait of him 
 at a meet of hounds, riding his hunter over a large sunk 
 fence out of the garden of the house into the field where 
 the hounds met.f He used often not to go to bed until he 
 had been out at daylight on a wijiter morning to wait for 
 wildfowl, and when snow was on the ground he did this 
 with a night-shii-t put on over his clothes, so that he could 
 be seen as little as possible. 
 
 General Wallington was ])ersuaded by the " young 
 bloods " of Leamington to ride in a steeplechase. 
 He ordered his new colours down from London. He 
 arrayed himself in them before the " cheval glass," and 
 said to his valet : " Thomas, about this time to-morrow 
 you will be joining in the cry all dow^i the course, ' The 
 General wins ! the General wins ! ' " One of the " young 
 bloods " knocked him head over heels at the first fence. 
 
 A meeting was held in lSo3 for the purpose of con- 
 sidering the best method of disposing of a subscription 
 liberally presented by some gentlemen resident during the 
 hunting season at Leamington to the Warwickshire 
 hounds, the following gentlemen being members of the 
 committee : E. Sheldon, J. Naper, J. Eussell, J. M. 
 
 * I know Halst(5ii well, ami luive often dined there in the late Mr. Wright's tinic. 
 Jack Mj'tton's ghost is supposed to he heard walking somewhere near the lodge gate 
 which opens into the Ellesmere Road. I never believed much in this, as Jack IMytton 
 was more of a rider and a driver than a walker. I tested the ghost theory, and believe 
 that the superstition has arisen from a peculiar echo which sounds in the semi-circular 
 wall on each side of the entrance gate. — W. R. V. 
 
 + A friend of mine once told me at Halston that lie had run the very railings to 
 ground, over which, in the well-kn">wn print j^ublishel in the life of Jack Mytton by 
 Nimrod, he is depictel as flying with his arm in a sling. They were not in their 
 original position, as they had been supplanted by others of a later date, but he found 
 the original railings, represented in Aiken's picture, put away round some odd corner 
 of the house.— W, R. V. 
 
208 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ri85i 
 
 Boultbee, Rev. W. C. Brant, J. Skipwitli, Captain Gould, 
 J. Ivnightley. The subscription in 1845-1846 amounted 
 to 1195/., and afterwards, up to the year 1853, to nearly 
 500/. It was resolved that the amount of the said 
 subscriptions be disposed of in the following manner : 
 *' That a faggot covert be made at Watergall ; also 
 another at Compton Wyniates ; that if any part of this 
 subscription remain in hand, it should be distributed to 
 gamekeepers and those persons who take care of coverts ; 
 that the residue of the original Warwickshire subscription 
 for coverts be applied to the inclosing and sowing seven 
 acres with gorse seed at Watergall." 
 
 Amonsrst those who hunted with the Warwickshire 
 Hounds at this time, were Mr. John Lucy, Mr. John 
 Little, Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. Darwin Gallon, Mr. 
 Bolton King, Colonel North, Mr. H. J. Sheldon, Lord 
 Villiers, Lord Yaux, Lord Mountgarret, Lord Leigh, 
 Lord Aylesford, Mr. Gustavus Smith, Mr. H. AlKrey, 
 Mr. W. Cowan, Mr. Bromley Davenport, Eev. H. C. 
 Knightley, Mr. Edward Greaves,* Mr. Eichard Greaves, 
 Mr. George Hawkes, Rev. J. Hawkes, Mr. Hugh Williams 
 (afterwards Sir Hugh), Mr. William Williams, Colonel 
 Shirley, Mr. Charles Earle, Captain Cunningham, Captain 
 Dallas. 
 
 Mr. J. Little, usually known as Squire Little, of 
 Newbold Pacey, was a great sportsman and a remarkable 
 character. He hunted for a great many years before this 
 period, and subsequently up to the age of seventy-five. 
 He owned some celebrated steeplechase horses and fine 
 hunters, and there is an excellent portrait at Newbold Pacey 
 of two grey horses, wdiich were his best hunters. His 
 manners were, to say the least of it, abrupt, and he was 
 very much in the habit of " calling a spade a spade." On 
 one occasion, when he was hunting at Mitford Bridge, he 
 was riding one of his steeplechase horses, which, besides 
 being very good looking, had the best manners. The late Sir 
 
 * The death of a Mr. Greaves, through an accident with the Warwickshire Yeomanry 
 at Meriden,is mentioned in the Sporting Magazine of June, 1788. 
 
1S.51 SQUIRE LITTLE. 209 
 
 Robert Feel, at that time at Oxford, was out on the same 
 day, and havino- been introduced to Squire Little, expressed 
 ^reat admiration of liis horse, and asked for his pedigree, 
 which was given him ; and Sir Robert then said, " May I 
 ask what his name is?" The Squire's countenance at once 
 expressed displeasure, and he replied, " Name, do you want 
 to know his name r T call him 'Apostate' after your 
 
 — — father." Squire Little was a thorough going- Tory, 
 
 and he had never forgiven the late Sir liobert Peel for 
 having repealed the Corn Laws. On another occasion the 
 Squire got into a railway carriage, in which only one other 
 gentleman was travelling, and found that both windows 
 were shut ; he asked to be allowed to open one of them , 
 but his request was refused, so, without further ado, he put 
 his uml)i-('lla through the window^ next which his fellow 
 passenger was sitting ! 
 
 Mr. Darwin Galton, of Edstone Hall and Claverdon 
 Leys, hunted for more than thirty years with the Warw^ick- 
 shire hounds. He was a genuine sportsman and a good 
 rider, and a thoroughly representative country gentleman 
 and a great favourite with all who knew" him. We are 
 much indebted to him for extracts from his hunting diary 
 and other information. He was a very good authority on 
 all matters connected with agriculture, and had some of the 
 best jDedi^iee stock, of which there was no better judge. 
 
 Mr. Bolton King was one of the oldest and best 
 supporters of the AYarwickshire Hunt, and hunted for more 
 than thirty years with the hounds, up to the age of seventy. 
 He lived at Chadshunt, and was for a long period secretary 
 to the Hunt. He was a hard rider, and a good horseman, 
 always knowing what hounds were doing, and not over 
 riding them ; he could ride on any sort of horse as near 
 them as possible. He was well known and much liked 
 amongst the fannci-s, and he represented South Warwick- 
 shire for a short period in Parliament. Towards the close 
 of his career he had many bad falls (one over a croquet 
 hoop, a game he d^^'tested), and broke many bones, but he 
 was game to the last. Of him it can be truly said that he 
 
 Vol. I. p 
 
210 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. Li85i 
 
 was a fine old English gentleman,* and dearly loved tlie 
 chase. His son, Captain Edward Kaleigh King, was also 
 a very fine rider, and he always liked the pace. 
 
 Mr. H. Allfrey, of Hemingford, succeeded Mr. Bolton 
 King as secretary to the Hunt, and retained that ofhce for 
 fifteen years. He was very fond of hunting, but was not 
 a hard rider ; he enjoyed painting horses quite as much as 
 riding them, and employed a great deal of his time as an 
 amateur artist. 
 
 Mr. Mark Philips lived at Snitterfield, where Mr. 
 Sanders lives now. He always had a jovial party of 
 sportsmen to dine with him on his birthday. It w^as his 
 brother, Mr. Eobert Philips, who built the large mansion 
 at Welcomb, and the obelisk w^as raised by him in memory 
 of Mr. Mark Philips. 
 
 Colonel North was Colonel J. Sidney Doyle. He 
 married Baroness North, and took the name of North. 
 He was a fine old fellow, and much beloved. He 
 represented Oxfordshire in Parliament for many years. 
 
 Mr. H. J. Sheldon is, alas, the last representative of the 
 fine old English family, the Sheldons of Weston and Brailes. 
 Agricultural depression has, indeed, much to answer for. Mr. 
 Sheldon is well known as a successful breeder of shorthorns. 
 
 Lord Villiers lived at Upton House, now the property 
 of Lord Chesham. He was a fine-looking man, and rode 
 nicely to hounds. 
 
 Lord Leigh was a wTlter weight, but he was very fond 
 of hunting, and, like all the Leighs, nothing stopped him 
 when hounds were running, and sometimes when they were 
 not. I remember once he rode over on his cob to a farmer's 
 to see a horse. He asked the farmer to put it over some 
 fences, which was done ; but the temptation w^as too strong 
 for his lordship, who got his cob by the head, and set off 
 in pursuit. At the second fence he was laid out for dead. 
 
 Mr. Gustavus Smith married the Dowager Lady 
 Mordaunt, and hunted for a good many years from 
 
 * He was for mauy years Lieutenant-Colonel of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, of 
 which he took command in the field. — C. M. 
 
1851] OTHER WARWICKSHIRE SPORTSMEN. 211 
 
 Goldicote, wliieh was afterwards l)()Uo-lit l)y ^Ir. C. H. 
 Joliffe, who hunts from there now. 
 
 The Kev. H. C. Kniglitley, Vicar of Combroke and 
 Compton Yerney, was a y-reat sportsman, as all the 
 Knio'litleys are. He was in the great Hillmorton I'uii, 
 and went to the end. He was a capital man on a }oun<j;- 
 horse, as he was so determined, with good seat and hands. 
 He was a first-rate shot, 1)ut rather too keen. 
 
 ^NFr. W. Cowan, of Alveston, was a good sportsman, and 
 used to take a cold bath in the Avon every day of the year. 
 
 The two brothers, Edward and Richard Greaves, were 
 great riders. Edward (xreaves was a welter weight, but 
 nothing stopped him. He always rode in a swallow-tailed 
 coat, with a cutting whip, and what he could not go over 
 he went through. They founded the bank at AYarwick, 
 which afterwards came to such an unfortunate end ; but it 
 was safe enough when the (Ireaves had it. 
 
 Colonel Shirley's sporting career is too M'ell known to 
 need any comment. He was a fine rider to hounds. 
 
 Captain Dallas hunted for many years from the Manor 
 House, Kineton. He was a most popular sportsman. He 
 married Charles Earle's daughter, the charming Miss Earle. 
 
 Amongst the farmers the following were some of the 
 best riders to hounds at this time : 
 
 Mr. Cowper, of Fariiborough, who was a hea^y weight, 
 and bred some capital hunters, which he made himself, 
 and often sold for long prices. 
 
 Mr. Harry Over, of Pittern Hill, was a famous rider, 
 and Avould always be with hounds on any sort of horse. 
 AVe remem])er seeing liiin go wonderfully on a small 
 animal of not more than fourteen hands, and when riding 
 him his legs seemed nearly to touch the ground. 
 
 AFr. Gulliver,* of Swalcliffe, was a noted all-round 
 s])ortsman, and took great pains in ])reserving foxes 
 in the coverts on his farm, one of wliicli has always 
 been called (Julliver's Osiers. He rode well to hounds 
 with only one arm, on perfect horses, and with a snaffle 
 
 * For further account of Mr. (Julliver i-ee p. 22(i. 
 
 p 2 
 
212 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I85i 
 
 bridle ; he hunted for many years, and was the owner 
 of several celebrated racehorses and steeplechase horses, 
 which he trained himself at Swalcliffe. The best of 
 these was Big Ben, a thoroughbred stallion, a very good- 
 looking dark brown horse, standing more than sixteen 
 hands high. In 1860 he started thirteen times, and won 
 six times ; and the next year he started twice, and won both 
 times. Mr. Gulliver's best hunter w^as a grey horse, which 
 he sold to Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
 
 Mr. Russell, of Hodnell, was a very sporting farmer, and 
 rode well up to late in life. 
 
 Mr. Bromley Davenport, of Bagington Hall, War- 
 wickshire, and Capesthorne, Cheshire, was for a long 
 time a noted character as a sportsman. He was always 
 capitally mounted, and I think he was the most 
 daring short-sighted rider I have ever seen. I remember 
 on one occasion, in Leicestershire, coming with him 
 and others to a locked gate ; those who intended 
 i-iding over it turned their horses round for the 
 purpose of giving them the necessary run at it, but 
 Bromley, anxious to be first over, only reined his horse 
 back five yards, and got such a fall that he was 
 carried on a hurdle insensible to the nearest farmhouse. 
 He wrote some famous hunting poems, " Loseby Hall " 
 the most noted, amongst others. Also some very 
 interesting records of his fishing in Norway. He made an 
 attempt to ascend the Bomsdal Horn, which is beyond a 
 certain point an inaccessible precipice. I have been as 
 far as the shoulder and have seen the place up which 
 Bromley managed to ascend twenty feet, and the 
 Norwegian guide, who was above him, then said, 
 " Bromley, I cannot go further, because the mountain 
 overhangs and is more than perpendicular, and I shall fall 
 on to you." This meant a fall of 301)0 feet on either side 
 into two different valleys. Bromley told me himself after- 
 \\'ards that he would have given all he possessed to know 
 that he could descend those twenty feet of sKppery rock, a 
 matter which was accomplished with the utmost difiicult}' 
 
1851] THE EEV. WILLIAM S. MILLEE. 213 
 
 and at frightful risk. On the way further down, l^roinley 
 shot a bear, a tlung not often done in Norway. I also 
 remember tisliing a river there, the higliest or Foss pool, 
 which was bounded by a precipice, and T asked the Nor- 
 wegian who accompanied us whether a sahiion liad ever been 
 caught in it. He replied only one, and "if you want to 
 catch another you must do what Bromley did. We let him 
 down from the topol" the rock with a rope tied round his body, 
 and he hooked the lisli, and we then pulled him up again." 
 Mr. Bromley Davenport was returned as a Conservative for 
 several years for North Warwickshire, and was famous for 
 the wit and humour of his after-dinner speeches. — C. M. 
 
 The Eev. William Sanderson Miller, of liadway 
 Granofe, whom we have before mentioned, deserves more 
 tlian a passing notice in a work of this description. 
 
 When we used to see him going over a country sitting 
 well down in the saddle, his eye on the hounds, not, 
 perhaps, on a first class hunter, but riding as straight as if 
 he was on a 2U()-guinea one, no fence stopping him, no day 
 too long, and no brook too wide, no fall too heavy, one 
 could not help recalling the stirring lines of the great 
 Wizard of the North. 
 
 Saw'st gallaut Miller's failing eye, 
 Still bent where Albion's banners fly. 
 
 Zimri, who killed his master, could not damage the 
 stout-hearted parson, in fact, we don't think a hammer 
 could have done the deed. When he broke his leg through 
 the kick of a cart colt, he calmly gave directions how and 
 where he was to l)e carried. 
 
 He had a very favourite horse, the Scjuire, which he 
 rode for many seasons, but he never went better than he 
 did on the before-mentioned Zimri, and a young horse of 
 Miss Susan Verney's, bought ])y the late Mr. Eobert K. 
 Verney, in Ireland, Clashmore by name. 
 
 He always got a good start, because he never left the 
 hounds when going from covert to covert, but now we 
 look in \ain for the familiar figure of our veteran friend 
 bobhing along just ])ehind the sec(jnd whij). 
 
214 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I85i 
 
 Mr. George Hawkes,* of Tulton, was for a great number 
 of years a well known and remarkable eharacter amongst 
 those who hunted with the Warwickshire hounds. He was 
 not a liard rider, but he knew every inch of the country, 
 and hunted on nearly every day of the week, usually 
 accompanied by his two daughters, to one of whom 
 (Mrs. Field) we are indebted for his portrait and for some 
 extracts from her hunting diary. Mr. George Hawkes' 
 horses were all thoroughbred, and he rode them with long 
 coats, manes, and tails, exactly in their natural state, and 
 they looked as if they had come straight out of the straw- 
 yard. One of us remembers his meeting a friend of ours at 
 the covert side, mounted on a good-looking, useful, half-bred 
 horse. Mr. Hawkes, after looking him over, said, " That 
 horse is not well bred enough to carry you. This is the 
 sort which you should ride," — pointing at his own horse — 
 " thoroughbred, and neither clipped nor singed, so he can 
 get no thorns into his legs, neither can he have a sore 
 back." Of late years he used to start rather late, and he 
 told one of us one day : " Ah, now I have found the 
 hounds my sport is over." This was when he was quite 
 an old man. His get-up was rather eccentric. He always 
 wore a cap, a huntsman's red coat, and a most voluminous 
 neckcloth and frill. When a neckcloth became dirty he 
 did not change it, but he tied on a dean one over it. When 
 the meet was at Talton, the foot-people came from far 
 and wide. Beer and bread and cheese was dispensed 
 ad lib., and one of us have often seen someone of the 
 party getting a drink, and then shifting his place lower 
 down the railings for another horn, and so on. 
 
 Mr. Hawkes was a great advocate for giving plenty of 
 air to horses. The Rev. Francis Annesley told one of us 
 that he was on one occasion at Talton, on a very cold day, 
 when he remarked to Mr. Hawkes that the greater part of 
 
 * Mr. George Hawkes, two hours before bis death, sent for Mr. Eushout, the 
 Master of the North Cotsvrold Hounds, who was a great friend of his, and, knowing 
 that his end was near, and not having his cheque-book handy, took up a piece of paper 
 close by him and wrote a cheque of 10/. for the Hunt. It had been on his mind, he 
 said, and now that he had made the payment he felt happy. — C. M. 
 
Mr. George Hawkes. 
 
 From the picture 
 
 by Bott. 
 
 The property of Mrs. Field, at Talton House. 
 
1851] CAPTAIN CUNNINGHAM. 215 
 
 the roof was off the stable, and he added, " How do you 
 manage to prevent your horses from catching cold ! " 
 Mr. Hawkes replied, " I think there is nothing like fresh 
 air for horses." 
 
 One of the hardest and best riders amongst the farmers 
 hunting at this time was Mr. Harry Horley, and he hunted 
 Mr. Bradley's stag hounds from Ufton. His father, his 
 l)r()ther, and himself occupied nearly the whole of the land 
 in the parish. 
 
 Captain Cunningham, of Wellesbourne House, was very 
 fond of the sport. He was much addicted to relating after- 
 dinner stories of sport which he Inrd seen in India, Avhen in 
 the l.^tli Lancers. He told me that on one occasion he was 
 out shooting in that country, and carried a gun with one 
 ])arrel made for shot and the other for a rifle bullet. A 
 snipe got up, and he iired the bullet at it by mistake, but 
 he killed it, and the report of the gun caused a tiger at 
 once to break covert, and he killed it with the snipe shot. 
 He added, " Would you believe it, I turned round to give 
 orders to my negro servant, and his curly black hair had 
 turned as white as snow." After this the Caj)tain was 
 usually called by his friends "Bangalore Cunning- 
 ham."*— C. M. 
 
 Frorn Lhe Lpamington Spa Co/frier : 
 
 January 17th, 185'2. — Hunt Ball. — This took place at Stvatfoi-d-ou- 
 Avon on Wednesday last, there were nearly 500 persons present, and it Avas 
 notable for the beauty of the decorations, which comprised a fox breaking 
 covert closely followed by the hounds, a deer and fawn, an otter, grouse, a 
 swan surprised by the fox. &c. 
 
 April 10th, 1852. — A public meeting was held at tlie Regent Hotel, 
 Leamington, on Wednesday, J. Hitcliman, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Jeffery 
 reported that Mr. Barnard had consented, during the next season, to hunt the 
 North Warwickshire country two days and the South Warwickshire country 
 three days a week, with meets as near as practicable to the town of Leamington, 
 on being guaranteed a sum of 350/. l)y the professional and trading inhabitants 
 of Leamington. 
 
 Ben Moro-an succeeded Stevens as huntsman, and this, 
 no doubt, was a very difficult undertaking. He was a 
 good and painstaking sei-vant, but, as many another man 
 
 * This is a regular old " Joe Miller," but C. M. has done good service if he has at 
 last run it to ground. — W. R. V. 
 
216 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1852 
 
 well mi gilt have, he lacked the energy and dash of Stevens. 
 He was a heautiful horseman, and no servant could have 
 looked better on a horse than he did. Jack Hicks was first 
 whip, and H. Harris second whip. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1862. 
 Mr. R. Barnard. 
 
 SlR£S. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Admiral "j> 
 Avelior ) 
 Bloomer | 
 Brazen ) 
 Carnival ) 
 Cruiser [■ . . 
 Driver } 
 Cliacer 7 
 Rausom ) 
 Charity ^ 
 Senator > 
 Sportsman ) 
 Clamorous 
 Combat 
 Comely "^ 
 Cottager > 
 Cruiser ) 
 Comrade . . . 
 Com us 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Admiral 
 Belvoir Driver 
 
 Lord H. Bentinek's Driver 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Cliacer 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Chai-er 
 
 Lord H. Bentinc'k's Denmark 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Combat 
 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Contest 
 
 Loi'd H. Bentinck's Contest 
 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Comrade 
 
 Contest I Lord H. Bentinck's Contest 
 
 '} 
 
 Countess 
 
 Crier 
 
 Dexter ... 
 Dauntless 
 Denmark 
 Dorcas 
 Furrier .. 
 Harmony 
 Hymen 
 Peerless ") 
 Planet ) 
 
 Prod or 
 
 Rampisli ") 
 Tomboy ) 
 
 Roman 
 
 Sultan 
 
 Susan 
 
 Tickler 
 
 Waspish . . 
 Tamerlane 
 Termagant 
 Toper 
 
 Counsellor (45) 
 
 Coxmsellor (1.5) 
 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Craftsman 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Driver 
 
 Mr. Drake's Rufus 
 
 Mr. Drake's Falstaff 
 
 Singer (44) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Royster 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Pilot 
 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Tomlioy 
 
 LordH.Bentinck'^Craftsman 
 
 Mr. Drake's Smuggler 
 
 Belvoir Stormer 
 
 Sir B . Sutton's Truemau . . 
 LordH.Bentinck'sCraftsman 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Tomboy 
 Earl Fitzliarding's Notarv 
 Fingal* \ .'. 
 
 His Roundelay 
 Bridal (48) 
 
 His Curious 
 
 Rapid (47) 
 
 His Singwell 
 
 Countess (45) 
 Telltale (48) 
 
 His Beauty 
 
 His Vicious 
 His Frailty 
 His Remedy 
 Tuneful (46) 
 Barbara (48) 
 His Darling 
 His Careful 
 
 His Diligent 
 
 Wisdom (45) 
 Hasty (48) 
 
 His Prattle 
 
 His Racket 
 
 His Rantipole 
 
 Rakish (44) 
 Proserpine (45) 
 Tragedy (44) 
 Rosamond (49) 
 Willing (.50) 
 Sprightlv (51) 
 Termagant (48) 
 Tiffany (46) 
 
 * By Mr. Foljambe's Fleecer — ^liis Princess, 
 Barnard in 18.50. 
 
 Bought as a five-year-old by Mr. 
 
1852] JACK JONES AND THE EAPID EHONE. 217 
 
 SEASON 1852-53. 
 
 From the Leamin(jt(>ii Sjxi ('(inrier : 
 
 November 13th. 1852. — Tlicro liavo l)eeu tliree spleudid nuis witli tlie 
 Warwioksliire hounds duriiinf tlie present Aveek. We are very sorry, liowever, 
 to add tliat Morgan, tlie huntsman, met witli an aceident by wliieh he was 
 thrown from his liorse and sustained sueli injuries as are likely to prevent 
 him from resuming- his duties for several days. 
 
 In December, lb 5:2, Mr. Kobert J. Barnard became l^ord 
 Willoug'hby de Broke, the nintli baron, by the deatli of liis 
 uncle. 
 
 1 lieard from ^Ir. William Cl^amberhiyne that during 
 the .sea.son of IS.J.^ the hounds liad a very fine run from 
 Shuckburgh Hill, by Catesby, Sharman's Hill, Holloway 
 Pool, and Hinton House ; thence they left Byfield on the 
 right, and ran through Warden Hill, and killed the fox 
 between Aston-le-Wall and Chipping Warden. ]\Ir. 
 Chamberlayne was riding a liorse which he had bought for 
 30/. at Cambridge. 
 
 Jack J(mes succeeded Ben Morgan as huntsman. He 
 was a very light weight and a hard rider, and although 
 he did not show such tine sport as Ned Stevens, he did his 
 best, up to a considerable age, and he succeeded during 
 one season in killing at least 101 foxes, and we remember 
 hearing the number put at the larger ligure of 108. He 
 told us that during a good fifty minutes run from Farn- 
 borough, in the V^ale below Edge Hill, he did not open a 
 gate and had seven falls. He was riding a roan horse 
 called Bapid Bhone, but we fancy he was "romancing" 
 to explain his not having been with the hounds. Tf he 
 had seven falls he must have fallen off, for Bapid Bhone 
 could not fall, and you cotdd scarcely have thrown liim 
 down if you tied his legs together." J. Stracey was first 
 whip, and H. Harris second whip. 
 
 * Lord W. de Broke, in his scc-oiid Boihniniou Mnyaziite article, says that .Tones 
 suffered, like the Irish tenants, from " insecurity of tenure." He also says that his 
 father told him that Joues showed capital sport the first two seasons he was hunts- 
 man. We are sorry we have such a poor and meagre record of the runs during these 
 two seasons. 
 
218 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1853 
 
 Charlie Jones, his boy, had a wonderful pony* which 
 would jump an}'thiug, and he used to follow his father 
 over lots of big fences. 
 
 Mr. William Canning, of Uebden, near Barford, was a 
 distinguished representative of the farmers in the field, and 
 was always in the front rank, although riding 15st. 
 
 Mr. Stanley, the celebrated veterinary surgeon at 
 Leamington, had so large a business that he did not hunt 
 very often, but when he did it was to some j)nrpose, for he 
 was one of the hardest and straightest riders we ever saw. 
 He was considered one of the best judges of horses in 
 Enghmd, and although he was so deaf that it was difficult 
 to carry on a conversation with him, he never made any 
 mistake as regards the soundness of a horse's wind. He 
 was so enthusiastic about a case, that if it was at all 
 doubtful or critical, he would sleep in the box. 
 
 From the Lcrnjiinf/tou Spa Courier, January Sth, 1853 : 
 
 Met at Leamington Kennels on Satnrday. Found in Wainliody Wood, 
 and ran to Allesley beyond Coventry. Distance eight miles. 
 
 January 22nd. — SjjJendid run ivith the Warunckshire. — On Satnrday 
 last this i)ack met at Cnbbington Toll Bar. Found in Waverley Wood, and 
 went away in the direction of Stoneleigh Deer Park, which he passed, and 
 rattled along for Baggiiigton down to Sherbourne, and through the plantations 
 to Whitley Abbey, pursuing his course to Biuley, crossing- the railway near 
 Stoke, and leaving Coombe Al^liey on the left, through Brandon plantations, 
 and then doubled liack to Binley Common : here he bore away to Four 
 Oaks, but tiirning short to the left ran to ground in the plantations of 
 
 * My father, Lord Willousfhby, bou.^ht it for us boys to ride, and before we were 
 promoted to the aforesaid Rapid Ehone it taught us a lot of hunting. When the 
 pony got old it could not keep up so well, and I remember one day my father came up 
 to me in a ploughed field, and found me blubbering like anything. " What are you 
 crying for, my boy ? Have you had a fall ? " " No, I haven't had a fall, papa, but 
 Charlie Jones can't keep up with the hounds. Boo-hoo ! Boo-hoo I " He didn't say 
 much, but was so pleased at my being keen, that he called me into the stableyard at 
 Kineton about a week or so after, and there I found a beaixtiful new pony, quite 
 young, and a hand higher, saddled for me. I never went so well though on Aunt 
 Sally as I did on Charlie Jones. One day I rode him at the Farnborougli Brook, 
 and got in, and the bridle came off, and he left me in the brook. I once rode 
 Charlie Jones to a meet at Wroxton or Swalcliffe, and we had a very good 
 run, and left off at Cliapel House, and I rode the pony back with my father and 
 brother twenty miles through Sliipston to Compton, when I was about twelve 
 years old. My brother, the present Lord Willoughby, used to ride a very spirited, 
 rather \-iolent Galloway called Marmion, but it was on the Rapid Rhone that he first 
 really began to be Ti-ith hounds, and he was riding tliis horse when quite as a lad he went 
 so well in the great run from \\niichford Wood to Dean Cross Roads in 1860, mentioned 
 on a later page. — W. E. V. 
 
1853J DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY. 219 
 
 Cooiube AWjov. in the Atlicrstonc countrv, after a very severe cliase of more 
 than two hours. 
 
 From the Lodiiiiufifon Spa Courier, February otli, Y^'V-h : 
 
 Met at the Kennels, and drew Kinetou Holt bhink. Trotted to Edg'e Hills, 
 and found at NiehoU's Gorse, and went away to Upton Gorse, alonf^the hills 
 to Shennins-ton Gorse. Here, tui'niug to the right along the hills, straight 
 througli Upper, Middle, and Lower Tysoe. At the latter place he was 
 headed, and made for Oxliill and Compton Wyniates before he was killed 
 near the latter place. This run was vei-y fa.st, and occupied one hour and 
 ten minutes. 
 
 FfbriKinj I'lth, l!S.")l>.— Met at Whim])st()ne Bridge. Found at Crimscote 
 Downs, and ran very fast to VVhimpstone Bridge, to the left by Preston Bushes, 
 over the Avon at Lower Milcote, by Drayton Wild Moor, Billesley, Aston 
 Wood, and Aston Cantlow. Here he turned to^ the left by Haselor, and made 
 for Temple Grafton and Binton. where he was lost after running not less than 
 twenty miles. 
 
 At a meetiug held at the llegent Hotel, Leamington, 
 on Monday, February .:28rd, 1^53, it was decided, with the 
 full concurrence of Lord Willoughby de Broke, that the 
 following division of the country be made between the 
 W^irwickshire and the North AVarwickshire Hunt.s. The 
 river Leam to be the boundary, giving the coverts on the 
 far side of it to North Warwickshire ; from Warwick to 
 Kowington, the J^irmingham and Warwick Canal; from 
 Rowington to AVooton Wawen, the Birmingham and 
 Stratford Canal ; from Wooton Wawen to Alcester, the 
 road from Wooton to Alcester, the turnpike road to 
 Birmingham.^' 
 
 From the Lcdiiiiiij/toii Spa Courier : 
 
 On Thnrxdaij, Murcli ith. 1853, the meet was at Lower Shuckburgh 
 The frost iioi being sufficiently out of the ground to try the coverts at Shuck- 
 burgh, Debdale was tried, where a fox was very soon found, but after a .short 
 time lost. The order was tlien given for Ufton Wood, and the hounds were 
 not long in covert before a fox was found, and, after dwelling a brief space, he 
 gallantly broke away at the lower end of the wood, and, crossing the Southam 
 turn))ike road, ran along the valley und(>r Uft(m Village to Harbury Field, 
 turning to the right across the Fos.se Road, and. nothing daunted by the Great 
 Western Railway, ran over the lines, followed l)y his eager pursuers, which, 
 
 * These boundaries have apparently been altered since this date, for, as will be 
 seen from our map, the line now runs by the Warwick Racecourse between Hampton- 
 on-the-Hill and Hamilton Lodge, just north of Norton Lindsey, and south of 
 Gaunaway to Wolverton, and then, including the neutral country north-west, by 
 Langton, Kington Grange, and Banimoor Green to Crab Mill, and then south-west 
 along the Alne to Alcester. — W. R. V. 
 
220 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1S53 
 
 tliouyli foniiiiig' no serious o))stacle to them, proveil a difficult matter to 
 equestriaus, many of Avliom were thrown out at tliis point, and of those 
 remaining only a few got over the Whitnash Brook, whicli had to be 
 eucountered a few fiekls furtlier, and tin- hcjuuds were seen streaming away at 
 some distance in front, 6ver Whitnasli Fiekls and Higlidown, in the direction 
 of Oakley Wood. This covert was I'eached, Imt the gallant fox not deigning 
 to avail himself of it, travelled on in the direction of Moreton Morrell, and 
 was ultimately lost when pointing for Lighthorne, after a first-rate run of 
 one hour and ten minutes. Many of the field were left at Ufton Wood, 
 being unaware that the fox had gone away. The pace was good throughout, 
 and from the railway to Oakley Wood no check ensued. 
 
 At a meeting held at Kineton on April 8th, 1853, Lord Willcughby de 
 Broke proposed to hunt the country next season four days eA'ery week if he 
 was g-uaranteed the sum of 1500/. for tliat purpose. This offer was accepted. 
 
 From the Leamington Sjja Courier, March 5 : 
 
 The fixture was Lower Shuekburgh. Found at Ufton Wood, and broke 
 at the lower end, crossed the turnpike road, and ran along the valley to 
 Harbury Fields, turned to the right across the Fosse Road, over the railway and 
 Whitnash Brook, in the direction of Oakley Wood, through it to Moreton 
 Morrell, then pointing to Lig-hthorue, was lost after a capital run of one hour 
 and ten minutes, the latter part of which was only participated in by a small 
 portion of the field. 
 
 We have heard from Mr. W. Chamberlayue that 
 during March, IS 58, the Bicester hounds met at Lower 
 Boddington, found in the gorse at Boddington, and ran to 
 Farnborough, and killed theii* fox there. Lord Willoughby 
 de Broke was out, and went home from there. The hounds 
 were next taken to Warden Hill, but did not do much. 
 They next went to Eydon, found, and ran very fast for 
 fifteen minutes to Moreton Pinkney, to ground. Squire 
 Drake then said, "I think that fox was a vixen; we will 
 go back to Eydon and find her lord and master." This 
 probably was the case, as another fox was found at Eydon, 
 and ran by Trafford Bridge, leaving Bylield to the left, 
 and thence by Hinton nearly to (Triffin's Gorse, and down 
 the hill between Hellidon and Priors Marston ; and next, 
 leaving Shuekburgh Hill on the right, to Napton Folly 
 and over the canal, which the fox crossed at dark ; every 
 horse was beat. Mr. Chamberlayne rode a horse bought 
 from Lord Hopetoun for .20 guineas. When Squire 
 Drake was taking the hounds home, he passed through 
 Farthinghoe at twelve o'clock at night, and blew his horn 
 
1853] IMPOETANT MEETING. 221 
 
 when going by the house of the Rev. Mr. Lichfield, who, 
 during his sermon preached next day, gave a severe 
 I'eprimand to " some unruly l)oys belonging to his parish 
 for having blown a horn under his window on the night 
 before."— C. M. 
 
 From the Leamiiujton Spa Coiir'wr, Marcli liith : 
 
 All important mooting of tlie ownors and occupiers of laud was held at 
 the Warwick Anns Hotel on Wednesday. The meeting was convened by 
 L(n"d Willoughby do Broke for the purpose of making arrangements for 
 liuiiting the country during the ensuing season. E. Bolton King, Esq., 
 occupied the chair. Lord Willoughby do Broke stated his intention of 
 giving up the country for two years to Mr. Henley Greaves, but a strong 
 feeling being expressed by tlie gentlemen jjresent, his Lordship consented To 
 retain tlie soutliern side and to hunt thre'e days a week on the following 
 conditions : That a subscription of 1000/. l)e paid to him by the country, 
 togetlier with eartli st()i)ping. poultry, and other expenses. Lord Willougliby 
 l)ro])osed to lend the North Warwickshire country to Mr. Greaves, who was 
 willing to take it and hunt three days a week upon receiving a subscription 
 from Leamington and North Warwickshire. That the division of the 
 country fi-om Warwick to Shuckburgh be the Warwick and Napton Canal, 
 with the exception of Debdale, Print Hill, and Calcote Spinney. Going west 
 from Warwick, the Warwick and Alcester road by Bearley Cross and Ragley. 
 
 Afril 2nd, 1853. — A meeting of subscribers was held at the Regent Hotel 
 Leamington, on Tuesday, Lord Leigli in tlie cliair. His Lordship said he- 
 felt deeply interested in the Warwickshire hounds, having hunted since her 
 was six years old, and expressed his opinion that to hunt the country properly 
 there should be a second pack of hounds established. He should therefore give 
 to Mr. Greaves a subscription equal to the one which he gave Lord Willoughby, 
 and considered that Debdale should belong to North Warwick.shire. Lord 
 Willougli^^y de Broke said he had given up whatever was hunted by 
 Mr. Hellier, and sooner than lose Mr. Greaves, he had agreed to give up 
 several other coverts; Init respecting Debdale, from its proximity with another 
 covert which he sliould keep, they would be constantly running backwards 
 and forwards. Lord Leigh suggested that Debdale covert iniglit be ueuti-al, 
 and Mr. Greaves assented to this plan. Lord Willoughliy said that in case 
 Mr. Greaves took the country, he should 1)0 glad to enter into such an arrange- 
 ment, but would not be bound to do so with anyone else who migJit come in 
 future. Lord Leigh said the meeting was now anxious to know whether 
 Mr. Greaves would take the pack on the conditions named, and whether lie 
 would requii-e a guarantee. Mr. Greaves said he should require a guarantee 
 of 1.500/. per annum, and 300/. to Imild kennels. Lord Leigh said it was 
 impossible, as far as he could see, to raise 800/. a year from Leamington. 
 Mr. Greaves said, that being the case, he must decline the country. 
 
 From the Leaiiiivf/fon Spn Courier, April 3rd, 1853 : 
 
 We are happy to announce that, at a mooting licld at Wellesbourne, 
 satisfactory arrangements were made with Lord Willougliljy de Broke, who 
 will continue to hunt tlie Warwickshire cruntrv four davs a week. Wo 
 
222 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1853 
 
 uiidcrstaiKl that coinniuuicatioiis have hooii opciiod with a highly popular 
 spdrtsinan who is disposLnl to Innit North Warwickf^liiro on coiiditioiis to be 
 after agreed upon. 
 
 April 30th, 1853. — At a meeting held at tlie Regent Hotel. Leamington, 
 Mr. J. Haddon i)residing, an agreement was entered into between a 
 committee of management and Mr. Selby Lowndes. A town committee was 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1853. 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
 
 Ajax 
 
 Auditor 
 
 Bellman . . . 
 Blameless ") 
 Bracelet ] 
 Ca])tious I 
 Corsair ^ 
 Dahlia ..... 
 Diligent , . . 
 
 Fearless ... 
 
 Handsome 
 
 Hero 
 
 Hannibal "^ 
 Headstrong j 
 Hostess " I 
 Hotspur 
 Landlord ... 
 Lusty 
 
 Rally 
 
 Rifleman . . . 
 
 Rutliful 
 
 Sampson . . . 
 
 Svlvia 
 
 Tiding ") 
 Traveller j 
 Vision 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Farmer. 
 Earl Fitzharding's Alielard 
 Brocklesby Bellman 
 
 Counsellor (45) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Forester . . . 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Despot 
 
 Mr. Foljam1)e's Pilot 
 
 ("Lord H. Beutinck"s| 
 
 \ Craftsman ) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Monitor . . . 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Hector 
 
 His Arrogant 
 His Buxom 
 Tlieir Chastity 
 
 Blossom (49) 
 
 ( Lord H. Beutinck's 
 I Careful 
 His Skilful 
 His Dauntless 
 
 His Furious 
 
 His Heroine 
 His Doleful 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Foreman I Handmaid (49) 
 
 Monitor (47) 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Resolute 
 ("Lord H . Beutinck's 
 
 ( Champion 
 
 Brocklesby Reveller 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Royster 
 
 Lord H . Beutinck's) 
 
 Comrade ) 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Stenter 
 
 G-rasper (48) 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Contest 
 
 Languish (48) 
 His Lesbia 
 
 His Remedy 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's 
 
 Melody 
 His Famous 
 
 His Sprightly 
 
 His Sportive 
 
 Tuneful (46) 
 
 His Vicious 
 
 appointed to collect subscrij)tions in liquidation of the requisite expenses. 
 The folloAving is the division allotted to the North Warwickshire : The Leam 
 to be the boundary, giving Dunclnu'ch to Leamington ; from Warwick to 
 Rowington, from Rowingtou to Wooton Wawen along the Birmingham 
 and Stratford Canal. The road from Wooton AVawen to Alcester. and from 
 Alcester tlie turnpike road to Birmingham. 
 
 SEASON 1853-54. 
 Yrora the Zea ///{//// fo J/ Spa Courier, DeeemlxT .24th, 18or3 : 
 
 Thursday, JJfton Wood. — A very cold and ])leak morning, but a good 
 fic'.d assembled. Found at OfifchurcliBury, and made straiglit for Print Hill, 
 
1854] ONLY TWO AT THE FINISH. 223 
 
 tlirouffli it to Loiio- Itchiug'toii. Hero lie tnnicil to tlio left l)y Stockton, left 
 Soiithaiii on the left, do^^^l to the brook, which two o-entlenien* and the whip 
 took, going in and out, Mr. Granville, of Welle.sbonrnc, being leader (the field 
 going through Soutliani). They had the rcuiaiuder to themselves, killing the 
 fox in a field opposite Stoney Thorpe, in thirty-eight minutes withoiit a check. 
 Another fox was found at Itchingtim Holt, which went away for Gaydon, Imt 
 turned to the left for Chadshnut, on through Pool Fields, over the lai-ge 
 meadows to Lightliorne Rough, and across the Fosse Road to Moreton Wood, 
 then liack towards Lightliorne Village, where the hounds were whipped oii* 
 owing to darkness. 
 
 Mr. AVilliain Chaiiiljerlayne told us that tlie hounds 
 found a fox at Otfchurch Osier Bed, and ran without 
 a cheek throug'h Print Hill, leaving- Bascote to the 
 right, nearly to Southam Workhouse, thence crossed the 
 brook, and pointed for Ladbroke Xrorse, Ijut turned again 
 to the right, over the brook, and killed the fox between 
 Stoney Thorpe and Harbury. Only ^Slr. Bevil Granville 
 and Mr. Chaniljerlayne were in at the death, and the run 
 occupied only half an hour at racing pace. Mr. Chamber- 
 layne was riding a black mare which he had bought from 
 Mr. Berkeley. 
 
 From the Lraiui/u/foii Co/iricr, Janiuiry .Olst, 1854: 
 
 The first meet after the frost was at Walton. Found in Walton Wood. 
 and went off for Bowshot, over Moreton Bank, and through the wood, pointing 
 for Oakley Wood ; bore to the right I)y Moreton Morrell for Lightliorne Rough, 
 through Bishop's Gorse and Chadshunt Spinneys, turned to the right as if for 
 Kiueton, then bearing again to the left went away down to the brook. There 
 the pace became veiy severe. He went straight to Kinetoii Holt, passed 
 outside it, ixiaking for Church Tysoe : being headed, he crossed the Banbury 
 and Stratford Road and made for Edge Hill, where the hounds were stopped, 
 snow and ice making it impossible to ride. Time, one hour and forty minutes. 
 Distance, twelve or fourteen miles. A better run has not been seen in 
 Warwickshire for years. 
 
 SEASON 1854-55. 
 
 Decemher 2nd. 1854. — The Warwickshire hounds met at Billesley Hall on 
 Thursday last, and foimd a gallant old fox in Oversley Wood ; he went away 
 at once, pointing for Alcester, where he crossed the river Arrow, leaving 
 Kiuwarton on the left, over the meadows \ip to Great Alne, pointing for 
 Aston Grove, through it. and left Aston Cantlow on the left. Hence by 
 Wilmcote and Bishopton Spa across the Stratford and Birmingham road to 
 Snitterfield Bushes, straight through it. and on for Wolv(>rton, leaving 
 ClaA'erdon on the left. Darkness ol)liged the hounds to be wliii)ped oft". This 
 was one of the best hunting runs which has taken place in this part of the 
 country. 
 
 * These two gentlemen were Major lievil Oiaiiville aiul Mr. \V. Chamberlayne. of 
 Stoney Thorpe. 
 
224 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1851 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT CLUB AND THE WAR. 
 
 December 2nd. 1854. 
 
 Tlu' f()llo\viii<>- notice lias l)eeu is.siietl by this clnl) : 
 
 Uiulor the existing circuuistauces of the war, and from tlie fact that ho 
 many members are deeply interested in the fate of our armies in the Crimea, 
 it has been considered advisable by the committee that no Hunt ball ])e held 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE, ENTRY 1854. 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
 
 Bashful -^ 
 Bonuylass > 
 Boxer ) 
 
 Challenger 
 
 Charmer . . . 
 
 C lasher 
 
 Contest 
 
 Dainty 
 
 Darling ") 
 Dorcas ) 
 
 Falstaff 
 
 Forester ~) 
 Freeman [■ 
 Fugleman ) 
 Ganrester ^ 
 Gimcrack ^- 
 Glaucus 3 
 Harper | 
 Harlequin j 
 
 Hector 
 
 Hojjeful 7 
 Hyacinth ) 
 Latitude . . . 
 Lavender . . . 
 Mameluke 
 Monitor . . . 
 
 Pleader 
 
 Rapture . . , 
 Songstress 
 Stranger ... 
 Tawdry 7 
 Trinket j ' 
 Warbler 7 
 Woodbine j 
 
 SlHE.'<. 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Boxer . . 
 
 5" Earl Fitzharding's Chal- ") 
 
 ( leuger j 
 
 Belvoir Gainer 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Clasper 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Contest 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Comrade 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Lincoln 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Ranter 
 
 Mr. Foljam))e's Forester . 
 
 Belvoir Guider 
 
 Hazard (52) 
 
 Brocklesby Regulus 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Hector 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Lincoln .. 
 Earl Fitzharding's Lincoln . 
 Mr. Foljambe's Monitor ... 
 Mr. Foljambe's Monitor ... 
 
 Brocklesby Pleader 
 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Ctmtest 
 Sir Tatton Sykes' Villager . 
 Lord H. Beutinck's Contest 
 (Lord H. Beutinck's 7 
 \ Champion j 
 
 Earl Fitzharding's Bardolph 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Baidile (51) 
 
 Mindful (50) 
 
 Cliarmer (45) 
 His Promise 
 His Rarity 
 His Dainty 
 
 Ducliess * 
 
 His Famous 
 
 His Relish 
 
 Telltale (48) 
 
 Matchless (51) 
 
 Hasty (48) 
 
 Buxom (50) 
 
 Sprightly (51) 
 Heedless (51) 
 His Racket 
 His Redwing 
 Captious (53) 
 His Rapture 
 Sanguine (51) 
 His Song.stress 
 
 His Tawdry 
 Willing (50) 
 
 * By Lord H. Bentinck's Comus — his Gloomy. Bought by Lord AV. de Broke as a 
 tive-year-old in 185.3. 
 
 this winter, instead of which a donation in the name of the club be made to 
 the Patriotic Fund. 
 
 A correspondent, in sending the above information to a London contem- 
 
18551 
 
 KTJN FEOM LIGHTHORNE ROUGH. 
 
 225 
 
 porary, says, " Our Hutit ball usually costs about 250/. If all other Hunt 
 clubs would do that, what a large sum luight be collected." 
 
 The sad causes assigned in the above uotice for a cessation of amusements 
 will, beyond all doubt. ])revent a variety of ])ublic entertainment both here 
 and elsewhere during the i)resent season. 
 
 December iHIt, 1854.— The Warwickshire hounds met at Whimpstoue 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1855. 
 
 LOED WiLLOUGHBY DE BROKE. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Autocrat ") 
 Amethyst ) 
 
 Albert" 
 
 Bloomer ^ 
 Blossom I 
 Butterfly \ ' 
 Beatrice J 
 Bobadil 7 
 Bridesmaid ) 
 Dulcimer > 
 Dewdrop j 
 Gratitude... 
 
 Hermit 
 
 Lucifer 
 
 Majesty 7 
 
 Murmur ) 
 
 Priestess ■^ 
 
 Primrose f 
 
 Prudence C 
 
 Paragon J 
 
 Spinster ^ 
 
 Student 3 
 
 Roval 
 
 Rival 
 
 Relish 
 
 Rosebud ! Regent (49). 
 
 Dams, 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Aimwell 
 Mr. Morrell's Aimwell 
 
 Hazard (52) 
 
 Hazard (52) 
 
 Earl Fitzliarding's Despot 
 
 Saffron (.51) 
 
 Brockh>sI)y Hercules 
 
 Earl Fitzliarding's Lusty . 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Aimwell .... 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Aimwell 
 
 Saffron (.511 
 
 (Earl Fitzharding's") 
 \ Mussulman ) 
 
 Blissful 
 Blossom (49) 
 
 Bauble (51) 
 
 Barmaid (51) 
 
 Mindful (50) 
 
 Gaiety (51) 
 Buxom (50) 
 Heedless (50) 
 
 Magic (51) 
 Parasol (49) 
 
 Sanguine (51) 
 
 Rosy * 
 Priestess (47) 
 
 * By Brocklesby Eallywood — Lord H. Bentinck's Euthless. 
 \V. de Broke as a four-year-old iu 185.3. 
 
 Bought by Lord 
 
 Bridge. Found a fox on Meoii Hill, and made for Gaily Oak, where he turned 
 to the left up the meadows l)y Preston Village, over the Stratford and 
 Shipston Road, made for Fir Grove, and on to Alveston Pastures and Loxley, 
 where he was jiulled down in the open, after a good I'un of an hour and 
 twenty minutes. 
 
 December I'Sth, Gaydon Inn. — Found in Lighthorne Rough, and made for 
 Chadshunt, but headed and turaed for Comptou Verney to Bowshot, Walton, 
 and Wellesbourne Wood. He now turned for Friz Hill, and across the flat 
 to Moreton Wood, making for Oakley Wood; but, being headed, he turned to 
 the right over the Baulmiy and Warwick Road. l)y Hogbrook up to 
 Chesterton Spinneys, where he was killed after a first-rate run of an hour 
 and a half. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Q 
 
226 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1855 
 
 We have received the following- account of Mr. William 
 GruUiver from Colonel Norris, who knew him intimately : 
 
 William Gulliver,* who bred thoroughbred stock at 
 Swalcliffe for many years with great success, as a man 
 devoted to sport of all sorts, a first class horseman, and a 
 good preserver of foxes, deserves more than a passing note. 
 
 He was full of the Jack Mytton style of daring, and 
 loved adventure, particularl}^ when any horse he happened 
 to own at the time was the medium of it ; and what he 
 could do with his single left arm and hand, for early in 
 life he lost his right through a gun accident whilst rabbit 
 shooting, was simply astounding. His naturally quick, 
 fiery temper, led him into many a row, and Gulliver never 
 refused an appeal " ad homiiieiny and seldom had the 
 worst of a set-to, for he let out that left arm so straight, 
 so strong, and so (juick, that he had his man smothered, 
 confused, and settled before he knew where he was. Just 
 the same on a refractory horse. He would take the reins in 
 his teeth, and deliver with his single hand such a shower 
 of sting-ers, all orer — head, ears, fianks, near and off side — 
 that the horse was literally terrified into subjection ; and 
 then he would a-s liberally soothe the animal. His nerve 
 was of steel, and never failed him. I remember arriving 
 at Banbury one dark night from Aldershot unexpectedly, 
 and no conveyance being at the station for me, Gulliver, 
 who had travelled from Heading with me, oft'ered to give 
 me a lift home. Outside the station was his dogcart, with 
 large lamps, the reins were hooTied over the dash-board 
 (Gulliver had a plan of hitching the reins on to this, 
 which was always made very stout and stiff on purpose, 
 so as to relieve his one arm occasionally, when he had a 
 puller in), and two men were at the head of the horse in 
 the shafts. We got in, Gulliver said " let go," and we just 
 flashed through the town of Banbury. I could see by the 
 lamps Gulliver's teeth set ; anyone who knew him will 
 recognise this habit of his. He never spoke a word till 
 we got to the fall in the road which approaches the 
 
 * See also p. 211. 
 
1855] ME. WILLIAM GULLIVER. 227 
 
 few cottages on tlie roadside, wliicli form, tlie village of 
 Brougliton. Going down this incline he said : " Takes to 
 it well, don't she ? Has not done much this way 
 either, for she was running at Newmarket last week ! " 
 AVe got home all right, but I remember mentally noting 
 rather to walk home the six miles than ever again accept 
 W. Gr.'s road hospitality, particularly at night. 
 
 Talking one day of cross-country exploits on wheels, he 
 told me that once when driving home, Billy Cowper, 
 who, I think, afterwards broke his neck riding, came 
 up alongside on a hunter. " He said his horse could 
 jump a bit. I said mine could trot better than most," 
 and a match for a sovereign was arranged then and 
 there. GruUiver w^as to keep the road, and Billy was 
 to ride the country, to a named point, where they 
 would meet again. Some distance had been covered, 
 when (xulliver saw that he would be beat, his only 
 chance being to cut a corner. " Hunting, I never knew 
 the mare I was driving turn her head, so I offered her a chance 
 on wheels, turned short over the fence, got over it with a 
 scramble, went on across the field, and blundered over the 
 fence into the road again, with nothing broke. Billy never 
 saw me, and in the end I just beat him, and took the pound." 
 
 The late Lord Howth was often at Swalcliffe. I 
 believe it was when he and two others were once staying 
 with Gulliver that the latter drove them to Banbury 
 Station for Northampton races. That was when the line 
 was by Bletchley and Bl is worth, and long before it was 
 direct as at present. Gulliver put his load down at the 
 station and turned homewards, for he had not intended to 
 accompany them. Again, to use his own words, for I 
 remember these incidents well : "I had just got to the 
 bridge, when I thought, ' I'll race that train.' So I turned 
 down the Northampton Eoad instead of that to Swalcliffe. 
 I was driving an American trotter I had (a well-knowTi 
 harnesser that Gulliver used to call his " trotter," a black 
 horse), and I gave him his head. I got to Northampton, 
 and the horse did not appear winded even, drove straight 
 
 (2 '2 
 
228 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1855 
 
 to the station, and the Banhiirij train had not arrived. I 
 put the horse up, gave him a feed, and when my party 
 arrived they could hardly believe their eyes at seeing me in 
 the refreshment room, and I drove back home after the 
 races." 
 
 Besides losing his right arm, he had many bad 
 accidents. He pointed out to me a place once, when we 
 were riding home together from hunting, between Chipping 
 Warden and Wardington, where, going down a long, steep 
 hill, the near wheel of his dogcart came off. He was shot 
 over into the fence, and the wheel "trundled on" down the 
 middle of the road the full length of the hill, which was a 
 couple of hundred yards or more. 
 
 Although he owned and bred some lirst-class horses 
 and sold them well, he was unlucky, and, towards the close 
 of his Hfe, fell into bad times I fear. When at last he 
 died, in 1876, there was not a man who knew him, 
 particularly all those he used to meet in the hunting field 
 and racecourse, but mourned his loss. — H. C. N. 
 
 We have no notice of any run during 1855. 
 At this time, Mr. Poole, the famous tailor, and Mr. 
 James Mason had a hunting box together at Winslow. A 
 young Oxford man, who employed Mr. Poole, considered it 
 rather swagger that he should keep a stud of twelve horses, 
 and gave out that he would blow him up in public at a 
 Hunt breakfast that was coming off the next week for 
 making- him a coat which did not fit. Another Oxford 
 man, who also employed Mr. Poole, and owed him money, 
 thought he would do him a turn, and get longer credit by 
 forewarning him, so, when the first-mentioned man tackled 
 Mr. Poole at breakfast, the latter pulled a piece of chalk 
 out of his pocket, and said he would soon put the coat 
 right, and chalked him all over the back ! 
 
 In 1855-1856, Jones hunted the hounds, and W. 
 Enever and J. Cummings were first and second whips. 
 
 I remember in 1855, when at Oxford, twice riding 
 thirty-two miles to covert to Wolford Wood, and when I 
 mentioned this to Mr. Harry Bourke, he told me that he 
 
1855] REASONS FOR HUNTING-. 229 
 
 had ridden pffij miles fo covert, from Cambridge to meet the 
 Fitzwitliam hounds and hack afjain; and his friend, ivho had 
 ridden the same distance and returned with him, dropped off 
 his horse jnst Ijefore reaching Camhridge, and loas carried in 
 an exhausted state to the nearest house ! — CM. 
 
 N.B. — We did not receive this song in time to insert 
 it on page GO of Vol. L, where it ought to have come. 
 
 REASONS FOR HUNTING. 
 By Rev. H. R. Wolley. 
 
 I've oft been asked by coui-tly swains 
 
 And men of sober pace, 
 Wliat joy I take in woocls and j^lains, 
 
 What pleasure in the chase ? 
 Now tho' these beagling souls I scorn, 
 
 For once I'll not disdain, 
 To tell them why I rise each morn, 
 
 And seek the field again. 
 
 The well-tried pack, the gladsome cry 
 
 My soul with joys inspire. 
 Each echoing wood, each copse we try 
 
 Excites some new desire. 
 The cheerful sound of horn and hound 
 
 Can every care restrain. 
 And thus I think a reason's found. 
 
 To seek the chase again. 
 
 When thoughts of fleeting years I trace. 
 
 And sigh o'er spoils of time, 
 The generous steed, with quickening pace 
 
 Makes youth again be mine. 
 Not Fortune's frowns can work me woe. 
 
 Nor falsehood give me jiain, 
 When once I hear the " Tally-ho " 
 
 That brings the chase again. 
 
 The social glass more bright appears, 
 
 And beauty's smile more dear. 
 When glowing health my spirit cheers 
 
 And Hope's gay dreams appear — 
 These in the joyous chase abound, 
 
 'Midst Pleasure's cheer tul reigu ; 
 And thus another reason's found 
 
 To seek the chase again. 
 
230 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1856 
 
 When hipped and vex'd at England's fate 
 
 In these convulsive days, 
 I ill endui'e the troubled state 
 
 My thoughtful eye surveys. 
 But when the pack at early dawn 
 
 Invite nie still to stray ; 
 To every care and every frown, 
 
 I'll answer " Gone away!" 
 
 Nor you, ye fair, these joys restrain 
 
 The hunter lives to know, 
 For you the enlivening thought we claim. 
 
 The spirit's brightest glow. 
 Be yours the lyre, the dance, the song, 
 
 While we the chase retain ; * 
 Till evening shall our joys prolong 
 
 And bring your smiles again. 
 
 From the Leamiugton Spa Courier, January 19th, 1856 : 
 
 Lord Willougliby de Broke's decision to retire from the management of 
 the Warwickshire hounds has given rise to feelings of deep regret among 
 the members of the Hunt, inasmncli as uo one filling the irksome and trying 
 position ever enjoyed a greater share of confidence on the part of the owners 
 of coverts, or the respect of all participating in the sport; the retirement of 
 a nobleman so universally respected as Lord Willougliby creates a vacancy 
 which it will be difiicult to fill, although the names of more than one landed 
 proprietor in the country, ardent foxhunt ers, have been mentioned as his 
 Lordship's ]>robable successor. 
 
 At the time when Sir Pery Pole kindly gave us per- 
 mission to search in his library at Todenham, we saw some 
 curious and valuable engravings and extracts. 
 
 (1) A steel engra\'ing publislied by M. A. Pittman, Warwick Square, 
 Loudon. Dec. 1st, 1834; F. G. Turner piuxit; H. R. Cook sculpsit ; "A 
 huntsman's wife suckling two fox cubs." 
 
 (2) Circ. 1830-34. 
 
 The Duke of Rutland, Sir G. Heathcote, and the Leicestershire Hunt 
 now bear the ])ell, contested only by the Pytchley.f Of these I proiiose 
 gi^-ing joxx a full account, and in tlie meantime I must say that I shall not 
 fail to notice Sir Thomas Mostpi's {sic) as well as Mr. Corbet's pack. The 
 Duke of Grafton's old-estal)lislied pack, though they liave perhaps the best 
 huntsmanj in England, yet, from his Grace being seldom oiit, are hardly 
 worth a sportsman's trouble, as they are but scantily attended, except by 
 
 * Mr. Wolley evidently did not approve of " ladies out hunting." — W. R, V. 
 
 t I remember once hearing a discussion in the House of Commons about damage 
 done to farmers by hunting, in which John Bright joined, and was very much astonished 
 by roars of laughter when he called the Pytchley " the Pitchley Hunt." — C. M. 
 
 X Would he have been Edwin Stevens' mentor ? 
 
1856] GEORGE EIDLER'S OVEN. 231 
 
 farmers, where there is little puiietuality and less courtesy under the present 
 management. 
 
 (3) American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, April, 1834, page 427 : 
 
 FOXHUNTING AND FISHING, MOUNT AIRY, U.A. 
 
 February 18th, 1834. 
 
 Mr. Editor. — "We have had but little foxhunting weather tliis winter. 
 On the 7th, 9th, 11th, and 12th our dogs killed onhj two reds and 
 four grays ; one of the reds ran from the shores of the Rappahannock to 
 the shores of the Potomac, and I daresay could have kept way with Nat 
 Turner in his best day. 
 
 I eartlied one red to-day in thirty minutes, and Avhile digging for him the 
 dogs started another, and ran him an hour and a half, ))ut what l)ecame of him 
 I can't say, having been thrown out. Old Beckwitli liunts on Miss Chance, 
 now nineteen years old. 
 
 Tlien follows an account of old Beckwith's exploits 
 with the rod, he having captured catfish weighing 1251b., 
 .2011b., and 2501b. respectively. 
 
 Oh Molly! what a fish! 
 
 (4) GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN. 
 
 An old Gloucestershire ballad, corrected accordmg to the fragments 
 of a maiui script copy found in the Speech House, m the Forest of Dean, 
 several centuries ago, and now revived. To be sung at the anniversary 
 meeting of the Gloucester Society. 
 
 I. 
 The stivons that built George Ridler's oven 
 And than heivn from the Bleahieys quar ; 
 And George he wur a jolly old mon, 
 And his yead it grow'd above his yare. 
 
 II. 
 One thing of George Ridler I must commend, 
 And that ivur rather a notable theng, 
 He mend his braags avore he died 
 WC any dree brothers his yonsehold zeng. 
 
 III. 
 There's Dick the Treble, and John the Mean 
 (Let every mo7i zing in his awn pleace), 
 And George he ivur the elder brother, 
 And therevoore he would zing the Beass. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Mine hostess's moid (and her heawn tis 'roiin Nell), 
 A pretty wend, and I lov'd her well, 
 I lov'd her well, good reauzon why 
 Becase zshe lov'd my dog and I. 
 
232 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1856 
 
 My clog is good to catch a lien, 
 A duck or goose is vood vor Men's ; 
 And where good company I shy, 
 thether gtvoes my dog and I. 
 
 VI. 
 
 My mvjother told I when I wiir young 
 If I did vollotv the strong heer pwoot, 
 That drenk would prnvly anverdroio 
 And meah me a thzread bare cicoat. 
 
 My dog has gotton zitch a trick, 
 To visit moid when thang be zic, 
 When tJiang be zick and like to die, 
 thether givoes my dog and I. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 When I have dree zixpence under my thumb, 
 O then I be welcome whenever I come, 
 But when I have none, then I pass by, 
 'Tis poverf y pearts good company. 
 
 IX. 
 
 If I should die, as it may hap, 
 
 My greauve shall be under the good yeal tap, 
 
 In voulded yarmes there wool us lie 
 
 Cheek by jowl my dog and I. 
 
 W. M. Thisleton, Printer, Goodge Street, London. 
 
 COMPTON WYNIATES. 
 
CHARLECOTE PARE. 
 
 CHAPTEE XII. 
 
 MR. H. SPENCER LUCY. 
 
 SEASON 1856-57. 
 
 In 1856 Lord Willougliby de Broke retired, and on 
 January .23rd, at a meeting held at Wellesbourne, a cordial 
 vote of thanks was passed to him for his long and efficient 
 services, for the splendid sport which he had shown, and for 
 his most generous promise of future support. Mr. Mark 
 Phillips occupied the chair, and there were present : Messrs. 
 Bolton King, H. Spencer Lucy, W. Pinnie, 0. Pell, 
 C. Earle, H. K. Peach, Gr. Holland, Captain Dallas, 
 H. J. Sheldon, Grustavus Smith, and the Eev. J. Lucy. 
 A resolution of the North Warwickshire Hunt requesting 
 the loan of Debdale, Print Hill, and Hunningham Coppice 
 was submitted to the meeting, and it was resolved, with 
 only one dissentient, not to assent to it. It was also 
 unanimously resolved to allow the I*^orth Warwickshire 
 Hunt to draw Eed Hill, Widdicombe, Aston Grove, and 
 Oversley Wood, as neutral coverts, with the consent of 
 their owners. It is remarkable that no such continuance of 
 fine sport as had been enjoyed during Mr. Barnard's regime 
 was again seen until his son, the present Lord Willougliby 
 de Broke, became master. 
 
234 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ri856 
 
 In 1850 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote Park, 
 succeeded Lord Willoughloy de Broke in the management 
 of the hounds, and the sum guaranteed to him at the 
 commencement of his mastership was 1900/. He was an 
 ardent, all-round sportsman, a light weight, riding twelve 
 stone, and a fine horseman. During the first period of his 
 mastership, and for part of the second period, he rode 
 extremely well to hounds. He was mounted on very well 
 bred horses up to thirteen and fourteen stone. Amongst his 
 best hunters were a chesnut mare called Minna, which he 
 rode in a snaffle bridle, and a chesnut horse called Goldfinder. 
 Minna was very good at water, and we remember seeing 
 Mr. Lucy jump the Han well brook on her wdien the water 
 was bank high and no one else got over it, and if hounds 
 had continued to run he would have remained alone with 
 them, but, as has often happened on a similar occasion, 
 they threw up only two fields beyond the brook. Others 
 of Mr. Lucy's favourite hunters were a black horse called 
 First Flight, Grayling, Golden Hue, a chesnut horse 
 Lavender, and a gray horse called Heads and Tails. He 
 also owned several good steeplechase horses which he 
 trained at home. The best of these was Tipperary 
 Boy. 
 
 In Mr. Lucy's character w^re united a good many 
 traits of the old-fashioned country squire, and he was 
 always called Squire Lucy to the end of his days, even in 
 these modern times. In 1865 he married Christina, eldest 
 daughter of the late Mr. Campbell, of Monzie. In 1867, 
 he was High Sheriff for Warwickshire. He very much 
 frightened Her Majesty's jndge on that occasion, when 
 taking him to dinner at Stoneleigh Abbey in the family 
 coach, all Cee springs and cushions, with four horses, one of 
 which was a young thoroughbred hunter that had never 
 been in harness* before. The worthy judge kept bounding 
 
 * Trying a Horse. — The late Chief Justice Doherty used to tell a good story 
 of his posting days He was going circuit in a post-chaise, and at a dangerous part, 
 where the road skirted a descent, one of the horses, which had been behaving badly, 
 began kicking furiously. Much alarmed, Doherty called out, " This is outrageous ! I 
 don't think that horse has ever been in harness before." " Bedad, your lordship's 
 
Mr. H. Spencer Lucy, 
 
 of 
 
 Charlecote. 
 
 From a photograph 
 
 by 
 
 Graham, of Leamington. 
 
.no:t'SnirnB9J lo .mBiiBTD 
 
1856J MR. H. SPENCER LUCY. 235 
 
 up in liis seat and exclaiming, " Do yoii think it's safe, Mr. 
 Sheriff?" Mr. Lucy was a first-rate companion, both in 
 the field and at the dinner table. One was never dull in 
 his company, although one could not always remember in 
 the morning the good and very original things he said. 
 He was great at similes. He described to Mr. R. W. 
 Lindsay, of Barford, how he went into the Ratley brook — 
 "As if one was bustin' a paper bag." Another time he 
 said " he went in and shut the door after him." Wlien he 
 wanted to describe anything as being nearly done, he 
 always said, " As near as makes no matter." On one occasion 
 wdien a fox had been run to grouncj, the huntsman said to 
 a man standing near the drain, " Have you got a terrier ?" 
 and he replied, " No, I have not got one." Mr. Lucy then 
 said, " What, haven't you got neer a one ?" The man 
 then replied, " No, I liarn't got neer a one." 
 
 Mr. Lucy's huntsman w^as William Mawe, and his 
 whips were W. Enever, J. Gumming, A. Munns, E. Morris, 
 and Mark Jones, during his two seasons of mastershij). 
 
 It cannot be said that during these two seasons the 
 sport w^as at any time good, and we have therefore but a 
 scanty record of good runs. 
 
 In August I went with my brother for the first time 
 to Scotland, and we were hospitably entertained by 
 Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld. We arrived on Saturday, 
 and on the following Monday went out grouse shooting. 
 The keeper w^as a remarkably silent man, and we only 
 heard him speak twice all day. On the first occasion I 
 remarked to him that " it was a fine day, with a nice wind 
 for the dogs, and seemed likely to be good for shooting." 
 He answered, " Nae, ye'll do no good, becase yee're 
 cartridges were loaded on the Sawbuth." On the second 
 occasion, when two birds had been killed, and he was not 
 sure whether they had been gathered, he said to the gillie. 
 
 right. He was only taken out of the field this morning." " And do you mean to say 
 that you have put an uubroken horse in my carriage r' " " Sorra a sight of the leather 
 he has seen till to-day, and if he brings your lordship safe to the foot of the hill, the 
 master says he'll buy him." — Leaminjton Courier. 
 
236 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIBE HUNT. 
 
 L1856 
 
 *' Sandy, have ye lifted tliem," and tlie latter replied, " Yas, 
 I have peeked two." 
 
 The first meet for open hunting was on November 3rd, 
 185G, at Charlecote Park, where a large number of horse- 
 men assembled, and were hospitably entertained by Mr. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1856. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Albion ) 
 
 Artful i 
 
 Actress 
 
 Adelaide 
 
 Admiral (.52) ... .... 
 
 Colunilnne * 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Aimwoll 
 
 Mr. MorrelFs Aimwell 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Fearnot 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Fearnot 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Rummager 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Hercules . . . 
 Hazard (52) 
 
 Gaiety (51) 
 Willing (60) 
 Matchless 
 
 Bracelet (53) 
 
 His Harmony 
 His Purity 
 
 Fatal 
 
 Famous 1 
 
 Fatima ) 
 
 Hazard 
 
 Hercules 
 
 Handmaid 
 
 Handsome (53) 
 His Languish 
 His Niiulde 
 His Nightshade 
 
 Lottery 
 
 Newsman 
 
 Norman 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Glider 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Drydeu 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Rummager 
 
 Ottoman (52) 
 
 Ornament 
 
 Hebe (50) 
 Diligent (53) 
 
 Potentate ") 
 
 Duke of Beaufoit's Prodigal 
 Duke of Beaufort's Prodigal 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Prodigal 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Fearnot 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Charon. 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Glider 
 
 Belvoir Limner ] 
 
 Brocklesby Hector 
 
 Purity 3 
 
 Prodigal '^ 
 Promise 1 
 
 Bauble (51) 
 
 Patience I 
 Pleasant J 
 Pillager ^ 
 
 Princess > 
 
 Petulant j 
 
 Partial 
 
 Buxom (50) 
 Partial (50) 
 
 Prompter 
 
 Trimbush 
 
 Trueman \ 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's Pas- 
 time 
 
 His Trinket 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's 
 Twilight 
 
 Mr. R. Sutton's 
 
 Trumpeter j 
 Valiant 
 
 
 
 Violet 
 
 * By Lord H. Bentinck's Comus — his Gloomy. Bought by Lord W. de Broke as a 
 brood bitch in 1853. 
 
 Spencer Lucy, the new master. During the cubhunting 
 the hounds killed fifteen brace of foxes. After some 
 delay they found at Wellesbourne Wood, crossed the road 
 to Walton, on to Bow Shot and Lighthorne, pointing to 
 Ohadshunt, but turned to Verney's Grorse, over the Banbury 
 
1856] THE REV. WILLIAM S. MILLER. 237 
 
 Eoad, past Kingston House, pointing for Harbmy Heath, 
 but headed back to Itehington Holt, towards Knightcote, 
 tiu-ned to the left by Old Town and Bishops Itehington, 
 and was lost between that place and Harbury Heath after 
 a good hunting run of two hours and a haK. 
 
 From the Leaminfjioii Spa Courier, Nov. 29th, 185G : 
 
 A good clay's sport was shown ou Monday last by tlie hounds. The meet 
 was at Ufton Wood, and a good innstei- of the lovers of the chase were 
 present. A fox was found, and broke towards Radford, where he gave them 
 the slip, and got back to Ufton Wood, where, when the hounds were put iu 
 again for another fox, he was killed. After some delay another broke covert 
 at the Itehington end, and was killed in Thorpe Rough. This makes eighteen 
 and a half brace killed this season. They then trotted to Debdale, where a 
 gallant fellow was found, and gave an excellent thirty minutes rim. He went 
 away towards Leamington Hastings, where he crossed the Learn (a regular 
 choker, none but the master having taken it),* and was lost near Fraukton 
 Wood. 
 
 We are indebted to the Rev. William Miller for 
 hunting notes from his diary during the next few years. 
 
 Nor think this jovial pi'iest so wrong, 
 
 He had an honest heart, sir ; 
 His life was worthy of my song, 
 
 He knew no fraud nor art, sir. 
 He ne'er distressed, or poor oppressed, 
 
 His prayers tliey did abound, sir ; 
 He thought no crime, at any time. 
 
 To tally-ho the hounds, sir. 
 
 Old Song, SpoHing Magazine, 1810. 
 
 Thursday, January 1st, 18.57. — Met at Shuckburgh and rode Lady 
 Morville fourteen miles to covert. Had a good run of forty-five minutes to 
 Fawsley. Her ladyship cai-ried me very well,t and has the making of a very 
 good hunter in her ; rode her sixteen miles back again to Radway. The day 
 was beautiful — mild and bright. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, January 17th, 1857 : 
 
 Stratford Hunt Ball. — This town is so haj)pily situated as to be the 
 centre of a large aristocratic circle. This singular good fortune has given it 
 
 * I was staying at Birdingbury once, and I walked down to the river, and spotted 
 the place. I should say it was eighteen feet of clear water. — W. E. V. 
 
 t I ouce rode over Mr. Miller close to Gulliver's Osiers, at a double. His mare 
 never rose a yard, blundered on to the bank, and then scrambled oiit of the second 
 ditch. " I am very sorry, William," I said, " I rode so near you, bat I thought your 
 mare would get over better than that." " 0»i the contrary, Walter," he answered, 
 " my mare jumped it most beautifully, and you should not ride so near." Silence was 
 golden.— W. R. V. 
 
238 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1857-58 
 
 the honour of receiving within the walls of its Town Hall for many years a 
 truly patrician assemblage ; this privilege is highly prized by the burgesses, 
 who are naturally zealous of retaining it, and when some short time since it 
 was roniovod. the feeling excited was one of deep regret. It is therefore 
 with pardonahle exultation that we again chronicle the " event "' of the season, 
 and once more say that Stratford is still the scene of festive splendour. The 
 ■company numbered 350. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1857. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Conqueror 
 Concord 
 Columbine 
 Careless 
 Champion"^ 
 Comrade > 
 Comfoi't J 
 Oertrude 7 
 Gossamer ) 
 Guardsman 
 Herald 7 
 Hotspur 5 
 Melody 
 
 Mindfid .. 
 Remedy . . 
 Royster .. 
 Royal 
 
 Sprightly . 
 Splendour. . 
 Shiner ^ 
 Spangle > 
 Saucebox J 
 
 Tempest . . 
 
 Trouncer .. 
 Winifred .. 
 
 y Lord Fitzharding's Chal- 7 
 (^ leuger j 
 
 ( Lord Fitzharding's Chal 
 I lenger 
 
 Driver (52) 
 
 Mr. Greaves' Damper 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Fleecer \ 
 
 Mr. Foljambe's Masker 
 
 Mr. Greaves" Marksman ... 
 
 Mr. Greaves' Hero 
 
 Belvoir Foiler 
 
 Mr. Morrell's Trojan 
 
 Roman (52) 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Watchman* 
 
 ( Lord Fitzharding's Chal- 7 
 
 ( lenger j 
 
 Belvoir Foiler 
 
 SafEron (51) 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Sprightly (51) 
 
 Tidings (53) 
 
 Gaiety (51) 
 
 His Gertrude 
 Mr. Greaves' 
 
 Heedless 
 Mr. Greaves' 
 
 Famous 
 His Racket 
 His Remedy 
 Rapture (54) 
 Mr. Whebly's 
 
 Rakish 
 Stately (51) 
 Clamorous (52) 
 
 Songstress (54) 
 
 Termagant (52) 
 
 Trinket (54) 
 Woodbine (54) 
 
 * By Lord H. Bentinck's Woldsinan, 
 as a three-year-old in 185.3. 
 
 -his Eachel. Bought by Lord W. de Broke 
 
 SEASON 1857-58. 
 From tke Leamim/ton Spa Courier : 
 
 Novemher 7th, 1857. — On Monday last the Warwickshire hounds met at 
 Charlecote Park, the seat of H. S. Lucy. Esq. Found in Wellesbourue Wood, 
 and ran to Alveston Pastures. Fir Grove, and Alscot Park without a check ; 
 the park wall saved the fox for another day. Found a second fox in Mr. 
 West's plantation, and broke towards Eatington Grove, leaving Rpugh. Hill 
 
857-58] THE PAESON AND " THE SQUIRE." 239 
 
 on the right, to Brick Hill Gorse. Up to this ijoiiit the pace was such as 
 made the company very select, only five heiug- })reseut. On crossing the turf 
 Pillerton reynard began to be shifty, and turned towards Pillerton Priors, 
 Avhere there was a slight check ; the line was then hit off over the turnpike 
 road to a drain at Lower Eatington, from which lie was bolted and 
 killed. 
 
 If we may judge by appearance some first rate sport may be anticipated. 
 It would ])e difficult to find any hunting estaljlishment better mounted, with 
 smarter, cleaner men, or under a better general tlian Mawe, who tliroughout 
 the run handled the hounds in first rate style. 
 
 During the two years of jVIr. Lucy's first mastership 
 he followed the example of Mr. Barnard in using- outside 
 1)lood. In the list of 1856 we again find Mr. Morrell's 
 Aim well, and sires were used from the kennels of Mr. E. 
 Sutton, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord H. Bentinck, the 
 Bel voir, and the Brocklesby. Only three Warwickshire 
 sires were entered. In 1S57 Lord Fitzharding's, Mr. 
 dreaves', Mr. Morrell's, Mr. Foljamhe's, Mr. Whebly's, and 
 the Belvoir represent other kennels. 
 
 From the Eev. W. 8. Miller's diary : 
 
 Friday Januarij 1st, 1858. — The ucav year )>egan very lieautifully and 
 very mild. A slight frost in the night was followed by a bright sunny day. 
 Met at Swalcliffe, and had a very good day's sport, though, strange to say, 
 about noon it was too hot for hounds or horses to work well. We started, 
 no one knew for what reason, wi(h a bagman from a small spinney just 
 to the left of Swalcliffe Church. After running a few fields we 
 changed to the line of a traveUiug fox. He took us, leaving Shutford 
 Clump to the left, across the Shenuiiigton and Shutford Brook, close 
 to Balscot; tbon, leaving Hornton on the right, by White's Bushes and 
 Page's Gorse to the MolHngton Brook ; we then turned short back to the 
 right by Shotteswell, and on to Horley, and lost him between Horley and 
 Wroxtou. Rode the Squire, who acquitted himself admirably in the 
 morning, and then changed horses with Fred Ward for his mare Zaidee, 
 who is a first-rate hunter, and carried me well. 
 
 Lord Mountgarret also mentions this run in his diary. 
 He describes it as lasting for an hour and a half nearly 
 without a check, and also says that it began w^ith a 
 bagman. 
 
 Mr, F. Litchfield Ward resided for some years in Mr. 
 Tailby's country, but for many years has hunted in 
 Warwickshire from Eadway and Leamington, and now 
 again from Eadway. No one is fonder of the chase. He 
 married a sister of Mr. Miller's. 
 
240 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1858 
 
 Hunting in Warwickshire. 
 
 January 2nd, 1858. 
 To the Editor of the Courier, 
 
 Sir, — Such a day's sport as that aiforded by the Warwickshire hoimds on 
 Thursday, December 24th, ought not to pass unnoticed. The meet was at 
 Compton Yeruey, the seat of Lord Winoug-hby, who, in the fine old style, 
 opened liis house to all and dispensed liospitality in a manner not to be 
 forgotten. Pool Fields Gorse was di-awn, and a fine old fox was soon 
 disturbed from his lair and went away at a rattling pace for Chadshunt, then 
 turning to the right for Kineton Holt, was headed, but made his point and 
 went over Edge Hill and back again into the Yale to Burton Church, where 
 he ran to earth, having given as fine and fast a run as any epicure of the 
 sport need look for. Watergall was the rendezvous, and scarcely had the 
 hounds been put into the covert before '" gone away " was the order, and a 
 second rim over tlie beautiful grass to Boddiugton ensued, "a regular clipper," 
 which brought many a good man and true to tlie gi'ound. Two such finds 
 and runs in one day hardly happen in several seasons. Tliat they may come 
 again, and soon, and be as well ridden to by the worthy master as they were 
 on the eve of the past Christmas, is the wish of an 
 
 Old Sportsman. 
 
 From, the Leainington Spa Courier : 
 
 January 16th, 1858. — Hunt Ball. — This elegant assemljly of the nobUity 
 and gentry of the county took place at the Shire Hall, Warwick, on 
 Wednesday. The company numbered 520 ; great preparations had been made, 
 especially in regard to the decoration of the ballroom, always a subject of 
 great interest on this occasion. The approaching marriage of the Princess 
 Royal was not lost sight of amidst the decorations, the company being 
 reminded of that auspicious event by two splendid bouquets suspended from 
 the ceiling on each side of tlie large chandelier. One of them was surmounted 
 by the Crown of England, from which floated a small banner inscribed with 
 the words, '" All happiness to the Princess Royal of England." while on the 
 top of the other was a Prussian crown and a similar banuer in honour of the 
 affianced husband of Her Royal Highness. 
 
 I remember at this time hearing that an M.F.H. in an 
 adjoining country was at the Hunt Ball, and when 
 waltzing with a lady with a long train they both fell. 
 When he had taken her to a seat, he was overheard to say, 
 " Nasty brute ; awkward fall." 
 
 At the first mentioned ball a stranger of rather 
 doubtful appearance had gained admission. Shortly before 
 supper half his moustache, which had been put on, 
 dropped off on to the floor. It is needless to say that he 
 did not stop to pick it up, but made a precipitate retreat, 
 and had to go without his supper. — C. M. 
 
1858] COVEET FUND STAETED. 241 
 
 February 13th. 1858. 
 To tlie Editor of the Courier. 
 
 I send you an account of a day's sport vritli the Warwickshire on 
 Thursday week. Tlie meet was at Shuckburgh. Found at Calcote Spinney, 
 and went away at a racingrpace for Grandborough. which he left to tlie right ; 
 on for Kytes Hardwick, over the river Learn, where luckily there was a ford, 
 making his point for Leicester's Piece. There came the first check ; tinie. 
 21 minutes, over a splendid country. On again for Thurlaston. leaving 
 Bagshaw's on the left, over the Leamington and Rugby railway for Caustcm. 
 but turned over the Dunchurch Road for Lines Spinnej', wliere we got to some 
 plough land, and, scent failing, he was lost. This was one of the best runs I 
 have seen this season, and all would have returned home satisfied, but the 
 huntsman's second horse coming up, Mr. Lucy ordered Debdale to be drawn. 
 It looked like a blank, but fortunately one of the right sort popped out of a 
 comer, and was instantly ofB with hounds close upon him. Aw;iy he Avent at 
 a slashing pace for Leamington Hastings. leaAnng this on the left, over the 
 pastures to the river Leam ; at this point it*was not to be jumped, and to 
 ford it was the only alternative. The hounds went right away, and there was 
 little chance of seeing them again vmless we had a lucky check, which 
 fortunately took place near Leicester's Piece ; the fox being headed, a cast to 
 the light soon put us on his line, on for Bunkers Hill, which he left on the 
 right, pointing for Ashby Leger, over the Daveutry Road, on for Bilton 
 Grange, and was finally lost near Cook's Gorse. 
 
 An Old Sportsman. 
 
 At a meeting of the Warwickshire Hunt Club at the 
 King's Head, Wellesbourne, on AVednesclaj, March 1st, 
 185S, it was resolved to establish a " Covert Fund," as an 
 auxiliary to the Hunt Club, as, in the opinion of the 
 meeting, many gentlemen and occupiers of land, well 
 wishers to the hunting mterest, would be desirous of 
 joining the members of the club in subscribing annually a 
 small sum for that purpose. This fund was largely sub- 
 scribed to, and turned out to be of enormous advantage to 
 the country. No hunting country should be without a 
 similar fund. 
 
 3Iarch 7th, 1858. 
 To the Editor of the Courier. 
 
 The meet on Thursday was at Shuckburgh, where a large, well momited 
 field assembled. Drew Calcott Spinney, and no sooner were the hounds iu 
 than " Tally-ho, away ! " was heard, the fox making his point for the hiUs, 
 but was headed at the road and turned back to the spinney, which he left 
 to the right and made for Grandborough, l)ut turned again and went straight 
 for Debdale. within two fields of which we came to a check. Time, ■28miu. ; 
 distance, five miles, with a very select field up. Mawe cast on to the covert 
 and got on the line, and went away for Print Hill with cold hunting, turning 
 to the right for Marton and Birdingbury. thence to Debdale, which, however. 
 Vol. I. R 
 
242 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HITNT. [1858 
 
 royiiavd did not enter, but went on to LeaniinytDn Hastins"s, across the ^vauh 
 to the river Learn, which a few charged hy jumping and getting out on tlie 
 otlier side. Others had to ride to a ford a mile round. Another check took 
 place at Leicester's Piece, which gave the field a chance of getting up. A 
 holloa put us on his line for Dunchurch and Bagshaw's Grorse, thence for 
 Bourton, Duusmore, and Woolston, wOiere I was obliged to leave. I hear 
 these hounds had excellent sport on Friday. Saturday, and Monday. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 An Old Sportsman. 
 
 At the close of the season of 1857-5^, Mr. Spencer Lncy, 
 after being- master for only two seasons, to the great regret 
 of the subscribers, gave notice to retire ; and on Wednesday, 
 March 3rd, a meeting was held at the King's Head, 
 Wellesbourne, of subscribers to the hounds and owmers of 
 coverts to take into consideration the best means of hunting 
 the country. There were present : Viscount Villiers, in the 
 chair. Lord Willoughby de Broke, Sir C. Mordaunt, Messrs. 
 Bolton King, E. Grreaves, J. Townsend, H. S. Lucy, Mark 
 Philips, H.\j. Sheldon, H. AUfrey, CI. Hawkes, G. H. 
 Holland, and J. R. West. There were three gentlemen 
 named as candidates for the mastership — viz.. Sir T. Gr. 
 Skipwith, Bart., Mr. Henley Greaves, and Captain White. 
 Mr. Henley Greaves was accepted, the meeting agreeing to 
 guarantee him the sum of .2000/. for the next season. 
 
 Mr. Henley Greaves retained the services of William 
 Mawe as huntsman, and E.. Morris and Mark Jones as 
 whips in 1858. In 1859 George Wells was his huntsman, 
 and J. Maiden and Ward his whips; and in 18 GO Dan 
 Berkshire hunted the hounds, and J. Wliateley and 
 W. Hemming were whips. 
 
 Mr. Henley Greaves had hunted in many countries 
 before he came to Warwickshire, and his knowledge of any 
 country in which he had been was remarkable. His weight 
 precluded his riding over fences, but his knowledge of the 
 roads and of a line of country often enabled him to see 
 the end of a run, and he said that he never went into a 
 field unless he could see his way out of it. He was won- 
 derfully active for a man of his size when off his horse, 
 and he was constantly leading his horses over fences, and 
 
Mr. Henley Greaves. 
 
 From a photograph 
 
 by 
 
 Graham, of Leamington. 
 
.notsninrtBdJ to .msriBiD 
 
•i^lS^.. 
 
 a 
 
1858] ME. HENLEY GEE AVE S. 243 
 
 mounted them at once without assistance. One of us 
 remembers seeing him on one occasion, when he saw a 
 countryman on the ojDposite side of a brook which hounds had 
 crossed, dismount, drive his horse through the water, and 
 then jump the brook on foot after his horse had been 
 caught. He rode 23st., but what did tliat matter? Mr. 
 Surtees says of the immortal Jorrocks -. " He didn't ride 
 stipple chases, and what matter did it make 'ow much he 
 weighed ? It was altogether a matter 'twixt him and his 
 'oss, and weighin' would not make him any lighter." 
 
 The second horsemen and others had a great opinion 
 of his pilotage, which was nearly always correct. One 
 day they ran a fox somewhere ne^ar Cloldicote sharp for 
 twenty minutes and killed him. The late Lord Wil- 
 loughby asked Berkshire, who was then huntsman, where 
 Mr. Grreaves was. "I'm sure I don't know, my lord." All 
 of a sudden he pulled his horse up on top of a hill, and 
 exclaimed, " There he is ; and laws, what a tail he's got 
 after him ! " Mr. Henley Grreaves was for once riding 
 in exactly the opposite direction from the hounds, followed 
 by about twenty or thirty ladies and others.''' 
 
 SEASON" 1858-59. 
 
 The following resolution was passed at a meeting at 
 Wellesbourne on November 18th, 1858. Eagley Park, 
 Bevington Waste, Eough Hill, Three Oaks, Hill Wood, 
 and Old Park Wood, may be drawn by Mr. Baker as 
 neutral coverts, the Warwickshire reserving the right of 
 drawing them at present ; pro\T.ded also that no cubs be 
 removed by either party from the country, which, by 
 arrangement, the North Warwickshire have permission to 
 draw. 
 
 From the Rev. W. S. Miller's diary : 
 
 Tuesday, December 28th. — Very fine inorning-, which turued into a -wet 
 afteruoou. Weut out hunting at Mitford Bridge, and had a very good day's 
 
 * Lord Willoughby de Broke inserted this story in liis ■' Eeminiscences of 
 Hunting," Badminton Magazine, Jan. 189G, but I leave it iu as it was already in type. 
 — W. R.V. 
 
 R 2 
 
244 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1858 
 
 sport from Wolford Wood, leaviiio^ oif at Adlestrop at a quarter to four 
 o'clock. Did not get to Radway till six o'clock. Had not had sucli a day in 
 the .saddle for many years ; the Squire carried me admirably. 
 
 Friday, December 31st. — Misty and half rainiu"- the greater part of the 
 day. Went out hunting again at Swalclift'e, and had a A^ery fine day's sport. 
 In the morning had a very good ring of fifty minutes from near Nill, round 
 Hook Norton, and back to Nill, and then slow hunting to ground for twenty 
 minutes more. In the afternoon found at Gulliver's Osiers, and ran over 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1858. 
 Mr. Henley Greaves. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Abelard ^ 
 Archer f 
 Aifable C 
 Amulet J 
 Blueeap "^ 
 Brilliant > 
 Comely ") 
 Cowslip ji 
 Dragsman 
 Da])hue 
 Falstaff.... 
 Gadfiv ') 
 Gaudy [ 
 Gracious J 
 Hannibal"^ 
 Harper [- 
 Honesty j 
 Rachel 
 Ringlet 
 Ruby 
 
 Ruf us 
 
 Seaman "^ 
 Statesman / 
 Scornful r 
 Sylvia ) 
 Stormer "^ 
 Sultan f 
 Singwell C 
 Songstress J 
 
 Truelove 
 
 Wellington 
 
 Admiral (52) 
 
 Admiral (52) 
 
 Lord Fitzhardiug's Lucifer 
 
 Denmark (52) 
 
 Belvoir Foiler 
 
 Gimcrack (54) 
 
 Belvoir Foiler 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Auditor (53) 
 
 Saferon(5l) 
 
 Saffi-on(51) 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Watchman 
 
 Concord (57) 
 
 Bracelet (53) 
 
 Charmer (54) 
 
 Heedless (51) 
 Fearless (53) 
 
 Rosebud (55) 
 
 Hyacinth (54) 
 
 Ruthful (53) 
 Rapture (54) 
 
 Diligent (53) 
 
 Waspish (52) 
 
 Termagant (52) 
 Hopeful (54) 
 
 nearly the same ground — by Famingtou, Shutford Clump, Shennington Mill, 
 and ALkerton. up to Horley — that we went over on the first day of the year. 
 Thence we ran to Hanwell, where I left them running merrily, it being so 
 dark that it was impossible to see a fence. Rode the Squire again for the 
 first fifty miniites ; he gave me a fall, but otherwise went very well, and the 
 rest of the day I rode Imperatrice, avIio got along with me much better than 
 I expected. Did not get home again till six o'clock. 
 
1859] Eim FEOM TALTON HOUSE. 245 
 
 Fchrnarij V2th, 1859. 
 To tlie Editor of the Courier. 
 
 Not a word can I see iu yoixr valuable paper about the capital sport we are 
 having with these houuds. The fixture ou February 4th was Church Tysoe, 
 where a good nuister of the right sort met. We found a fanioiis fox in a 
 small spimiey. Out lie came down by the brookside, over as fine a country 
 as can bo found. This stout hearted fox made his first point for Kirby Farm, 
 where lie tui'ued for Oxhill Village, then straight for Pillerton, through 
 Briekhill Gorse, and turned to the right. Here a check occurred, but Mawe 
 soon hit the line off again. Time up to tliis, 32 minutes at racing pace. 
 On we went again through "Walton Coverts, out at the other end, and across 
 the road to Hell Brake, where he ran to ground after one of the fastest and 
 best runs that has been seen iu Warwickshire for some time, occupying 
 1 hour and 45 minutes. Not many had the pleasure of seeing the ci'eam of 
 it. Mawe rode ill throughout ; also Mr. Lucy, Mr. Over, and Mr. Miller. 
 
 An Old Sportsman 
 SEASON 1859-60. 
 From the Leamingion Spa Courier, Nov. .CCth, I'^.jO : 
 
 The Warwickshire have begun the season well with a good sprinkling of 
 foxes. There was an unusually large meet at Ladljroke on Thursday. Found 
 at Watergall. and broke covert facing for Harbury Station at a racing pace, 
 bore to the right for Duppers Bridge, leaving Southam to the left, in the 
 direction of Shuckburgh. After about two miles he bore down to Stockton, 
 through the village to Ufton Wood, where he was lost after about one and 
 a half hour's hunting. 
 
 From Sir Cliarles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On Monday, December 12th, 1859, tlie meet was at Talton House, and the 
 hounds found in a field close by, and ran l)y Criniscote Downs and Bruton 
 Toll Gate to Admiugton, thence to Stoke Wood and Foxcote, and by 
 Conipton Scorpion and the Porto Bello Gate to Ditchford, and by the 
 Golden Cross nearly to Todenham ; and thence by Mitford Bridge across the 
 high road to Burmington Spinneys, and through Stourton Village to Wliich- 
 ford Wood, where the fox was lost after a very fine run of ten miles straight, 
 and not less than fifteen as hounds ran, in two hours. Rode Dervish. 
 
 In Mr. Henley Greaves' first two lists very little foreign 
 blood appears to have been nsed. The hounds mostly used 
 were Admiral, entered in IS 5.2, by Lord H. Bentinck's 
 Admiral — his Eoundelay ; Denmark, entered in lS'y2, by 
 Mr. Drake's Rufus — his Diligent; and Climcrack, entered in 
 1854, by the Belvoir Gruider — the Warwickshire Telltale. 
 In his last list of 1860, he made use of other kennels, and the 
 names of the Duke of Beaufort's, Lord Fitzharding's, Sir W. 
 Wynn's, and Lord Macclesfield's appear among the sires. 
 
 Three Warwickshire sires were used, and of these Ajax, 
 
246 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [I860 
 
 entered in 1S53, was by Lord Fitzlmrding's Farmer — his 
 Arrogant; and Eoyal, entered in 1855, was by his Mussul- 
 man out of Eosy, who was by the Brocklesby Eallywood — 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Euthless, and was bought by the 
 kte Lord Willoughby in IS 53. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1859. 
 Me. Henley Greaves. 
 
 Names. 
 
 SlEES. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Blucher ') 
 Harmaid > 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Bashful (54) 
 
 Bluebell ) 
 Blithesome ) 
 
 Bellman (53) 
 
 Gimcrack (54) 
 
 Trinket (54) 
 
 Betsy 3 
 
 Damper 7 
 Diligent 3 
 Forester 
 
 Diligent (53) 
 Fearless (53) 
 
 Denmark (52) 
 
 Foreman 
 
 Belvoir Notary 
 
 Lord Fitzwilliam's Hardwick 
 
 Ottoman (52) 
 
 Ottoman (52) 
 
 Royal (55) 
 
 Famous (56) 
 
 Gallant 
 
 Hazard 7 
 
 Harmony _) 
 
 Outcast 
 
 Random 7 
 
 Revellerj 
 
 Rakish ") 
 
 Rapid 3 
 
 Saffron ^ 
 
 Spauo-Ie [■ 
 
 Sportly 3 
 Sj)ortsman 7 
 
 Gratitude (55) 
 Hyacinth (54) 
 Hopeful (54) 
 Heedless (51) 
 
 Rosebud (55) 
 
 Ruthful (53) 
 
 Dorcas (54) 
 Tidings (53) 
 
 Gimcrack (54) 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Sparkler ) 
 
 Tarquin 7 
 
 Tiffany j 
 
 Gimcrack (54) 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {continued) : 
 
 Monday, January 2nd, 1860. — Mostly fine, but rather stormy. Began my 
 usual week's Christmas holidays by going to Radway, and thence to Har])ury 
 Station for a day's hunting. Had a fair day's sport, finding first at Uftou 
 Wood, and again twice at Debdale. Ran with the last fox to Frankton 
 Wood, by Eythorpe and Marstou, at a very good pace most of the way. Left 
 them in Frankton Wood, and heard the next day that the hounds got on their 
 fox again, and saw him into Rugl)y Station. 
 
 Tuesday, January Srd. — Wet aiid stormy nearly all day. Went out with 
 the hounds again at Brailos House, and had a good day's sport notwith- 
 standing the weather. Killed two foxes at Brailes Hill, and got away with 
 a third, but could do nothing with him. Found again at Compton Winyates, 
 and ran ]>y Broom Hill down to Tysoe, thence by Oxhill, Pillerton, Brickhill 
 Gorse, Eatington, and Houudshill, nearly to Wellesbourne Wood, where w 
 were obliged to give it in. Rode old Shamrock, who carried me well. 
 
I8f>()] CAPTAIN RALEIGH KING GOES WELL. 247 
 
 Fridatj, January 6th. — Fine but cold. Went out lumting at Brougliton 
 Castle, and had the best run I have seen for years. Chopped a fox first in 
 Brougliton Spinney. Found again in Tadniarton Heath, and ran by the 
 Highlands. Miloombe, South Xewington, and along the brow of the hill to 
 Swei-ford, thence to Great Tew, Heythro]), Chapel House, and at the l)ack of 
 Chijjping Norton towards Sarsgrove, and lost our fox. Rode the Squire, who 
 carried me splendidly, jumping the South Newington brook in capital style. 
 
 On Thursday, January 12th, 1860, the hounds found in a spinney near 
 Oakley Wood, and ran l)y Moretou Morrell to Lighthorne ; and thence, leaving 
 Chesterton Wood to the left, over the hill by the windmill, nearly to Whit- 
 uash. thence to the left liy Highdown to Oakley Wood, Avhere tlie fox was 
 killed, after a brilliant fifty minutes without a check.* 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On Jan. Uth 1 went Avith my Ijrother to the meet of the Bicester Hounds 
 at Lower Boddiugton. It was a very frosty morning, and as Squire Drake, 
 the master, did not much appreciate the large addition to the field which 
 came out from Leamington, he had his own and his servants' horses rough 
 shod for riding to covert.- and he put the hounds into Boddington Gorse 
 exactly at eleven o'clock, the consequence being that it was neai-ly impossible 
 for anyone living at a distance to arrive in time. The roads were like a 
 sheet of ice, and although we did our best, we only got to the gorse five 
 minutes after the hounds had gone away. We followed on the line as far as 
 Canons Ashby, but as there had been no cheek up to that time we did not try 
 to go any further, and we had a ride home of twenty miles, and heard after- 
 wards that they had run on nearly to Buckingham ! Captain E. Raleigh 
 King, who was one of a few who had got to covert in time from this side of 
 the country, went very well in this run on his chesnut horse Don Quixote. 
 Captain King was at that time one of the best riders with the Warwickshire 
 hounds, and he had another good chesnut horse called Zouave. 
 
 On January Slst, 1860, a famous run took place from a meet at Mitford 
 Bridge. A fox was found at Wolford Wood, and went away at once in the 
 direction of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, but turned to the left, and ran over a fine 
 line of country down the Yale l)y Evenlode, between Adlestrop Hill and 
 Comwell, and thence by Boulter's Barn to Sarsgrove, where he tiirued to the 
 right and ran near Sarsden and then on to the Norrells, and was killed at 
 Pudlicote Quarries. The pace was the best for the first half hour of the run 
 down the Vale. The distance from point to point is nine miles, and the 
 liounds ran about fourteen in an hour and three-quarters. 
 
 It happened to j^e the day of the Heythrop Hunt 
 meeting, and Mr. Henley Grreaves and his huntsman, 
 George Wells, and others, came to the White Hart Inn at 
 Chipping K^orton ; and Mr. Greaves presented Jem Hills 
 with the brush, saying that he would not sod that road as 
 he had promised from Stow to Bloxham, so he was quite 
 entitled to this brush. Jem had long since said he would 
 
 * Not a bad sort of holiday. — W. E. V 
 
248 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [isco 
 
 turf over tlie high road to enable the Warwickshire to get 
 over it, l)ut he answered, "I will have the brush mounted 
 wdth silver, with the inscription on it, ' This is the brush of 
 the fox which took the Warwickshire twenty-five years to 
 kill.' " Notv^ithstanding this we have recorded several 
 good runs, with more than one fox killed in the Heythrop 
 country, and we shall record others. 
 
 I remember Mr. Greaves, who was in a small field at 
 the time the hounds were running their fox in view, saying 
 to me, " This is five shilling corner and they'll handle him 
 soon." He had been at this place only once before, many 
 years since. 
 
 Wells, before he came to the Warwickshire, had been 
 for eleven seasons at Wynnstay, and for one season with 
 Lord Southampton. He was a very promising huntsman, 
 and he had the best voice we ever heard. His early death, 
 which took place in 1800, at the age of only thirty-eight, 
 was a very sad event. His frame was not sufficiently 
 strong for the arduous duties of a huntsman, and his 
 illness only lasted ten days.* 
 
 In May, 1860, I joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry. 
 At the first mounted drill of the troop in Avhich I was, 
 the Sergeant-Major, who had only lately returned from 
 foreign service, had on his old uniform, which was the 
 worse for wear. He said to one of the yeomen (the 
 regiment was then composed entirely of farmers, who were 
 
 rather independent) : " Dress up, Mr ." The man 
 
 who had received the word of command replied : " Dress 
 
 up ! You be d d ! I am a great deal better dressed 
 
 than you are." When the regiment w^as on permanent 
 duty, at a mounted drill I heard a man in the ranks say : 
 "William, you have got your foot in my stirrup." The 
 squadron, which was moving, had to be halted, when it was 
 found that two men were nearly oif their horses, each one 
 having got out of a stirrup. 
 
 I on another occasion looked on when the late Lord 
 
 * Lord Willoiighby, in one of Lis Badminton Magazine articles, says he caught a 
 bad cold fishing a dead fox out of a canal. — W. R. V. 
 
1860] 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE YEOMANRY. 
 
 249 
 
 Willoiigliby cle Broke's troop was being drilled. This was 
 mostly done by his Sergeant-Major, who at last said : 
 " My lord, the men have been mounted for a long time." 
 So his lordship said : " Yes, I will dismount the troop." 
 He then gave the word of command, " Prepare to dismount." 
 "Dismount." And when they had dismounted, he gave 
 the word, " Sit at ease." 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 18(30. 
 Mr. Henley Geeaves. 
 
 Agent ") 
 Autelo])e j 
 Actor ) 
 
 Artist) 
 
 Bouucer 7 
 Banker j '• 
 Bondsinau . . 
 Chanticleer ") 
 Caroline [• 
 Cautions ) 
 Driver ") 
 
 Dairymaid j 
 Hector 
 Hero 
 Hotspur 
 Harriet 
 Heedle 
 Hasty 
 Lapmng 7 
 Lively J 
 Matchless ") 
 Midnight j 
 Rumniager 
 Singer 7 
 Streamer ) 
 Warrior . , . 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Ajax (53) j 
 
 Lord Macclesfield's Marksman 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Banker 
 Duke of Beaufort's Banker t 
 
 Saffron (51) 
 Saffron (51) 
 
 Lord Fitzharding's Hotspur 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Trojan 
 
 Loi'd Macclesfield'sMarksuian 
 Royal (55) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wyun's Warrior 
 Sir W. W. Wvnn's Warrior 
 
 Rachel (58) 
 
 Amulet (58) 
 
 Rapture (54) 
 Relish (55) 
 
 Cliarmer (54) 
 Dorcas (54) 
 
 Hopeful (54) 
 
 Lavender (54) 
 
 Columbine (57) 
 Dulcimer (55) 
 Spinster (55) 
 Hyacinth (54) 
 
 I remember at another time, on the occasion of a 
 mounted troop drill, the word of command " Right 
 shoulders up ! " was given. The cornet, who at that time 
 rode in the rear of the troop, and was a man of conspicuous 
 height, actually y;^^/ ///s ri(j]it shoulder up, and kept It in that 
 position until he was so tired that he said : " Sergeant- 
 Major, do you think 1 might he a/Ioiced to put u/i/ right 
 shoulder down ? "— C. M. 
 
250 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I86I 
 
 I also have a yeomanry story. Mr. Charles Grriffin, of 
 Chesterton, sergeant and afterwards (jiiartermaster, was 
 pulled up by Captain Ealeigh King for some deficiencies in 
 his drill. " Look here, Captain," he said, " I've been a 
 ijeomcm twenty years, and you are not going to make a 
 soldier of me now." — W, E. Y. 
 
 SEASON 1860-61. 
 The Eev. AVilliam S. Miller's diary {coiitinued) : 
 
 Friday, November 9th, 1860. — Fine, but cold ; thermometer twenty-uiue. 
 Went out huuting at Burton Gate, and had a very good day's sport. Found 
 in a turnip field above Avon Dassett, ran across the vale of Arlescote, then 
 turned, and ran along- the line of the brook nearly to Kineton, tlience to 
 Chadshunt, and through the spinney, nearly to Yerney's Gorse, and through 
 Itchington Holt and Harlniry Heath, by Chesterton Church to within a field 
 of Chesterton Wood, and lost our fox. 
 
 Friday, February 1st, 1S61. — The winter has been very cold. The 
 frost lasted nearly six weeks, but has now been gone a week, and that without 
 a fall. To-day I have lieeu out hunting. The meet at Upton ; had very 
 moderate sport, never ha^-ing been at any time three miles from home. The 
 only good thing was a burst from Kineton Holt to the Knoll. 
 
 Tuesday, February 5t]i. — Went out hunting to the Golden Cross. Had a 
 vei'y good day's sport considering the weather. Found at Wolford Wood ; 
 went away immediately by Weston House. Whichford Village, Hotley Hill, 
 and Rollwright, nearly back to Whichford Wood. Got on a fresh fox in a 
 small spinney close to the wood, and, the hounds taking an unexpected turu, 
 got thrown out, and saw nothing more of them. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On Thursday, February 7th. I hunted with the North Warwickshire 
 hounds, on account of having to return after voting in a division in the House 
 of Commons, and saw a splendid run with them, They found at Hillmorton 
 Gorse, and went away at once with a burning scent, and ran between Crick 
 and Yelvertoft, nearly to West Haddon. Up to this point there was no check, 
 but from tliere they ran at a slower pace, leaving Guilsborough to the right, 
 by Kank, nearly to Hazlebeech, and from thence very fast to ground at 
 Maidwell. The distance from point to point is thirteen miles, and about 
 eighteen miles as hounds ran, in two hours and ten minutes. I was told that 
 this was the finest run which these lioimds had ever had, and it was over the 
 cream of the Pytchley country. The Warwickshire are a much faster pack 
 of hounds. Some of the North Warwickshire pack were bred by the 
 master, Mr. Baker, from pure bloodhounds, and I saw these, which were 
 very dark black and tan in colour, come to tlie front and hit off the line 
 whenever the jjack was in difficulty. 
 
 I had sixteen miles to ride on a tired horse I)ack to Rugby, and I left him 
 there in Mr. Darby's stables, and did not get home till ten o'clock. Rode 
 Marmion. 
 
18G1] ME. HENLEY GREAVES RESIGNS. 261 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {continiicd) .- 
 
 Friday, February Stli. — Raiu uoarly all day. Went out liuntiiig at 
 Arlescote. Had a very good day. Killed a fox at White's Bushes ; went 
 away with a secoud round Sliotteswell Village, back by White's Bushes, 
 across the valley to Horuton, skirting the quarries to Upton, and lost. Found 
 again at Faruborough in the covert near Mollingtou, ran along the terrace by 
 the front of the house, across the road by the ponds, and lost. Went on ta 
 Burton Hills ; found in the gorse. away towards Watergall, Ijack over tlie hill 
 by Burton Church, along the hills towards Avon Da&sett, sunk tlie Vale as if 
 for Arlescote. turned down liy Old Leys and Anderson's, and killed in the 
 orchard at Ireland Farm. Tlie most satisfactory kill I have seen this season. 
 
 Friday, February 22nd. — Very fine and pleasant. Went out hunting at 
 Tysoe; found a very bad fox in the Old Warren, and after dodging about 
 Epwell, Shutford Clump, and Famington, lost him in Epwell Village. Found 
 another bad fox at Upton, and, after running about a bit, killed him. Found 
 again at Sun Rising Gorse, ran by Upton House, turned into the hill by 
 Grove corner, ran along the hill by the Knoll, through Arlescote Wood, sunk 
 the hill across the Vale to Dassctt Hill, leaving Faruborough on the right, to 
 the turupike road, back to Fenny Comptou, where I pulled up, the hounds 
 running on to Knightcote and Bishops Itchington, where they lost. Not a 
 fast run, but nearly as good as anything this season. 
 
 From the Coiiriey, February .28rd, 1861 : 
 
 Mr. Henley Greaves having resigned the mastership of the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, a meeting of the subscribers and owners of coverts was held at the 
 King's Head Inn, Wellesljourne. on Tuesday, when a requisition, signed by 
 all tlie subscriljers present, was forwarded to Lord Willoughby de Broke and 
 Mr. North, requesting them to undertake the management of the hounds. 
 As this has been found to be the wish of the country for some little time, a 
 large attendance was not necessary, and therefore only a few subscribers 
 were present. 
 
 On the last Wednesday of February, lb 01, a meeting was 
 held at Wellesbourne to elect a successor to Mr. Henley 
 Greaves, who had become master of the Yale of Wliite 
 Horse, and Lord Willoughby de Broke and the Hon. W. 
 H. J. Nortli were chosen as joint masters of the hounds, 
 their offer to hunt the country having been accepted with 
 acclamation, as it is always desirable that a master of 
 hounds should belong to the country. 
 
 The Eev. S. William Miller's diary {contiuiied) .■ 
 
 Friday, March 1st. — Very stormy. Went out hunting at Famborough. 
 Found a fox on the small island at the back of the house ; ran him by 
 Mollington and Clattercote Reservoir back to the house ; went away again 
 by Claydon, and lost him near Fenny Compton. Drew Warmingtou Hill, 
 Curtis Gorse, White's Bushes, Arlescote Hill, and Kineton Holt— all blank. 
 
 Friday, March bth. — Went out hunting at Traitor's Ford, on a fine day; 
 had a good day. Found in one of the spinneys ; ran through Greenliill to 
 
252 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [iSfii 
 
 Brailes, tlieuce by Coomb Farm, Riiiells. and J. Pfttifer's houses to the 
 Hook Noi-t(m Road, turned to Ascot, skirted Rolhvriglit Coondjs, leaving the 
 village to the right, and lost about some farm buildings just to the right of 
 Hook Norton. Found again in Whichford Wood, and after dodging about a 
 little while 1 left them. 
 
 Friday, March 8th. — Fine and mild. Went out hunting at Wroxton, 
 Had a capital run irom Wythycooml) Gorse, by Banbury Workliouse. 
 HauTvell, and Bourtoii, and killed in a grass field close to Molliugton. Found 
 again in Atkins' Bushes, and ran to ground by Swalcliffe. 
 
 Friday, March 15th. — Went out hunting at Suu Ri.siug. Found in Ui^ton 
 Gorse, ran to ground in Drywell Hollow. Found again in a stubble cock at 
 the far end of Arlescote Wood, ran by Ratley to Wroxton, and thence by 
 Sliennington and Epwell, to ground in a stone pit near Shutford. 
 
 From the Lrajj/u/r/fo/i Spa Courier, March 16th : 
 
 The Warwickshire liounds met on Tliursday at Harwood's House, and 
 trotted to Warwick Park, where a gallant fox was found, who broke at tlie 
 top end and pointed for Whitnash. through the spinney, crossed the road at 
 the top of the liill, leaving Whitnash Gorse to the right and Radford to the 
 left, straight up the valley to Ufton Wood. Pug here made for another point, 
 through Print Hill and on for Oft'church, through Himningham Copj)ice, 
 where he ran to ground. A short distance fui'ther and pug must have died, 
 for the hounds ran him iu Anew across the two la.st fields. This was a good 
 run across a stilf ploughed country. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {continued) : 
 
 Saturday, March 23>y?. — Fine and pleasant. Went out himting at Burton 
 Toll Gate, and had a vA-y good day. Found in Bawcutt's new covei't, ran 
 througli Itchiugton Holt, through Hit or Miss Coppice to Chesterton Wood, 
 thence nearly iip to Oakley Wood, where the fox was headed and ran j)arallel 
 with tlie wood some way ; back again to Chesterton Wood, througli the wood 
 to Itchiugton Holt, and sti'aight througli it to Knightcote, close to North 
 End, l)ack again by Gaydon Si)inney to Itchingtoii Holt, again straight 
 tlirough it nearly to Chesterton Wood, and round by Chesterton Yillage back 
 to th» Holt, where he Avent to ground after a run of three hours all but five 
 minutes, some ])arts of it being very good indeed. 
 
 Dinner to Mr. Henley Greaves, April Gth, 1861. 
 
 On Wednesday evening a dinner was given to Mr. 
 Henle}^ Grreaves at the Warwick Arms Hotel. Lord 
 Willoughhy de Broke occupied the chair. Amongst those 
 present were Mr. Greaves, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Hon. 
 W. H. North, Eevs. J. Lucy and H. C. Knightley, Captains 
 Palmer, Carden, Chambers, and E. King, Messrs. Bolton 
 King, Yatman, J. Mordaunt, Flow^er, Allfrey, &c. The 
 chairman, in proposing the health of Mr. Greaves, begged 
 to thank him for the very excellent manner in which he 
 
1861] TOM MATTHEWS. 25? 
 
 had hunted the country. He wished that an equal success 
 might attend him in the Vale of White Horse. Mr. 
 Greaves acknowledged the compliment, and urged the 
 young noblemen of the country to preserve foxes, and 
 thereby increase the sport which might be obtained from 
 the Hunt. The Eev. J. Lucy, as an old foxhunter, gave 
 the health of Lord Willoughby de Broke and Mr. North, 
 and he urged a better preservation of foxes. 
 
 The Eev. AMlliam Miller's black horse, The Squire, 
 was by Knight of Crwynne out of a mare by Sir Hercules. 
 
 During this season Tom Matthews came as huntsman. 
 He had been first emj^loyed by Sir E. Smythe, of Acton 
 Burnell, and was afterwards in the employment of Mr. 
 Sm}i;he Owen, Lord Hill, and Mr. Eyton ; he was next 
 with the Worcestershire and the Cottesmore, and he was 
 afterwards for tAvelve seasons in Heland. He was a very 
 good kennel huntsman, and he eventually greatly improved 
 the j)ack. He was not a quick huntsman in the field or a 
 bold rider, and he had in these respects seen his best 
 day before coming to Warwickshire. 
 
 About this time Mr. Spencer Lucy bought the Black- 
 more A^ale Harriers from Mr. Yeatman. They were dwarf 
 foxhounds, and were chiefly used for hare hunting, but 
 occasionally for staghunting ; their small size enabled 
 them to get through fences very quick when running at a 
 great pace. Mr. Lucy used to feed a haveer, that is, 
 a red deer stag, with his horns cut off, for six weeks 
 in a farmyard, until he got into good condition. During 
 several seasons he had some remarkable runs. The deer 
 on one occasion was enlarged on the borders of the North 
 Cotswold comitry, in the Yale of Evesham, and was taken 
 on Crimscote Down after a run of 50min. without a 
 check. 
 
 On another occasion the deer was enlarged at Ead- 
 bourne during the week after the Hunt ball, but was lost, 
 much to the disappointment of Mr. Henry Chaplin and 
 many others who were out. Next week the deer was 
 reported to be in Nunn's BusheS; and the harriers were 
 
254 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I86I 
 
 taken there, and ut once found liim. Tliey ran by Lad- 
 broke nearly to Napton and back ag-ain, thence nearly to 
 Watery-all, and from there to the canal at Marston Doles, 
 in which the deer was taken. Another fine run took place 
 in tlie Ladbroke country, when the deer at last jumped off 
 the Ct.W.E. near Fenny Compton Station, and killed 
 himself. They also had a very fast run from Idlicote 
 over the A'^ale to Epwell White House, and thence again 
 across the Yale to Oxhill, where the deer was taken in a 
 pond. During the greater part of this run Mr. J. 
 Mordaunt was alone with the hounds, and the distance was 
 traversed in an hour. He rode a famous bay mare, which 
 he had for several seasons, and rode in many fine runs. 
 
 SEASON 1861-62. 
 
 The sport in 1S01-G.2, under the joint mastership of 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke and the Hon. W. H. J. North, 
 was decidedly better than it had been, taking into con- 
 sideration that hunting was often stopped Ijy the severity 
 of the winter. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordannt's diary : 
 
 On Thursday. Novemher 1-ith, the meet was at Sliuckl)uro-b. aucl the 
 hounds had a slow hunting run across the Southam and Daventry high road, 
 towards Braunston, thence to the i-ight to Flecknoe, and again over the high 
 road to Stavei'ton and Catesby, where they kiUed tlieir fox, after hunting 
 well f(n- nearly two hours. They found again at Ladbruke Gorse, and ran 
 very fast in the direction of Nunn's Bushes, thence to the left to witliin a few 
 fields of Watergall, and over the Great Western Railway to ground at Lord 
 Willoughby's old covert at Burton Dassett,* after a cajjital fifty minutes. 
 Rode Norman. 
 
 On Tuesday, December 17 tli, the meet was at Weston House, and a fox 
 was found at Wluchford Wood, which the hounds at once got away with, 
 and ran without a check Ijy Rollwright Coombs and Wark Gorse, thence by 
 Over Norton Common to Heythrop Park, where the first check occurred ; but 
 a forward cast hit off the line, and they i-an at a slower pace by the Ovens 
 and Chaddington Down to Sarsgrove, and from there between Chaddiugton 
 Wood and Cliaddiugton, towards the Evenlode River, as if for Whichwood 
 Forest, but, being too hard pressed, the fox turned back, and was killed in the 
 open at Dean Cross Roads, after an hour and fifty minutes' nm over fourteen 
 miles of country, the distance from point to point being ten miles. He was 
 the finest fox I have ever seen, and had a collar of liair round his neck like a 
 wolf. Lord Coventry and Mr. Hickford Griffiths, of Campden, went very 
 
 * The uew covert was planted by Georgiana Lady Willoughby de Broke. — W. E. V. 
 
18G1] 
 
 A KILL IN THE HEYTHROP COUNTRY. 
 
 255 
 
 well in this nm. The liounds crossed tlie high I'oad from Banbury to 
 Chipping Norton at their best pace. Rode Antelope. 
 
 Lord North has an account of this run in his diary, 
 and the pad of this gaUant fox is still to be seen at 
 Wroxton Abbey. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1861. 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke and Hon. W. H. North. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Bashful 
 
 Challenger ") 
 
 Charlotte j 
 
 Cheerful ") 
 
 Curious 3 
 
 Dolphiu 
 
 Gamester ") 
 
 Graceful j 
 
 Harmless 
 
 Hymen 
 
 Ladybird 
 
 Lexicon | 
 
 Lofty j 
 
 Priam 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's C(mjur()r 
 
 Champion (57) 
 
 * 
 Belvoir Clinker .....' 
 
 Belvoir Druid 
 
 Brilliant (58) 
 Mindful (57) 
 
 Concord (57) 
 
 Pleasant (56) 
 
 Bonnylass (54) 
 
 Honesty (58) 
 His Fearless 
 
 Songstress (58) 
 
 Winifred (57) 
 
 Promise (56) 
 Purity (56) 
 
 Rakish (59) 
 
 Comfort (57; 
 Remedy (57) 
 Daintv (54) 
 Spinster (55) 
 
 Gadfly (58) 
 
 Hyacinth (54) 
 Siugwell (58) 
 
 Belvoir Gamester 
 
 Gimcrack (54) 
 
 Duke of Beaufort'.sHarlequin 
 Belvoir Limner 
 
 Beh'oir Lexicon 
 
 Belvoir Gamester .... 
 
 Playful 
 
 Render ■\ 
 Rallywood 1 
 
 Champion (57) 
 
 Stormer (58) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's Royal . . . 
 
 Gimcrack (51) 
 
 Belvoir Stormer 
 
 Racket C 
 
 Rosebud J 
 
 Remnant 
 
 Rosy 
 
 Solomon 
 
 Sailor 
 
 Tomboy ^ 
 Trimmer 1 
 
 Belvoir Singer 
 
 Belvoir Trusty 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Termagant f 
 Trinket J 
 Waterloo "] 
 
 Wrangler > 
 
 Whimsey ) 
 Watchman 
 
 
 Lord North's account : 
 
 Tuesday, December 11th, Wedon Souse. — Bitches out. Found a fox in 
 Weston Park, and lost him near Cherring-ton. Found a brace in Whichford 
 Wood, and got away fast liy Rollwright Combs and Wark Gorse, Heythrop 
 Park, through the Ovens on to Sarsgrove, turned short by the lodge towards 
 Dran, on towards the river, pointing for the forest, but turned back to 
 Chadlington, and killed him fairly in the open near the Cross Roads. Two 
 hours. 
 
256 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1862 
 
 I remember tliis day well, tlioiigli I was not out. The 
 present Lord Willoughby rode Eapid Rhone, and went to 
 the end. He got home very late. My father and Lord 
 Macclesfield, who was his guest, were most unfortunately 
 left in Whichford Wood, and never saw hounds again. — 
 W. E. V. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 Ou Friday. January \Otli, 1862, the meet was at Fariiborougli, and a fox 
 was found at Mollingtou Wood, and the honnds ran him without a check to 
 the left of Ang-el's Piece, over tlie Banbury Road to Hanwell in twenty-five 
 minutes. They found again at Angel's Piece, and ran liy Mollington Wood 
 and over the Banljury Road by Claydon to Cropredy, and back to Mollington 
 Yillag'e, where they ran to ground after twenty minutes hard ruimingf. A 
 third fox was found in the covert near the pool at Farnborough. and ran l)v 
 Clattercote, and over the Great Western Railway between Fenny Compton 
 Wharf and Claydon to Appletree, and over the brook as if for Aston-le-Walls; 
 but, bearing to the right, he passed by Byfield Reservoir and Lower Bod- 
 diugton. and thence through Upper Boddington to Boddington Hill. Here 
 he was very hard pressed, and, after running from one spinney to another, 
 was killed after a fine hunting run of an hour and a half. This was a hard 
 day for two horses, and not many out of a large field remained to see the very 
 satisfactory finish. Rode Sutton. 
 
 On Thursday, February IMh, the meet was at Harbury Station, and a 
 bad fox, which would not leave Ladbroke Gorse, was killed in the covert. 
 Watergall Covert, Itchington Holt, Harbury Heath, and Whitnash Gorse 
 were next all drawn blank. Chesterton Wood was next drawn, and the 
 hounds at once went away with a fox, and ran, lea^-ing Lighthorne Village to 
 the left, through Lighthorne Rough and to the right of Bishop's Gorse, through 
 Chadslmnt Spinney and nearly to Old Leys, where they turned to the right, 
 and ran through Kineton Holt to Edge Hill, and through the Sun Rising 
 Gorse, by Upton, nearly to Shenuington "Village, where they were whipped off 
 at dark, after running for two hours, and for the first three-quarters of an hour 
 up to the Holt at liest pace. Rode Norman. 
 
 Lord North records both these days, Jan. lOtli and 
 Feb. 14th, in his diary. He says the first one was one hoar 
 and twenty-live minutes, and the other two hours and 
 twenty minutes, but he thinks they changed at Kineton 
 Holt. 
 
 He also records a day on Friday, Feb, :2Sth, at Traitor's 
 Ford. Found a fox on a fallow near Sibford Heath, and 
 ran him hard towards Brailes. Here they divided, and 
 what happened exactly he does not know, but Matthews 
 and five couples of hounds were away, and he heard of 
 them running hard by Sittton. He went on with. his 
 
1862] WARWICKSHIEE AND HEYTHROP JOIN. 257 
 
 fox by Winderton, and lost him at Compton Wyniates, 
 and Matthews killed his fox close to Whichford Wood, 
 after fifty-live minutes without a cheek. 
 
 Hunt Ball, February 22nd, 1862. — Tlie Leamington Sjya Courier. 
 
 The Hunt ball, which was postponed owing- to the deatli of the Prince 
 Consort, was held on Wednesday at the Shire Hall, Warwick, and was one 
 of the most successful and generally attended ever given in this town, 458 
 guests availing themselves of the gentlemen of the Hunt's hospitality. In 
 old Warwick's hall on that night, four earls, four countesses, four lords, five 
 or six peeresses, joined in the festive throng, besides numerous other noble- 
 men and noble ladies. Eveiyi:hing was done on the most liberal and 
 bomiteous scale, and it must have been very gratifying to the Hunt Com- 
 mittee to meet with such a success. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's dtary : 
 
 On Tuesday, March 26th. from a meet at Weston House, a fox was found, 
 and went away quickly from Whichford Wood, and ran, leaving Long 
 Compton on the right, by Rollwriglit Coombs to Little Compton; and, leaving 
 Barton Grove on the right, nearly to Wolford Wood, but turned to the left, and 
 ran across the Vale and through Chastleton Grove to Adlestrop Hill. Here 
 the Heythrop hounds were running, and both packs joined together and 
 killed the fox. A curious scene naturally resulted, and it was of course said 
 that the Heythroj) hounds had a tired fox before them, but they had only come 
 a short distance from where they had found. This run was very fast and 
 lasted for an hour nearly without a check. A second fox was 
 found in Weston Heath, and ran through Whichford Wood, nearly to 
 Traitor's Ford, and thence to the hill by Hook Norton Gorse to Swalcliffe. 
 This run was also very fast, and the distance was traversed in fifty-five 
 minutes. The fox would no doubt have been killed in the open, but the pack 
 were thi'own off the scent, owing to his liavingbeen ran by a sheepdog, which 
 no doubt killod him, as he was found dead next day by Mr. Gulliver, and his 
 head was sent to the kennels. Rode Chivalry. 
 
 Lord North's diary gives an account of this day. He 
 says it was on Friday, March .28th, and that they met at 
 Whichford Wood. He says the run M^as one hour and 
 twenty-five minutes, the pace very good. The second run, 
 one hour and forty minutes, very fast. When Sir Charles 
 speaks of fifty-five minutes, he probably means up to the 
 first check, at Swalcliffe. 
 
 Mr. North has kindly furnished us with his diary of 
 the number of days hunting and the number of foxes killed 
 and run to ground during this and the following seasons 
 up to ISOC). The hounds went to Alcester on September 
 Ifith, ISOI, and hunted there until the 28th, and the last 
 
 Vol. I. S 
 
258 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1862 
 
 meet was at Alcester on April 4tli, 1862. They were out 
 ou 107 clays, and killed 40^ brace of foxes, and ran 25^ 
 brace to ground. 
 
 The following remarkable account of Lord Thanet's 
 fox appeared in the Chester Chronicle : 
 
 The late Earl of Thanet was in the Labit of reinoviug every year -with liis 
 hunters and hounds from Hothfield, near Ashford, in Kent, to another seat 
 he had in Westmoreland. A short time previous to one of these removals, a 
 fox had been i*nn to earth near Hothfield, and upon being dug out he proved 
 to be so extraordinary large and fine a one that Lord Thanet directed it to 
 be conveyed to Westmoreland. In the course of the next season a fox was 
 run to earth again at Hotlifield, and upon being dug out the huntsman, 
 whippers-in, and earth stoppers all declared that it was the same fox which 
 had been taken into Westmoreland, as it had an unusually large white blaze 
 on its forehead.* Lord Thanet was exceedingly energetic in his expressions 
 of disbelief of the statement of his people, but they persisted in their 
 assertions, and, having ear-marked the fox, he was again taken into West- 
 moreland, and turned loose in the neighbourhood of Appleby Castle. When 
 hunting the next season at Hotlifield, a fox was killed at that place which 
 proved to be the one in question, and which had thus twice found its way 
 from Westmoreland into Kent. By what instinct or exertions of its faculties 
 the animal was enabled to do this (the distance from the one part to the 
 other being above 320 miles) it is not easy to form an idea. Its well-known 
 cunning one might suppose would be of little aA'ail in sucli an emergency, 
 except in enabling it to procure food. 
 
 On June 5th, 1862, the very sad and sudden death of 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke took place. He was at a meet 
 of the Four-in-Hand Club on the last Saturday of May, 
 on which occasion I drove wdth him on his coach, and he 
 appeared to be in his usual health and spirits, but his death 
 occurred only four days afterwards. He had been the 
 mainstay of the Warwickshire Hunt for twenty-three years, 
 during nearly the whole of which time he had been Master 
 
 * A whole litter of foxes will often have the same peculiar mark. I remember 
 some white padded foxes at Ld. Heneage's place, Hainton, iu the Southwold country ; 
 and there were some piebald foxes in the V.W.H. A curious incident took place in 
 connection with this white-padded fox. My cousin, the Eev. A. T. Fortescue, showed 
 me the day before a place close to Ld. Heneage's house where this fox was always lost, 
 and sure enough we lost him there the next day. The Master was not out, so I sort of 
 helped boss the job, as I was very anxious to have the white pad for a paper cutter, and 
 I rode all among the cucumber frames and searched the outhouses looking for him. 
 Curiously enough, Mr. Eawnsley, the best gentleman huntsman in England, I have 
 heard him called, never killed him, but Mr. Wright, who now has the Fitzwilliam, came 
 down with his pack and got hold of him. Cecil (p. 90, 1851 ed.) says: "A fox from 
 Xewark Park, with the Duke of Beaufort's hounds, was seen to run the top of the 
 walls."— W. R. V. 
 
1862] DEATH OF LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE. 259 
 
 of tlie hounds. His succession to office, and his con- 
 tinuance in it, marked a period which will always be 
 remembered as perhaps the best for continuous good sport, 
 which had been seen in the country, more particularly the 
 nine seasons during which Stevens was huntsman. He 
 was widely known and greatly esteemed, and his loss was 
 felt alike by a large number of relations and friends, by his 
 tenants, to whom he had been a generous landlord, and by 
 the poor, to whom he had been a constant friend. — C. M. 
 
 He died on the night of the 4th- 5th of June. He 
 came down to Eton, and was with myself and my brother, 
 the present Lord Willoughl^y, on the river till quite late at 
 night. He never seemed happier and jollier, and was just 
 like a boy at Eton again. It is the hajDpiest memory for 
 myself and brother to think of him as he was that night, 
 and always, the kindest and best of fathers. — W. 11. V. 
 
 A CHANGE OF SPORT. 
 
 As Mr. Jorrocks's jaunts were considered to be not out 
 of place as an addition to his hunting, I have copied from 
 my journal a few incidents which took place during my 
 summer rambles in Norway and Scotland. In 1862, 
 during the summer, I had very good fishing in Norway. 
 On our best day's fishing, three rods caught forty-three 
 salmon iii the river Stordal. At that time we paid 5/. each 
 a rod for forty-five miles of water, which was in later years 
 let to seven rods for 500/. each season. — C. M. 
 
 My brother recalled to my memory lately a curious 
 incident which happened to him when out hunting at the 
 time we were at Oxford. He was riding a hireling belong- 
 ing to Charley Simmonds, and got his whip pulled out of 
 his hand by one of the growers in a fence, he did not stop to 
 pick it up, and was proceeding across the next field, when 
 he heard a friend roaring with laughter behind him. The 
 whip had been caught under the horse's tail, the immediate 
 effect being to cause him to close it tight down upon tlie 
 whip, and he was carrying it like a dog carrying a stick, 
 only the other end first. — 0. M. 
 
 s 2 
 
260 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1862 
 
 This reminds me that on a recent occasion I saw 
 a short-sighted man riding- in a crowded ride in covert, 
 when all in a moment he found his bridle, which was only 
 a single plain snaffle, snatched out of his hand. Someone 
 said, " You had better get off, sir," which he quickly did, to 
 find his rein quite tight underneath another horse's tail in 
 front of him, and after a good deal of amusement matters 
 were set to rights. — C. M. 
 
 Mr. Spencer Lucy was a member of Arthur's Club. 
 One day he said to Lord Willoughby : "When I walk 
 about London people look at me sometimes as if I wasn't 
 of much account. They don't know I'm the owner of 
 Charlecote Park." This reminds us of Mrs. Walter 
 Verney's sketch below, which represents Major R. 
 Wilberforce Bird, of Barton House, on King Koffee. 
 He is asking-, " Where are the hounds ? " The rustics 
 reply, " Over the hill, my Lord." " Confound it," says 
 the Major, " there are so many lords about, these fellows 
 don't know 
 
 A GENTLEMAN WHEN THEY SEE ONE. 
 
BURTON HILL AND WINDMILL, 
 
 Hark ! liavk again ! the horn so gay, 
 The " Tally-ho ! " and " Goue away ! 
 The honuds iu full, melodious cry, 
 And horsemen o'er the fences fly. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE HON. W. H. J. NORTH TOM MATTHEWS THE CONSTITUTION 
 
 OF THE PACK SOME GOOD SPORT MR. NORTH's DIARY. 
 
 SEASON 1862-63. 
 
 Mr. North, by the death of Lord Willoughby, was thus 
 left alone at the head of the Hunt, and he continued the 
 mastership. Mason was succeeded as first whipper-in by 
 Eobert Worrall, of whom we shall have a great deal to 
 say hereafter. Richard HaU was second whij^. The first 
 day of cubhunting was at Combroke new covert on 
 September 13th. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, November 8th, 1862 : 
 
 The first day of the season with these hounds was Monday last. A 
 passing thought in memory of one who always looked forward with unusual 
 pleasure to the "first day" would, we are sure, occupy many minds. We 
 allude to the late Lord Willoughliy de Broke, than whom no finer sportsman 
 ever entered the field. He had been connected with the pack for many 
 years, and when Mr. Lucy resigned he again took the reins of office. How- 
 ever, the opening day found another county name to do honour to the occasion. 
 It will he in the memory of many that the late Sir John Mordaunt strove 
 
262 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1862 
 
 most energ-etieally to encourage sports, aud especially those sports of the 
 field Avhich have made the English aristocracy the envy of the world for 
 endurance and manly vigour. The Warwickshire have found a A^ery worthy 
 scion in the present Sir Charles Mordaunt, who certainly, on Monday last, 
 almost outvied himself in striving to make everyone cheerful and happy. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On the afternoon of November Wth a very fast run of nearly an hour 
 from the spinney l)y the Lodge near Wolford Wood, leaving Duusden on 
 the right, to Aston Hales, and over the Great Western Raihvay nearly to 
 Batsford ; but, leaving it on the left, the hounds ran on without a check 
 tlu-ough Bourton Wood, aud thence to the left of Bloekley, nearly to North- 
 wick Park to ground in a drain. Rode Sutton. 
 
 Lord North records that the meet was changed from 
 Thursday to Saturday, November 15th, on account of the 
 frost. Found a lot of foxes in the hill, and killed a brace. 
 Got away sharp with a third, and ran twenty-five minutes 
 very hard to ground at Braunston Gorse. Found a brace 
 in Caldecote Spinney, and ran twenty-five minutes, a ring 
 to the hill and lost him. He also mentions a very good 
 day without blood from Shuckburgh on December 4th. 
 
 On December 9th the hounds found in the afternoon at Whicliford 
 Wood, and after running a ring by RoUwright, and through the pai-k at 
 Weston, got back to the wood, where I think they must have changed foxes, 
 as they went away at once close to one, and ran very fast by Great RoU- 
 wright and Hook Norton, and killed him well in the open just before he 
 could reach Nill Gorse. Rode Chivalry. 
 
 Lord North, in his diary, gives the time — forty-five 
 minutes. He says : " Killed him slap in the open." 
 
 On Saturday, December 16th, the Bicester hounds met at Cro^n-edy in 
 a large field through which ran the brook, the Appletree, which forms the 
 upper part of the river Cherwell, and a fox jumped out of a willow tree and 
 crossed to the opposite side. The hounds were at once laid on. The brook 
 was wide, and had, of course, to be jumped at once, the nearest bridge being 
 a mile distant. Out of a field of two hundred only Mr. J. Mordaunt and 
 Mr. Davenport aud myself got over, and we were told afterwards that our 
 horses had cleared eighteen feet of water. I also heard that so many got 
 in afterwards that the banks overflowed with water. * The pack ran without 
 a check between Wardington and Edgcote, to the left of Eydon, and between 
 there and Warden Mill up to Hinton Gorse. The distance of six and a half 
 miles straight and light as hounds ran was done in forty minutes. 
 
 * The brook was full of sportsmen, and Squire Drake stood on the bank to see the 
 fun. He said afterwards ia his quaint way : " The first to come up was Sensan." 
 Whom do you think he meant ? Why, Billy North (Hon. W. H. J., now Lord N.) !— 
 W. E. V. 
 
1862] 
 
 EUN FROM LIGHTHOENE EOUGH. 
 
 263 
 
 Mr. Mordaimt rode a cliesuut horse, which he afterwards sokl to Lord Hr nrj- 
 Bentiuck. I rode Diadem, a five-year-old horse, which I had bouglit from 
 Mr. Elliott, of Althorp. 
 
 December 29th. — The meet was at Goldicote, and after drawing- blank for 
 .some time a fox wRs found at Lighthorne Rough, which ran, leaving the 
 village on the right, through Chesterton "Wood, and over the hill by the 
 windmill, nearly to Whitnash Gorse, thence to the right over Har])ury Heath, 
 and through Itchington Holt in the direction of Gaydon ; hut, turning to the 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1862, 
 Hon. W. H. J. North. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Archer 
 
 AKred 1 
 Amazon ) " 
 Ajax ") 
 Active 3 
 Bedford ") 
 Benedict j 
 
 BounybeU . . . 
 
 Brusher ") 
 Buxom 5 
 Crazy "^ 
 
 Comely f 
 Countess T 
 Cautious J 
 Destitute .., 
 Lavender 7 
 Lapwing j 
 Mameluke 7 
 Mayfly j 
 Merrylass . . 
 
 Magnet 
 
 Playmate ") 
 Petticoat j 
 Rocket ^ 
 Roman I 
 Rosemary f 
 Rachel ) 
 Sorcerer "\ 
 Sanguine ( 
 Stately f 
 Scandal J 
 Talisman ... 
 
 Forester (59) 
 
 Forester (59) 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Foiler... 
 
 Lord Southampton's Comus. 
 
 C Lord Southampton's Dori- ") 
 I mont 3 
 
 Saffron (59) 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Contest. 
 
 Stormer (58) 
 
 ("Lord Southampton's") 
 
 \ Sportsman ) 
 
 Lord Southampton's Seaman 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Champion (57) 
 
 Champion (57) 
 
 Cheshire Rockwood 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Archer.. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Amulet (58) 
 Affable (58) 
 
 ArtfiU (56) 
 
 Beatrice (55) 
 
 Bluebell (59) 
 
 Brilliant (58) 
 
 Comfort (57) 
 
 Daphne (58) 
 Lapwing (60) 
 
 Melody (57) 
 
 Majesty (55) 
 Mindful (57) 
 
 Purity (56) 
 Rapid (59) 
 
 Sportly (59) 
 Tempest (57) 
 
 left again, he went over a fine line to the left of the Burton Hills, and, 
 passing Fenny Compton on the right, went to ground in a drain at Farn- 
 borough, close to the small fishponds. The hounds had been running for 
 two hours, some part of the time very fast, over twelve miles of grass country, 
 and this must be considered the run of the season. Rode Johnny Gilpin.* 
 
 Johnny Gilpin was a thoroughbred black hors3 by Orlando. 
 
264 . THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1863 
 
 Lord North gives the time as two hours and twenty 
 minutes. He says they undoubtedly changed foxes at 
 Chesterton Wood. 
 
 Lord North has down two good days which Sir 
 Charles' diary does not record. 
 
 Thursday, February 1.2th, Goldicote. — Found an out- 
 lying fox in a stubble field near Hounds Hill ; ran very fast 
 to Walton, where other foxes were soon on foot, but we 
 stuck to our hunted fox, and got up to him in Bowshot, 
 raced him through Lighthorne Eough, and, passing 
 Bishop's and Yerney's Gorse, ran into him at Itchington 
 Holt. 
 
 Monday, February :23rd, Charlecote Park. — Found in 
 Oakley Wood, and ran to Chestei-ton Wood, through it, and 
 on to Itchington Holt ; back to Chesterton, and out by 
 Lighthorne and Verney's Gorse, by Itchington Holt and 
 Bawcutt's new covert, and killed bini in the open close to 
 Fenny Compton. The first and last parts of the run 
 very fast. 
 
 Lord North also records what Sir Charles omits, that 
 Friday, March 6th, they ran their fox through Ufton 
 Wood, and killed him just outside it. 
 
 These three days must have been very satisfactory both 
 to master and huntsman, whatever they were in a riding 
 point of view. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 Ou March 6th, from a meet at AvoiiDassett, a very slow liiiutiug run witli 
 a capital fox from the Burton Hills, by Gayclon Spinney, and right-handed 
 by Kniglitcote ; and thence, leaving Itchington Holt to the left, across 
 Harbury Heath, and to the right over the Great Western Railway into Ufton 
 Wood, wliere several fresh foxes were soon ou foot. Tlie hounds had stuck 
 to tlie line OA'er a good deal of the distance, but had to be lifted several times 
 to holloas. They ran nearly nine miles, not much out of the sti'aight line, in 
 an hour and tliree-quarters. I saw the fox go away, and he was a very fine 
 one, and Avill no doid)t show a better run on some other day with a better 
 scent. Rode Chivalry. 
 
 The last meet of the season was on April 10th at Shottery, and it is very 
 remarkaljle that the number of days himting, and foxes killed and run to 
 ground is as nearly as can be the same as during the pi-evious season. 
 Foxes killed, 40^ l)race ; run to ground, 31 brace ; days out, 110. 
 
 On February 2Lst, L863, the Pytchley hounds met at 
 
1863] THE PEINCE OF WALES AT WELTON. 265 
 
 Welton Place. The Prince of Wales was staying with 
 Lord Spencer, and the field consisted of 1000 horsemen. 
 Mr. William Chamberlayne was out, and told me that 
 Braunston Grorse and the Cleves were first drawn blank. 
 If a fox had been found, he could not have seen the run, as 
 he did not leave the meet in time, and it was impossible to 
 get near the covert on account of the field. After that he 
 managed to get close behind Lord Spencer's horse, and 
 remain there until they found a fox at Crick Gorse, and 
 had a very fast run of half an hour by Winwick Tillage to 
 the Hemplow Hills. Mr. Chamberlayne rode a black 
 horse, which he had bought for 100/. (the highest price he 
 had ever sfiven for a horse) from Mr. Wadv, of Wark- 
 worth, and he afterwards sold him to Mr. Woodmass for 
 250/.— C. M. 
 
 In June and July I caught lOOOlb. weight of salmon 
 in the river Stordal, in Norway, and C. Wingfield caught 
 a salmon weighing 461b. I remember at another river, up 
 which the salmon ran into a lake, a Norwegian was seen 
 by an Englishman in a boat in which he was being 
 dragged about the lake by a fish which he had got on to a 
 fir pole with a piece of rope tied to it, and his large hook 
 had been baited with a bunch of worms. The Englishman 
 row^d out, and offered to give the Norwegian two dollars 
 to let him play the fish and land him. This was agreed to, 
 and when landed it turned out to be a salmon w^eighing 
 521b.— C. M. 
 
 SEASON 1863-64. 
 
 The season 1863-64 began with cubhuntingat Compton 
 Verney on September 2nd, and with regular hunting at 
 Walton, Monday, November 2nd. The Hon. AV. H. J. 
 North was again master, Thos. Matthews huntsman, Fred 
 Smith first whip, Cleorge Hagger second whip. 
 
 During the season of 1864-05 Mr. North had a private 
 pack of hounds of his own, with which he hunted the 
 Alcester woodlands himself until the end of the following 
 season. The entire country, therefore, up to that time 
 was hunted six davs a week. 
 
266 . THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [I86:i 
 
 Lord North's diary records a capital day in the Alcester 
 country on Saturday, November 21st, when they found at 
 Rough Hill, and after running in covert for about twenty 
 minutes, got away with a capital scent, pointing for Ipsley 
 Park close by Eedditch, on by Skilts, then turned towards 
 Beoley and near Portway, and killed him in the open on 
 Hobb's Hill. An excellent fifty-five minutes. He also 
 gives an account of a good afternoon run from Crimscote 
 Downs to Mickleton Wood on Monday, February 1st. A 
 capital forty-five minutes. 
 
 On Tliursday, February 18th, they had two fast runs 
 from Caldecote* and Shuckburgh. In the first they ran as 
 if for Bunker's Hill, but lost at Braunston. In the second 
 they ran to ground at Priors Marston. We wonder if it was 
 the old drain. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On December 10th tlie lioimds lau Tevj fast from Kinetou Holt to Knoll 
 End, and thence over the hill down into the nari-ow valley, and by Horntou 
 to White's Bushes. From there they ran at a slower pace, leaving Hanwell 
 on the left, and to g-roimd in a drain just before reaching Hanwell Village. 
 The first part of tlie run to Wliite's Bushes Avas done in thirty-five minutes. 
 Rode Sinfi. 
 
 Lord North gives fifty minutes ; thirty-five is much 
 more likely. — W. R. V. 
 
 December 2'2)ul. — A very fine day's sport from a meet at "Weston -House. 
 The hounds ran from Whichford Wood at best pace by RoUwright Coombs, 
 and over the hill through Barton Grove, pointing to Wolford Wood, but 
 turned to the left and ran over the Vale by Chastleton Grove and Broadwell 
 and by Crawthorns, over tlie Evenlode, and througli the covert of Oddiugton 
 Ashes ; they then turned back over tlie Evenlode, and ran over Adlestrop Hill 
 and again by Chastleton ; back across the valley to Wolford Wood where 
 they killed the fox. Exce]jt during the early part of the runiip to Chastleton 
 the remainder was at hunting pace and lasted two hours and a quarter. 
 Rode Chivalry. 
 
 Lord North's diary says lost him. The M.F.H. would 
 record a kill if possible, we fancy. 
 
 On December 26th the meet was at Wroxton, but we did not find a fox 
 before reaching Garrett's Bushes ; the hounds went away very fast with one 
 from there, and ran by Balscot and Sliutf ord to Wiggington Heath, and through 
 
 * Caldecote lias also been spelt Caleote, Calcott, Calcutt, Calcut, and Caldicott. 
 
1864] THE WATERLOO RUN. 267 
 
 it pointing to Swalcliife ; Ijut, turuiug to the left, tliey ran ou to Hook Norton, 
 and from there l)y Rollwright nearly to Whichford Wood. Time an hour, 
 nearly without a check. Rode Sutton. 
 
 Lord North says fifty-five minutes, fast. 
 
 The run on December .26th is tlie hist during that season 
 recorded in my diary, as during the remainder of the season 
 and after Christmas during the next five seasons, I hunted 
 with Mr. Tailby's hounds in Leicestershire, and saw a great 
 deal of very fine sport with them. At that time there was 
 only one railway through the country, whereas there are 
 now three, one of which goes through the Twyford Yale, 
 which is the finest part of Leicestershu'e. Mr. Tailby 
 hunted the entire country which is now hunted by the 
 Cottesmore and Mr. Fernie's hounds, and there were often 
 only a hundred people came out, and sometimes as few as 
 sixty. I hunted on Wednesdays with the P;)i]chley Hounds,, 
 and was out when the celebrated run from Waterloo Gorse 
 took place. Although a fine run, I think it has been over- 
 rated. Only the first forty minutes was fast ; the remainder 
 of the run was very slow, but in such a country it was not 
 possible to go on beyond a certain point without a second 
 horse. Only Captain ^Vliite and Captain Pemberton got 
 second horses out of their own stable, and had time to 
 mount, and they alone saw the end of the run at Griooston 
 Wood. I went as far as East Langton, and left my horse 
 for the night in Mr. Cochrane's stables. We shall relate 
 at least two runs even better than this one wdiich took 
 place with the Warwickshire hounds. I remember that 
 when crossing the Welland river in the Waterloo run by a 
 ford, one of the Messrs. Murrietta, who had then only just 
 commenced hunting at Harborough, rode his horse at it so 
 near the ford that when, after having jumped as far as he 
 could, he landed in the middle of it, I was splashed all 
 over by the water. — C. M. 
 
 In December, 1894, there appeared an account of a run 
 with the Bath and County Harriers, or some such pack,, 
 when they had a bad day's sport. Someone wrote in the 
 Field that the reporter or contributor to the local j^aper, in 
 
268 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 "1864 
 
 trying to do a little smart writing, somewhat overreached 
 himself. " The P}i;chley," he said, " are not always 
 running over the Twyford Vale." But the critic forgot 
 that in the great Waterloo run the Pytchley did traverse a 
 portion at least of this celebrated Vale. 
 
 I on several occasions rode home after hunting- with 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1863. 
 Hon. W. H. J. North. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Abelarcl "^ 
 Avcliil)ald > 
 
 Absolute 
 
 Bohadil . 
 
 Despot ... 
 
 Damsel ") 
 
 Dahlia j 
 
 Ferryman 
 
 Frantic 
 
 Flouri.sli 
 
 Gwymau 
 
 Guardian 
 
 Gimcrack 
 
 Gossamer 
 
 Gadfly 
 
 Garnish 
 
 Harleqiiin 
 
 Hesperus 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Nelson \ 
 
 N ormau ) 
 
 Orator . . , 
 
 Solon 
 
 Sprightly 
 
 Symmetry 
 
 Trumpeter 
 
 Tamerlane 
 
 TuneM 
 
 Tnielass 
 
 Tidings 
 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Lord H. Bentinck's Stormer 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Mr. J. Baker's Chieftain . . . 
 
 Saffron (59) 
 
 Forester (59) 
 
 Forester (59) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's Nelson 
 
 ( Duke of Beaufort's Harle- \ 
 
 X quin 3 
 
 Lord Portsmouth's Lancaster 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynu's Nelson 
 
 Lord Fitzliardiug's Ottoman 
 
 Bouncer (60) 
 
 Champion (57) 
 
 Amulet (58) 
 
 Brilliant (58) 
 His Dewdrop 
 
 Daphne (58) 
 
 Tempest (57) 
 Affable (58) 
 
 Gadfly (58) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wyun's 
 
 Mistletoe 
 Songstress (58) 
 
 Careless (,57) 
 
 Rakish (59) 
 
 Singwell (58; 
 
 Termagant (61) 
 
 the late Major Whyte Melville, and on one occasion we 
 were joined by a young guardsman, who, amongst other 
 questions, asked him how many hunters he had ? The 
 Major replied : "I am the happy possessor of four horses; 
 I wish I could say that I was their master." — C. M. 
 
 On February 17th, 1864 the meet was at WeUesbourne, 
 
1864J EUN FROM LORDS SPINNEY. 269 
 
 and we had no sport in the early part of the day. A fox 
 was afterwards found at Fletcher's Coppice, and ran by 
 Pool Fields and through Chadshunt Spinney, over the 
 road nearly to the osier bed, then turned to the right, and 
 ran by Old Leys, over the Banbury Koad to Kineton Holt, 
 and up Edge Hill and along the top of it, through 
 Arlescote Wood, and over the Vale to ground on the Burton 
 Hills. The hounds were running for an hour, the last 
 half of which was at a good pace.* 
 
 On March 31st the meet was at Shuckburgh, and as 
 Matthews was ill, Mr. North hunted the hounds himself. 
 They found in the gorse below the hill and ran through 
 the Laurels, and across the Daveiitry Road by Grrand- 
 borough and WoLscot to Willoughby Osiers and the old 
 gorse, then over the brook; and, leaving Wolverhampcote 
 and Braunston to the right, checked near the Leani, but 
 the master hit off the line, and they ran on, pointing to 
 Asliby St. Legers, but turned to the right, and killed the 
 fox at Bragborough.f 
 
 The last meet of the season was at Eagley Park on 
 April 29. The hounds had been out on 123 days, and had 
 killed 35 brace of foxes, and had run 41^ brace to ground. 
 
 SEASON 1864-65. 
 
 Mr. North was still in possession of the reins of office 
 at the commencement of the season 1864-65. Thos. 
 Matthews was still huntsman, Fred Smith first whip, J. 
 Sullivan second whip. Cubhunting began on Saturday, 
 September 3rd, at Kineton, and regular hunting on 
 Monday, November 7th, at Walton. Lord North records 
 that scent was ver}" bad this season, except from the 
 5th to 2()th of December, and on some rare occasions 
 afterwards. 
 
 On Friday, November 4th, 1864, the meet was at 
 Wroxton, and ISIr. North hunted the hounds. They found 
 in Lord's Spinney, and ran at their best pace to Cropredy, 
 
 * Lord North says, " A capital hunting run." 
 
 t Lord North naturally records this excellent day's sport. — W. E, V. 
 
■270 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [18C4 
 
 where the fox was lost, but they had a still better run with 
 another, which they found at Withycombe, and ran 
 through the Park, past Drayton, leaving the Barleymow on 
 the right, and on to Hanw^U, thence over the brook, and 
 across the high road by Hardwick, and over both the 
 railway and the canal into the Bicester country. They next 
 passed Williamscote, and then had a long check, but the 
 line was again hit off, and they ran by Chipping Warden 
 into Edgcote Park, and to ground in the main earths there 
 after a good fox chase of an hour and forty-five minutes. 
 
 On December 15th they had a very fast run of forty- 
 five minutes from Chesterton Wood, through Itchington, 
 to Burton Dassett, and to ground at Knott's Spinney. 
 
 I remember that at this time a curly headed lady used 
 to hunt with the Bicester hounds, and she often rode over 
 them because her father, or whoever it was who accompanied 
 her, was soon left behind. At last, on one occasion, Squire 
 Drake said to the Rev. Valentine Ivnightley: " Val, there 
 is only one thing to be done. If your reverence will marry 
 that woman, and not bring her out hunting, I will settle 
 100/. a year on you." — C. M. 
 
 Monday, December 5th. — Lord North's diary records a 
 very fast run from Blackwell Bushes, by Armscote, over 
 Crimscote Downs, and up to Knighton Hill, and killed at 
 Foxcote. 
 
 Also Thursday, December 8th, Lower Shuckburgh.-— 
 Found several in Caldecote Spinneys. Got away with one 
 up to the hill, turned short back and away for Flecknoe, 
 over the brook, leaving Braunston to the left, by Staverton 
 Wood, and on by Badby Village. Here was a longish 
 •check, then on through Badby Wood and Fawsley Park, 
 and eventually marked him to ground between Fawsley 
 and Badby Wood. 
 
 Also Saturday, December 10th, Coughton Court. — A 
 most excellent woodland run from Coughton Park. Ran 
 an hour in covert, then over Dane Bank, and pointed for 
 Ooughton Court, but turned for Studle}', and on to Rough 
 Hill, where possibly changed. Worked him through New 
 
1864] 
 
 A FIELD OF ONLY TWO. 
 
 271 
 
 Coppice, and ran through Astwood Bank, and turned back 
 into New Coppice, but did not dwell a moment; crossed 
 the Eedditch Eoad to Hunt End, and on to Old Hare Mill 
 and Callow Hill, Sillins, and Norgrave House to Webb 
 Heath, leaving Foxlydiate House to the left ; crossed 
 Holjoaks Farm on to Hewell Park, over the river, and out of 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1864. 
 Hon. W. H. J. North. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams, 
 
 Bauble ") 
 
 Beatrice) 
 
 Bonder ") 
 
 Bounty j 
 
 Harper 
 
 Helen 
 
 Lifter ^ 
 Lightsome 1 
 
 Lexicon (61) .^ 
 
 Brocklesby Blncher 
 
 Beatrice (55) 
 
 Songstress (58) 
 Harriet (60) 
 
 Rallywood (61) 
 
 Brocklesby Blncher 
 
 LordPortsmouth's Lancaster 
 
 Lexicon (61) 
 
 Lexicon (61) 
 
 Lexicon (61) 
 
 Holderness Napier 
 
 Hasty (60) 
 
 Lapwing (62) 
 
 Remedy (57) 
 
 Promise (56) 
 
 Rachel (62) 
 Their Rosy 
 
 Racket (61) 
 
 Lapwing T 
 Laudable ) 
 
 Lnbin 
 
 Proctor ") 
 Promise) 
 
 Random 
 
 Rapid 
 
 Romeo 1 
 
 Lord Portsmonth's Lancaster 
 Saffron (.59) 
 
 Rantipole ) 
 Statesman "^ 
 Spai'tan > 
 
 Gertrude (57) 
 
 Safety j 
 Tronncer 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Trinket (61) 
 
 Wonder ") 
 
 Whynot y 
 
 Woldsman j 
 Warrior S 
 Wildboy 1 
 
 Windsor C 
 
 Woodbine ) 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Wellington (58) 
 
 Remnant (61) 
 Lofty (61) 
 
 the park for a field or two, when he doubled back, and we 
 ran him in view for a field, and killed him in the open at 
 the corner of the park. Only one check, and the hounds 
 were never cast. One hour and twenty minutes from New 
 Coppice. 
 
 Also Tuesday, December .20th, Wolford Wood. — Snow 
 on the ground, and only Sir C. Mordaunt and Mr. Miller 
 
272 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [i860 
 
 (Eev. Wm.) out. Found in Wolford Wood, and got away 
 towards Adlestrop, but turned back into the wood. 
 Out again, tbrougli Aston Hales, passing Ditchford, to 
 ground at Paxford Blakemore. A good hunting run. One 
 hour and twenty minutes. 
 
 Also Monday, January 9th, there was a good run from 
 Walton Wood, through Chesterton Wood into Oakley. 
 Fifty minutes, but did not kill. 
 
 Also Tuesday, February 7th, Weston House. — Found in 
 Whichford Wood, and ran back through Weston Park, 
 over the road, then to the right along the brook to Which- 
 ford Village, through the wood to Barton Grove, and on to 
 Adlestrop to ground. 
 
 Also Tuesday, February .28th, Idlicote. — Found in 
 Pillerton (iorse, and ran very fast by Oxhill, and turned 
 sharp back by Kineton Holt, and on to Edge Hill to 
 ground. A capital forty minutes. 
 
 Also Tuesday, March 7th, Wolford Wood.— Got away 
 at once, and ran fast, leaving Moreton on the left, to the 
 railway, and killed him in the open close to Dorn; twenty- 
 five minutes. Found in Aston Hales, and ran very fast 
 over the railway to Hook's Coppice, across Batsford Park, 
 and into Bourton Wood, and stopped them. [This must 
 have been a good day's sport. As so often happens, the 
 Tuesdays seem to have been the best days this season. — 
 W. E. v.] 
 
 On January 16tli, 1865, a very long run was obtained 
 from the gorse at Hampton Lucy. The hounds ran by 
 Sherbourne and Gfove Park, over the Canal, up to whicli 
 point the time was thirty"-five minutes ; they then hunted 
 slowly nearly to Kenilworth, and back to Woodcote, where 
 they lost the fox. 
 
 On Tuesday, January 17th, they found in Weston Park, 
 and ran by Barton, and through Wolford Wood ; thence 
 over the Vale to Adlestrop, and on through Chastleton 
 Grove, and back to ground near Long Compton. 
 
 The last day of the season was at Wolford Wood on 
 April 7tli,but Mr. North's private pack, which moved into 
 
1865: SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. 273 
 
 the kennels at Alcester on April 21st, had their last day 
 on Satnrday, April :2:2nd, at Bevington Waste. This pack 
 had hnnted the Alcester country on the Wednesdays and 
 Saturdays during the season. The number of days hunting 
 was 121 ; the hounds killed 81 brace of foxes, and ran 38^ 
 brace to ground. 
 
 SEASON 1865-66. 
 
 In 1SG5 Matthews ceased to be huntsman, and was 
 succeeded first by Zac Boxall, and afterwards by James 
 Wilson ; Jack Woodley and Joe Morgan were the whips. 
 On January .28th Wilson* had so bad a fall that he could 
 not ride again, and Jack Woodley hunted the hounds for 
 the rest of the season. 
 
 Zac Boxall never was able to take the field at all, on 
 account of an accident, and with Jas. Wilson /tors de 
 combat, as mentioned above, from a fall in January, it was 
 an unlucky time for Mr. North ; but he hunted the country 
 seven days a week. Tom Matthews going as kennel 
 huntsman to his private pack at Alcester, with Fred Smith 
 as first, and Bill Hemmingf as second whip. They must 
 have hunted three days a week.j We are able to give 
 extracts from Lord North's diary of this his last season 
 as master of the Warwickshire. 
 
 By arraugemeut with tlie master of the North Warwickshire, I gave up 
 my riglit to Aiisty Wood in September, in exchange for Spernal Park, at first 
 only during cubhuuting, but afterwards for the whole season ; I retaining 
 my right to Austy Wood in November, Janiiary, and March. By 
 arrangement with the master of the Worcestershire, the Lench Woods were 
 made neutral. These consisted of Rough Hill, Old Gervel, The Beeches, 
 and Sladd Wood. Both the above arrangements were only in force during 
 our mastership, and by yearly letters. 
 
 Began cubhuuting at Kineton Holt, Saturday, Aiigust 26th. First meet, 
 Monday, Oct. 30th, at Chadshunt. 
 
 Tuesday, November ~th, Tidmington. — Found in Burmington Spinneys, 
 and ran a sharp fourteen minutes to ground. Found in Dunsden, and ran to 
 
 * It was a pity that Wilson left, as he was a promising huntsman. 
 
 t Fred Smith was a gentleman's servant, but Bill Hemming was a regular old 
 character. I almost believe, like one of Surtees' characters, he enjoyed getting into a 
 brook, or having a fall, because the gentlemen gave him brandy. 
 
 t This private pack was formed in 1862, and hunted the country north of the Avon 
 three days a week. 
 
 Vol. I. T 
 
274 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1865 
 
 Wolford Wood and killed liim. Found in Barton Grove, and ran back as if 
 for Wolford, then for Little Compton, and, ou leaving Salford to the riglit, 
 up the bottom, and turned to the right through Over Norton Park; then for 
 Wark Gorse, vrliieh wo left on the left, and, leaving the Ovens to the right, 
 crossed Heythrop Park, and passing Chalford, stopped them in tlie dark at 
 Dean Cross Roads. 
 
 Saturday , Novemherllth, Goomb' s Hill. — Found in Sladd Wood, and ran up 
 to Rous Lench, back through the wood, and on to Rough Hill, skirting the 
 Waste, to Cochman's Wood, by the side of Weethley Wood, by Pearson's 
 Wood, through Thornhill to Cook Hill, down to the corner of Cold Comfort 
 to Squar Copx^ice, over the flat to Coughtou Park,* and then checked for the 
 first time. Out of the park by the Spinneys, nearly to Coughtou Court, and 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1865. 
 Hon. W. H. J. North. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Bowman 
 Butterfly 
 Blossom 
 
 Banqiiet - j Banker (60) 
 
 Bravery 
 
 Beaufoi't 
 
 Badminton - \ 
 
 Furrier j Mr. Drake's Furrier 
 
 Lucifer | Lord Middleton's Orpheus 
 
 Marplot ■) 
 
 Mercury ) 
 Rider ^ 
 Ranter / 
 Ringwood C 
 Riot ) 
 
 Susan 
 
 Tomboy *) 
 Tuner > 
 Tragedy) 
 
 Mr. North's Magnet (62) . . . 
 
 Lord Middleton's Orpheus 
 
 Mr. North's Singer (60) 
 
 Mr. Meynelllngram's Trojan 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Singwell (58) 
 
 His Norah 
 
 Lapwing (62) 
 
 Playful (61) 
 
 Remnant (61) 
 
 Bonnybell (62) 
 Trinket (61) 
 
 turned for Sambounie, back through Coughton Park, where I think we 
 changed foxes, most likely for the second or third time. Got out through 
 Billiugboro' down to the Court; back by the sj)inneys into the park to 
 Hanging Well, up Astwood Bank to Sambourne, and stopped them. Four 
 hours. 
 
 N.B. — This is given as a sample of the good woodland 
 days. 
 
 Saturday, December 9th, The Kennels, Alcester. — A very similar day to 
 the one recorded above. The beaten fox was heard of next morning, when 
 he nearly frightened an old woman to death. 
 
 Wednesday , December loth. — A very long and severe day from Spemal 
 Park but did not kill. 
 
 * Coughton Park is a large square woodland, not a park. — ;W. E. V. 
 
1865] FAST EUN WITH THE BICESTEE. 275 
 
 On December .27tli, 1S05, the Bicester hounds had a 
 run without a check for twenty-five minutes from Bod- 
 dington Gorse, during which time they ran five miles as the 
 crow flies, nearly to Chipping Warden to ground. Squire 
 Drake, Mr. Dewar, Mr. J. Mordaunt, and ]\Ir. Edward 
 Harrison were nearest the hounds. 
 
 Saturday, December 30th, The MarlborongJi, Dudley. — Found at once in 
 Studley Osier.s, aud ran like luad past Spernal Park aud Alue Wood for 
 Wootou. tlieu tm-nod for Great Ahie. and killed liini in the mill-dam at 
 Grey's Mill. Forty -five min\ites with a check ; about the fastest I ever saw. 
 
 Saturday, January 27th, The Sun Bising, Aston Cantlows. — Found an 
 afternoon fox in Alne Wood, and ran faster than I ever remember seeing 
 hounds run, through Spernal Park and Studley Osiers, over the road, right 
 do\vn the centre ride of Coughton Pai-k io Sambourne. Here was a 
 momentary check. l)ut they went on again at a fearful pace, and killed him in 
 tlie road at the bottom of Rougli Hill. From Sambourne to Rough Hill they 
 ran clean away from us, and we Avere only up in time to save his head. The 
 best forty-five minutes I ever saw, and l^eats the run from Studley to Grey's 
 MiU.* 
 
 Monday, February bth, Irons Cross. — Found in Bevington Waste, and ran 
 like mad to the Leuclies, back over the flat to Goomb's Hill, through tlie Sladd 
 Woods, over the flat, througli Weethley Wood, under Thorn Hill, into 
 Pearson's Wood, over Ragley Park, and killed him as he got into Lady 
 Wood. Two hours aud forty minutes. 
 
 Tuesday, February 6th, Ebrington. — Foimd in a stubble field close to 
 Blakemore, and ran a capital fifty minutes, aud killed him. 
 
 Monday, February 12th, Liyhthoriie. — Found a In-ace in Chestei'ton Wood ; 
 got away for Oakley, but turned for Liglithorne Rough, through it, and on 
 through Hell Hole, and round Moreton Wood, througli Friz Hill and 
 Combroke, over Pillerton Hill, then turned back for Chadshunt, and on to 
 Itchiugton Holt, through it, and back by Ycrney's Gorse into Chadshunt, 
 and stopped them, tlie horses being beat.f 
 
 Thursday, April 5th, Couyhton Court. — The last day of the season. Had 
 two long runs, but did not get lilood to finish up with. 
 
 During the season of 1865-18G0 the Warwickshire 
 Avere out on one hundred days, and killed .28^ brace of 
 foxes and ran 14^ brace to ground. Mr. North's j)rivate 
 pack were out on eighty-nine days, and killed 19|^ brace of 
 foxes and ran 14 brace to ground. 
 
 In January, 1866, Mr. North agreed to take the Bicester 
 country in succession to Mr. Drake, and as soon as lie had 
 
 * With the exception of a few which stand out in memory above the others, one 
 sjreat run is always the best you ever saw till the next one comes. — W. R. V. 
 t This reminds one of the great Ufton Wood run in 1837. — W. R. Y. 
 
 T 2 
 
276 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1866 
 
 given notice of liis intention to give up the hounds a 
 meeting was held at AVellesbourne, there being present Sir 
 Charles Mordaunt, Colonel Campbell, Captain Lomax, 
 Captain Peach, Messrs. E. Bolton King, Gusta\ais Smith, 
 H. Spencer Lucv, F. Perry, J. Starkey, R. Allenby, Gr. 
 Hawkes, H. J. Sheldon, W. H. Allfrey, J. Holford, and E. C. 
 Pobertson. The following resolution was passed unani- 
 mously : — " That this meeting has heard with great regret 
 Mr. North's intention of resigning the mastership of the 
 Warwickshire Hounds, and they consider the best thanks 
 of the country are due to him for the very liberal and 
 popular way in which the country has been hunted during 
 his management." This, in a few words, thoroughly repre- 
 sented the feelings of everyone throughout the country 
 who were in any way connected with it during Mr. North's 
 mastership. His invariable good temper and geniality had 
 made him very popular with all classes. Indeed, it was 
 quite proverbial both at that time and always afterwards. 
 He had spent his money most liberally on the hunting of 
 the country, and he had greatly improved the pack of 
 hounds ; and we have already borne testimony to the 
 advantage reaped hereafter by the good blood which he, 
 with the able assistance of Matthews, introduced into it. 
 When Mr. Noi-th gave up the Bicester hounds and again 
 hunted with the Warwickshire, he was as fond of the sport 
 as he had ever been, and probably no one else in the 
 country rode such distances to covert, and returned home 
 from so far as he did to Wroxton Abbey, nearly every day 
 on which the hounds hunted for many years afterwards. 
 
 I remember staying at the hospitable house of Grumley 
 Hall, in Leicestershire, in January, 186G. The present 
 Lord Shrewsbury, at that time six years old, was dressed 
 for hunting in full costume, and, when mounted on a 
 very small pony, was put into the brake in which our 
 host, Lord Ligestre, drove us to covert, pony and all, and 
 was lifted out of the carriage again, and put down at the 
 meet.— C. M. 
 
 At another meeting, held at Wellesbourne in March^ 
 
1866] CONSTITUTION OF THE PACK. 277 
 
 Mr. Spencer Lucy's offer to agaiu become master was 
 accepted. 
 
 On February 14tb, 186G, the Bicester hounds had a 
 very fast run from Boddington Gforse for half an hour 
 without a check, and killed at Chipping Warden. Mr. 
 Henry Lambton, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. W. Chamberlayne, 
 and Mr. John Mordaunt were nearest the hounds. Squire 
 Drake was about one field further back, loudly calling to 
 the others not to ride over his hounds when they could 
 only just hold their own with them. 
 
 I remember on one occasion, at the end of a slow hunting 
 run, a stranger was pointed out to Mr. Noi-th, who was told 
 that this man had been persistently riding over the hounds 
 for about an hour. Mr. Noi-th rode up to him, and gave 
 him some wholesome advice, and, in conclusion, he said to 
 him, "I hope, sir, that when you are in such and such a 
 place you will be a hound, and that they will be 
 perpetually riding over you." — C. M. 
 
 The Constitution of the Pack. 
 
 In the list of hounds for 1861, when Lord "Willoughby 
 de Broke and Mr. North were joint masters, other kennels 
 were much resorted to for the composition of the pack. Of 
 fifteen and a half couples composing it, the sires of seven 
 and a half were from the Belvoir kennel. Two sires came 
 from Sir Watkin Wynn's pack, and one from the Duke of 
 Beaufort's. The Warwickshire sires were Gimcrack, 
 Champion, Stormer, and Wellington. (ximcrack was 
 entered in 1854, and was by the Belvoir Gruider — Telltale ; 
 Champion was entered in 1857, and was by Lord Pitz- 
 harding's Challenger — Tidings ; Stormer, entered in 1858, 
 was by the celebrated Saffron — Waspish ; Wellington, 
 entered in 1858, was by Watchman (Lord H. Bentinck's 
 Woldsman — his Eachel, and bought by the late Lord 
 Willoughby de Broke as a three-year-old in 1858) 
 out of Songstress. The dams were from the Warwick- 
 shire kennel, except the Duke of Beaufort's Pearless, 
 which is entered as dam to Hymen bv the Duke's 
 
278 .THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1S6G 
 
 Harlequiu. The Saffron blood again appears among the 
 dams in Songstress and Singwell, entered in 1858, hj 
 him— Waspish ; Winifred, entered in 1857, by him — 
 Woodbine; and SjDinster, entered in 1855, by him — 
 Sanguine. In the list of entries of 1862, headed by the 
 name of Mr. IS^orth only, the Warwickshii-e sires are 
 Champion, Wellington, and Stormer, the Saffron of 1859 
 by old Saffron — Enthwell ; and Forester, also of 1859, by 
 Denmark- — Fearless. Other kennels represented in the list 
 of sires are Lord Southampton's, the Duke of Beaufort's, 
 and " the Cheshire." Four sires appear from Lord South- 
 ampton's, viz., Comus, Dorimont, Sportsman, and Seaman. 
 Three of them inherited the Belvoir blood, as Comus was 
 by the Belvoir Comus — Lord Southampton's Careful ; 
 Dorimont was by the Belvoir Charm — Lord Southampton's 
 Destiny ; and Seaman by the Belvoir Guider — Lord South- 
 ampton's Stately. Lord SouthanijDton's Sportsman was by 
 his Sultan — his Sophie. The Duke of Beaufort's sires 
 were Foiler, entered in 1858, by his Falstaff — his Tell- 
 tale ; Contest, entered in 1857, by Lord H. Bentinck's 
 Contest — the Duke's Mischief ; and Archer, entered in 
 1858, by his Abercorn — his Pensive. Three couples of 
 hounds are attributable to Lord Southampton's, two couples 
 to the Duke's, and two couples to " the Cheshire," who 
 are only rejDresented by one hound, Eockwood, by the 
 Brocklesby Eockwood — the Cheshire Costly. The dams 
 are all of the home kennel. Amongst them, Spoi-tly, 
 •entered in 1859, was by Saffron out of Euthful. 
 
 The only fresh stud sire in the list of 1863 is Bouncer, 
 who was entered in 1860, and was by the Duke of 
 Beaufort's Banker — Eapture. The sires from other kennels 
 are Lord Henry Bentinck's Stormer, Mr. J. Baker's Chief- 
 tain, Sir W. Wynn's Nelson, the Duke of Beaufort's 
 Harlequin, Lord Portsmouth's Lancaster, and Lord Fitz- 
 harding's Ottoman. Mr. J. Baker's Dewdrop and Sir W. 
 Wynn's Mistletoe are the only dams from other kennels. 
 
 The list of 1864 comprises Wellington and Lexicon, 
 both of them Warwickshire sii-es, and their entries con- 
 
1S06J CONSTITUTION OF THE PACK. 279 
 
 stitute half of the complete list. Lexicon was entered in 
 1S61, and was by the Belvoir Lexicon out of the Warwick- 
 shire Winifred. Saffron II. is sire to a couple and a half, 
 and among the dams, Songstress, entered in 1858, is by 
 Saffron out of AYaspish ; Lapwing, entered in 1862, gets 
 the Saffron blood, being by Stormer out of Lapwing ; and 
 Lofty, entered in 1S61, by the Belvoir Lexicon — Winifred, 
 being entered in 1857, and was by Saffron out of Wood- 
 bine. Six couples of the list are out of these four dams. 
 The only remaining War\\iekshire sire in the list is Rally- 
 wood, by Stormer out of Rakish, and here the Saffron 
 blood again comes out, as it does in the case of Racket. 
 Harper is by Eallywood out of Mie Warwickshire Harriet. 
 The only other kennels used by Mr. North for this list are 
 the Brocklesby, from whence came Blucher with a couple 
 and a half. Lord Portsmouth's Lancaster wdth three couples, 
 and the Holderness Napier with one hound out of their 
 Rosy. The list of nine and a half couples, which comprise 
 the entries for 1805, contains a sire' whose pedigree goes 
 back to the hounds taken by Lord Middletoii when he 
 gave up the AYarwickshire country. This is Oi'pheus, 
 entered by Lord Middleton in 1858, and was by Lord 
 Fitzwilliam's Ottoman out of Lord Middleton's Tragedy. 
 He is sire to two and a half couples. Other kennels are 
 represented by Mr. Drake's Furrier, Mr. Meynell Ingram's 
 Trojan, and Mr. North's Magnet and Singer, the only 
 Warwickshire sire on the list being Banker, who has three 
 couples and a half attributed to him out of Singer. Banker 
 was entered in 1860, and was by the Duke of Beaufort s 
 Banker — Rapture. In Singwell we find the Saffron blood, 
 as also in Lapwing and Bonnybell, who was entered in 
 1862, by Lord Southumpton's Dorimont out of Bluebell, 
 who was entered in 185!), and was by Bashful out of 
 Saffron. The best possible testimony of the excellence of 
 the blood which had been introduced into the pack is given 
 by the following particulars : In 1864 Mr. North bought a 
 bitch called Rapid from j\Ir. Hall, of the Holderness, by 
 their Napier out of their Rosy. Napier was by the. Belvori* 
 
280 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1860 
 
 Notary out of the Holderness Cowslip, and Kosy was by 
 Lord Henry Bentinek's Roderick out of the Holderness 
 Careless. In 18G7 Mr. Lucy put forward a bitch called 
 Careless, by Mr. North's Castor (which he had bought from 
 the Belvoir as a stud hound, by the Belvoir Comus out of 
 their Bosy) out of Bapid. This bitch was the dam of 
 Clasher,* by Nestor, by Nimrod, a hound bought by Lord 
 Willoughby de Broke and Mr. North in 18 02 at Mr. 
 Baker's sale of the North Warwickshire, but not of his 
 black and tan blood, f From this bitch Careless are descended 
 no less than fourteen prize winners at Peterborough. They 
 are as follows : 1888, Safety (1884), by the Bramham 
 Smoker— Rival* ; 1887-9, Coxcomb (1885), by Furley— 
 Choral* ; 1889, Stentor (1885), by the Bramham Sailor 
 — Frailty*; 1887, Pedlar and Petulant (1880), by 
 Proctor* — Abbess; and Playful (1880), by Proctor* 
 out of Ada; 1887, Trueman and Trusty (1887), by the 
 Brocklesby Tapster — Roundelay* ; 1889, Huntress (1888), 
 by Harper— Frailty* ; 1889-90, Student (1888), by Stentor* 
 —Flora; 1889, Harpy (1889), by Harper — Rosary* ; 
 1889-90, Hermit; and 1890, Heiress (both 1889), by Harper 
 —Ruthless*; and 1889, Sympathy (1889), by Stentor* 
 —Famous. The dates in parentheses are the years of 
 entry. The hounds to which asterisks are attached are 
 those through whom the descent from Careless can be 
 traced. The hounds which may have said to have been 
 the pick of the pack during Mr. North's time were Saffron 
 (1859), by the old Saffron— Ruthful ; Talisman (1802), by 
 the Duke of Beaufort's Archer — Tempest ; Lavender and 
 Lapwing (1802), by Stormer — Lapwing ; Bedford (1802), 
 by Lord Southampton's Comus — Beatrice ; Ferryman 
 
 * See note to the poem, " Shuckburgh Hill." — W. R. V. 
 
 t Sir Charles Mordaunt is evidently indebted to " Castor's " most excellent publica- 
 tion, " A Century of Foxhunting " (for the use of which we cannot be too grateful), for 
 these and similar particulars, but our readers will remember that between 1889 and 1895 
 the triumphs of the Warwickshire hounds at the Peterborough Show increased rather 
 than diminished, and there are many more prize winners from the Warwickshire 
 kennels, especially those bred by the celebrated sires Harper and Hermit, whose 
 descent can be directly traced to Careless, and the Belvoir Notary and Belvoir Comus 
 blood.— W. R. V. 
 
YoddA 
 
Portrait of the Hon. W. H. J. North, the Hon. Mrs. North. 
 Master W. F. J. North, Tom Matthews (Huntsman), 
 and the Warwickshire Hounds ; Baroness North, Colonel 
 the Hon. J. 5. North on the doorsteps of Wroxton Abbey ; 
 F. Smith and W. Hemming, first and second Whips. 
 From the picture by 
 T. Lewis. 
 The property of Lord North, at Wroxton Abbey. 
 
1860] POETEAIT AT WEOXTON ABBEY. 281 
 
 (1803), by Forester — Tempest ; Banker (1800), by the 
 Duke of Beaufort's Banker — Eapture ; Orator (1803), by 
 Lord Fitzharding's Ottoman — Eakish ; Gamester (1801), 
 by the Belvoir Gamester — Bonny Lass ; Eallywood (1801), 
 by Stormer — Eakish; Nelson (1803), by Sir W. Wynn's 
 Nelson — Careless ; Brusher (1802), by Saifron 11. — 
 Brilliant ; Magnet (1802), by Wellington— -Mindful ; Ajax 
 (1802), by the Duke of Beaufort's Foiler — Artful ; 
 Eenniant (18()1), by Sir W. Wynn's Eoyal^ — Comfort ; and 
 Harriet, Heedless, and Hasty (1800), by Lord Fitz- 
 harding's Hotspur-^Hopeful. The following were prize 
 winners at Birmingham : Talisman, LaA'ender, Lapwing, 
 Termagant, Saffron II., Lightning, Bedford, Ferryman, 
 Banker, and Orator. 
 
 An admirable oil painting was executed in 1804, 
 showing the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. North, and the hounds and 
 hunting staff, in front of Wroxton Abbey, on the steps of 
 \\'hich appear the late Baroness North and the Eight Hon. 
 Colonel J. S. North. The picture has found a place on 
 the walls of the Abbey, whose noble proprietor, still a 
 regular attendant at the meets of the pack, and one of their 
 most ardent followers, can, on the canvas of the picture, be 
 brought face to face again with the "Warwickshire beauties," 
 who not only sustained, but added to the reputation of the 
 pack at tho time he rode as master. The Hon. Mr. North 
 is seen mounted on Queen Mab, and the Hon. Mrs. North, 
 scarcely less ardently attached to the pack than her husband, 
 is depicted as riding St. George, Matthews is on Peter 
 Gray, and F. Smith and W. Hemming, the whips, on 
 White Leg and Chief Justice. The hounds, which occupy 
 conspicuous places in the painting, are Termagant, Saffron 
 II., Eemnant, Ajax, Gamester, Magnet, Lavender, Light- 
 ning, Brusher, Bedford, Orator, Nelson, Promise, Eallywood, 
 and Singer. Gamester was good in dry weather, and was 
 a wonderful leader over dry fallows. Eall^^vood was good 
 at finding. In writing of the Saffron of 1859, we have 
 called him Saffron II. He does not appear as such in the 
 stud book, and it was therefore necessary so to distinguish 
 
282 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1866 
 
 him. The old Saffron was still in the kennels in Mr North's 
 time, although not as a working hound. He still, how- 
 ever, retained his good scenting powers, but on what he 
 considered a poor day's sport he would leave the pack and 
 go home alone. We remember Lord Willoughby de Broke 
 telling us of another hound wdiich hunted for many seasons, 
 and invariaT)ly went home when one run had been obtained 
 and a fox killed. 
 
 I remember on one occasion durin«' this season a 
 clergjniian came to stay with me in Scotland, and went out 
 trout fishing while I was shooting. Towards evening he 
 became very tired, and went dow^n to the head keeper's 
 house to wait for me. I found him there fast asleep, lying 
 on his back on the grass with his mouth wide open. His 
 face was naturally very pale, and when the old keeper went 
 up to him, and had looked at him for some time, he said 
 to me, " Mon, but he's deed.'' I replied, " All right, Allan, 
 he is not dead, because you can see his breathing." Allan 
 stooped down, and, after again looking very closely at the 
 parson, said, " Well, indeed, he is no deed, but he is far 
 tlirouf/h^' (very drunk). 
 
 On another occasion, when I arrived with the same 
 keejDer at the place where we intended to begin shooting, 
 w^e found the two gillies, who had been sent on beforehand, 
 lying across each other on the ground, both of them having 
 had too much whiskey over night and in the early morning. 
 Allan gave the one who was lying upj^ermost a tremendous 
 kick, and he got up. The same treatment was then 
 administered to the other, but he did not move, so the old 
 man said to me, " Angus will do, but Sandy, indeed, is/<7r 
 fln'0i///li ." 
 
 I also remember employing a gillie, who was a unique 
 si^ecimen of a Highlander, always wearing the kilt, and 
 very good looking. He was— at all times — called " the 
 Graul," and appeai-ed to have no other name. He could 
 see deer at a long distance without a glass, and on one 
 occasion, when we Avere grouse shooting and a bird had 
 been lost, he was leading the pannier pony at a great 
 
1866] 
 
 THE GAUL. 
 
 283 
 
 distance off, and lie slionted to our gillie and told liim 
 exactly where to pick np the grouse. Finally he took to 
 drink, and lay out on the moor for the day and all night. 
 On his return a clergyman ^vho was staying with me said 
 to him, " If you go on like this it will be the death of 
 you." The Gaul could not speak much English, but he 
 replied, "Better that than no whiskey." — C. M. 
 
 We append a sketch of a notable landmark in 
 Warwickshire. You can look over the best part of the 
 Eed Horse Vale, and far away north, and east, and west 
 from 
 
 KDGE HILL TOWER. 
 
 fW 
 
"ye be just too late, JIISS; THE GENTLEMEN BE ALL GONE." 
 
 Wliat a fine liuutiug' day, 'tis as balmy as May, 
 Aud the liounds to the viUage will coiiie ; 
 Ev'ry friend will be there, and all trouble aud care 
 Will be left far l)ehind them at home. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 MR. H. SPENCER LUCY's SECOND TERM OF OFFICE ROBERT 
 
 WORRALL HIS HUNTING DIARY FINE RUN FROM 
 
 SHUCKBURGH COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR. LUCY 
 
 GOOD RIDERS AMONGST THE FARMERS CHARLES ORVIS. 
 
 Upon the removal of Mr. North to the Bicester country, 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy again became master of the 
 Warwickshire Hounds, with a guarantee of 1900/. It was 
 during a subsequent season as low as 1700/., but it was 
 raised afterwards to 2400/. 
 
 In 1866, Eobert Worrall, who had previously been first 
 whip to the Warwickshire for one season, was engaged by 
 Mr. Lucy as huntsman. He became celebrated, and the 
 following account of an interview with him may not be out 
 of place in a publication of this nature, and will be of 
 
1866} ROBERT WORRALL. 285 
 
 interCvst, we believe, not only to the present, but to a future 
 generation of sportsmen. 
 
 Everyone who hunted with the Squire of Charlecote 
 remembers Bob Worrall well. His bronzed sporting face, 
 his cheery smile, his neat figure, and capital seat on a 
 horse, and his delight in talking about hounds, horses, and 
 men — ever}4;hing and everyone, in fact, connected wdth the 
 chase — his respectful demeanour, and his excessive keenness 
 made him a universal favourite wherever he whipped in to 
 or hunted hounds.* Though he might have been a trifle 
 too fond of the horn, it was a beautiful sight to see him 
 l)ringing his hounds out of covert, and charging the first 
 fence, it may be on Taglioni, without removing it from 
 his lips ; while a ride home with Bob and the hounds, how- 
 ever far the distance and however tired your horse, was 
 never altogether a dull entertainment. I went to see him 
 in October, IS 94, when my friend, Captain Cooper, of 
 Hemel Hempstead, kindly asked him to come up for an 
 interview. The two hours that I could spare for his 
 reminiscences seemed all too short. I wdll try and tell the 
 story of his hunting life as he told it to me over just one 
 glass of old port in the billiard room at 27/ e Zocl-ers-.f 
 
 " I was entered young at Kineton, in 1846. Stevens 
 was bringing the hounds home, and happened to stop outside 
 our door. I went to the hounds, and began to pat them ; 
 an old hound licked my face. ' Are you fond of hounds, 
 youngster ? ' said Stevens. I said I was, so he sent for me 
 to be kennel boy when I was only eleven years old. I 
 remember your father, sir, the late lord, being married, 
 and the rejoicings at Kineton. In 1848 Stevens asked me 
 if I could manage to walk to Mr. Drake's kennels at 
 Buckuall, which is twenty-five miles, and my age was 
 thii-teen. I took two couples, went to Banbury, had a 
 glass of porter and some bread and cheese — all I had on 
 the journey — got to Bucknall just before they came in 
 from hunting. I had a letter for Mr. Wingfield, the 
 
 * He was a tliorougli gentleman's servant. 
 
 t So called from Anne Boleyn having been once confined there. 
 
286 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1866 
 
 huntsman. AVlien I gave him the letter, he said, ' Have 
 you walked from Kineton, my little man ? If so, you must 
 be tired.' I was to go into the servants' hall to dine with 
 the huntsman and whips, as they always did so after 
 hunting. I had such a beastly sick headache, I could not 
 eat anjrthing, and the next morning I w^as so stiff I had a 
 difficulty in getting out of bed. I had a little breakfast, 
 and started home wuth a couple, and left the others for a 
 week. At the same time I brought Fugleman, and a nice 
 treat I had with him. When I got to the Tower, Edge 
 Hill, it commenced raining in torrents, and by the time I 
 got to the kennels I was beat. I don't think I could have 
 gone another mile. This was not a bad performance for 
 thirteen years of age. 
 
 " The following summer a Mr. Cook took the Southwold 
 country, came to Kineton, and bought Stevens' draft, old 
 and young, twenty-four couples. Mr. Cook wanted them 
 taken to Banbury that afternoon, ready to go by train next 
 morning. Stevens said : * Bob, you can take them for 
 this gentleman.' It was so arranged, and my brother 
 went with me to put them to me. They were all loose, 
 except one couple of shy ones. Groing up Edge Hill one 
 of them jumped into the covert. My brother will never 
 forget, and often speaks about it, how I banged into him 
 for not keeping his eyes open. It rained in torrents all 
 the way to Banbury. I took them to Mr. W. Page's 
 Flying Horse, and put them in a coach house. Mrs. Page 
 — nice old lady — put us into some of her boys' clothes, and 
 dried ours in the kitchen. Next morning I took twelve 
 couples, and boxed them, and fetched the other twelve, and 
 boxed them without a single hitch. Mr. Cook wanted me 
 to go with him at that time and ride his second horse. 
 We walked home after they had started. Mr. Cook gave 
 us five shillings each. They did not overpay you in those 
 days. 
 
 " Wlien the hounds hunted five days a week — two in the 
 country which is now North Warwickshire — during the 
 cubhunting Stevens had thirty couples at Milverton 
 
1866J ROBEET WOREALL. 287 
 
 kennels for three weeks. 1 had charge of them, with a 
 boy to help. I went two days before the hounds to boil 
 and get ready. I walked out, and not one hound slipped 
 me. Stevens, Morris, and Jack Hicks used to drive the 
 old white-legged mare and cub-hunt two days, then home 
 for the other three ; they used to come on Sunday evenings, 
 and back on Tuesday after hunting, I well remember a 
 bitch named Brazen going off when in whelp ; she was 
 missing several days. One morning she turned up at the 
 kennels for some food, and she had whelped. Stevens gave 
 me a basket and a pair of couples to follow her and see 
 where she went. She went over Pittern Hill, past 
 Combroke Lodge, for Enoch the keeper's house ; here I 
 lost sight of her. At last, after searching about, I found 
 her in a large rabbit hole with eight or nine puppies. I 
 brought her and all the puppies with me, and no doubt 
 Brilliant, by Tarquin, entered in 1848, was one of them 
 Priestess whelped underneath the bellows in the black- 
 smith's shop at the kennels. Poor old John Woodjfield 
 went into the shop, and Priestess caught hold of his apron 
 when we removed her puppies. I got into the hole 
 to pull them out for poor old Dick Hemmings to jDut 
 into a basket. He said, 'How many more are there, boy? ' 
 When we counted them there were eighteen, the most I 
 ever knew ; I have known one have seventeen. 
 
 " I was only fourteen when put on to ride second horse 
 for Stevens. One clay we were cubhunting at Shuck - 
 burgh, I was sent back on a mare called Chance to tell 
 Jack Hicks to come on and not wait about for a hound 
 which was back. AVhen I got up to the hounds again the 
 mare ran away with me, and jumped a gate right into the 
 pack. Your father thought I was not man enough for the 
 job, and must wait another 3'ear till I got stronger. That 
 year, or, at all events when I was fifteen, the late Mr. 
 Graham, of Yardley, was passing through Kineton, and he 
 engaged me as carriage and covert boy. At seventeen 
 years of age I came back to Kineton to ride second horse 
 to Jones. I rode for him in 1853, 1854, and 1855. 
 
288 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1866 
 
 Joues used to go well, especially on a liorse called Kossuth, 
 bought from Kench, of Dunchurch, a brown horse, 
 one of the best in England. One day someone told me that 
 Jones wanted him. ' That's your best way to him,' said 
 Mr. Chamberlayne, of Thorpe, pointing to the Farn- 
 borough Brook, and over I went. Ben Morgan had made 
 most of these horses that Jones rode ; he was a fine horse- 
 man. There were Lady Jane, Hazard, Belinda, a bay 
 mare Gibson (the stud groom) bought from Ireland with 
 seven others, and Rapid Ehone ; you remember him, sir ? 
 (' 1 should think I did,' I answered, ' Why, he taught 
 Lord Willoughby and me to ride, and no better horse for 
 a boy was ever backed, and his roaring never stopped him 
 with us.') Well, he never roared then, and although 
 Jones said one day that he gave him four or five falls, I 
 don't think he could have ; Jim Stracey was whip, and 
 Harry Ayris second. 
 
 "In L^5() I went to the South Staffordshire under Joe 
 Maiden ; the hounds were then at Wolstanton, near 
 Burslem. ]\Ir. Davenport did the thing well. There were 
 often five Miss Davenports out on horses worth 150 or 
 200 guineas apiece. Mr. Jack Mytton was often visiting 
 there. I remember young Mr. Davenport well as a boy ; 
 I was second whip there for one season. Tom Atkinson 
 was first, one of the best whippers-in I have ever seen ; he 
 was huntsman afterwards. I had some nice horses there. 
 I remember a brown mare that Mr. Davenport took to 
 college with him — a clinker. Then I went as first whipper 
 to West Kent; Colonel Stratford and Mr. William 
 Armstrong were masters, Greorge Beers was huntsman, 
 poor Frank's brother. It w^as the year the Princess Eoyal 
 was married, I remember how it rained and blew the day 
 they embarked for Germany. George Beers was a fine 
 huntsman ; he was a young man, but a capital chap to hunt a 
 pack of hounds, as quick as lightning. They used to cap 
 for us then, and it used to help us to look after them sharp. 
 I had to hunt the hounds the last fortnight. You see I 
 was well trained ; it is a great thing to have a good grinding 
 
1866] EGBERT WORRALL. 289 
 
 in kennels — yon know your kennel work. Then I used 
 to do old ^Morris's work for him ; he was a first-rate whip, 
 but he could neither wTite nor read. In 1858 I went to 
 ]\Ir. Drake. It was at Mr. Morell's sale that I got engaged. 
 There was a great hound sale at Tubney ; it is mentioned 
 in Cecil's first book, ' the kennel stud book.' The Kev. 
 Mr. Legard* is carrying it on now ; he tells me it's a lot 
 of trouble ; people not sending in their lists. Cecil brought 
 out a second book ; I have got the first at home. I met 
 Ben Groddard there. Joe Maiden used to ride second 
 horse to Stevens, and was afterwards huntsman to the 
 Craven ; he recommended me to Goddard, and Squire Drake 
 took me on. I can honestly say that I engaged with one 
 of the best masters, one of the best sportsmen, and one of 
 the best friends one could ever have met with. I whipped 
 in to Goddard in 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1861. When 
 Mr. Drake resigned, I got the offer of the place of first 
 whip to the Warwickshire from Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
 I was to meet him at Lower Boddington. Ben Goddard 
 was not out ; a stick had run into his eye. The Squire 
 hunted the hounds. We had a fine run, and killed him at 
 Marston Doles. There was your father. Lord AVilloughby, 
 off his horse patting the hounds. ' Eeal good pack of 
 hounds,' he said. He offered me the place ; I went in 
 186.2, in May. Yom- father died in June. Cremorne ? 
 Yes ; I remember Cremorne. You say your father, sir, 
 told you when you were a boy to keep his tail in sight, and 
 you would not be far off the hounds. (' Yes, he quoted 
 Macaulay, Bob, and the white plume. I remember it well ; 
 the meet was at Thorpe Mandeville, and Mr. Drake was 
 riding him.') Well, I'll tell you a curious thing about 
 that horse, sir ; a splendid horse he was, skewbald bay and 
 white, and a quite white tail. When I went to Sir 
 William Throckmorton's with the Y.W.H., there was the 
 old horse, and he carried me well. I had my picture done 
 on him with some favourite hounds. The best run 1 ever 
 
 *It is a slight coincidence that the Rev. Mr. Legard's Christian name is 
 ■" Cecil." 
 
 Vol. I. U 
 
290 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1866 
 
 saw was from Gooseham, near Brackley. The Squire sent 
 me on ; he said he knew there was a good fox there, and 
 he would be gone. I just got to the covert in time to see 
 him come out. He was a beauty. Hounds got away close 
 to him. They did run straight ; they ran to Huntsbury 
 Hill,* three miles from NorthamjDton. Only seven got to 
 the end. I got regularly pumped, and did not see the 
 finish. The hounds came home by rail from Blisworth. 
 This run will be talked of as long as there are hounds in 
 Oxfordshire. This was in Goddard's time. Let me see ; 
 where was I ? I have got a bit off the line. Well, in 
 18G3, 1S()4, and ISO 5, Squire Drake hunted the hounds, 
 himself. One morning in February, 1865, I got a letter 
 from Mr. Spencer Lucy, offering me the place as hunts- 
 man to the Warwickshire. Mr. Villebois wanted me,, 
 too, and another gentleman as well, but Mr. Drake 
 never told me who that was, I wanted to get back to 
 Warwickshire, as I knew the country and the people. 
 Squire Drake told Mr. Lucy that no man ever left a 
 situation with such a character as mine. I was huntsman 
 to the AYarwickshire in 1866, 1867, and 1868, and I only 
 left on account of Mr. Lucy taking to hunt the hounds two 
 days a week himself. I was a young man, and full of 
 running, and I could not give up like that. Mr. Bolton 
 King told me that they had never had such sport since 
 Stevens left. Mr. Lucy asked me to sleep over it, and 
 said he was sure I should not leave. It was the last day 
 of hunting at Wolford, and we killed two foxes I remember. 
 I think Mr. Lucy might have let me know before, but I 
 suppose he could not till it was settled at the meeting. I 
 might have had Mr. Lane Fox's place. I think I should 
 have suited him ; he likes a sticker-at-home, and I was 
 always that. The following Saturday the Pytchley met at 
 Badby Wood ; I w^as out. Mr. Anstruther Thompson 
 heard I was leaving, hoped it was not true, told me that 
 such a place as I had got was not to be had every day. If 
 
 *Tlie distance from Gooseholm Gorse, the covert in which they found, to Huntsbury 
 Hni is fifteen miles as the crow flies. 
 
.jrnomanD no IIbiioW JiadoJI 
 
 3iul3iq 9iW mpii .abnuoM .H.W.V aJnupvBt amoa riJiW 
 .noizae > aiil ni 
 
Robert Worrall on Cremorne. 
 
 By 
 
 Wheeler. 
 
 With some favourite V.W.H. Hounds, from the picture 
 
 in his own possession. 
 
1866: TAGLIONI. 291 
 
 I determined to leave, I was to write to Captain Wilson, of 
 tlie V.W.H. I did so, and Sir William Throckmorton 
 offered me the place. 
 
 "From 1868 I was with Sir William six seasons. They 
 sav ' you can't love a man,' I loved Sir William. I hope 
 he will find an Isinglass or two, that's what a gentleman 
 wants if he goes racing. About the country ? Lord 
 Henry Bentinck said it was the best three days a week 
 country in England. There were three sides to it — the 
 stone walls ; the Vale, more like Shuckburgh ; and the 
 Brander side, rough fences and widish brooks. I never 
 had a bad fall, though, in it. I hurt. my knee once ; it was 
 not the horse's fault ; he was tired, and fell. Your brother, 
 Lord Willoughby, was talking to me about it one day. 
 AVhen I told him I had not had a fall all the season, he 
 said, ' You didn't half go. Bob.' I said, ' I know I did, my 
 lord, but I rode such horses.' There were two horses 
 Avhicli came from Newcome Mason, the very best I ever 
 rode but one, and that was Taglioni. You remember her, 
 sir, don't you ? Mr. Lucy bought her at Mr. Drake's sale. 
 Mr. Drake marked six on the catalogue for Mr. Lucy to 
 buy. The mare had slipped up once, and got a blow. 
 She was knocked down to Mr. Lucy for forty guineas. I 
 rode her three seasons with the Warwickshii-e, and she put 
 her foot once in a post hole, the only time she ever fell with 
 me. At Mr. Lucy's sale, at Tattersall's, she made over 
 300 guineas. (' Yes, I remember it well. Bob. I was 
 there ; and you said to me that you thought you had not 
 been trotting her about Warwickshu-e for nothing.') 
 Well, Mr. Burton, who bought her, asked me what 
 bridle I rode her in. ' She does not want any bridle 
 at all,' I said. Mr. Burton told me afterwards that 
 he would not take a thousand guineas for her. He 
 offered me a ride on her in the park. I thanked him, 
 but said I should be out of place there — that my place was 
 in the field, and not in the park. Mr. Lucy always helped 
 his huntsman. I remember one day at Shuckburgh the 
 gentlemen rode the hounds clean off the line. Mr. Lucy 
 
 u 2 
 
292 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [ma 
 
 came up and let them have it ; he said it was ' disgraceful,' 
 ' scandalous ; ' he told me to go back to Ladbroke to draw. 
 Colonel Anstruther Thompson said to me, as we were 
 trotting along, ' We shall have some sport, Bob, now that 
 those brutes have gone home ; they are the greatest brutes 
 I have ever seen ; how thej do annoy me every Wednesday ! ' 
 We ran from Ladbroke to Staverton, and killed him in a 
 brickyard. Colonel Thompson came up, and said, ' Well 
 done, Bob, you killed your fox well. What's that mare ? 
 It's a nailing good mare ; she carried you tip-top.' That 
 was Taglioni. 
 
 " The Kilsby tunnel day ? Yes, I remember it well ; I 
 remember the date, because I was not out, and Mr. Lucy 
 was hunting the hounds. We met at Charlecote on 
 Monday, January .20tli, 18G6. I rode a grey horse called 
 Prickett. You remember him, sir ? He had horns on his 
 head, quite long — horns, two or three inches long. We 
 found at a little spinney. I was galloping across the park. 
 The horse came down, and pitched on his horns ; he came 
 right down on my ankle. Greorge Boxall, from the Noi-th 
 Warwickshire, jumped off and helped me wp. I got on 
 again, and we ran to Grrove Park, but I was very bad. I 
 had old Dr. Brown on Tuesday. 
 
 " Old Railton, the saddler, made me a gaiter, and I never 
 had a boot on till next cubhunting. I could not have 
 cracked a walnut with that foot for two months. I was 
 out on the Monday after it happened, though the meet was 
 at Lighthorne, and old Mr. John Lucy came to me, and 
 said that he had not expected to see me for a month at 
 least. 
 
 "On Tuesday, the .21st, Mr. Lucy hunted at Mitford, 
 and again on the Thursday, when they ran over the Kilsby 
 Tunnel to West Haddon. There was an old hound called 
 Banker ; Squire Drake gave him me ' to keep the 
 Warwickshire rogues straight.' How they did run hares 
 when I came. I used to be up on Chadshunt Hill 
 at four and five of a morning with them. I tell you 
 what I did ; I always used to let them break up 
 
\mi BANKEE. 293 
 
 their own fox. None of that 'Dead,' 'Dead,' 'Dead!' 
 and beating them off. This did them a lot of good, and 
 made them keen on a fox. Mr. Bolton King used to say, 
 ' It's a pity you can't take Banker out in a carriage and 
 put him down at a check.' Well, the hounds did not get 
 home till half-past ten that night. Isaac came to me and 
 said, ' The first hound that came in was old Banker, 
 master.' He was by Hector out of Barbara, by Lord 
 Yarborough's Hector. Castor ? He came from the Bicester ; 
 I gave him to Mr. North's boy when he w^as christened. 
 He was the youngest master of a hound in England. I 
 told Lord Willoughby I ought to have some of those 
 cups, of which he wins so many at Peterborough. Your 
 father, sir, was a good master ; he only scolded me 
 about once. He was vexed about Jones having lost his 
 fox, and ordered me to take my horse out of the deep 
 ground ; he never would have the horses knocked about, 
 nothing vexed him so much as that. I remember once. 
 Jack Cummings had left, and there was only Enever to 
 whip in. Jones had had a bad fall, so Enever had to hunt 
 them, and I whipped in. I rode a crop-eared horse called 
 Prestbury.* We went away from WoKord Wood like mad 
 down to Evenlode ; Mr. Griffiths, of Campden, says to me, 
 * Bob, you'll have to harden your heart ; it's a big one ; I 
 mean having a go, stick close to me.' I kept close on his 
 right ; he jumped it, but fell on landing. I thought I was 
 over, but the bank gave way, and Prestbury came back 
 
 *Tliis horse was afterwards bought by Captain Chambers, who hunted at 
 Leamington, and he carried him well for many seasons. 
 Voltaire once wrote as follows : 
 
 " The Eng'lish as their savage taste prevails. 
 Behead their kings, and dock their horses' tails." 
 
 Voltaire surely was a little previous in this sarcasm, " Those who live in glass 
 houses." K.T.K. The custom of cropping a horse's ears has long gone out. This 
 year, 1895, a like practice of docking their tails is less in vogue, while that of the hog 
 mane for a hunter can only be a passing craze of fashion. No object can possiblj' be 
 giiined by it. It reduces a noble hunter to the level of a polo pony, makes it exceedingly 
 difficult to mount in a hurry, and might even help to create a serious fall. " Brooksby," 
 in one of his articles in the Field, I remember, wrote very strongly against this fashion, 
 pointing out its uselessness and absurdity. It may sometimes but rarely happen that a 
 hunter's mane grows so badly that it stands upright and cannot be combed straight, in 
 which only it may be necessary to hog it. — W. R. V. 
 
294 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1866 
 
 with me. I was under the horse, but got out the right side, 
 and went on wit ho id my irons after Mr. Griffiths, and we 
 ran right up to Wych Hill to ground. Coming back we 
 met Enever and all the other gentlemen who were supposed 
 to be hunting ; Mr. Griffiths put the hounds to me. I 
 was wet and cold ; Captain Peach ordered some rump steak 
 for us and hot ale at Stow-in-the-AVold. I know it was 
 dead against the rules, but we went in and had some. My 
 coat was like zinc by the time I got to Halford Bridge. 
 The crop-eared horse had struck me on the head, so I 
 stopped in bed the next morning, and it was not long 
 before Mr. Barnard came up to see me. 
 
 " Well, sir, to go back to the Yale of White Horse. 
 When Sir William gave up, I should have remained on ; I 
 had many friends and not an enemy in the country. Lord 
 Shannon took the hounds. We had an hour and five 
 minutes, and Bob Chapman told me he could never quite 
 catch me on a horse called Falconberg. I remember once 
 Bob Chapman jumping a wall ; I took some rails by the 
 side, and got a pull. I need not go into all the particulars 
 why I left Lord Shannon, but I think you will agree with 
 me I was not so much to blame as some people made out. 
 We had fine sport in 1863-64 with the V.W.H. Hounds 
 ran like wildfire, and killed their foxes. There's a good 
 deal in getting away close to your fox. People talk about 
 bad scenting countries ; you can't have a scent if you ain't 
 near your fox. Get away on the top of his back, that's the 
 way to kill him ; get through the woods after your hounds ; 
 don't be afraid of scratching your face or dirtying your 
 boots ; there's a great deal of art in that. Hounds soon find 
 out if you are quick ; a slow man makes a slow pack of 
 hounds. Well, I was nine seasons with Mr. Longman and 
 the Old Berkeley, and only left them because his sight 
 failed him and he gave up. This is the watch he gave me ; 
 please look at the inscription : ' Robert Worrall, from 
 A. H. Longman, in remembrance of nine years faithful 
 service.' Then I was two seasons with Sir Richard Sutton. 
 I have had four masters give up : Mr. Drake, Sir William 
 
1866] RUN FEOM BILLESLEY HALL. 295 
 
 Tlirockmorton, Mr. Jjoiigmaii, and Sir iiicliard. That 
 was bad luck in one way. Sir Charles Mordaunt was 
 very kind to me when I was in Warwickshire. I met 
 him one day at Eug-by, and he said to me, ' We used 
 to have as good runs in your time, Bob, as any time 
 I remember.' 
 
 " The day Mr. Campbell, of Monzies, was buried, Mr. 
 Lucy was not out, of course. We had a crust and a sup at 
 Mr. Crowdey's at Billesley Hall, and going down the road to 
 draw, I met a chap in a cart. He said, ' There's a most 
 beautiful fox just gone in there, master.' I remember 
 Mr. (jreorge Hawkes, of Talton, was out. Out comes the 
 beautiful fox, such a red colour, and such a white tag to 
 his brush ; he went to the right at first, through Withy- 
 combe towards Little Alne, then swung left-handed, and 
 went through a clump between Oversley Wood and Red Hill ; 
 then he bore right-handed into Oversley Wood, and ran 
 the whole length of the wood. I saw him cross the main 
 ride in the far distance, and caught the white tag on his 
 brush. We went away to the left by that Castle place, 
 and swung to the right, over the river and Ragley Park 
 into Weethley Wood ; ran the whole length of the wood 
 into Bevington Waste, and then round to the right. I 
 believe the Worcestershire were then running in the 
 Lenches. I could see the tracks and trampling of horse 
 hoofs, and Mr. Hughes, of Broom, told me they had met 
 at Radford Grate. The fox was headed about here, and 
 crossed the Worcester Road. T remember I jumped a funny 
 place over a big wide ditch out of the road, on Multum-in- 
 Parvo, a good little horse as ever was. From here we went 
 through a good big wood, called Grrafton Wood, and I saw 
 some cows running and a man with a soft hat swinging it 
 and holloaing. I nicked along over two fields to where they 
 had checked, and I saw the fox two fields away. I was 
 just pulling the band off a gate into a lane, when the fox 
 went past down this gravelly, swilly lane. I laid the 
 hounds on, and they were after him, and sent him down 
 this lane, and through a rickyard, and ran into him in the 
 
296 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I86ft 
 
 middle of a forty-acre field at Fhford Flavel, six and a 
 half miles from Worcester." 
 
 Robert Worrall gives much the same account of this- 
 in his diary, but he adds that the hounds ran eighteen 
 miles, and they had thirty miles to return to the kennels. 
 The distance from point to point is eleven miles, and 
 the date of the run is Jan. 11th, 1809, and the time 
 occupied was two hours. The Worcestershire hounds. 
 killed their fox so near to where the Warwickshire had 
 been running, that Mr. Greorge Hawkes, of Talton, who 
 was out with the latter pack, took home with him a 
 pad of both foxes which were killed. The covert in 
 which the fox was found is Red Hill, or close to it. — 
 W. R. V. 
 
 In July, 1866, I was fishing on the river Yefsen, in 
 Norway, when a curious incident occurred. The salmon 
 nearly all ran up into two large pools at the top of the 
 river. The highest of these consisted of more than an 
 acre of water, and two rods fished it at the same time in 
 two different boats, the shallowest part of it, where the 
 fish rose best, being .t^Oft. deep. I was one day fishing at 
 the same time with the Hon. Walter Talbot, when he 
 caught eight salmon in succession, and I did not rise a 
 fish. Next day I lished the pool at the same time with 
 Mr. Watson, and caught eight salmon in succession,, 
 weighing 1.201b., the largest being 301b., whilst he did not 
 ri.se a fish. Mr. Talbot shortly afterwards caught a salmon 
 weighing 471b. — C. M. 
 
 SEASON 1866-67. 
 From the Leruuington. Spa Courier .- 
 
 The Old Wai-wieksliire, under a now master and a new staff, are to meet 
 ou the first day at the aneient and noble domain of H. Speneer Li;cy, Esq., 
 of Charlecote, when he will entertain the eompany at In-eakfast ; and on 
 Thursday at Walton Hall, the residence of Sir Charles Mordaunt. when the 
 inner man will lie regaled by a public bi'eakfast. We trust, after all this 
 feeding has subsided, they will settle down to quiet work, and show some 
 good sjtort. They have all the necessary material — a first-rate country, good 
 blood in the pack, a new man, Inxt with a good old name and repute, who will 
 uphold both and show good sport. 
 
1866] JIM HILLS AT WOLFOKD WOOD. 297 
 
 Robert Worrall's diary : 
 
 Commenced cubhiintiucf September 11th, at Cliarlocote Gorse ; very good 
 mornhig; killed one fox. Hunted twenty-nine days; killed tifteeu foxes. 
 The scent was not good. We met at Wolford Wood on SepteniJier 25th, at 
 5.30. Slept out over night at Shipston. Jem Hills and both whips were out ; 
 all thi-ee there at the appointed time. The day before I bet Tom Garrett ten 
 shillings I caught a Wolford fox; he accepted it. Wolford Avas full of foxes. 
 We were running from 5.45 till 11.15, and killed an old dog fox at the finish 
 in the open, as stiff as a stake. I won my bet. 
 
 Jem Hills paid me a very high compliment upon the condition of the 
 hounds, and they ran hard the whole time. 
 
 Commenced regular lumting November 5th at Charlecote Pai-k. We had 
 a very hard day ; not a good scenting day ; left off near the three gates. 
 
 November 6th. — A very good day from Mitford Bridge. After a good 
 gallop, killed a fox near Rollwright. 
 
 8^/i, Walton Hall. — A very nice day's spgrt. Killed a brace. 
 
 9^/i, Farnhorough. — Very good day's sport ; plenty of gallo[)ing and 
 jumping. Killed a leash. 
 
 15//i, Shuckhurgh. — A A'ery good day. Did not kill. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On November 15t1i I was staying near Rugby, and hiinted witli the North 
 Warwickshire hounds. They found at Leicester's Piece, and ran in a ring 
 down to the river Leam, where they threw up. Soon afterwards we heard 
 hounds running not far off, and they soon crossed the Leam at fidl cry a 
 field distant from where we were. They turned out to be the Warwickshire 
 hounds, and they had come from Shuckburgh, having run without a check. 
 They had outpaced the field, and were entirely alone. As soon as the North 
 Warwickshire heard them running they started to join them, but by the 
 time tliey reached the place the Warwickshire hounds were out of sight- 
 Part of the North Warwickshire pack then swam across the Leam. and so 
 good Avas ihf °ceut that they began to run the heehvay of the fox which had 
 been run from Shuckburgh. and ran a long way befoi'e they could be stopped, 
 as there was no bridge over the river at that place. The Warwickshire 
 hounds ran for a mile further after crossing the Leam, and threw up, many 
 of the fiehl who had been with the other pack having joined them. The 
 North Warwickshire hounds Avere afterwards taken to draw Bunker's Hill, 
 out of Avhich covert a very stiff, tired fox went away — no doubt the same fox 
 AA'hich the Warwickshire had run so hard to within a mile of this covert. 
 The hounds ran him for fourteen minutes Avithout a check, and killed him in 
 the open. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, Nov. 17tli, 1866: 
 
 We are sorry to find that a dire enemy to poor pug in the Warwickshire 
 country is dealing out destructicm broadcast in every quarter. The little 
 game played at Charlecote Park at the first meet— viz., haA-ing a dead fox so 
 laid as to be A'iewed by all the field, was again played at Chadshunt. Wo 
 regret this exceedingly, as it is Avell knoAvn that no better sportsman Ua^os 
 than Mr. Boltou King, and although uoav a veteran in the service, it takes a 
 good man to hold his own with him. We are sorry oui- list does not end 
 
298 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. 
 
 [1866 
 
 here; we hear two more were found at Itchiugton Holt, and on Thursday 
 that favourite covert, Debdale, was drawn blank. There must be some cause 
 for it. Cannot some means be devised to stop this wholesale destruction ? 
 If not, we fear blank days will not be few during the season. It is most 
 disheartening to master and men who wish to show good sport. 
 
 Robert Worrall's diary {continued) ; 
 
 26</i, Brailes House. — We had a capital day's sport, and were running all 
 day. Killed a brace. 
 
 December 3rd. — A useful day. Killed a fox from a meet at Long 
 Marston. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1866. 
 Me. H. Spencer Ltjcy. 
 
 Names, 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Baffler "^ 
 
 Bachelor > 
 Bridesmaid 3 
 Blameless 
 Boniface 
 Brilliant 
 Bustler 
 Charmer 'J 
 Crafty [ . 
 Crazy ) 
 Nestor ^ 
 Nettler / 
 Newsman > , 
 Nimrod V 
 Norman ) 
 Rallywood ") 
 Royal > 
 
 Riiin ) 
 
 Testy ^ 
 Tempest / 
 Truelove T 
 Truthful J 
 
 Bluecap (58) 
 
 Bluecap (58) 
 
 Banker (60) 
 
 Banker (60) 
 
 Nimrod* 
 
 fHon. W. North's Rally-") 
 [ wood (61) ) 
 
 Bluecap (58) 
 
 Bashful (61) 
 Bounty (64) 
 Barmaid (59) 
 
 Countess (62) 
 
 Racket (61) 
 
 Remnant (61) 
 Trinket (61) 
 
 His Nosegay 
 
 Lord Fitzharding's Heroine 
 
 Their Bashful 
 
 * Bought as a three-year-old in 1862 by Lord Willoughby de Broke and Hon. W. 
 H. North, at the sale of Mr. John Baker's hounds. 
 
 Nimrod Mr. John Baker's Hannibal 
 
 Hannibal (1855) Lord H. Bentinck's Contest 
 
 Nosegay (1855) York and Ainsty Nathan 
 
 Nimrod was a good-looking dog, and good in his work. He was the sire of hounds 
 in the Belvoir, Duke of Grafton's, and other kennels. He had none of the hlack and 
 tan stain in him at all. — W. de B. 
 
 6th, ShucTcburgh. — We had a very good and hard day. Did not kill. 
 7^/i, Bytham House. — Vei*y good day's sport. Killed a fox. 
 10//i, Wellesbourne Village. — We had a capital day. The fox beat me at 
 finish. 
 
 ISth, Ufton Wood.— We ran to ground at Boddington Hill. Mr. W. 
 
mc^imr, THE NEAT SHUCKBUEGH RUN. 299 
 
 Chaiuberlayue rode liard duvino- tlu> imui. Mr. Chaiiil)erlayiu* and iiiy.S(>lf 
 jumped the brook together at a h\g plaee witli a drop. I was riding View 
 Holloa, chesnnt horse. 
 
 14//i, Sioaldiffe. — "We had a famous gallop — twenty-five minutes from 
 Wiggiugton Heath to Swerford Osier Bed. The honuds rau into their fox 
 one field on the other side of the covert ; this fox had no brush. Sir C 
 Mordauut and Mr. J. Mordaunt went well through this gallop. Hounds ran 
 best pace, and never cliecked. I rode Taglioni. Carried me w^ell. 
 
 17^/i. — A capital day's sport. We killed our fox liy moonlight near 
 Shottery. 
 
 18^/(, Ilminf/ton. — A very good day's sport. Killed a brace. 
 
 20//;, Moreton Morrell. — Very useful day, only wanted a kill. 
 
 21st, Kineton Hovse. — This w^as a famous day's sport. We were running 
 all day. Killed our last fox at Farnborough by moonlight. Only Mr. 
 Bolton King, Mr. Hany Over, of Pittern Hill, and myself at the finish. 
 Most of them left ; got lost at Avon Dassett. We had lost the hounds for 
 some little time ; we all three rode on top of them, worrying their fox in a 
 ploughed field near Farnborough Hill. I rode View Holloa and Taglioni. 
 
 'lath, Snitterjield. — A very satisfactory day. Killed a fox. 
 
 27th, Shrickburgh. — A very good day. Did not kill a fox. 
 
 29th, Idlicote House. — A very satisfactory day. Killed a fox. 
 
 Slst, Talton House. — Ground very hard, bad riding ; this was a fair day's 
 sport. Killed a fox on Crimscote Downs. 
 
 J. Hastings and George Morgan were first and second 
 whips to Worrall in 1S66. In 1^08 H. Pacey succeeded 
 George Morgan as second whip, and in lb69 James Tribick 
 became second whip instead of H. Pacey. 
 
 Frost from January 1st to the 7th. 
 
 Sth, Weston House. — Very useful day. Killed a fox. 
 
 10th, Compton Fer»*ej/.— Not a good day; scent very indifferent. We 
 had a nice little gallop in the afternoon ; just got on to the grass. Mr. 
 Stanley overrode hounds. I raved at him ; being deaf, took no notice. First 
 thing he said, "'scent improved, hasn't it? Good man, over anxious at 
 times." 
 
 Uth to 2Wi.— Front. 
 
 25th. Swalcliffe.— Very good day. Killed a fox. 
 
 26/^. Kennels. — Useful day's sport. Killed a fox. This was a bye day. 
 
 Slst, Lower Shuckhurgh. — Mr. Lucy hunted the hounds; they had a very 
 fine run to West Haddon in the Pytchley country, did not get back to 
 kennels till 10.30 ; 17^ couples ont, all there at the finish. 
 
 The following account, by the Kev. W. R. Verney of 
 the run from Shuckburgh on January Slst, 1867, will be 
 of interest to our readers : 
 
 In a great run which took ])lace during Mr. Lucy's mastershij), in which 
 he carried the horn himself, Won-all l)eing away or unwell, I had the 
 good fortune to participate. He got away, after two short rings, from 
 Shuckburgh Hill, and rau to Weltou Place iu forty c)r fifty minutes; from 
 
300 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1867 
 
 theuce over tlie Kilsby Tunnel, and perfectly straight in the direction of 
 Market Harliorough to within three or four miles of Husband's Bosworth. I 
 was riding two of the very best horses in England,* but got a very bad start, 
 and did not see much of the first and best part of the run, in which the late 
 Mr. Stanley, of Leamington, and Squire Chamberlapie, of Stoney Thorpe, 
 held the pride of jdace. When I got on Corsica, f Lord Willoughby's well- 
 known bay mare, I passed plenty of good men who had had enough. I 
 remember passing the late Mr. Bolton King, who liad only one horse out, as 
 Avas his custom, and I asked him which way the hounds were. He pointed 
 forward, and said, " I could go on, but I will not risk killing my mare," like 
 a good sportsman as he was. I jumped the last fence that was jumped that 
 day, and, like a silly young fool, decided to go to the Market Harboroiigh 
 ])all that night instead of going home with the hounds, which would hav& 
 been, of course, the right thing to do. I asked Mr. Lucy to leave word at the 
 Lodge at Compton that I was not coming back, and he passed there and left 
 my message with old Yincent, the stud-groom, at eleA^en o'clock at night. 
 When I got to the ball, in Lord Melgund's dress clothes, I found I was not 
 half such a hero as I expected to l)e, and the mare was so stifE next day that 
 I made up my mind there and then never to sleep out again, a vow which has 
 been religiously kept. We did not kill the good fox, or it would have been 
 the finest run that ever Avas seen. Mr. Lucy was riding Groldfinder, and, of 
 coiu'se, was there ; but I cannot rememlier who else got to the end. — 
 W. R. V. (From the Banhury Guardian.) 
 
 * My old horse Stonewall .Tacksou was well kuowii at (Jsford. I ran him against 
 Captaiu " Johnny " Frederick's The Monk in the ^\^lip at the Christ Church Grind, but 
 was outpaced. He would jump a gate backwards and forwai'ds. I always kept him for 
 the foxhounds, but one day the young fellows were talking about riding, so I said I 
 would take him out next day with the harriers, as my co-master, Mr. Philip Wroughton, 
 could not go out, and I had to hunt them. We were a long time tiuding, and my old 
 horse got quite disgusted, and would not look at a fence. I handed the horn to Mr. 
 Algernon Turnor (who had a capital run with a hare we called ''the Witch," as she 
 always swam the Cuddesdon liver), and took him home, as I thought he was amiss» 
 The next week I took him down to Mr. Arthur Pryor's, of Hylands, near Chelmsford, 
 and he carried me first rate in an hour's run over the Roothings of Essex. I remember 
 the late Mr. Anthony Trollope, the novelist, spoke to me in this run, and said : '" You 
 can't go there, young man ! " I said, '' That depends on the man and the horse," and 
 over I went. 1 remember making a similar reply to the great Jem Mason in the- 
 Wiuslow country. I got a good deal wiser as I grew older ; then I was only a cheeky 
 Oxford undergraduate. I once tried to follow Mr. W. H. Foster on his celebrated 
 chesnut hoi'se. He took me over a bridle gate, very high — Stonewall broke the top- 
 bar ; then over a stile, into a road, and out the other side. Then over some new and 
 very stiff rails, across a ridge and furrow field. Stonewall hit them, and I pulled up, 
 and said I would not have any more. It was no disgrace, as Melton well knows, to be 
 defeated by Mr. Foster and his chesnut horse. He had that one and a bay horse called 
 Comet, and a little brown horse he called his hack. They would jump anything, and 
 the chesnut horse was about the fastest hunter in England. He was timed to do four 
 miles in eight minutes. Mr. Arthur V. Pryor had an extraordinary ugly chesnut horse, 
 well known at Oxford, and afterwards at Melton, called Double First. With the 
 exception of Jupp, bought by Sir Charles Mordaunt from Mr. E. W. Tritton, and Jack 
 King's old ohesnut horse, he was the biggest jumper I ever saw. — W. R, Y, 
 
 t Lord Willoughby's Corsica was by Corsair. She was a great, big, three-parts- 
 bred mare, and was for many years the best known hunter in Warwickshire. Lord 
 Willoughby has st'll one or two of her stock. I think he showed a g-anddanghter at 
 the Pytchley Show in 1895, aud was commended. — ^W. R. Y. 
 
Map op Two Runs.— Sbuckburgh to West Haddon, Jan. 31st, LSiv (ved ink). Shuckbnrgh to Welton— the Empress of Austria's day— Jan. 2i.tli, 1878 (blue ink).— Sic Vol. 11., p. Ifl 
 
 /teproducedfhom Vie Ordnance map by perm ss on of the Controller oT H Ms Stationery OfTce 
 
 lomlon StanicnL (koq^Lstal^ 
 
 London : Sampson LoWjMarston & Company, L*^ 
 
1867] ME. SPENCER LUCY AND HIS MOTHER. 301 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaimt's diary : 
 
 On January Sist, 1867, tlie hounds met at Sluickhuvgli, on a very likely 
 looking morning for linnting after hea^-y rain all night. Bob Worrall was 
 laid up after a bad fall, and Mr. Lucy, for the second time, hunted the 
 hounds himself. They went away with the first fox from the hill, and for a 
 few fields did not settle well to the line; but all at once they l)egan to run 
 without a check and over a beautifid cotiutry, between Stavertou and 
 Shuckburgh Water Mill ; thence over the Southam and Daventry road, and 
 by Di-ayton to Welton Place, where the first check took place, and up to tjiis 
 point they had run seven miles straight, and a longer distance in the direction 
 taken in fifty minutes. I got away from Shuckburgh with the hounds, and 
 after ihey had begun to run fast for a few fields, only a few out of tlie large 
 field were near them. Mr. William Chamberlayne, of Stoney Thorjie, the 
 Rev. William S. Miller, and Mr. Stanley, of Leamington, on a chesnut horse, 
 had the best of it, and were always nearest the pack. I had only one horse 
 out (Irish Mail), and could go no farther than Welton. As I returned, I met 
 many who had been far l)ehind the hounds. Mr. Lucy, who was inside the 
 covert when his hoimds were drawing it, did not get away with them ; but he 
 came up at Welton Place in plenty of time to see the remainder of a 
 splendid run. Mr. Cliaml)erlayne got on to his brother's liorse at Welton, 
 and rode him to the finisli. I heard afterwards from him ami from Mr. Lucy 
 that the hounds after again starting from Welton Place ran at a slower jjace, 
 but always kept on l)etween Ashby St. Ledgers and Watford, and thence 
 over Kilsby Tunnel, and to the right in a ring as far as Ravensthorpe in the 
 Pytchley country, and back from there to West Had don, where the fox was lost. 
 The distance to Ravensthorpe from Shuckburgh Hill is full twelve miles as 
 the crow flies, and the distance as hounds ran is about eighteen miles, and 
 was traversed in two hours and ten minutes. This was the best run which 
 the hounds have had during Mr. Lucy's mastership. Mr. Lucy rode his 
 chesnut mare Minna as first horse, and his chesnut horse Goldfinder as 
 second horse. Mr. Chamberlayne rode Handsome Jack, for which horse he 
 had given 45?., as far as Welton. When Mr. Lucy and Mr. Chandjerlayne 
 were ridiug home together at a A'ery late hour, Mr. Liicy several times said, 
 "Dear me; whatever will my dear mother think has become of me I " (See 
 Map, run printed in red ink.) 
 
 Bob Worrall's diary {con finked) : 
 
 February 1st, WrO'ftoii New Inn. — Mr. Lucy hunted the hounds; not 
 much sport. Killed a fox. 
 
 8th, Harhury Village. — Very good day. Only wanted a kill to make 
 quite a good day. 
 
 \Mh, Wroxton Abbey. — Very good day. Killed two foxes. 
 
 18th, Long Marston. — Nice gallop. Killed a fox. 
 
 21st, Barfords. — Very satisfactory day. Killed a leash. 
 
 22rtfZ, Farnborough. — This was a fine scenting day. Ran from Cbamber- 
 lain's Gorse to White's Bushes without a check, to groimd. Had a good gallop 
 afterwards. Killed our fox. 
 
 2bth, Goldicote House. — Very fair day. Killed a fox. 
 
 26th, Mitford Bridge. — Very good day. Killed a fox. 
 
 28th, Lower Shuckburgh. — Very nice day's sport. Ran over a big 
 country ; did not kill. 
 
302 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1867 
 
 March 1>/, Swalcliffe House. — Capital day's sport. Killed a leash. 
 
 Sth, Eihjc Hill Tower— Ynj fair day'.s sport. Killed a fox. 
 
 12tli and 14th. — Did not limit on account of snow and frost. 
 
 15//(, Banbury Cross. — A very good day. Killed a fox. 
 
 18f/(, 19^/;, 'I'liicl. — Did not hunt 011 account of snow. 
 
 29th, Banbury Cross. — Very good day's sport. Killed a brace. 
 
 April 2nd, Campden (by invitation). — Slept out over night at Campden. 
 Mr. Gritfiths provided dinner and breakfast for huntsman, whips, and second 
 horsemen. I had a deal of ohaft" from tJie natives over night. They wanted 
 to know if we had brought our nightcaps, as old Harry Ayris was often in 
 his all day, and we might be all night. I chaffed back, and tcld them we did 
 not go pottering about like that. As soon as I threw the hounds into covert 
 in Weston Park, several hundred acres, old Banker (a famous hound Mr. 
 Drake gave me when I went into Warwickshire) showed me at once that a 
 fox was on foot. In a minute I heard a " Holloa ! " half a mile from me. I 
 caught hold of them, and galloped up one ride and down another till I came 
 to a keeper with his hat off, who said, " Just gone over, sir." They hit the 
 line off, and in live minutes after entering Weston Pai-k they were streaming 
 over the open like mad for Foxcote, where they killed on the Earths, which 
 were stopped for that day on the Ilmington side. This was a famous day, no 
 doubt. We had a run, and eat our fox before some of our Berkeley sportsmen 
 that chaffed knew where we were. This was a good bit of business, and was 
 a very pleasant and happy day for me. 
 
 bth, Kineton. — Useful day. Killed a fox. 
 
 6th, Newbold Pacey. — Very fair day. Killed a fox. 
 
 12^/;. — Last day of hunting at Suggarswell Farm, near Shennington. Not 
 a deal of sport ; so hot and dry in the morning. An afternoon fox gave a 
 good hunting run ; left off at Wychford Wood. Killed during the season 
 thirty-eight brace 
 
 We must not forget to mention the Rev. H. J. Torre, 
 of Norton Ciirlieu, who was well known at the covei-t side 
 in Warwickshire for the greater part of half a century. 
 He was one of those men of remarkable energy and activity 
 to whom nothing seemed to come amiss, and he could do 
 most things well. He played in the Harrow eleven, and 
 besides playing in the Oxford eleven, he was one of a very 
 few who rowed in the University eight also. He was a 
 genuine sportsman and a good rider, who always knew 
 what hounds were doing. He told us in a letter as follows : 
 " I never had but one fall in which I ever received any 
 serious hurt. I was standing in the road at Little Alne 
 waiting for the hounds. My horse did not like the 
 company he was in, and reared up and fell back upon me, 
 badly injuring my back ; my coat was cut by a loose stone 
 and covered with wet sludge from the road, when John 
 
1867] THE EEV. H. J. TOERE. 303 
 
 Holyoake, of Little Aliie, kindly lent me his Sunday coat 
 to ride in, and I went on in agony until we found a fox, 
 when I had to crawl slowly home, and sent back Holy- 
 oake's coat with a bottle of champagne in the pocket." 
 
 We had from him a very old Scotch song, alluded to in 
 the journals of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., as having been 
 sung in his presence about the beginning of this century, 
 and it was sung on festive occasions by Sir Eobert Menzies,- 
 Bart.. when at'^Oxford in 1839 : 
 
 Hame cam' the gudemau at 'eeu, 
 
 And liame cam' he, 
 And he spied a great coit 
 
 Whar' a great coit should na be. 
 " How cam' that great coit here 
 
 Without the leave of me ? " 
 " Great coit ! " quoth she. " Aye, great coit ! " quoth he. 
 
 " Blind may ye be, 
 It is but a leetle blanket 
 
 My mither sent to me ! " 
 " Far ha' I ridden, and farther ha' I been, 
 
 But blankets wi' buttons on 
 I niver see'danane." 
 
 Hame cam' the gudeman at 'een, 
 
 And hame cam' he, 
 And he spied a pair o' buits 
 
 WLar' a pair o' buits should na' be. 
 " How cam' them buits here 
 
 Withoiit the leave of me ? " 
 " Buits ! " quoth she. "Aye, buits ! " quoth he. 
 
 " Blind may ye be, 
 They are but a pair o' milkpails 
 
 My mither sent to me." 
 " Far ha' I ridden, and farther ha' I been, 
 
 But milkpails wi' sj^urs on 
 I uiver see'd an ane." 
 
 Hame cam' the gudeman at 'een, 
 
 And hame cam' he. 
 And he spied a man 
 
 Whar a man should na be. 
 " How cam' that man here 
 
 Without the leave of me ? " 
 
304 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. - [1867 
 
 " Man ! " quoth she. " Aje, man ! " quoth he. 
 
 " Blind may ye be, 
 It is but a leetle milkmaid 
 
 My mither sent to me." 
 " Fai' ha' I ridden, and farther ha' 1 been, 
 
 But milkmaids wi' beards on 
 I niver see'd an ane." 
 
 There are any quantity more verses of this song, but 
 they all have the same moral. — W. E. V. 
 
 SEASON 1867-68. 
 Robert Worrall's diary {co/tfi/Na'd) : 
 
 Septemher IMh. — Commenced cublniutiiig at Cliestertou Wood. Pleuty 
 of foxes ; did not get liold of a fox, lie got to groiiml. This was a very good 
 cubliuutiiig. 
 
 October 'lotli, Alveston Pastures. — After ruuuing for two liours iu the 
 pastures with three foxes ou foot , we got away with oue. They rau for fifty- 
 five miuutes at rcicing pace, and killed an old dog fox near Pillertou Grorse. 
 Sir Charles Mordaunt was out shooting at Walton ; he told me he heard me 
 holloa "whoop" when we killed. Only mj'self and Hastings saw anything of 
 it. I had the Intches out. Never saw hounds run harder. 
 
 29th, BiUesley Hall— Had a capital run. Killed. 
 
 Slst, Barton Grove. — Found in the Grove ; ran to Over Norton, to ground. 
 This was a good run. 
 
 November 1st, Wroxton, — Found in Claydon HillGorse; rau to ground in 
 a drain. Found in a small bit of osiers ; ran over Crouch HiU, leaving 
 Banbury just on the left ; crossed the Canal and both railways, L. and N.W. 
 and G.W.R. ; past Chacombe nearly to Thenford, bore left-handed past 
 Wilscote in the Bicester country ; here he swung left-handed, crossed the 
 Baidmry and Leamington road near the Hare and Hounds public inn, along 
 the flat for Chamberlain's Gorse ; the bitches ran into this fox oue field lief ore 
 reaching the gorse, as stiff as a stake. 
 
 Bob Worrall told me, " This was Lady Willoughby de 
 Broke's first day with the Warwickshire Hounds after her 
 marriage. It was a treat to see her hxdyship ride this fine 
 run. Soon after we had found, his lordship gave her a 
 lead over four strong rails by the side of a chained gate. 
 When he was over, he called back to her, ' Come on 
 Oerry,' and over she went. Lady Willoughby had 
 the brush of this good fox from me." — W. E. Y. 
 
 November 4:th. — Commenced regular hunting at Charlecote Park. Fair 
 day. No fox. 
 
 oth, Idlicote House. — Fair day's sjwrt. Killed two foxes. 
 ~th, Harbury Village. — Good day's sport. Killed one fox. 
 
1867] 
 
 ANOTHER SAFFEON ENTERED. 
 
 305 
 
 11th, Walton House. — Could not limit for tog. 
 12th, Mitford Bridge.— Tl&\\\ day. Killed one fox. 
 
 \Uh, Snitterfield. — No sport; foxes scarce on this day. Mr. Mark 
 Phillips was very augry it being so. 
 
 Ibth, Swalcliffe. — Yery good day. Killed one fox. 
 18th, Chadshunt. — Very good day. Killed one fox. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1867. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 CaiTer ") 
 
 Cautious V \ Hon. W. Nortli's Castor * . 
 
 Careless ) 
 
 Costly Hon. W. North's Castor*. 
 
 Ooiicord Sorcerer (62) T 
 
 Duster Mr. Drake's Hector 
 
 FalstafE ^ \ 
 
 Foreman > Nimrod 
 
 Ealeou ) I 
 
 Hector '\ 
 
 Mr. Drake's Hector 
 
 Herod , 
 Hostess 3 
 Latimer 1 
 Levity ) 
 Rascal ^ 
 Rakish } 
 Ravitv C 
 Rul)y j 
 Stormer 
 Stella 
 
 SjTCU 
 
 Saifron 
 
 Sailor 
 
 Sai'aceu 
 
 Songstress 
 
 Struggler"] 
 
 Spai'kler 
 
 .Skilful 3 
 
 l^^'^'^^^\ Bobadil. 
 
 hmgwell 3 
 
 Tapster ) I 
 
 Telltale [ Trimmer (61) 
 
 Torment ) 
 
 Lifter (64) 
 
 Mr. Drake's Rascal 
 
 Abelard (63) 
 
 Saffi-on (59) 
 
 Mr. Drake's Sparkler. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Rapid (64) 
 
 Lightsome (64) 
 Cautious (62) 
 His Damsel 
 
 Flourish (63) 
 
 His Crimson 
 Rosebud (61) 
 
 Countess (62) 
 
 Stately (62) 
 
 Basliful (61) 
 
 His Sybil t 
 Symmetry (63) 
 Racket (61) 
 
 * By Belvoir Comus — their Rosy. 
 
 t By Mr. Drake's Freeman — his Skilful. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a three-year-old 
 in 1806. 
 
 12tli, Weston House. — Capital day's sport. Killed two foxes. 
 21st, 8huclcbur(/h. — Fair day's sport. Killed one fox. 
 23nl, Edge HUi Tower.— Yery hard day. No fox. 
 2Qth, Mitford Bridge. — Useful day and very hard one. No fox. 
 2Sth, Harbury Village. — Very good day's sport, galloping all day. Killed 
 -one fox. 
 
 Vol. I. X 
 
306 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. ri8(;7-i86S 
 
 From 2iHJi to Deceinher Utli. — Frost, aud no liuntiuij-. 
 
 December HitJi. Goldicote House. — Fouiul a good fox at Eatiugtou Grove ; 
 ran Ijy Pillerton, Butler's Marston, over the Warwick Road, where Kineton 
 Station now stands, nearly to Chadshunt, bore to the left right to North End. 
 He beat me between North End and Fenny Compton. My fox was seen 
 by a man to go to the earths at Burton Hill, dead beat. This was a fine 
 run OA'er a sporting country ; only wanted a kill to make it perfect. This 
 fox went away without being seen, and was only viewed once near Kineton 
 by one of the Castles, who declared to me that the fox was as big as a wolf. 
 I rode Taglioni ; she carried me throughout grand, aud jumped the biggest 
 and most awkward stile I ever rode over. 
 
 December 19th, Swalcliffe. — Vei-y good day's sport ; fine scentiug day. 
 Our foxes got to ground. 
 
 20//(, Burton Toll Gate. — Capital day's sport. Killed one fox. 
 
 21st (liye day), PiUertoii Gorse. — Found in Eatington Grove ; ran fast 
 for twenty-five minutes to Walton, and killed our fox. 
 
 23r(l, Moreto)) MorrelJ. — Very fair day. Killed one fox. 
 
 24111, Long Marston. — Useful day. Killed one fox. 
 
 2Qth, Ufton iroof?.— Good day's sport. Capital scent. Did not kill. 
 
 30//(, Talton House. — Fair day's sport. 
 
 From Slst till Januanj 10/7;, frost. Hunted at Walton at 11.30 on the 
 9th, being I^ad going. 
 
 Jaunavy loth, Snitterfield. — Fair day. Killed one fox. 
 
 IQth. Sh uchb u rgh .—Hard day. Left off at Ufton Wood. Killed one fox. 
 
 From Sir. C. Morclaunt's diary : 
 
 During the summer I fished two rivers in the Nord Fjord in Norway, 
 where the sea trout run to a great size. During one day my brother and I 
 caught two in the same pool which Aveighed 2111). each, an unusual size for a 
 fish of this description. On the way home from on bcjard one of the coasting 
 steamboats I saw the entire Folgefond Glacier, which can only be seen on a 
 very fine day. It is thirty miles in lengtli, and nine miles in breadth, and is 
 one of the largest glaciers in the world. 
 
 From the Lc(iiii'in(jtoii Spa Co /frier : 
 
 January l(yth. — The meet was at Sluickljurgh, when they had a very fast 
 run of twenty -five minutes, flying from Flecknoe Gorse to Braunston Gorso 
 in the P3d;chley country, 
 
 January 20th. — The meet was at Billesley Hall. They found a fox in 
 Oversley Wood, and made for Red Hill, and over the Stratford Road by 
 Aston, and killed in the open Ijetween Little Alue aud Henley. Time, ouo 
 Tiour aud ten minutes. 
 
 Bob Worrall's diary [cont'inucd) : 
 
 I'ith, Farnborouyh. — Very good day. Killed one fox. 
 
 20th, Billesley Hall. — Capital forty-three minutes, with a kill in the open, 
 over a rougli country. Killed him to the right of Alcester. 
 
 January 21st, Brailes. — Drew homewards. Found in Bowshot. Ran 
 forty-five minutes. Killed him in Lighthorne Rough. This was a rare 
 gallop. Scent good, and hounds ran like mad. 
 
18681 BOB WOERALL AND LORD COVENTRY. 307 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On January Hist tlio meet Avas at Brailes, but we did not find until we 
 got to Bowsliot, from which covevt we had a very brilliant run. The fox 
 went away at once, and ran, leaving- LijL»'hthorne Rough to the left, to Chads- 
 hunt, and from thence, leaving Itchington Holt to the left, by Gaydon, nearly 
 to Burton Hill, where he was headed, and turned back through Gaydon 
 Spinney in the direction of Kineton ; thence bearing to the right, ho crossed 
 the road between there and Chadsliunt, and the hounds killed him in the 
 open Just before he readied Lighthorne Rough, after running for forty-three 
 minutes without a check. Bob Worrall gave me the head of the fox, which 
 is still in good ^jreservation in the hall at Walton. I was well carried by 
 Milk Maid, a white mare of only 15.2 in height, bought from Lord Raglan 
 for 60/., and sold afterwards at Tattersall's to Sir Thomas Whichcote for 
 230 guineas. 
 
 Bob Worrall's diary {continued) : 
 
 23>-(7. Harbunj Station. — Found at Ladbroke. Ran to the Burton Hills. 
 Lost him. Supposed to have got to ground. 
 
 27^/i, Barford Bridye. — -Very good day. Kilhnl two foxes. 
 
 28th, Mitford Bridge. — A capital day. Running all day. Killed two 
 foxes. 
 
 SOtli, Wellesbourne Village. — Useful day, and a very hard one. Killed 
 one fox. 
 
 31st, Sioalcliffe House. — A rare day's sport. Killed two foxes. 
 
 February 3rd, Great Kineton. — Good gallop from Kineton Holt, with a 
 kill. 
 
 4th, Mitford Bridge. — Vei-y hard unsatisfactory day ; bad luck ; foxes 
 got headed, and one gentleman overrode homids ; drove them over the 
 Hue of the fox at a road. I told this gentleman if he had to hunt 
 hounds he would be more careful. This gentleman (Lord Coventry*) after 
 this became master of hounds, and hunted them, and I hope he profited by 
 this lesson I gave him quietly. 
 
 6th, Long Itchington. — Rare day's sport. Very good scent. Killed a fox. 
 
 February 1th, Bytham House.- — Capital day's sport; galloping and 
 jumping all day. Killed one fox. 
 
 ll//(, Ilmington.—YcYj fair day. Killed one fox. 
 
 14^/i, Wroxton Abbey. — We had a very good day. Ran over a deal of 
 trying coimtry, and killed ou.r last fox at Sliutford. 
 
 17th, Goldicote House. — Very useful day. Killed one fox. 
 
 18th, Weston House. — Very good day ; running all day. Killed one fox. 
 
 20th, ShucJcburgh. — Verj' good gallop, with a kill. 
 
 21s^, Church Tysoe. — "We had a fine run from Silencer's Gorse to ground 
 at Whichford Wood. This Avas pronounced by all to be a capital run. 
 
 * Lord Coventry, master of the North Cotswold, the Croome, aud now Her 
 Majesty's Buckliouuds, is, as everyone knows, a first-rate sportsman, and at that time 
 he was a very hard rider. One day lie emulated Stephen Goodall's feat of jumping the 
 white gates on the railway, and then the Evenlode. A friend of ours from Christ 
 Church — Mr. " Charlie " Mainwaring — on a horse called Wyndham, tried to follow 
 him. He managed the gates, but went splash into the river. Charlie got pretty well 
 chaffed that evening, I remember. — W. E. V. 
 
 X 2 
 
308 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. ]8(;8 
 
 2Uh, Uffon Wood.— B.ard day. Killed oue fox. 
 25//i, Mitford Bridge.— Rani day. 
 
 27th, Long Marston. — Very hard day. Plenty of foxes. Scent very bad. 
 2Sth, Wroxton Neio Inn. — Fair day; a lot of galloping about. Killed 
 oue fox. 
 
 The following poem is too excellent to let pass. It is 
 by the late Lord Rosslyn, and was supplied to us by the 
 Rev. H. J. Torre, of Norton Curlieu : 
 
 COSTUME OF THE NEW MASTER OF THE QUORN 
 (MR. HODGSON). 
 
 l^Blackwood'.'i Magazine, February 1st, 1840.] 
 
 Hodgson in a bit of pink ! 
 
 Sliade of Stultz, shade of Brummell, 
 Who of such a sight could think, 
 
 Having seen him in the pommel ? 
 
 Hodgson in white leathers, tights, 
 
 Braces, bumbags, brogi;es, or breeches 
 
 Made to fit like very Flight's, 
 
 Till the pressure starts the stitches. 
 
 Hodgson in a pair of tops, 
 
 Crowning Hoby's buttons bright ; 
 Reynard's self, when running, stops 
 
 A while to gaze on such a sight. 
 
 Hodgson in a pair of gloves, 
 
 White and Woodstock, deftly fitting ; 
 
 Vainly Veniis sent her doves 
 
 With a pair of lier own knitting. 
 
 Hodgson in a velvet cap, 
 
 Worn by eveiy Midland Master ; 
 Worn, too, now by many a chap 
 
 Who measures s^jortsmen hj the castor. 
 
 (rlowing pink on Lincoln green 
 
 Never warmed that manly back, 
 Glorious Tom was never seen 
 
 Following Fashion's foolish track. 
 
 Never did his stalwart knees 
 
 Go without those good old caps ; 
 Hvmter never Hodgson sees 
 
 Fribbled out like bandbox chaps. 
 
18G8: LORD ROSSLYNS POEM. 309 
 
 Gloves — the gloves that served for Adam, 
 
 Erst in Eden (Yorkshire tanned), 
 Ninirod, Hector. Corbett had 'em, 
 
 Are the gloves for Hodgson's hands. 
 
 Hunting is not done by breeches, 
 
 Bits of pink, or waistcoat prim, 
 Gloves and guards, and straps and stitches. 
 
 Heart and soul are all for him. 
 
 Take them, take those gifts away, 
 
 Gallant Rosslyn ! Sterling gold 
 Wants no gilding, poets say, 
 
 Spoils not Hodgson's manly mould. 
 
 Leave our master in his glory. 
 
 Leave him in his jerkin brown ; * 
 Leave his noble upper story 
 
 To its broad-brimmed beaver crown. 
 
 Leave him his drab winter vest on, 
 
 Leave him in his leathers dun ; 
 Meynell, Smith, and Osbaldeston, 
 
 Glorious three rolled into one. 
 
 Leave him with what first we found him. 
 
 Decked alone with huntsman's horn. 
 With his gallant hounds around him, 
 
 Prince of Sportsmen. King of Quorn ! 
 
 Robert Worrall's diary {continued) .• 
 
 March 2nd, BUlesJey Hall. — Very fair day. Killed one fox. 
 Zrd, Brailes. — Fair day's sport. Killed one fox. 
 
 5th, Snitterfield. — Quite a good day, and a very hard one. Killed a brace 
 of foxes in a satisfactory way. 
 
 * " Cecil " says: " Mr. Hodgson adopted a peculiarity of costume, when in Leicestei-- 
 ishire as a master of hounds, by wearing a brown instead of a scarlet coat. This he was 
 said to have chosen because, having hunted his hounds in person when in the Holderness- 
 country, they should not recognise their former liuntsman when that trust was deputed 
 to another." " Cecil " was particularly struck with Mr. Hodgson's conciUatory manner 
 with his field (pp. 145, 146, 1854 e"d.). "Cecil" also says (p. 373, 1854 ed.) : 
 " Uncourteous behaviour is repretensible in all classes, in none more than in a 
 huntsman." On page 272 he gives rather a good &tory of the Mr. Boycott who was 
 such a hard rider in Warwickshire, and afterwards hunted his own hounds in Shrop- 
 shire. A faimer complained tliat the whipxerin had ridden into a field of wheat to 
 v'ew the fox away. "Ah," ?aid Mr. Boycott, " I have heard all about it; I turned him 
 away." The faimer looked at the two whippers-in, and did not recognise the man. It 
 happened that he had met with an accident, and the kennelman had tak^n his place. 
 Was this a case of splendide menda.r .' . 
 
310 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1868 
 
 March Stli, Wornile'ujhton (by invitation). — Found a good fox at 
 Boddington Hill; ran ovor a big country. Owing to a dog running our fox, 
 I had to give liiui up near Preston Capes in tlie Grafton country. Came back 
 to AVarden Hill Gorse ; chopped a fox ; got away with another ; had twenty- 
 five niiinites round Wardington, and killed him. Very good day's sport. 
 
 \Ztli, Sivalch'fe. — Good day's sport. Killed two foxes. 
 
 16th, Newbold Pacey. — Fair day. 
 
 18th, Edge Hill Toiver.—l had a very bad cold. Mr. Lucy hunted the 
 honuds. Killed one fox. 
 
 2Srd, Long Marston. — Blank day. 
 
 24th, Mitford Bridge.— Faiv day. Killed one fox. 
 
 26th, Ufton Wood. — Moderate day. Foxes short. 
 
 On March .2Stli a complimentary dinner was given to 
 Mr. Spencer Lncj, and his untiring zeal and ardent desire 
 to show sport was suitably acknowledged by a numerous 
 company of county notabilities at the Court House at 
 Warwick. Mr. Bolton King occupied the chair. Mr. 
 Lucy, when acknowledging the toast of his health, said he 
 had always endeavoured to show the best, and as long as 
 he was master he would relax no effort to merit praise from 
 the followers of the Hunt. If he had succeeded in 
 winning their approbation it was sufficient reward. He 
 must say the tenant farmers of Warwickshire were the best 
 preservers of foxes. We rode over their fences and wheat, 
 but, notwithstanding that, they were willing to oblige 
 them in every possible way. A writer in a local paper, 
 professing to be a farmer, had stated that foxhunters were 
 apt to ride over a field of wheat in preference to a grass 
 field, and that if they persisted in doing so he should give 
 them notice not to trespass on his land. He did not think 
 the field w^ere guilty of such a thing. He urged the 
 necessity of preserving foxes, and hoped that a kindly 
 feeling would continue to exist between them to promote 
 the popular and sociable pastime of foxhunting. 
 
 Robert Worrall's diary [coniiitiicd) : 
 
 30th, Bed Hill.— Blank day. 
 
 April 2nd, Alcester — To finish the season. — Killed one fox. 
 
 Stopped by frost and fog fifteen days. Killed thirty-six brace. 
 
 SEASON 1868-69. 
 
 September 26th. — Commenced cubhunting at Walton. Good morning. 
 Killed one fox. 
 
18(58- GOOD SPORT. 311 
 
 'ISth, Farnborongli. — G(hh1 uioruiug. Killed two foxes. 
 
 29th, Compton Wyniates. — Good moniiiio-. Killed one fox. 
 
 October 3rrf, Wiggington Common. — Good inovnino-. Killed one fox. 
 
 Sport was very good tlirougli this inoiith. 
 
 November 'Ind. — Coiumeneed regnlar lumtino- at Cliarlecote Park. Fair 
 day's si)ort. Killed two foxes. 
 
 Srd, Mit/ord Bridge. — Very hard day. 
 
 5th, Walton House. — Plenty of foxes ; x>lenty of fun. Killed a l)racc. 
 
 6th. Farnborough. — Very fine day's sport. No fox. 
 
 The next live were bad scenting days, and no sport. 
 
 17th, Mitford Bridge. — Very good day. Kilhnl two foxes. 
 
 'Mil, Edge HiU.—Yevy haitl day. 
 
 26th, Shuckburgh. — Very good day Killed one fox. 
 
 21th, Swalcliffe. — Good day's spcn-t. Killed two foxes. 
 
 December 3rd, Gaydon Inn. — Very good day. Killed two foxes. 
 
 4:th, Wroxton New Inn. — Killed a fox in the morning at Uftou. Drew 
 Kiuetou Holt in the afternoon. Mr. Lucy was not out ; he sent me his grey 
 horse Heads or Tails. I was changing horses in Radway near our blacksmith's 
 forge, and had changed the horn. I was changing in my usual way ; when I got 
 into the saddle he plunged out of the second horseman's liands, and sent me 
 Hying. I turned a complete somersault, and landed on my feet with my back 
 against the blacksmith's forge, and we did not catch him for some -time. Near 
 the Holt I got upon him. Found a fox in the Holt with a good scent ; raced 
 him over the turnpike road to ground near Burton Dassett ; twenty-five 
 minutes best pace. Heads or Tails carried me well ; he jumped some 
 strong ijosts and rails just after we crossed the road. 
 
 I was acquainted with an M.F.H. who bought an aged 
 horse at a screw's price from a fanner, thinking the 
 animal would do to cany his second whipper-in. He then 
 went to London on business, and on his return went to the 
 kennels and asked his stud groom whether the horse was 
 going on well. " Which horse do you mean, my Lord ? " 
 said the groom. " Why, the horse I bought from Mr. 
 Wilkins before I went to town, and ordered him to send it 
 here." " That horse," replied the groom, " has been eaten 
 by the hounds, my Lord. W^hat else could I think he was 
 intended for?" 
 
 This reminds me that a young man who had lately 
 commenced hunting sent for a veterinary surgeon to see 
 one of his horses, which seemed rather amiss, and he came 
 out to the stable to hear what his opinion was. The 
 veterinary said, " Ah ! yer want to know what to do witl) 
 
312 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIKE HUNT. 
 
 [186& 
 
 'im. AVell, now ; he's been goin' pretty 'ard to hounds for 
 a dozen seasons or more to my knowledge, has that 'oss. 
 Now, take my advice, don't keep 'em waitin' for 'im any 
 longer. You send 'im to 'em." — C. M. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1868. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Namks. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Banker . . . 
 Beauty ... 
 Brevity . . . 
 Chorus 7 
 Comely ) 
 Castor 
 Conqueror 
 Caroline 
 Clinker ^ 
 Chaser > .. 
 Captive 3 
 
 Driver 
 
 Hazard ) 
 Hasty j ■• 
 Lapnan ~i 
 Landlord > 
 Lavender j 
 Lexicon ") 
 Lively ) ' 
 Monarch ") 
 Marquis ) 
 
 Nathan 
 
 Nabob 
 Nigel 
 Novelty 
 Roguish ") 
 Remedy ) 
 Rockwood } 
 Rutland ] 
 Render "^ 
 Roman > ... 
 Racket J 
 Tnxemau . . . 
 
 Mr. Drake's Banker 
 Mr. Drake's Banker 
 Mr. Drake's Banker 
 
 Sorcerer [62) 
 
 Susan (65) 
 Truelass (63) 
 Spangle (59) 
 
 Crimson* 
 
 Hon. W. H. North's Castor : Lapwing (64) 
 
 Trimmer (61) 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Ninirod 
 Quorn Hector 
 
 Quorn Nelson 
 Lubiu (64) . . . 
 
 Render (61) 
 
 D\ike of Grafton's Nimrod 
 
 Ne-stor (66) 
 
 Raglan ^ 
 
 Raglan J 
 
 Regent § 
 
 Trimmer (61) 
 
 Columbine f 
 
 Dahlia (63) 
 Bashful (61) 
 
 Lightsome (64) 
 
 Garnish (63) 
 
 Midnight (60) 
 Stately (62) 
 
 Trinket (61) 
 
 Bauble (64) 
 Charlotte (61) 
 
 Sanguine (62) 
 Butterfly (65) 
 
 * By Lord H. Beutinck's Rebel — his Concord. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a four- 
 year-old in 18GG. 
 
 t By Brocklcsby Yaultei- — their Cohimbiue. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a two-year- 
 old in ISGC). 
 
 X By Beh-oir Eallywood — their Pastime. Bought as a five-year-old by Mr. Lucy 
 in 1866. 
 
 § By Mr. Drake's Sparkler — his Rosy. Bought as a three-year-old hy Mr. Lucy 
 in 1866. 
 
 7th, WeUeshounie. — Yery useful day. Killed one fox round Walton and 
 Compton. Very large field out. 
 
18«8-I8ii!r A FIELD OF ONLY TWO. 313 
 
 11^/i. Bytltam House. — Good day. Killed two foxes. 
 
 nth, Newhold Pacey. — Fair day's sport. Killed oue fox. 
 
 l~th. Slnickburgh. — Good gallop over a fiue eomitry by Naptoii, nearly to 
 Southaia. with a kill. 
 
 ISth, Tysoe Village.— nun from Edge Hill to Pillertou. with a kill. 
 
 I*l6'/, Goldicote House. — Very hard day. Found in Alveston Pastures; 
 ran to Wellesbourne Wood, Sniatehley Brake into Walton, changed foxes. 
 Found a fresh fox at Walton Wood, ran to Bowshot ; lost him ; Avent home. 
 
 2'lnd, Mitford Bridge. — Very good day. very liai-d one ; did not get home 
 till late. 
 
 24:th, TJfton Wood. — Unsatisfactory day ; ought to have had a good run. 
 Got well away from Ufton ; after going for several fields, pointing to Lad- 
 l)roke, our fox got headed by a shooting party; went back into Ufton Wood, 
 where we hunted him a long time with a poor scent ; gave him up. Found a 
 fox in a small covert near Ufton, ran twenty minutes, killed him in 
 some buildings. 
 
 2Qth, Snitterfield. — We had a good run to Claverdon. Lost him; this 
 was a capital gallop. 
 
 Z\st, Wellesbourne. — Very good day. Killed one fox. 
 
 January bth, 1869, Mitford Bridge. — We had two good mms. Only wanted 
 a kill to make it perfection. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaimt's diary : 
 
 On January 5th I went to hunt at Mitford Bridge, and was accompanied 
 l)y the late Colonel Edward Chaplin, of the Coldstream Guards. The 
 master was not out, and no one else except ourselves came out all day. There 
 was sufficient frost to prevent hunting till twelve o'clock, at which time the 
 hounds were put into Wolford Wood, and Bol) Worrall got them away veiy 
 soon with a fox. They ran first in the direction of Batsford, but turned to 
 the right, and continued down the Vale between Aston Hailes and Dunsdeu; 
 and, leaving Todenham on the left, ran nearly to the Golden Cross, and from 
 thence back again to Wolford Wood. This run lasted an hour and a quarter, 
 nearly all over a grass country, aiul most of it was fast. In Wolford Wood 
 several fresh foxes were on foot, and one of these soon ci'ossed the high road 
 into the spinney on the other side of it. Bob Worrall, thinking that the fox 
 might be the luuited one, placed his two whippers-in at intervals round the 
 spiimey, and remained himself at another place, and asked lis to assist him at 
 two other places. At this time it began to rain hard, l)ut the scent was as 
 good as tjefore, and the fox, after going several times round the spinney, 
 went away close by Hastings, the first Avhip. As we galloped away 
 with the hoimds close to the fox's brush, I heard Bob Worrall say, 
 ■■ Hastings, you've done very wrong." He answered, " How could I help 
 it ? It's a fresh fox." The pack ran without the slightest check nearly to 
 Barton Grove, and thence between Little Compton and Chasleton to Salford 
 Osiers, six miles as the crow Hies, and seven miles as they ran, nearly 
 straight, in thirty-five minutes. When the osier bed was reached it was 
 beginning to get dark, and Bob Worrall A-iewed what lie thought was the 
 hunted fox going aAvay from the covert; but this turned out to be a small, 
 rough sheepdog Avith a long tail, and Bob got his hounds away, and laid them 
 on to the dog, and by the time he had found out his mistake it was too 
 late to kill the hunted fox. and so this splendid day's sport ended without 
 
314 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1869 
 
 hlood. which tlio limiiids so well cleserA'ed. I tliou^-ht that to have seen 
 such a day's sport, when the field only consisted of two, must be a unique 
 experience of hunting in any country, but particularly in " the Shires." 
 Rode Limerick and Statesman. 
 
 On January 7th the hounds had a very fast run without a check, from 
 Warwick Park to Walton. I was in my study, and saw the hounds in the 
 garden. No one was with them, and no one came np for twenty minutes, 
 and then Bob Worrall arrived alone. One of my labourers in Friz Hill saw 
 the hunted fox just before the hounds, and they may have killed him and 
 come with a fresh fox into tlie garden. I think the field were sto])ped by 
 the Ashorue Brook, which was very high. Lord Willougliby's horse In-oke 
 his back at the brook.* 
 
 I was dining out on a non-hunting day with an 
 elderly gentleman, at a bachelors' party. His favourite 
 sjDaniel was under the table, and one of the guests kicked 
 the dog, because he said he was always whining. Our 
 host said, in his usual stammering voice, " Pray d-d-don't 
 k-k-kick him ; he is not making any noise. It's my 
 c-c-confounded asthma. "f — C. M. 
 
 Bob WorraU's diary {continued) .• 
 
 lih, Cliarlecote Park. — Had a good run from Warwick Park to Walton. 
 Lost him near the house. 
 
 8//i, Wroxton Abbey. — Yery good day. Killed one fox. 
 
 11///. — The run from Red Hill, recorded on an earlier 
 page by Worrall. 
 
 This appears to have been an extraordinary week for 
 scent, and within the week the hounds had live first 
 class runs. 
 
 18//i. Talton Ifo»se.— Capital run. Killed a fox. 
 
 lyf/(. Mitford Bridije, — Capital day's sport. Killed a fox. 
 
 'l\st, Shuchbiirgh. — Good run; ran to Welton Place ; changed foxes, and 
 he beat me. Several got into the Braunston Brook. Taglioni carried me 
 well. 
 
 22nd, Swalcliffe. — Capital day's sport. Killed a fox. 
 
 February 1st, Charlecote Village. — Found in Hampton Wood. There was 
 a fearful rough wind. A fox jumped up in view of the hounds, went away 
 downi wind over the Warwick Sewage Farm, near to the racecourse; 
 over the Warwick Road into Warwick Park. Wliilst I was pulling 
 the fence down, hounds got ahead, and raced the fox round the park. 
 
 * He was a long backed chesnut horse, a sweet fencer. — W. R. V. 
 t Abiit — he went out to dinner. 
 Excessit — he had too much to drink, 
 Evasit — he said it was the salmon. 
 Erupit — he was violently sick. — C. M. 
 
I8f.9: DINNEE TO EGBERT WOEEALL. 315 
 
 Whilst g-allo])iiig' tliroiigh the flooded fuiTows, galloped iuto a ])ack l)rook in 
 mistake, flooded, had a uasty cropper; my mare nearly cut her hoof off witli 
 over-reach. Got up, met hounds coursing their fox across the bridge over the 
 Avon, where they killed him under my horse ; only myself and whippers-in 
 thei'e. Lord Willoughby was field master. Mr. Lucy not out. His Lordship 
 and most of the field Avent to Grove Park, thinking we were gone there; wlien 
 I got into the turnpike road, only Mr. Bolton King to be seen. As mj maro 
 was so lame, and no signs of anyone else, Mr. King ordered me home ; if 
 auythiug was said, he woxdd be answerable. This was an extraordiuaiy day. 
 
 5th, Farnborough. — Capital day's sport. Killed a leash. This was a 
 capital day's sport ; went over a deal of country ; left off near Ufton Wood. 
 
 llth, Shncl-hurgh. — Ran from the Hill to Flecknoe, and lost. Found at 
 Ladln-oke, and ran to Staverton Wood ; killed him just outside the wood. 
 This was a capital run over a fine coimtry ; time, just over the hour 
 Taglioni carried me well. Colonel Austruther Tliomjjson was out, and saw 
 the run.* 
 
 loth, Ilmington. — Very good dsiy. Killed a brace; 25 minutes, with one 
 kill in the open. 
 
 16^/i, Weston House. — Very good day. Killed a brace. 
 
 March 1st, Wanvick Parh. — Nice gallop, and killed him. 
 
 8//i, Filler Ion Toll Bar. — Nice gallop; 25 minutes, to ground. 
 
 dth. Mitford Bridge. — Very good day's sport. Killed a brace. 
 
 16</i, Weston House. — Fine day's sport. Nice gallop from Rollwright to 
 ground ; 30 minutes. 
 
 24-^//. Wolford Wood. — Very good day. Killed a brace. 
 
 Killed during the season, 30§ brace. 
 
 I believe it was in the season of 1867. We had been in the Brailes 
 ■country ; we were going home ; when we got near to Tysoe, someone said to 
 Mr. Lucy : " That patch of gorse looks like liolding a fox." " Shall I draw it, 
 sir? " " Yes," Mr. Lucy said, " if you like." Just as I got to the gorse, 1 viewed 
 a fine fox sneak away through the fence. 1 clapped the lumnds on liis back ; 
 they ran like mad ])ast Farnborough, over the brook, to ground in a drain near 
 Cropredy Station. Being in the Bicester country, had to leave him. Mr. R. 
 Cliapinan was out. There were only about eight when we found. I Ijclieve 
 Li)rd Willoughby was the first to the l)rook ; all that were there got over well. 
 Miss Davy Avas amongst them. This was a splendid gallop; had the drain 
 been stopped we must have killed him, as I viewed him in the last 
 field just in front of the hounds. 
 
 At the end of the season of 1808-1869, Bob Worrall 
 left the Warwickshire, and on May .:20th he was invited by 
 the farmers and tradesmen of the Warwickshire country to 
 a complimentary dinner at the White Lion Hotel, Banbury, 
 and was presented with a silver horn and a purse of 108 
 guineas. Mr. Samuel Berridge, of Drayton, occupied the 
 chair and made the presentation, and the large number 
 of subscriptions bore the best testimony to Worrall' s 
 
 * This is the run mentioned in Bob Worrall's reminiscences. — W. R. V. 
 
316 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [iSGth 
 
 popularity, antl this mark of appreciation of the fine sport 
 which he had shown is one of which he may well he proud. 
 
 The late Lord Willoughby, when Mr. Barnard, was- 
 once hunting with his friend, Squire Drake. They had a 
 very good run, and killed their fox in a farmyard. A 
 Frenchman was out, probably for the first time. He rode 
 his horse at the gate into the yard, and got an imperial 
 crowner into a manure heap. He got up in a sorry 
 condition, and began abusing his horse. The squire, with 
 his usual kindness of heart, said he should like to give him 
 the brush. " He has really gone very well, but I can't 
 talk their lingo." A gentleman offered to do what he 
 could, and took the brush to the Frenchman with this neat 
 and appropriate speech : " Mom^icnr, dii jjart cle Monsieur 
 Brake fax Vhonneur dc von z presenter la queue de renard.''* 
 Monsieur Alphonse drew himself up very stiffly, and 
 responded, " Monsieur, peut-efre je ne suis pas hon Cavalier y 
 mais eejjendanf je nai pax u/erife la q/teue.'' 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 During Jviiie and Jnly I fished the Sira river in Norway. The salmon in 
 this river are different from any that I have seen before, They are marked 
 all over with s])ots like a sea tront. The river is five miles in length, and 
 flows out of a lake ten miles in length, beyond which is another river flowing 
 ont of a small lake of two miles in length, at the top of which was a village,, 
 where we stayed. This lake was of extreme beanty, the water being like an 
 emerald in colour, and the bottom conld be seen at a depth of 20ft. Fifty 
 trout could be caught with the fly in it by one rod in a day, and average lib. 
 in weight. The lake and the valley beyond were surrounded by mountains 
 so steep that it was only possible to make an ascent from one place, up a gully 
 near the lake. I went up this, and was accompanied by a Norseman, and 
 remained out for two nights on the mountains. On the way up I saw my 
 brother catch two salmon in the upper river. We found reindeer stalking,, 
 which we attempted, a very unprofitaljle amusement ; and we had no tent, a.s. 
 the gully was too steep to carry one up. On our return we descended it, and 
 I asked the Norseman whether he had ever seen an avalanche fall down ir> 
 He replied that he often had seen one in winter, but never during the- 
 summer. Two days afterwards I was fishing in the lake with my brother, 
 and we landed to haA'e liuicheon on the shore opposite the gully. After a 
 short time I heard a noise which caused me to look up, and at the top of the 
 mountain above the gully I saw what looked like the upsetting of a salt 
 cellar. This was tlie l)eginning of an avalanche, and in a short time tlie 
 gully was swept by it, and we saw several fir trees knocked to jueces in a 
 moment by the rocks and stones. The whole of it fell sheer into the lake, 
 not more than 200 yards from us. There was very little snow on tlie 
 
1869] THOMAS CEEED, THE KEEPER. 317 
 
 moimtaiu top, and for tliat reawoii. no douht, an avalant-lie at iliis place had 
 never happened in tlie summer, but I tliink it had been started hj a piece of 
 rock breaking off at the top. The Norwegian tokl me that during the 
 previous winter he had been out after reindeer, and eoukl not get nearer to 
 them than 300 yards, but he fired a shot which liappened to kill one of the 
 best of the herd. He gave me the liorns. which are in the hall at Walton, 
 and they carry 42 points. 
 
 HuntiiiiJ" in \Varwick,shire sixty or seventy years a^-o 
 from the diary of a huntsman, prol^aljly "Jack Wood," in 
 his own vernacuhir hmg-uage. 
 
 1829, March l^th, Compton Verne and drod Boshot and not found and 
 then drod Syide Hill, and found. Ijut don nothing with him, it was so di-y, 
 then the Hangings for Frishill, and found and run about there all day l)ack- 
 herd and fourrerds and then cum home. 
 
 March 2.1st Ufton Hous (Ufton House) and drod a patch of gos and found 
 and chopt him; then the new covert But not found, then thorutou Bottoms, 
 but not found, then farnbough (Farnborough) and foimd at the ous, and went 
 for finny cumtom wourf (Fenny Compton Wharf), and ton Burton dasset 
 curch, then to frog Hall farm, then cros they Kiuton rod for tyiso (Tysoe) 
 and killed him, then cum home ; that wos hour ower (an hour and over) and 
 thirty-five minits. a good huntin run. 
 
 March 'loth was to Studley, but did not drou. 
 
 March 'IMh was Coton Park, and not found, But found at ruf Hill, and 
 run him to hullenhill and stop them and cum home. 
 
 March 2Uh (sic) was Spernal Park, and not found, and drod all the 
 woods on to Assom Grove Befour we found, then we dun notliin then cum 
 liome. 
 
 March 2Sth, Midford Bridy and Drod the Heath and not found, then 
 Fork ges and found and went a way over Briels Hill, and stret tohunningtou, 
 then ton Hafford bridge, then tou Muster Shirley's, Heddinton Park, 
 then tou brick bill gos, and then to Oxliill, and to tyeso and kield im in the 
 liice ous at Compton Winnats ; that was tou OAvers and twenti minnits, then 
 cum lioni, un that finished a vere gud seson. 
 
 This diary reminds me of a letter I had when I was at 
 Oxford from my mother's keeper, Thomas Creed (after- 
 wards at Chadshimt and Wroxton Abbey), and a stauncher 
 fox preserver never wore velveteen coat. I wrote to ask him 
 how the pheasants were gettinii^ on at Kineton Holt, and 
 whether there was a litter of cubs. I'liis was the answer : 
 HoNERD Sir, 
 
 The peasants are douing well. The vixon As coubs, Imt a bager As 
 druv them out. I 'ave shot the beast. He Avade 2(31b. 
 
 I am, Sii", 
 
 Your obdiant survent, 
 
 Thomas Creed. 
 
318 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HXTNT. ise^ 
 
 I remember we were running in the Yale, and 
 Tliomas, who was then keeper at Chadshunt. viewed the 
 fox near the osiers at the bottom of Water Lane. 
 Lord Willoughby very nearly jumped over him. All 
 he said was : " How long has he gone, Thomas ? " 
 Thomas, without moving or winking, pulls out his 
 watch. "Exactly four minutes, my Lord." His end 
 was sad. He caught diphtheria, with all his familv, 
 at Wroxton, and he was obliged to be moved, but 
 no one would take him in, so great was the scare 
 at the time. He was taken to a hastily constructed 
 bothv, but soon died, as he had lived — in the woods. — 
 W. E. V. 
 
 I remember on one occasion, when the hounds met at 
 Walton, asking the keeper, William Taylor, which covert 
 he thought most certain to hold a fox. He replied, 
 " Eight Men's Marth." I said I thought that there was 
 not enough lying in it, but his answer to that was, 
 " Sometimes the most unlikeliest places are more likeher 
 than the likeHesi:."— C. M. 
 
 One of the l^est riders in the country was Mr. William 
 Chamberlayne, of Stoney Thorpe. He was a light weight, 
 and alwavs rode thoroughbred horses up to list. 71b. He 
 could make them go am-^here, and was a finished horse- 
 man, and invariably managed to get a good start with 
 hounds, and to keep it to the end of many good runs. 
 Living where he did, he had a great experience of hunting 
 in the best part of the Warwickshire country, as 
 well as in the best parts of the P^-tchley, Bicester, and 
 Grrafton Hunts, on most days of the week. He hunted for 
 twenty-eight years until 1S77, when he broke his thigh 
 o^\'ing to a fall over timber off the Braunston dam in the 
 Shuckburgh countrv', and was unable to ride to hounds 
 fifjaiii. He was riding a mare called Isabel, mentioned 
 on a later page. At the time when he was being 
 carried through Braunston Village, when he spoke first 
 after the fall, he said to the first man who came to 
 see what had happened, " Has Charles Onds killed his 
 
1869] SOME NOTED SPOETSMEX. 319 
 
 fox r ""* ]\Ir. Chamberlavne was for live months unable 
 to move from liis bed. Two years afterwards be began 
 to ride again, and when returning home close by Thorpe 
 liough. as he was opening a gate his horse backed too 
 far, and fell back upon him in a deep ditch, where he 
 remained in a fi'ightful position for an hoiu' before he was 
 found with the horse h^ing upon him, and Avith his thigh 
 again broken, as well as his arm and his shoulder ! He 
 was then laid up again for three months. 
 
 ]\[r. John ^Nlordaunt, of Staple Hill, was another noted 
 good rider to hounds. He was an excellent judge of a 
 horse, and had at various times some very fine hunters, and 
 no one knew better how to ride* them ; his skill and 
 judgment enabled him to see the end of the best runs. He 
 was for several years secretaiy to the Hunt until he left the 
 country, when a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to him 
 for his efficient ser\'ices. He had been in the Eton eleven, 
 and was for long afterwards a very good cricketer. He 
 was a cheery and amusing companion and a general 
 favourite. His best hunters were a bay mare, before 
 mentioned ; a chesnut horse called Tenbury. bought by 
 Sir.C. ]\Iordaunt ; and a bay horse called Grood Boy. 
 
 Mr. AV. H. P. Jenkins (^Mi*. Mei-ton),who was at this 
 time li^'ing at Upton House, was a great sportsman 
 and a famr>us rider. His name was a household word in 
 the War^vickshire country, and s(^» great was his popularity 
 .that when he left the country his many friends gave him a 
 dinner, which took place in London on October 19th, 1S94. 
 on which occasion his portrait was presented to him. He 
 was for many years a most energetic secretary to the Hunt ; 
 he was the owner of some celebrated steeplechase horses. 
 He was also a most enthusiastic cricketer. 
 
 The Eev. Francis Annesley was a well-known sporting 
 
 * Mrs. Godman bad a terrible fall in the same run, and cut her foot very badly. 
 Clashmore hit a binder into the Fleokuoe and B^auu^ton road, and turned completely 
 over. I sent a man to fetch Lord WUloughhy back. ■" Where shall I find him !- "he 
 said, ■' With the hounds, of course," I answered. Curioiasly enough. Lord WUloughby 
 had fallen into the sauie road out of the nest field. Old Mr. Goodman lent us his 
 brougham, and we heard of Jlr. Chamberiayne's sal accident on our way back to 
 Southam.— W. R. V. . " 
 
320 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [i869 
 
 divine, one of the old scliool, and the owner of ii little covert 
 called (xall}' Oak, on the edge of the Vale of Evesham, 
 from whicli the Warwickshire have had many good runs. 
 He lived in his old, quaint, and beautiful black and white 
 Manor House at Clifford Chambers, but was also vicar of 
 the parish. For many years he hunted more or less regularly 
 with the Warwickshire hounds. Many stories are told of 
 him, more or less true. We have only space for a few. 
 
 One year he was staying at a friend's house in the spring, 
 and was asked to stop over the Sunday for some rook 
 shooting the next week ; so, being over persuaded, he wi'ote 
 home to his clerk to put up a notice to say that he would 
 not be at home, and there would be no service. In a post- 
 script he added (not for publication), "The rook shooting 
 will be very good." The clerk put up the notice : " There 
 will be no service next Sunday, as Mr. Annesley can't 
 come home on account of the rook shooting being so good." 
 
 He was once dining with the Squire of E , who 
 
 boasted quite as ancient a descent as his own, but perhaps 
 thought more of it.* Some very old vintage port was 
 produced, upon the excellence of which the Squire dilated 
 to his reverend friend. "It is very old, Annesley. I 
 marvel why it has not disappeared long ago." "I don't 
 marvel at all," was the answer, "if you don't pass it a 
 little faster than you are doing to-night." 
 
 Mr. Annesley was an hereditary trustee of the British 
 Museum, and used to attend the meetings pretty regularly. 
 One day he got a tip from the waiter at the restaurant 
 near as to the hours when the Museum should be opened. 
 He brought it forward as his o\^^l suggestion, and I believe 
 it was unanimously adopted. He died in 1875, aged 
 eighty, and was succeeded at Clifford Chambers by his 
 nephew, the Rev. F. H. Annesley, an excellent sportsman, 
 but not a foxhunter. He has lately let Clifford Chambers, 
 having accepted the living of (iayton, in Staffordshire. We 
 
 * Speaking of the Squira of E 'ti foiKhiess for li3ralclry, I once liearJ a laJy say 
 
 ■of liitn : " I believe lie is jealovis of his own son because he has got one more aticostor 
 than himself."— C. M. 
 
186!^ MR. FREDERICK TOWNSEND. 321 
 
 were told a good story in connection with this district. It 
 was at the time of the Egyptian War. One old farmer said 
 to another, " So they've taken old Araby, and packed him 
 off to Ceylon?" "Taken Araby have they? AVhat a 
 shame ! Poor 'armless old gentleman, and did a lot of 
 good in the country, too." He thought his friend was 
 speaking of Lord Harrow^by. 
 
 Mr. Frederick Townsend, of Honington, was a good 
 rider, and had at the same time two very good chesnut 
 horses which were first-class hunters. He afterwards for 
 several years represented South-West Warwickshire in the 
 Conservative interest. He also had, in later years, a very 
 good grey horse, which he sold to the Rev. C. P. Causton, 
 Rector of Stretton-on-Fosse — a capital sportsman ; also a 
 big brown horse called Buckskin, a capital hedger. He lent 
 him to Lord W. de Broke, and I had a day or tw^o on 
 him. When I got on him at the kennels the first time, I 
 said: "Is this horse quiet, and what do you call him?" 
 " He's very quiet," was the answer, " and us calls him 
 Freddy r " That'll do," I said ; " let his head go," and I 
 had a very comfortable ride. — W. R. Y. 
 
 Captain Peach, of Idlicote (late of the Royal Horse 
 (luards), was a zealous supporter of the Warwickshire, and 
 the owner of a large stud of very fine weight-carrying 
 hunters. One of his brother ofiicers, who often stayed 
 with him, Mr. Clambier (the Bolter), was a very short- 
 sighted, hard rider. I remember his jumping into the 
 middle of an old woman's very small cabbage garden. He 
 nearly killed her, and was thrown with violence against the 
 wall of the cottage. On another occasion he jumped a 
 brook, which made a circle in a large field, rode straight 
 on, and jumped it back again into the same field. — C. M. 
 
 Mr. Corbett Holland Corbett, of Admington, was a very 
 well-known figure in Warwickshire, where he hunted for 
 tliirty years, and no better or harder rider has been seen in 
 any country. He has broken nearly every bone in his body, 
 and some of them twice over. He kept a pack of harriers 
 with which he occasionally hunted a stag, and we shall, at 
 
 Vol. I. Y 
 
322 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1869 
 
 a later period, record a famous run with them. One of his 
 best hunters was Red Coat, on which an excellent portrait 
 of him has been painted. 
 
 The Honourable E. Chandos Leigh, Q.C., was devoted to 
 hunting-, and was a conspicuously fine rider, always in 
 the front rank notwithstanding his weight of 15st. We 
 are indebted to him for some excellent descriptions of 
 good runs, and we shall record that he was one of few who 
 were at the finish of several famous runs. One of his best 
 hunters was Red Coat, above mentioned, which he bought 
 from Mr. Holland Corbett. 
 
 Lord Camperdown was for many years one of the best 
 supporters of the Warwickshire. He was a very hard 
 rider, and particularly fond of jumping water. On more 
 than one occasion on the same horse he succeeded in getting 
 over very wide brooks which were not jumped clear by 
 anyone else. He thought nothing of hunting at Slniclxhurgh 
 from Weston House, and riding home again. I remember 
 1864, when, as Lord Duncan, he made a gallant fight for 
 the Liberal party. He went to the house of a farmer, who 
 had for years been an ardent Conservative, and asked him 
 for his vote, but he naturally received a reply in the 
 negative. In the meantime they sat Aoww to luncheon, 
 and during the rej^ast the farmer said, pointing to a round 
 of beef, of wdiicli only part had been eaten, " My lord, if 
 you will finish that round of beef, I will vote for you," 
 meaning this, no doubt, as a joke. Lord Duncan by slow 
 degrees finished it before lea^dng the table, and told the 
 astonished farmer " that he must be as good as his word," 
 and such was undoubtedly the case, for he gave him his 
 vote on the polling day, amidst much chaff from his OAvn 
 friends on both sides. In the meantime, thinking the 
 farmers' vote safe in the Conservative interest, I did more 
 urgent Avork which was required in the neighbourhood 
 first, and did not call upon him for some time. When I 
 did so I was showTi into the parlour, where his two 
 dauo'liters were, until his arrival, as he was out on the 
 farm. After talking to them for a few minutes one of 
 
18G9] LOED CAMPERDOWN. 323 
 
 them burst into tears, and when I inquired what could be 
 the matter, she told me the story which I have above related, 
 and that " Father's vote was gone beyond recall." — C. M. 
 
 Lord Camperdown once came down from Oxford to a 
 coursing match liis uncle's tenants had got up at Weston. 
 He soon found it rather slow, so did not rest till he had 
 borrowed Mr. Eainbow's horse, which he rode at a wide 
 place in the brook which runs between Barton and Weston. 
 The bank broke, and he got a regular souser. It is not 
 at all unlikely that he travelled back to Oxford in his wet 
 clothes. I have known him skate at Compton Verney all 
 (lay, and then start off to walk back to Weston (seventeen 
 miles) quite late at night. He had a very bad fall near 
 Watergall once, and lamed his horse, and had to walk him 
 ])ack to Weston. I got Mrs. Verney to write to Lady 
 Camperdown to ask how he got home. The answer was 
 that " it was the first she had heard of it." I remember 
 how he bought his best brook jumper. He was a very 
 common looking horse, but he told me that he saw a whip 
 of H.M. Staghounds ride him through a pond, and jump 
 out of it over some very high rails on to the G.W.R., and 
 that he determined he would have him, which he did, and 
 rode him for many seasons. 
 
 I remember once we ran a fox into a patch of gorse 
 near White's Bushes. The huntsman was not there, and I 
 •came up rather in a flurry, saying, " AVhere is he ? Where 
 is he? " " Hush ! " said Mr. Holland Corbett, " Camper- 
 down's going to have the brook." I looked down the 
 valley, and there was his lordship riding straight down 
 the hill away from the hounds, at the brook in the 
 bottom. 
 
 I asked Lord Camperdown one season how many falls 
 he had had. " I've had fifty," he said, "but then I gave 
 Jip counting''' I made a nonsense rhyme about it : 
 
 Some sportsmen there were who would scamj^er down, 
 At fences after Lord Camperdown ; 
 But when this young Earl got his fiftieth purl, 
 They ceased to follow Lord Camperdown. 
 
 Y 2 
 
324 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1869 
 
 Mr. Ernest Cassel was the only gentleman who broke 
 this record. — W. R. V. 
 
 A very good story is told of this Mr. Rainbow^ 
 mentioned above, who used to hunt a good deal when he 
 was a younger man, but afterwards was not quite so 
 keen. Many years later he took a farm at Barton, 
 and was Major Wilberforce Bird's bailifE as well. 
 It was when the present Lord Willoughby hunted 
 the hounds, and there was a very celebrated dog in 
 the pack called Rainbow, a dark black and tan hound, by 
 Mr. Muster's Forager. He was a famous drawer,, 
 and very keen on a fox, and was quite a nuisance at a drain 
 or when they had killed. They ran into a fox in the 
 kitchen garden at Barton House, and it was some time 
 before the staff got up. A great many foot people, 
 amongst them Mr. Rainbow, turned up in that strange 
 way that foot people always do when a fox is killed. 
 Presently Lord Willoughby and his men arrived, and there 
 was some confusion in getting the fox out through a 
 narrow doorway. His lordship was heard to exclaim, 
 "Look here. Jack, we shall never do any good till we get a 
 rope round that Rainbow's neck." People say that our 
 friend walked off looking rather scared, and fingering his 
 neck. It's what they call " ben trovato." — W. R. V. 
 
 Mr. Luj)ton, of Stratford -on -Avon, was a good sports- 
 man, and a capital rider to hounds. He rode a thorough- 
 bred horse called Burton, which carried him always in 
 the first flight. He was the author of several good 
 hunting poems and songs. 
 
 Some of the best riders amongst the farmers were Mr. 
 Wilson, of Ilmington, and his son Mr. E. P. Wilson, the 
 famous steeplechase rider ; Mr. Clifford, of the Mill, 
 Clifford Chambers, who rode a capital chesnut mare ; Mr. 
 James Milward, of Bidford ; Mr. Samuel Berridge, of 
 Drayton ; Mr. Greorge Smith, of Ailston, on his roan 
 chesnut horse ; Mr. Boddington, of Cubbington ; Mr. 
 Sarjeant, of Long Itchington, who hunted for more than 
 fifty years; Mr. E. P. Knott, of the Grange, Fenny 
 
18<>9: 
 
 HARD RIDING FARMERS. 
 
 325 
 
 Compton ; Mr. Goodman, of Catesby Abbey, now of 
 Plecknoe ; and Mr. Dadley, of Loxley. ]\Ir. Fairbrother, 
 of Burton Dassett, deserves especial notice in a work of 
 this kind. He is a thoroughly representative tenant 
 farmer and yeoman. , He has for the greater part of his 
 lifetime hunted with the Warwickshire Hounds, and is 
 still a capital rider, and has made hunters of many good 
 young horses and sold them. He is still in the Warwick- 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1869. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. ' 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Admiral ~1 
 
 Actor ^ 
 
 Ajax 3 
 
 Bouncer ... 
 
 Abelard (63) 
 
 Regent 
 
 Bonnybell (62) 
 
 Bounty (64) 
 Tragedy (65) 
 His Constant 
 His Midnight 
 
 Blueeap 
 
 Comus 
 
 Garland 
 
 Mr. Drake's Banker 
 
 Mr. Drake's Guardian 
 
 Mr. Drake's Guardian 
 
 Mr. Drake's Guardian 
 
 Raglan 
 
 Raglan 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Trimmer (61) 
 
 Wildboy (64) 
 
 Governor ") 
 Gossamer j 
 Ruler ■) 
 
 Rufusj 
 
 Ransom 
 
 Sportive \ 
 Sontag / 
 Skilful V 
 
 His Spangle 
 
 Stately (62) 
 Flourish (63~ 
 
 Sanguine (62? 
 
 Dahlia (63) 
 Lapwing (64) 
 
 Scornful i 
 Sylvia j 
 Trimmer ~) 
 
 Tuneful [ 
 
 Truelass j 
 Warlock 1 
 Watchman 3 
 
 shire Yeomanry. Also Mr. Fred. Fabling, of AVorm- 
 leighton; Mr. Rich, jun., a clever steeplechase rider; and 
 Mr. Joseph Hall, of Horley, now of Ufton, a heavy weight, 
 but a capital man to hounds, and with his fists. 
 
 SEASON 1869-70. 
 
 AVhen Bob Worrall left in 1809 he was succeeded by 
 T. Hastings, who had been first whipper-in, as huntsman. 
 Charles Orvis was first whipper-in, and J. Tribick second. 
 
326 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1870 
 
 Mr. Lucy hunted the hounds on two days a week himself, 
 and Hastmgs hunted them on the other two days. 
 
 That good sportsman, Mr. George Smith, of Weston 
 Sands, has supplied us with a short diary, from which we 
 give a few extracts : 
 
 Noiwniber 9t]i. — Fii-jst day, Cliarlocote. Foiiud Oakley Wood ; van nearly 
 to Harliui-y. Second, Chesterton Pool ; ran a fast ring. A A'ery good day. 
 
 November 2Qth, Siccdcliffe. — First, Wiggiugton Heath; i-an to Wroxton, 
 Second, from near Wroxtou ; ran fast round Broughton, OA'er the hottoiu and 
 Stone Wall top, and on ueai-ly to Adderbury to Bloxham Grove, and killed in 
 bottom. Very good run ; seventeen miles to covert, twenty-three home. 
 Rode Roscoe. 
 
 December '24th, Church Tijsoe. — Found Spencer's Gorse ; very fast to 
 Oxhill, fifteen minutes very good ; to l)ottom of Edge Hill, forty-two minutes ; 
 to Round House, fifty minutes. Changed foxes, and killed one at Suurising. 
 Very good day. Rode Kitty. 
 
 From the Lcamlnyion Spa Courier, January 8th, 1S70 : 
 
 The Warwickshire had a good day over the plough on Thursday last. 
 The meet was at Ufton Wood. Debdale Avas the first draw, and no sooner 
 were the hounds tlu'OAvn in than they gave tongue. They rattled him straight 
 through the covert, and he made his point for Leamington Hastings, over a 
 fine grass country ; he was, however, headed, and turned short back straight 
 through the covert again, and broke at the lower end, pointing for Long 
 Itchington, crossing the road as if for Print Hill ; when at the river he was 
 headed, and ttirned into Ncav Fields, bearing doAvn the meadoAvs to Himniug- 
 ham Coppice. The country being A'ery deep had a great effect ujjon the field, 
 Avhich at this point was anything but compact, Reynard still bearing as if for 
 Offchurch; but made another turn to the right, and charged the river midway 
 between Weston Mill and Hunniugliam Bridge, the only two negotiable 
 places, so that the hounds had it all to themseh'es up to Cubbington Wood, 
 AA'here they lost him, but lief ore anyone could get up to them they had another 
 on foot, Avhich they ran through Waverley, Wa])peubury, Princethorpe. and 
 Rytou Woods in good style. The hounds Avorked admirably, and the pace 
 up to Cul)l)ington Wood Avas fast enough to please the most fastidious. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On January 21st * 1870. there Avas a good deal of frost, and the fixture, 
 which had been made for Wroxton NeAv Inn, Avas in consequence altered to 
 Chadshunt. A fox was found in the laurels of the garden, and Avent aAvay 
 over the best line of countrA'. OAer the Kinetou and Southam road, and oAer 
 
 *0n this day I rode my sister's mare Emerald first, and the Fawni, that I bought 
 from Lord Kosebery, second horse. She a\'ou the Ch. Ch. Grind. Jockey, Mr. Gerald 
 Duiicoml)e. Emerald was a good mare, but the Fawn was a soft-hearted brute. I was 
 dining with Mr. John Lucy the nest day, and he said, in his punctilious manner, " I hear 
 — ^you Lad — a very good run yesterday — Mr. Verney." " Yes, Sir," I said, " we had a 
 clinker." " And I hear — you bad — a very good place." I was just about pleased with 
 a little l)itof praise from such a veteran foxhunter. — W. R, V, 
 
Sir Charles Mordaunt. 
 
 1870. 
 
 From a photograph by 
 
 Elliott and Fry. 
 
.JauBbioM gsiiBilO lie 
 
i.sro GOOD EUN FROM CHADSHUNT. 327 
 
 tho Cliadsliimt Brook near the osior ))ed ; tlieiico ho passed hy Marlborough 
 and Old Leys, aud between Avon Dassett and Warmiugton straiglit down the 
 Vale. Tlienee he turned to the right by Shotteswell to Hanwell, and across 
 the Banbury and Warwick road to Drayton, thence tlirough the Allotment 
 Gardens to Withycombe Covert, which he passed on the left, aud the scent 
 failed in the road near Broughton Castle. Thus tliis gallant fox escaped, 
 after a splendid run of. an hour and forty-five niini;tes. nearly all over grass; 
 the distance from point to point being ten miles, and about fourteen miles as 
 liounds ran — not much out of the straight line. I rode Limerick, a horse 
 Avhich I had bouglit near that place after he liad run third in a steeplechase 
 over so severe a course that two horses were killed by falling at the fences. 
 I hunted him for eleven seasons, and he was then buried on the hill above the 
 lake at Walton, where many other old favourites lie. It is said that it is 
 given to a man only to possess one really good horse in his lifetime, and he 
 was certainly the best I ever rode. He had a curious habit of laying his 
 ears back when he was put at a fence, although he was full of courage. 
 I used to have sandwiches* with plenty of mustard in them, as well 
 as a small piece of cold fi-ied plum pudding, and on several occasions, when I 
 did not require all of these, I gave them to Limerick, who ate first one and 
 then the other as he was with the bridle in his mouth. 
 
 Amongst those who hunted at this time were Lord 
 Somerville (afterwards unfortunately killed by a fall from 
 his horse), Mr. Everard, of Ladbroke Hall; Lord Leigh, 
 Lord St. Lawrence, a hard rider ; Lady Pole,t of Todenham ; 
 on her celebrated white horse ; Captain Loniax, Captain 
 Ej-ton, Captain Painter, Mr. Clreaves, of Barford ; Captain 
 Allfrey, of Alveston, of whom we shall make mention later ; 
 Mr. J". F. Starkey, Captain Armstrong, of North Lodge, 
 Kineton ; Captain Robertson, Colonel Campbell, of 
 Wellesbourne ; Captain Paulet, of Wellesbourne ; Captain 
 Pritchard Payner, a very good rider ; Mr. Holden, of 
 Leamington ; Mr. Rennie, of Leamington, who had the 
 largest stud of hunters in the country, chiefly ridden by his 
 groom ; Mr. Thursby, of Wormleighton ; Mr. and Mrs. 
 
 * Origin of the word "Sandwich." The old Lord Sandwich passed twenty-four 
 hours at the gaming table. He was so absorbed in the game that he had no sustenance 
 all the time except a bit of beef between slices of bread. — Sporting Magazine. 
 
 t I remember on one occasion, when Lord Willoughbyde Broke hunted the hounds, 
 a fox was run to ground in one of the main earths of Wolford Wood, belonging to 
 Sir Peter Pole. Lady Pole, on the white horse, was close at hand, her groom, by her 
 side, having hold of her horse's bridle rein, which was quite usual. Lord Willoughby 
 spoke to her, perhaps rather crossly, on account of the earth not being stopped. After 
 a time it was too much for the good lady, and she burst into tears. Between the 
 intervals of her sobs, she said: "I assure you. Lord Willoughby, that when dear 
 Sir Peter hears about this he will be heartbroken." Sir Peter Pole was a good 
 supporter of hunting and a fine specimen of the old English school of country 
 gentlemen. — C. M. 
 
328 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1870 
 
 Jessop, Mr. Yate Hunt, Mr. Berkeley Lucy, Mr. 
 Woodmass, Mr. Flower, Major Manley, of Upton ; Mr. 
 AVelclinian, of Southani ; Mr. Fisher, of Banbury ; Mr. 
 Andrew Robertson, of Banbury ; Mr. CI. Uuppa, Colonel 
 Blackburn, and Mr. Tom Wrig^ht, of Tidmington. 
 
 Amongst the farmers who hunted were Mr. Fletcher, 
 of Paxford Blakemore, a hard rider ; Mr. E. Scriven, of 
 Wormleighton ; Mr. H. Hawkes, Mr. J. Hawkes, Mr. 
 Grodson, of Edge Hill House ; Mr. Andei-ton, of Sugarswell 
 Farm ; Mr. Cxeorge Hitchcox, of Hinton, a capital rider ; 
 Mr. W. Eldridge and Mr. J. Eldridge, both noted riders ; 
 Mr. French, of Hanwell ; Mr. Chand^erlain ; Mr. Page and 
 Mr. C. Savage, both of Warmington ; Mr. Wright, of 
 Priors Marston, a hard rider ; the Messrs. Potter, of Farn- 
 borough (3) ; Mr. Bawcutt, of Burton ; Mr. J. Griffin, a 
 good rider ; Mr. F. Wood, of Bodicote ; Mr. W. Coles, of 
 Edge Hill Tower ; Mr. Garrett, of Tadmarton ; and Mr. 
 Page, of Adderbury. 
 
 From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 Oil March ord tlie meet was at Newbokl Pacey, and tlie groiind was so 
 hard tliat when gallopiug over the grass the dust flew up under tlie horses' 
 feet. A very small, scrubby looking fox was found at Oakley Wood, and 
 went away at once over the high road, pointing for Highdowu ; but he turned 
 to the right, and, leaving Chesterton Wood on the right, passed across 
 Harbury Heath to the right of Bishops Itchington, and thence leaving 
 Ladbroke to the left, ran across Wills Pastures, and across the Canal, and 
 over Boddiugton Hill to Boddington Reservoir, and the line could not be hit 
 off beyond that place. This was a slow hunting run over about seventeen 
 miles of the finest country, and lasted two hours and forty-five minutes : the 
 distance from point to point being thirteen miles, and as the hounds did not go 
 into a covert, perhaps the run was with one fox only. Rode Isabel. Isabel 
 was a very good bay mare, which I bought from Mr. Cavendish Beutinek for 
 lOOZ., and rode for eight seasons. She was then bought at Tattersall's by Mr. 
 W. Chamberlayne, who was riding her when he met with his serious accident. 
 
 On December 24th, 1870, Chelmscoto Gorse, more commuuly called 
 Spencer's Gorse. and named after that good fox preserver Mr. Spencer, on 
 whose farm it was planted, Avas drawn for the first time, and there was very 
 little lying in the covert at that time. The fox went away at once, with the 
 hounds close to his brush. They ran down the Vale nearly to Oxhill, and then 
 turned. to the right in a field quite full of ant hiUs, and passed to the left of 
 Tysoe, over the Banbury and Stratford road, pointing for Kinetou Holt ; but 
 they turned to the right before reaching it, and ran the fox to ground nearly 
 in view at Edge Hill, after a splendid run of fifty minutes without a check 
 oyer grass. Lord Camperdown went very well in this run. Rode Limerick. 
 
18-0] 
 
 EXTKA GUAKANTEE. 
 
 329 
 
 In Jiiue and July, 1^70, 1 caught 117 salmon and 
 fifty sea trout in the River Eauma, in Norway, weighing 
 13051b.— C. M. 
 
 SEASON 1870-71. 
 At the end of the season of 1S69-1S70 the annual 
 meeting of subscribers to the hounds took place at 
 Wellesbourne, and it was agreed that the present arrange- 
 ment for hunting the country, namely, two days a week by 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 187U. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Abelard ") 
 
 Abelard (63) 
 Nestor (66) . 
 
 Age... . 
 
 Artful 3 
 
 Coaxer 
 
 Clasher * 
 
 Charity 
 
 Guardian . . 
 
 Harltiuger 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Nettler 
 
 Ndsegay 
 
 Nemesis 
 
 Nightshade 
 
 Nigel 
 
 Stately ..... 
 Triniliu.sli^ 
 Tarquin ' 
 Tulip t 
 
 Tinsel J 
 
 Warrior ) Aur-i n ,o^^ 
 
 -.,7-1 [ Wildbov b4 
 
 Welcome > J ^ ' 
 
 Mr. Drake's Guardian 
 Hector (67) 
 Regent 
 
 Nestor (66) 
 
 Trinket (61) 
 
 Careless (67) 
 
 Spangle t 
 Tidings (63) 
 Lightsome (64) 
 
 Midnight + 
 
 Herod (67) Nancy § 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Senator.. : Mr. Drak(>'s Svl)il 
 
 Mr. Drake's Guardian 
 
 Torment (6/ 
 Rapid (<)4) 
 
 * Clasher, a good looking dog, with a great deal of bone, and very good in liis work. 
 Remarkably good drawer ; he almost always found the fox lirst. 
 
 t By Mr. Drake's Rascal — his Spangle. Bought Ijy Mr. Lucy as ;i two-year-old 
 iu 1866. 
 
 X By Mr. Drake's Furrier — his ]\Iatroii. Bouglit by Mr. Lucy as a tlirec-yeiir-old 
 in 186(5. 
 
 § By Belvoir Ximrod — Sir \V. W. AV^yini's Stately. Bought by Hon. W. North as 
 :a two-year-old in 1865. 
 
 Mr. Lucy and two days by Hastings, did not work 
 satisfactorily. It was therefore decided to guarantee Mr. 
 Lucy an extra 300/. a year in order that he might engage 
 a first class huntsman, and James Young was engaged and 
 
330 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1871 
 
 liuiited the hounds for one season, Charles Orvis and John 
 Scott* being first and second vvhippers-in. Young left at 
 the end of the season. 
 
 From Mr. George Smith's diary : 
 
 February 16th, 1871.— Found Oakley Wood, and killed. Warwick Park, 
 blank. Chesterton Wood, 3.30. Capital fifteen minutes to Bawcutt's, and on 
 to Burton Dasset and Farnborough. Home 7.45 ; dark. Rode Roscoe. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On Monday, February '20th, 1871, the hounds met at Pel)\vorth Village, 
 and as tliey were passing through Quinton Village two of the dogs fell dead ; 
 at Pebworth two more died, and shortly afterwards three more were seen to 
 fall, and soon died ; they were taken to the Red Hoi-se at Stratford, and 
 subsequently to the kennels, \vhei*e a post-mortem examination was made. 
 The hounds had been taken home without hunting, and I Avas afterwards told 
 that three more had died on the way, making in all five couples lost. They 
 had l)een poisoned by strychnine given in parts of rabbits, which had been 
 throAm doAvii at intervals on the road. It Avas Avell knoAA'u afterwards Avha 
 had done this dastardly deed, and the same man, A\'ho was an aA'owed fox 
 killer, shot the hunted fox before Loi'd CoAentry's hounds, and I saAV him 
 {in fiagratite delicto) gun in hand. No hounds had CA'er before been poisoned 
 in WarAvickshire. and it is needless to say that the occurrence created a 
 feeling of Avidespread dismay and alarm, and the greatest sympathy Avas on 
 all sides expressed for Mr. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 From Mr. Greorge Smith's diary -. 
 
 March l&h. Newbold Pacey. — Foiiiid Chesterton Wood, to BaAvcutt's and 
 Burton Hill ; A'ery fast, and lost at Arlescote. Second. Chadshunt ; ran out,, 
 and up for Arlescote sloAvly. Jumped ncAV raihvay. Rode Roscoe. 
 
 March "llth, Gaijdon Inn. — Drew Gorse. Itchiugton Holt, and BaAVcutt's- 
 blank. Found Watergall. ran fast toAvards Ladbroke and back to Watergall, 
 and slowly to Burton Hills, and lost. Second, Chadshunt ; ran through 
 BoAvshot and Moreton Wood to A-illage. Fox jumped up on top of the hill, 
 and ran to Lightliorne Rough, BoAvshot, and Walton, and lost. Good and long 
 day. Rode Roscoe. 
 
 SEASON 1871-72. 
 
 At the beginning of the season of 1871, Charles 
 
 Orvis became huntsman, and he soon began to show his 
 
 capabilities. He had a splendid voice, which he was. 
 
 not afraid of using ; and had a very cheery manner. 
 
 He was very quick in the field and in getting his hounds. 
 
 away from covert, and he was a light weight and an 
 
 excellent rider. W. Smith was first whij)per-in, and 
 
 F. Payne second whipper-in, succeeded by J. Elliott. 
 
 * Scott is now huntsman to the Albrif^hton Hounds. 
 
.iBbndJ lo ,bnBlwoO .aieftslf. 
 
Charles Orvis, Huntsman. 
 
 From a photograph 
 
 by 
 
 Messrs. Qowland, of Lendal, York. 
 
1871] CHAELES ORVIS. 331 
 
 The following- letter, written to the Eev. W. K. Verney, 
 will doubtless be of interest to the friends and admirers of 
 this keen huntsman and good servant : 
 
 Sidleseombe, Battle. Sussex. 
 
 Any list 8th. 1895. 
 Rev. Sir, 
 
 111 answer to your letter, my father, the late Charles Orvis, was twenty- 
 three years and eight mouths with John Conyers, Esq., Copt Hall, Epping, 
 Essex, as whipper-in and hnutsman. When Mr. Conyers died, he went as 
 liuntsinan to the York and Aiiisty, under Sir Charles Slingsl)y, of Scriven 
 Park, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, where he remained until he Avas drowned 
 with Sir Charles Slingsl)y,* Mr. Loyd. and Mr. Robinscm. in crossing the river 
 Ure, when himting. I was born at Epping. I started first with Sir Charles 
 Slingsby, riding second horse. Then I started whipping in to the Badswoi-th, 
 under Lord Hawke, three years ; and then two years under Lord Middletou, 
 of Birdsall, Yorkshire ; and then to the Bicester, under T. T. Drake. Esq., of 
 Shardeloes, Bucks, with Worrall as kennel huntsman. When Mr. Drake 
 sold his hounds, I went as first whip to the Vale of White Horse, uiuhn- 
 W. Wilson, Esq., for one year, and tlien to the Bedale. under Mr. W. J. 
 Booth, for one year ; but. anxious to lietter myself, I went to the Craven, 
 under Mr. Wells. Having the Warwickshire place open to me. I accepted it, 
 and remained there twelve years. On leaving there through his lordship 
 hunting his own hounds, I went to the Holderness, which I hunted for three 
 seasons ; from there to the East Sussex, under C. A. Egerton, Esq., for eight 
 years. Leaving there, I went to the Badsworth for two seasons. Very 
 ])leased to hear Mr. Verney got in at Rugby. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Charles Orvls. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On Tlnn-^^day, November 2Sth. 1871, the hounds met at Harlmry Station, 
 on a Ijeautifnl himting morning. A large field assembled at this favourite 
 meet, and Mr. Lucy gave the word for Ladbroke Gorge. A fox was found at 
 once, and the way in which the bitches ran him in the coA'ert showed that 
 there was a scent. In ten minutes time he was viewed away, and Orvis got 
 his hoimds away close to him ; they ran without a check by Hodnell. Lower 
 Radbourn. and Wills Pastures, and thence over the Watergall Brook, which 
 at the place the hounds crossed it was wide and very full of water. After 
 crossing it I could see no one with the hounds except Mr. Spragget, of 
 Gaydon, and Charles Orvis, and we remained alone with them to the finish. 
 The hounds ran ou at their liest pace over the Oxford Canal, and passed 
 l)etween Wormleighton and Priors Hardwick, over Hardwick Hill, and then 
 d()\vu the Vale, leaving Boddington Gorse on the right. Here a slight check, and 
 the only one during the run, took place ; the bitches were running ou both sides 
 
 * The horse ridden on that day by Sir Charles Slingsby was called Salt Fish because- 
 he was good on a fast daij. 
 
■332 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [i87i 
 
 of a double fence wlieii tliey stopped and killed what Orvis uo doubt tlioiioht 
 was tlie fox, cm account of the pace at which they had been running, and 
 although he could not see what it r(^ally was on account of the thickness of 
 the grass in tlie fence, he holloaed '" Wlio-wlioop ! " It turned out to be a hare, 
 Avhich the pack broke up in no time, and ran on with the fox as hard as ever. 
 They left Boddington Gorse on the right, and ran round the left bank of 
 Boddington Reservoir, and from thence l)y Astou-le-Wall to Warden Hill 
 Gorse ; but they did not dwell for a moment in the covert, as they ran along 
 the top ride, and next over the Welsh Road, and to the left of Chipping 
 Warden, to Edgcott Park. Here we viewed the fox, and the hounds raced 
 him up to the garden wall ; he just managed to scramble up it, but we thought 
 for a moment that he would fall back into the mouths of the pack ; they made 
 great efforts to get to the top of the wall, but coidd not ipiite reach it. The 
 gate was locked, and there was some delay before it was opened. I heard 
 afterwards that the Bicester hounds had not been allowed to liunt in the 
 laurel gai'den inside the wall imtil the hares had l)een shot, and as 
 tliere were a large number of these, the hounds soon began to kill 
 them, until the gravel walks were running with blood. Orvis did his 
 best to get them on to the hunted fox, but as there was a fresh fox in 
 the laurels this could not he done. After we had been at Edgcott for twenty 
 minutes. Mr. S])eiicer Lucy, who had nearly caught the hounds in Warden 
 Hill, came up, but no one else did. This was the run of the season, and one 
 of the best of many seasons. Tlie distance from point to point is eight miles, 
 and in the direction taken hounds ran quite thirteen miles in an hour and ten 
 minutes, entirely over grass. (See Map, run printed in blue ink.) 
 
 Mr. Spragget was a welter w^eight and a very hard 
 rider ; lie rode a well-known bay mare, on which he always 
 hunted. I rode Sir Arthur, a black horse with two white 
 stockings, which was bred by a well-known hunting parson 
 in Shropshire, and I saw him ridden for one season in 
 Leicestershire, and bought him at Tattersalhs for :2oO 
 guineas, after which he carried me for nine seasons. 
 During his seventh season he was staked in the Ladbroke 
 country, the stake having penetrated eleven inches. He 
 was carried home in a cattle dray, the wound was sewn uj) 
 by Mr. Stanley, of Leamington, and he recovered perfectly. 
 
 Lord AVilloughby went very w^ell during the early part 
 of this run, as long as the hounds were running straight, 
 on a horse which he had lately bought from Mr. Darby, 
 but wdien he had to turn the horse he bolted with him, or 
 he would, no doubt, have seen the rest. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 Wlien fishing the Lochy river in the spring, my ghillie, Diuican, told me 
 that my landlord had sometimes given John Bright a day's salmon fisliing, 
 
„ -"--••" —gwuo, i.^uv. ioiu, lo/i vuiue ihk;. onucKDurgli tliU to 
 
 Warmuigton, March 3rd, 1881 (red ink).-SVe Vol. II., p. 6.3. Calcote to Debdale, and from 
 Shuckburgh Hill to Boddington Hill, Feb. 10th, 1886 (orange ink).— See Vol. II., p. 139. 
 
 roducedfhm Ordnance map by permission of the Oon trailer ofHM's Slaiionarj' Office 
 ^^ '- I 'f' , ? {• 2 3 ENGLISH MILES 
 
 London: Sampson l.ow^Marston & Company, !■. 
 
 Linttivn-.i9fan^arrls 6c<?^^Z<rtaA^ 
 
1871] ME. W. G. MARSHALL. 333 
 
 and he sliowed me tlie place near tlie end of a rapid pool where he had .saved 
 John'.s life by S"<iffiiig hiiu when he had fallen into the water while; rnnning 
 down Avith a salmon. Duncan added that "he never heard the last of tliis 
 afterwards." * 
 
 Ou another occasion Duncan told me tliat he was going to set a trap for 
 an otter near a pool in which we had seen two salmon with their heads and 
 shoulders bitten off. Next morning I went Avith him to see the trap taken 
 up. and in it we found no salmon, but a big goat caught fast by tlie fore leg I 
 shall not foi-get Duncan's look of con.sternation as he said to me, " "Whatever 
 shall I do ? Here's Faremer Donaldson's preencipal he goat trapi)et by the 
 leg." I said, " Never mind, go and let him out," which he soim (lid. and the 
 goat walked away oidy slightly lame. 
 
 About this time Mr. W. G. Marshall, of Hambleton, 
 Eiitland, used to hunt a good deal with the Bicester and 
 AYarwickshire. He rode very hard, but his horses were not 
 so good as those he afterwards and at present owns. 
 
 One day he got into the canal feeder near Aston-le- 
 Walls. Boxall kept on riding at it, saying, " My little 
 horse will have it," but Mr. Marshall finally gave the lead, 
 and was nearly drowned. He lost his hat and his whip, and 
 had to borrow Sir C. Mordaunt's second horseman's stove- 
 pipe hat to go home in. Next year a lot of people were 
 riding at a brook, some getting in, and some over, when 
 Mr. Spencer Lucy, who was looking on, turned round to 
 Lord Willoughby, and said, " I say, Willoughby, if Walter 
 Marshall was here with that big bay horse that carries his 
 head on one side, he'd be in for one, whoever " 
 
 One da,y Mr. Marshall came down to the Hunt Ball at 
 Stratford-on-Avon. He had been hunting and travelling 
 all day, and was going back to town by the early express ,^ 
 having engaged a fly from Leamington. He promptly 
 went to sleep, and the fly-man ditto, so the horses attempted 
 a short cut home by the Alveston Ford, past Captain 
 Cowan's house. The Avon was in flood, and the first 
 intimation he had of where he was was finding the waters 
 pouring in through both windows. He got out somehow 
 and swam ashore, and there was the fly-man on the top of 
 the cab yelling for help, awake and fairly sobered. Fortu- 
 nately Captain Cowan's coachman had heard the fly go by, 
 
 * .Tolinny Cameron, gliillie on the Camesky heat, told me that the Factor told 
 Duncan that " it was tlie warst day's work he had ever done whativer ! " — W. R. V. 
 
•334 
 
 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1871 
 
 and, knowing about the flood, came down to tlie rescue 
 with a kntern. — W. E. Y. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On February 18th tlie Bicester liomids met at Lower Bodtlingtou, and had 
 not much sport in the morning, but in the afternoon they had a very fast run from 
 Warden Hill Gorse without a check, between Culworth and Moreton Pinkney. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1871.* 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Bachelor ") 
 Bracelet j 
 Bonny l 
 Boaster j • • • 
 Bribery ") 
 Brazen j • 
 Braeniar 
 Carver "^ 
 Cardigan > . 
 Careful ) 
 Crafty | 
 Crimson ) 
 Charlotte .... 
 
 Factor 
 
 Gaiety 
 
 Hercules ... 
 Landsman 
 Mariner . . . . 
 
 Nailor 
 
 Precept 
 
 Rakish 
 
 Racer ") 
 Rattler j 
 Spinster 
 
 Streamlet . . 
 Stewardess } 
 Stealthy )" 
 Tomboy . . . . 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Lord Hastings' Bloomer 
 
 Wildboy (64) 
 
 Driver (68) 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Nestor (66) 
 
 Nestor [66) 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Lord Middleton's Factor 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Herod (67) 
 
 Landlord (68) 
 
 Lord Middleton's Nettler 
 Lord Middleton's Pirate 
 Lord Middleton's Pirate 
 Lord Middleton's Factor 
 
 Lord Middleton's Racer 
 
 Lord Kesteven's Shiner 
 
 Nestor {66} 
 
 Raglan 
 
 Herod (66) 
 
 His Charmer 
 
 Bounty (64) 
 
 BriUiant (66) 
 Bravery (65) 
 
 Careless (67) 
 
 Caroline (68) 
 
 Charmer (66) 
 His Nelly 
 Garnish (63) 
 Testv {66} 
 Boiinty (64) 
 His Matchless 
 His Novice 
 His Lenitv f 
 His Rakish 
 
 His Rachel 
 
 Lord Hastings" Hand- 
 some 
 Starlight (67) 
 
 Stella (67) 
 
 Tragedy (65) 
 
 * This year Mr. Lucy formed a private pack, and sold it to the Warwackshire Hunt 
 when he gave up the country ia 1876. The young hounds will be found in each year's 
 «ntry ; the stud hounds vnU. he referred to in the notes. As Mr. Lucy sold his hounds 
 to the Hunt, they will be all referred to as War-svickshire hounds. 
 
 t By Lord Henry Bentiack's Larkspur— Lord Middleton's Hasty, by his Hudibras. 
 
 and thence to the right over the Banbury Lane, to ground near Allithonie 
 Wood ; five miles and a half straight, and about seven miles as hounds ran. in 
 -thirty-five minutes. Rode Chivalry. I bought this horse, whicli had been 
 ridden by Charles Payne, at Lord Spencer's sale at Tattersall's, and rode him 
 for nine seasims. 
 
1872] 
 
 EUN FEOM BEAUCHAMP SPINNEY. 
 
 335 
 
 On March 3rd the hounds met at Goldicote, and fuund a fox at Alveston 
 Pastures, with which nothing much was done. They found a fox at 
 Beauchamp Spinney, and ran very fast across the road to Alderminster, and 
 through Rough Hill, and across Eatington ; thence over the high road neai-Iy 
 to Fulready, where tlu'y turned to the left, and passed Pillerton on the right, 
 and went over Herd Hill into Kineton Holt. The time up to this point was 
 thirty-eight minutes, and there was a welcome check in the covert, the pace 
 having been tremendous. When the hounds again went away, they continued 
 at a slower pace, but over a perfect line down the valley, and across the 
 Banl)m-y and Kineton road, and by Old Leys and OAvlington, and ran to ground 
 at the Burton Hills. The distance from point to point is eleven miles, and 
 about fourteen as hounds ran, in an hotu* and twenty-five minutes. Rode 
 Maratlion. He was a grey horse, which I had bought from Mr. Cin-bett 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1872. 
 Me. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Archer ") 
 Actress j 
 Daphne 7 
 
 Dulcet 5 
 
 Freeman 
 
 Furrier 
 
 Admiral(69) 
 
 Garnish (63) 
 
 Lord Portsmouth's 
 
 Dorothv 
 V.W.H. Flightv 
 V.W.H. Remedy 
 
 Their Notable 
 
 Caroline (68) 
 
 Mr. Drake's Hector j 
 
 Lord Portsmouth's Render 
 Cotswold Flagrant 
 
 Norman \ 
 
 Nectar j 
 
 Frolic 
 
 V.W.H. Salesman 
 
 Falcon (67) 
 
 Hector 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Torment (67) 
 
 Nimrod '\ 
 Nelson f 
 
 Hector (67) 
 
 Novelty (68) 
 
 Brevity (68) 
 
 Ai-tful (70) 
 Stella (67) 
 
 Norah [ 
 Needfulj 
 Raglan ^ 
 
 Raglan 
 
 Rosemary > 
 
 Rachel 
 
 Spinster 
 
 Raglan 
 
 Landlord (68) 
 
 Traveller 
 
 Nestor (66| 
 
 Tuneful (69) 
 
 
 
 
 Holland, and I remember, when I went into the stable-yard at Adraington, 
 this horse was beiiig shown to Mr. Park Yates, the master of the Cheshire 
 hounds, but he declined to moimt him because he kicked a little when ridden 
 by the rough rider. Mr. Corl)ett Holland then asked me to get on him, which 
 was perhaps as well, for I do not think he could have carried Mr. Park 
 Yates' weight, although he was up to 1-i.st., and full of quality. I gave 300?. 
 for him, and in the end did not consider the price too much, as he can-ied 
 me well for ten seasons. 
 
 In tlie autumu of this year (1S72) the Hon. Eobert 
 Ee}Tiell Verney, lieutenant in the 52nd Oxfordshire Light 
 Infantry, died of fever in the barracks at Cork. He was a 
 
336 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1872-187» 
 
 very keen sportsman, a capital shot, and very popular in 
 his regiment. 
 
 SEASON 1872-78. 
 
 From Air. (leorge Smith's diary. 
 
 December 2nd, 1872, Ihnington. — Found at Roug-li Hill. Ran under 
 Ettingioii Village, fast by Lainbeote, and back through Ettington Park to top 
 of KnaA-enhill. Oidy huntsman, Dudley, self, and Avhip with them ; quite lost 
 tield ; forty-five minutes. Second. Pillerton Gorse ; away over Pillei-tou 
 Brook for Oxhill, turned lialf a mile, and l)ack on to near Butler's Marston ; 
 forty-one minutes ; very good ; only ten left to see it. Rode Roscoe. 
 
 Diary of the Rev. William S. Miller [continued) : 
 
 December 10th, 1872, Weston House. — Rode Sunshine. Foimd in 
 Wolford Heath, ran a very fast ring round Weston Park to our starting 
 point, thence under Long Compton Wood, by the end of Long Compton 
 Tillage, to ground in a stone pit near Barton Grove; a very good hour and 
 five minutes. Came home, the hounds going to Barton Grove, and having a 
 very fine run from there bj- Wolford Wood, Adlestrop, and Ickliam, close up 
 to Stow. 
 
 December 21st, Burton Toll Bar. — Rode Clashmore. Found in Knott's 
 Gorse ; went straight away across the railway towards Itcliington Holt, 
 to the left, skirting Gaydon Cojjpice ; thence parallel with the Warwick Road, 
 through Chesterton Wood to the Green, and killed ; a really good and fast 
 thirty-eight minutes. 
 
 In 1872 and 1873 George Bollem and J. Perry were 
 first and second whips to Charles Orvis. 
 From Sir C. Mordannt's diary : 
 
 On January 3rd, 1873, the hounds had a splendid run late in the day. 
 We had been having very little sport, having been running about Edge Hill 
 most of the day, and most of the field had gone home. A fox went away 
 from Svm Rising, and only Orvis and one other gentleman and myself got 
 away with the hounds ; they ran, leaving Tysoe on the right, nearly to Oxhill, 
 thence over the Banbury and Stratford road, on the left of Pillerton Gorse, 
 nearly to Walton Wood. Tliere was no check for fifty minutes over a grass 
 country. Rode Statesman. 1 had first seen this horse in Mr. Cox's stable in 
 Stamford-street, when five years old; he was in miserable condition, and 
 Mr. Cox told me that he had come from Germany, and was to be sold for 
 artillery purposes, but that I might if I liked have him on trial, and he did 
 not ask much for him. He was sent to me. I bought him, and he made into 
 a fine hunter. He was a bro^vn horse with hogged mane, and 1 rode him for 
 ten seasons. When he was sixteen I was hixnting him with '" the Bicester." 
 and after jumping a fence which he hardly seemed to touch, 1 was told that 
 he was staked ; the stake had gone in veiy deep, and after getting him home 
 with great care the wound was sewn up, but he died in a few days. 
 
 Hev. William S. Miller's diary [continued) : 
 
 January 10th, 1873, Oxhill Toll Bar. — Found in Pillerton Gorse; 
 crossed the road towards Oxhill, back by the Toll Bar, over Herd Hill 
 
11873 A FIELD OF THREE. 337 
 
 towards Marstou ; fox headed and lost. Drew tlie Oaks, Holt, aud Watts 
 Gorse blank. Found in Bullet Hill; fox lieaded at Knowle End; back 
 alono- Edg-e Hill beyond Sun Rising, aud over the hill by Bacclius Farm, 
 Berridge's Buildings, across Ratley Bottom, by Madgbury Cami) Road, 
 across the Valley to Avon Dassett glebe farm, by Farnborough and Worm- 
 leighton Reservoir, up to Thursby's house at Wormleigliton Village, under a 
 faggot stack. A very good run of an lioiir and forty minutes from find to 
 finish, aiul seven or eight miles straight. Rode Sunshine. 
 
 January llth, Farnhorouyh. — Drew the home coverts and Harbages 
 blank. Found a i-egular Burton Hill fox in Perry's Gorse, aud, after 
 running about the hills for ueai'ly an hour, killed in Knibb's Gorse. Found 
 again in Bawcutt's Covert, ran by Knightcote, Watergall, Scriven's House, 
 and Wormleigliton, to the hill above Priors Hardwiek, and killed close to 
 Stonetou. A A^ery good half hour. Rode Clashmore. 
 
 January 27fh, 1873, Ufton Wood. — Rode Zinu-i.* Found at once in the 
 wood, but could not get the body of the pack away on at all good terms with 
 their fox. There was also some hesitation ihrough want of confidence in the 
 holloa away ; hunted slowly througli the deep plough and meadows by the 
 Canal, across the Fosse Road, up the hill towards Radford, aud gave it up. 
 Found again in Ufton Wood; went away at the village, end of it, soon 
 striking the same line we ran before, and following it to the road near 
 Radford, thence across the railway and Whitnash Field, by Hogbrook Farm, 
 and thence to the left towards Chesterton Wood, up the Fosse Road, short to 
 the left, back to Whitnash Bushes and the railway, about which w^e dodged aud 
 lost much time from passing trains ; eventually followed his line close up to 
 Harbury Village, and across Chesterton Field nearly to the church, and again 
 gave up. Found a third fox in Itchingtou Holt, ran by Gaydou Hill, througli 
 Bawcutt's Covert to Knightcote, to ground in a drain. The second was a 
 good hunting run. 
 
 February 11th, 1873, Mitford Bridge. — Rode Sunshine. A very 
 remarkable day's hunting. Wlien we moved off from the meet the field 
 consisted of four servants. Colonel Skipwith, and me. Before we got to 
 Wolf ord Wood Sir Charles Mordaunt caught us. We found immediately, aud 
 went away straight, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Charles Orvis the huntsman, and 
 myself alone Avitli them ; we had a pretty hunting run of about forty-five 
 minutes close up to Eveulode Mains, then to the left by Brook End, as if for 
 Barton Grove, again to the left, leaving Barton Village on the right, to ground 
 in a drain towards Wolford Wood. While getting him out, Skipwith, 
 Cowan, Walker, and the second whip came np. Major Bird aud his 
 daugliterf came out, aud this made up the whole field for the day. We found 
 again in the gorse outside the wood, ran through the wood, to ground in one 
 of the spinneys. I then came home. 
 
 Although I did not enter the account of tliis day in my 
 
 * It was a most appropriate name. 
 
 t Afterwards Mrs. Walter Verney. Major R. Wilberforce Bird, of Barton House, 
 was a fine horseman aud a very determined rkler. He hunted chiefly with the Heythrop. 
 He first learned his hunting under old Davis, the Queen's huntsman, but he was twenty- 
 one years in India, and had forgotten a good deal of the science of it. His mahi idea of 
 getting to hounds was to ride straight after them, whatever came in the way, and not 
 such a bad idea either. Like his much younger neighbour, Lord Campei'down, he knew 
 nofear.— W. E. V. 
 
 Vol. I. Z 
 
338 THE WAETVICKSHTRE HrXT. [187 S 
 
 diarv. I entered the date, and I well remember it, because 
 only ]Mr. William Miller and Colonel Skipwith were at 
 the meet ; there had been a frost, and there was some 
 snow on the ground. I rode a horse called Tenbmy, 
 whose name is also entered in my diary. He was a bad- 
 tempered chesnut horse, but a fine himter and a great 
 staver in deep ground. I hunted him for eight seasons, 
 and his first o^Tier hunted him four days in one week. I 
 used to send him the longest distances to covert, because if 
 he was sent a short distance, he was always trying to get 
 home. During the last season of hunting him, I sent him 
 on only three miles, and, just before getting on him, he 
 turned round with the boy who was riding him, and ti-ied 
 to get home ; the boy sat on him well, but when the horse 
 found that he could get him off no other way, he threw 
 himself dovm and rolled his rider oif. — C. M. 
 The Eev. TT. Miller's diary [contiiitied) : 
 
 February 14:th. — ^Met at Fenny Compton. Rode Zimri. Drew TVatergall 
 blank. Fonnd at once in Ladbroke Gorse. and had a fine run of an honr, 
 leaTing' Priors Marston to the right, nearly np to Helidon, then back to 
 Shuckbnrgh, to gronnd. The first thirty-fiTe minntes very fast over a fine 
 grass conntry : the remainder a fair hnnting pace. Went back to Ladbroke. 
 and fonnd agaiii. Had a pretty scurry by Hodnell Farm, to ground in the 
 gorse at TVatergall. 
 
 ^arch Blst, The Toicer. — A poor day. Thus ended the season, the best 
 for many years ; 48J brace of foxes brought to hand, and a vast nmuljer run to 
 ground. 
 
 During this season three foxes were found in trees 
 when we were hunting at Walton. On one occasion my 
 keeper told me that he had seen three foxes on one large 
 tree early in the morning. I went to the place, and was 
 in time to see two of them, but the third had gone. 
 
 I heard the following naiTative about a gentleman 
 hunting in Cheshire, who had a large stud of horses, but did 
 not give them sufficient exercise In consequence of this, 
 some of them found out that they could take advantage of 
 him, and ran away with him. He was a bold rider, but a 
 bad horseman. On one occasion, when riding in a run with 
 the Cheshire hounds, he saw that they were approaching a 
 more than usually big fence, and knowing that his horse 
 
1873; HUXTIXG IX CHESHIEE. 339 
 
 was likely to get out of hand if the nearest riders increased 
 the pace of their horses, in order to get over this fence, 
 he turned to the right and jumped the fence out of 
 the field in that dii*ection, meaning when he had s^ot over 
 to turn at once to the left and jump the same big fence 
 which ran along the next field. He had no sooner s^ot 
 over the first mentioned fence than he was followed by 
 about fifty eager sportsmen out of the large field, and 
 before he could turn his horse to put him at the big 
 fence, the nearest riders were so close behind him that 
 his horse bolted with him, and went straight on, taking 
 the fences as they came : and those who were following 
 him, thinking that he must have seen the hounds 
 turning in that direction, kept as near him as they 
 could, but many of them got falls. After having gone 
 straight for about a mile, the runaway horse approached a 
 river. His rider, although he could not .stop him, was able 
 to tui-n him to the left, and they then continued to go on 
 as straight as before. In the meantime, the hounds, after 
 running on for a mile, tiuiied to the right, came do^ii to 
 the river, and tui-ned again along its right bant, thus 
 taking the dii-ection in which the runaway horse was 
 coming. Shortly afterwards the astonished M.F.H. and 
 indignant huntsman saw a man ride his horse at full 
 gallop over a fence just in front of the pack, and right 
 across the line. The rider then made a final eifort. and 
 pulled up his horse. He explained to the M.F.H. what 
 had happened, and added : •' There will soon be others 
 here, who have been following me, but lots of them are 
 doA\Ti ! "— C. M. 
 
 SEASON 1873-74. 
 
 Tlie opening meet was at Charlecote on November 8rd. 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 Tuesday, Xovemher Uth. 1873. — The meet was at Westou House, and a 
 fox was found in TVolf ord Heath, and ran nearly to Wolfoni Tillage, where he 
 was headed, and came hack to Weston, through the Park, and away to 
 Cherrington, and over the lirook at Sutton ; from thence he ran to Traitor's 
 Foi-d. and bv Xil Farm as if for Wiirg-iiiton Heath ; hut. tuminfir to the left. 
 
 z .e 
 
340 
 
 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 
 
 [1873 
 
 he passed to the right of Swalclili'e, and was lost uear Tadmartou after a 
 brilliant run of forty-five minutes without a check. Rode Chivalry. 
 
 The Rev. William S. Miller's diary {continued) : 
 
 November 18^/i, Idlicote. — No sport in the morning'. Found at Spencer's 
 Gorse at nearly three o'clock, and had a capital ring of forty minutes by 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1873. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Advocated 
 Ardent f 
 Actor C 
 Active J 
 Benedict 
 Contract | 
 Curious ) 
 
 Cowslip 
 
 Castor ^ 
 Clinker / 
 Champion f 
 Constant J 
 Diligent . . 
 
 Ferryman . . 
 
 Lofty... 
 
 Larkspur 'N 
 Latimer / 
 Lexicon C 
 Lincoln j 
 Nestor S 
 Newgate [ 
 Needless f 
 Nelly j 
 
 Regent 
 
 Ruler 
 
 Ruby 
 
 Talisman ^ 
 Tarquin / 
 Trojan > 
 Tyrant I 
 Twilight ) 
 Wanton .... 
 Wihiboy .. 
 
 SiRKS. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Lord Hastings' S^Jortsmau * 
 
 Wildboy (64) 
 
 Belvoir Craftsman \ 
 
 Chaser (68) 
 
 Chaser (68) 
 
 Belvoir Driver 
 
 Lord Middletou's Flyer 
 
 Lord Middletou's Latimer... 
 
 Landlord (68) 
 
 Nestor (66) 
 
 Lord Middletou's Regent . . . 
 Lord Middletou's Raisthorpe 
 Wildboy (64) 
 
 Mercury (65) 
 
 Wildboy (64) 
 Wildboy (64) 
 
 Artful (70) 
 
 Bridesmaid (66) 
 Lord Middletou's 
 
 Rattle 
 Ledbury Cloudy f 
 
 Precept (71) 
 
 Lord Middletou's 
 
 Brazen 
 His Gaiety 
 His Rosamond 
 
 Charity (70) 
 
 Stately (70) 
 
 His Singwell 
 
 His Riddle 
 
 Lord Hastings' RixbyJ 
 
 Tuneful (69) 
 
 Toi-ment (67) 
 Novelty (68) 
 
 * By Lord Hastings' Sailor — his Bridesmaid. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a four-year- 
 old in 1871. 
 
 t By Worcestershire Cruiser — Ledbury Cliai-ity. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a four- 
 year-old in 1871. 
 
 X By Lord Kesteven's Roman — Lord Hastings' Bashful. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a 
 brood bitch in 1871. 
 
 Kirby, Old St. Dennis, Brailes, Castle Hill, Wiuderton, and Compton 
 Wynniates to Broom Hill. Here was a check; after a bit they recovered 
 
1873-74J MR. MORDAIINT ALONE WITH HOUNDS. 341 
 
 the line, and rau ])y Sheldon's Coppiee to Brailes Bnikliugs, where I left 
 them holding on in the direction of Spencer's Gorse. Rode Ziniri. 
 
 December 2nd. — Ran from Whichford Wood, leaving King's Stone to 
 the right, down to Chaysell Brook, which was a very big ,inmp. Mr. F. 
 Walker, of Shipston, and a farmer only jumped it clear. Lord Camperdown 
 got over, but his horse got in. The homids then ran by Over Norton nearly 
 to Chipping Norton, and then turned back over the Chaysell Brook. This 
 time Lord Camperdown, Mr. Walker, and Oi'vis the liuntsmau all got over. 
 The hounds then swung round again for Over Norton, and ran to ground 
 near Rollwright, after running hard for nearly two hours. 
 
 December 'I'Ind, Charlecote. — Two hour.s in and about Chesterton Wood, 
 and then by Lighthorne, very straight to ground on John Mordauut's farm. 
 A good hunting run. 
 
 Mr. George Smith's diary : 
 
 December 22ml, Charlecote Village. — Drew Park and Fir Tree Hill blank. 
 Found Oakley, quick to HighdoAAni, thence to Chesterton Wood. After an 
 hour or more, ran out via Lighthonie, missed Bishop's Gorse, Chadshunt, 
 and Gaydon to a drain under Arlescote. Forty-five minutes good hunting run. 
 
 Mr. John Mordaunt had taken some land up at 
 Arlescote.— W. E. V. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary [continued) : 
 
 December 26th, Kineton House. — Rode Zimri. Drew the Oaks blank. 
 Chopped a fox in tlie Holt. Found at once in Bullet Hill ; ran by Arlescote 
 as straight as possible to Bishop's Gorse, to ground. A real good thing. 
 
 I remember I was not out on this day, hut I was up 
 at Bishop's (jrorse on foot, and saw them arrive, Mr. John 
 Mordaunt first. In fact, I believe he had had the best of 
 it all the way across the valley. — W. E. V. 
 
 I also well remember this run. Mr. Mordaunt was at 
 the bottom of the hill at Arlescote, and he alone got away 
 with the hounds, and remained wdth them to the finish. 
 He was riding a bay horse of mine, which had belonged to 
 Mr. Gunter, of Wetherby, called Confectioner.— C. M. 
 
 They found again in Bawcutt's, ran by Itchington Holt, 
 through Gaydon Gorse and Coppice, by Ireland Farm and 
 King's Osiers, skii-ting Kineton, up Bittern Hill, bv-k to 
 Chadshunt. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary [continued) : 
 
 January 9th, 1874.— Met at Tysoe. Rode Zimri. Being a thoroughly 
 wet morning, and still having a lame hand, did not stai-t from home till 12.;^0. 
 and just dropped in for the best rim of the present season. The fox got up 
 in the open on Sibford Heath, went by the old Warren to Brailes Buildings, 
 
342 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. :i874 
 
 where 1 first saw them ; tlieu by Wiudertou, Compton Wymiiates, Broom 
 Hill Epwell Hill, and Goldl)y's Farm to Shutford Mill, along the brook side 
 by Wroxtou Mill to the paper mill, by Lower Tadmarton and the Highlaud.s 
 to Milcombe Bottom, and ran clean into him iu a grass field just between 
 Mileombe and Bloxham. A very fine rmi, with as clean a kill as could be. 
 
 How well I remember tins run, and how it rained in 
 the mornino". I rode Clashmore, a yoiinp' Irish horse Mr. 
 Miller had been riding for my sisters. Mrs. Godman, 
 then Miss Susan Yerney, rode Little Charlie, a famous 
 little bro^\m horse Lord Willoughby gave them. He was 
 bought from the late Lord Parker, at Oxford. Well, when 
 we got to Broomhill they had already found. Charles Orvis 
 said to me, when I said it was wet, " Yes, sir, thankyer, sir. 
 Don't you let the hounds get away from you to-day, there's 
 a rare scent." We always call it " The Bloxham Spire day," 
 because my sister and I asked Squu-e Lucy at the close of 
 the run where we were. " Why, don't you know Avhere 
 you are?" he answered; "Why, that's Bloxham Spii-e, 
 wdio ever ! " It was a good run. I think the best I 
 ever saw, — W. E. Y. 
 
 In 1873, 1874, and 1875 T. Neverd was first whip to 
 Charles Orvis, and W. Adcock was second whip in 1873 
 and 1874. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {continued) .- 
 
 March 17tli. Brailes. — Rode Zimri. Got on the line of a travelling fox 
 uear Brailes Buildings, and ran by the Old Warren, leaving Epwell Village 
 on the left. l)y Blenlieim Farm, Shutford Clump and Village to Wroxton 
 Park ; there he twisted about as though beat. At last he turned away from 
 Claydon Hill straight for Horley, where we i*an into him in a grass field close 
 to the village. 
 
 Mr. George Smith's diary : 
 
 March 17th, Brailes. — Found on the Hill, and ran a hunting run ; one 
 hour and forty minutes, and killed at Horley. Several falls. Rode Theodore. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 During the spring I was fishing the river Loeliy, in Scotland, and saw 
 the following curious incident of the habits of salmon. When the water 
 became very low in a pool called " the Galleries," a number of salmon were 
 lying in ranks at the tail of it. As the fly passed over them I could see the 
 rising fish, and that before rising they invariably turned on their side, and 
 often did this without rising at all. As the water became lower, I could count 
 six large fisli lying iu the front rank, varying from 251b. to over 301b. In the 
 
1874] 
 
 ME. CORBETTS HAREIERS. 
 
 343 
 
 next rank there were twelve, varying from 151b. to over -Jolb; V)ohind these 
 were tAventy more, varying from lUU). to lollj. ; and in the rear rank wn-c, the 
 grilse, numbering thirty-five ; the movement of the tail fin only was sufKciont 
 to keep the fish np to the stream. I had watched them when lying down, 
 raising my head only above a high Ijauk, and next sent the gillie to tln-ow a 
 small stone into the water behind the gi-ilse, thus causing the whole of the 
 salmon to move into the deeper water at the top of the pool. After 
 waiting for an hour I saw them begin to return, each fi.sli forming into line* 
 and they thus took np their original formation in four distinct ranks. Wlicn 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1874. 
 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 SIHES. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Baronet '^ 
 Bondsman f 
 Beeswing t 
 Banker J 
 Boniface ") 
 
 Bashful j 
 
 Comical ~) 
 Countess > 
 Comedy ) 
 Comrade ■) 
 Cheerful * [• 
 
 ■«-- 
 
 Landlord (6X) ... 
 
 Governor (69) 
 
 Conqueror (68) 
 
 Clasher (70) 
 
 Governor (69) 
 
 Sir W. W. Wvmi's Rawcliffe 
 Nestor (66) ' 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's Romeo .. 
 Lord Hastings* Sportsman... 
 Tap.ster (67) 
 
 Blameless {66) 
 
 Bridesmaid (66) 
 Streamlet (71) 
 
 Precept (71) 
 
 Charity (70) 
 
 Garland (69) 
 Stately (70) 
 
 Costly (67) 
 
 Bribery (71) 
 
 Crimson (71) 
 Ledbury Volatile f 
 
 Columbine * j 
 Gamester ^ 
 Ganymede 1 
 Governess t 
 Gadfly ) 
 Garland 
 
 NcAvsmau 
 
 Racket 1 
 Roseljud ) 
 Salesman | 
 
 Starlight ) 
 
 Tapster ") 
 Tuner > 
 Volatile 
 
 Clasher (70) 
 
 * Two good-lookiag 1)1101168. Columbine was very good in her work, 
 t By Brocklesby Hannibal — Ledbury Vocal. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a two-year- 
 old in 1871. 
 
 fishing in the same pool at higher water, when the salmon were still to be seen 
 I noticed that when the fly passed over them, they rose exactly in the same 
 way, turning on their sides, as the fly passed over them. 
 
 SEASON 1874-75. 
 Mr. Greorge Smith's diary: 
 
 October 24th. — Mr. Corbett's harriers ran a wild stag to near Fir Grove, 
 Caught him, and kept him shut up a week. 
 
344 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1875 
 
 October 31st. — Turuecl up stag at Pebwortli. Ran liiin forty-two minutes, 
 and took liim uoav Ulliugtou. Rofle Rupert. 
 
 The opening meet was at Chadshunt on November 
 2nd. Mr. George Smith says : " Ran two rings ; fair sport 
 for time of year." 
 
 The Rev. William S. Miller's diary {continnrd) .- 
 
 November 3rd, Mitford Bridge. — Found iu Toddeidiam Spinney, and liad 
 a good thirty-five minutes to Brailes Hill, fairly running into him in a turnip 
 field on the top. Drew Morlaud's Si)inney, Castle Hill, Comptou Wynniates. 
 Sibford Heath, and the Dingle all blank, and home. Rode Zimri, and had 
 a regular burster from his jumping short. 
 
 Mr. Grporge Smith's diary : 
 
 November 23rd, Wellesbourne. — Drew Spinneys by Charleeoto Mill, and 
 ran a ring up to Wellesbourne Wood, out quick, and away to Knaveidull, and 
 top of Alderminster, with only five up ; over the Stour, and via Ilinington 
 and Stoke Wood, to a drain near Charingworth, about 4 o'clock.* Rode Dick. 
 
 The Rev. William S. Miller's diary {^conthiucd) -. 
 
 December 8th. — This was a day of terrible disaster to the Warwickshire 
 hounds. May it never occur again. Admingtoii. — Rode Middleton. Drew 
 a spinney close to the house, and Preston Bushes blank. Then made our 
 way towards the hills, where a fox was in waiting for us, when suddenly over 
 rolled a hound in violent tetanic spasm. Soon after another rolled over, and 
 within ten miimtes three couples were down. Took the pack back to 
 Admington, and administered .salt and water to the rest, and when I left four 
 hounds Avere dead, one likely to recover, and no fresh symptom apparent in 
 the rest of the pack. On inquiring at the kennels next day, I heard that five 
 couples of hounds were dead, four couples having died before they got home, 
 and one in the course of the night. 
 
 January 7th, 1875. — After nearly a month's hindrance from frost and 
 snow met the hounds at Shvickburgh. A very moderate day's sport. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On January 11th, 1875, the meet was at Lighthorne. The hounds found 
 at Chesterton Wood, and went away at once, and ran to tlie right of Checkley's 
 Brake, as if for Itchington Holt. l)ut turned again to the right, and ran 
 between there and Cliadshunt, over the Kineton and Harbury road, and thence 
 by BaAvcutt's Covert, leaving it on the left, to Arlescote; thence they ran 
 without any check over the hill and down into the narrow valley by Hornton, 
 to ground near Wroxton New Inn. Tliis was a first class run over the finest 
 country, and hounds ran nearly eleven miles as the crow flies, and not much 
 
 * Mr. Wilson picked up the hunted fox dead the next moming amongst the gorse 
 on Ilmington Hill, and it was hard upon the hounds that they only just missed killing 
 him after a fine run, which at times was very fast. Mr. Lupton went very well on this 
 day on his famous little horse Burton, than wliich no better hunter ever went in any 
 coimtry. 
 
1875] 
 
 GHAELECOTE TO EBEINGTON. 
 
 345 
 
 out of the straight line, in an liour and five ininutos. Mr. Lucy hunted tho 
 pack on this day himself. 
 
 On January 2ot]i the meet was at Newbold Paeey. Mr. Lueygot into the 
 Whitnash Brook, and Mr. George Smith says he liindered so much time in 
 getting liis liorse out, that he did not see the hounds again. 
 
 In 1875, J. Fleming- succeeded W. Adcock as second 
 whip. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary (coiifiiHicd) : 
 
 January '29th. SwaJcIiffe. — Rode Middleton. Fcmnd in Stanlu-a's 
 Bushes, and went away towards Hook Norton ; then turned to the left as if 
 for Great Tew, again to the right, leaving Hook Norton on the left, up to 
 
 BARTOX HorSK IX A FROST. 
 
 Nil Farm, again to the left, to ground near the Sihford and Hook Norton 
 road. Found again in Tadmarton Heath, and ran by SwalclifEc; Park, over 
 the hill, and killed in the Old Warren. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 On February lOth. 1875. the meet was at Charlecote. and a fox was found 
 at the spinney in the Park. He ran across the high road, through Welles- 
 bourne Wood, and, leaving Alveston Pastures to the right and Fir Grove to 
 the right, crossed the Stour. and passed over Crimscote D()^^•ns. and over the 
 Vale to Ilmington Hill. Here he was hard pressed by the hounds, and tho 
 pace became fast, and, leaA-ing Foxcote on the right, they ran him to ground 
 at Ebrington, near Campden. This was a very fine hunting run for the 
 
346 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [I875 
 
 greatei" ])ai't of the distance, but at times hoimcls ran fast, and the time 
 occupied was an hour and forty minutes, during which eleven miles of 
 country as the crow flies, and fourteen miles as hounds ran, was traversed.* 
 Rode Romsdal. Romsdal was a well-bi-ed bay liorse, on short legs, up to 
 148t., which I liad bought from Mr. Corbett Holland. I rode liim for six 
 seasons, and he carried Lady Mordaunt very well for three seasons more. 
 He was a perfect hunter and a good tempered horse, Init at the end of this 
 time, on one occasion when Lady Mordaunt had just mounted him, he 
 suddenly reared, and nearly fell back upon her. I rode him a few times 
 afterAvards, but he ahvays showed temper. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {coutuna'd): 
 
 February 16th, Whatcote. — Rode Middleton. Drew Hell Brake blank 
 and Honington Covert. Found in Idlicoto, and ran towards Tredington, then 
 to the left by Honington, and straight across the Vale to Brailes Hill, along 
 the hillside, and down to a drain near Cherrington Mill, across the brook to 
 Weston Park, and lost. Found again on Brailes Hill, and ran to the Castle 
 Hill, back short to Brailes Hill, along the hill some way, then short to the 
 right, by Farmington and Nollands, close to Honington Covert, short to the 
 right again, by St. Denis to Brailes Hill, and lost. A good day's sport. 
 
 February 19th, Wroxton Neiv Inn. — Rode Zimri. Found in a stubble 
 tield close to the meet, ran by Alkerton, all round Shennington, then by 
 Shennington Mill, round Balscote, leaving Shutford Village on the left, by 
 Shutford Clump, Epwell Village, and Broom Hill, to Compton Wynniates ; 
 thence l)y the mill, running short back to Brown's Hill, away by Brailes 
 Buildings, round Brailes Village, to the right, through the covert on tlie hill, to 
 ground on the other side of Farmington. A good hunting run of two hoiirs 
 and twenty-five minutes, over a deal of country, and at times very fast. No 
 doubt we changed foxes at or near Brown's Hill. Drew the Castle Hill and 
 Spencer's Gorse blank. A very cold, snowy day. 
 
 Mr. (xeorge Smith's diary : 
 
 March 12th, Edge Hill. — First, Miller's Gorse, under hill towards 
 Arlescote, and up over and down Vale, and nearly to Upton ; then to Round 
 Tower, and slow towards Kineton Holt, a ring, and then toAvards Pillerton, 
 over Bottom five or six times, and hence to Sunrising. DoAvn hill towards 
 Kineton Holt, under Radway, under Arlescote, and left, ninning towards 
 Warmington. Three hours; and a tremendous lot of big jumping. 
 
 This would just have suited Mr. Smith, as he was 
 riding Eupert. — W. E. Y. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {conthmed) : 
 
 March 29^/i. — Met at the ToAver, and liad no sport. 
 
 Mr. Miller says in his diary : — " Thus ended the 
 season of 1874 and 1875, for the Warwickshire hounds 
 the worst known for many years, being stopped over 
 
 * Please compare this run with that of November 23rd, 187-1. 
 
1875] A BAD SEASON. 347 
 
 thirty diiys by weather, ancl the scent being unusiuilly 
 capricious when the wreath er was open. There were 
 several good days' sport in the course of it, tliougli 
 nothing" very excelk^it. 1 do not know the number 
 of foxes killed, but, judging from the days I was out, L 
 should say it was small. I cannot say I think the 
 management satisfactory. There is a want of keenness 
 apparent in everyone concerned therein, except Orvis. 
 The dog pack is far from good, and the draws arranged 
 without enough consideration of succeeding days' require- 
 ments. Whichford Wood has only been drawn twice 
 since November 1st, and Ufton Wood about tlie same. 
 Claydon Hill was never touched from the middle of 
 November to the latter end of March, while much smaller 
 places in the middle of the country were drawn six or 
 seven times. At the Hunt meeting, ]\Ir. Lucy was again 
 appointed master, with an increased guarantee of a clear 
 1900/., with a possible addition of 100/. ; but I cannot 
 think he will hold the office beyond another season." 
 
 There are no doubt many who can confirm these 
 remarks, made by ]Mr. Miller, with regard to the unsatis- 
 factory character of the management. jMr. Lucy some- 
 times did not come to the meet until half an hour after 
 the usual time. — C. M. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 
 
 During five week.s fishing in Juno and July, I caught 134 salmon and 
 sixty sea trout, weighing 18001b.. in the river Rauma in Norway. For three 
 week.s. when the sun was very liriglit. I fished at night from 9.30 till 4 o'clock 
 in the morning. Mr. R. F. Pritchett took some very good drawings for mo 
 of this l)eautiful valley and of the surrounding mountains. 
 
 There had been a severe winter, and the avalanches often fell within 
 sight of the house in which we lived. The view at sunrise from the fjeld 
 was of great beauty, for, besides mountains and glaciers, it included nmch of 
 the sea, the fjords of which e.^tend from 100 to 130 miles inland. 
 
 SEASON 1875-76. 
 The opening meet was at Charlecote. Found plenty 
 of foxes at Fir Tree Hill and Oakley Wood. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {confinnod) : 
 
 November 22nd, 1875, Welleahourtie. — Rode Zimri. DreAv Fir Tree Hill 
 
348 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1875 
 
 blank. Found in Oakley Wood, and ran on the right of the road to Chesterton 
 Wood, where ho did not stop, but went straight through by Checkley's Brake 
 and through Itchington Holt, King's Bixshes, and Chadshunt Spinneys, 
 leaving Pool Fields on the left, to Comptou and Bowshot. There, of course, 
 we stayed some time, then took a stale line on to Walton, and lost. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary ; 
 
 On November 27th I hunted with the Pytchley Hounds at Badby 
 Wood, when they had a very fine day's sport. They found a fox at Char- 
 welton Osier Bed, and i-au for an hour, most of the time very fast, partly in 
 the Grafton, and partly in the Bicester country. This nui was quite sufficient 
 for any one horse, and not many of a large field remained to see the second 
 run, which was even better. They found again at Hogs Stafi^ S])inney, and 
 ran by Hinton, Aston-le-wall, Boddington, and nearly to Wormleighton ; and 
 thence to the right by Priors Hardwick, and from thence to the right of Priors 
 Marstou, near whidi place Will Goodall, the huntsman, stopped the hounds, 
 when running hard for their fox, at dark. I had a long ride home from there, 
 and no one else except Lord Spencer, the master, remained with the hounds. 
 He pointed out a hound to me called Archer, which did a great deal of work, 
 and which he had bought from Lord Doneraile. Rode Romsdal and 
 Antelope II. 
 
 I had a letter in after years from CTOodall : 
 
 The Kennels, Bi-ixworth, 
 
 February 19th, 1895. 
 To Sir C. MoRDAUNT, Bart. 
 
 Sir, — On looking back through my old diaries I have come across the day 
 you wished to know about, it was on November 27th, 1875. I haA'e it noted 
 in my book as one of the hardest days I ever remember, and we stopped 
 hoimds at dark near Marston. "Archer," the hound you speak of, was one 
 Lord Spencer had from Lord Doneraile in Ireland, he was black and white in 
 colour, and a very good one in his work. Lord Spencer was naturally very 
 fond of this hound, that "'Archer" became a bye word in the Pytchley 
 countiy in those days. 
 
 I beg to remain, Sir, 
 
 Yours obediently, 
 
 William Goodall. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {coutiiiucd) : 
 
 December IZth. — After nearly a fortnight of uncomfortable weather, with 
 frost and snow, met at the Antelope Inn, Lighthorne. Rode Middletou. 
 Found in Chesterton Wood, and went away to Checkley's Brake. Here, 
 through some hounds getting on a false line, we lost some time. At last got 
 on the line again into Itchington Holt ; after iiinning about the Avood some 
 time with little scent, got away, Imt only to a faggot pile at Hyatt's Farm. 
 From this he was bolted, and ran back to the wood, and got to ground. Had 
 a stale line of a fox gone aAvay a long time, but could not do anything with it. 
 Found again at Bawcutt's. and ran very fast across the raihvay, leaving North 
 End on the left, up to Fairl)rotlier's house, and over tlie hill, skirting Knibb's 
 Bushes, by Harbages Farm to Farnborough in front of the house, under tlie 
 
1875] 
 
 EUN FROM CHESTERTON WOOD. 
 
 349 
 
 terrace, straight to Warmiugton Hill and Page's Gorse ; on thence to White's 
 Bushes, alongside the old turnpike road, which wo crossed near the Old Toll 
 Bar, leaving Shotteswell on the left, close to Angel's Piece, across the brook 
 again, through Page's Gorse to Wliite's Bushes, and whipped off. A good 
 hunting rnn. Mollington Brook embraced some few. a lady amongst them. 
 
 December IWi, SicalcUfe. — Rode Middleton. F(mnd in the old Sand 
 Pitts on the Heath, and ran Ijack to tlie covert to gi-ound. Found in Stan})ra'8 
 Bushes, ran bv Milcomlie towards the Highlands, and killed in about ten 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1875. 
 Me. H. Spencer Lucy. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Sires. 
 
 Dams. 
 
 Albion ■^ 
 Adelaide 1 
 
 Agent (70) . 
 
 Clasher (70) . 
 Clasher (70) . . 
 
 Clasher (70) 
 
 
 Lord Poltimore's 
 
 Amazon f 
 Artless ) 
 
 Bridesmaid 
 
 Carver '\ 
 Caroline > .. 
 
 Sanguine * 
 Bridesmaid (6()) 
 Brazen (71) 
 
 Ledbury Cloudy 
 
 Comfort 3 
 Contest "^ 
 Cora > 
 
 Countess j 
 Challenger^ 
 
 Comus / 
 
 Cardinal l" 
 
 Careless ) 
 
 Conqueror (68) 
 
 
 Daphne (72) 
 
 Layman ^ 
 
 Lucifer > 
 
 Languish ) 
 
 Landlord (68) 
 
 
 Tinsel (70) 
 
 Rarity ") 
 
 Restless 5 
 
 V.W.H. Rutland 
 
 
 Blameless {(M\) 
 
 Ranger 
 
 Random "^ 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's 
 
 Rubicon 
 
 Crafty (71) 
 
 Rifier / 
 R^nedy C 
 Redrose ) 
 Rubicon .. . 
 
 Sir W. W. Wynn's 
 
 Randtmi 
 
 Streamlet (71) 
 
 V.W.H. Rutland 
 V.W.H. Rutland 
 Lord Hastings' S 
 
 Governor (69) 
 
 
 Lusty t 
 
 Streamer . . . 
 
 
 Stewardess (71) 
 
 S])arkler 
 
 portsman 
 
 Sportive (69) 
 
 Guardsman 7 
 
 
 Tuneful (69) 
 
 Generous ) 
 
 
 * By Lord Poltimore's Stripling— lii.s Xeedful. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a five-year- 
 old ill 1873. 
 
 tBy Grove Looby— Lord Hastings' Lofty. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a four-year-old 
 in 1871. 
 
 minutes. Found again in Painter's Bushes, and ran by Broughton and 
 Withycombe, through Chamberlain's Gorse, and killed in the brook a])Out 
 half a mile furtlier on. A good Imnting run and a fair kill. 
 
 In 1875 E. Smethurst succeeded J. Flemino^ as second 
 
350 . THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [WG 
 
 wliip, and in IS/O AV. Shepherd became first whip instead 
 of T. Neverd, and Jack Eoore second whip in the phice of 
 R. Smethurst. 
 
 From Sir C. Mordaunt's diaiy : 
 
 On January -ith, 1876, tliere was uot miu-li sport in the iiioruiiig-, hut in 
 the afternoon a gallant fox was found at Ettingtou Grove, which showed the 
 run of the season. The hounds went away at once across the high road, and 
 ran without a check as if for Fulready, hut turned to the left and passed 
 over the Banl)ury high road to the right of Pillertou. and over Herd Hill to 
 Kiueton Holt. Here tliere was a check, but up to this point hounds had run 
 at racing pace. After a few minutes they ran again without any hesitation 
 down the Yale nearly to the Banbury and Kineton road, wliere they turned to 
 the right over Edge Hill, and thence to the left, down into the Yale again, by 
 Arlescote to Warmiugton. So severe was the pace that many riders who 
 had seen the run as far as the top of Edge Hill could get no further. At 
 Warmington the hounds again turned to the right, over the hill, and ran into 
 the narrow valley by Hornton to Upton. Here a flock of sheep ran across 
 the j)ack, and thus the fox escaped when it Avas nearly dark. Only eight saw 
 the finisli — namely. Lady Willoughby de Broke, who had ridden splendidly 
 througliout, Lord Willoughby. Mr. Sewallis Shirley and his friend. Mr. George 
 Smith, of Ailstou, on his roan horse. Mr. Luptou on Burton, Charles Orvis, 
 and myself. Tlie liouncls had run over eighteen miles of grass country in 
 two hours. Rode Marathon. 
 
 Mr. Sewallis Shirley, the well-kno\^ai authority on the 
 breeding, showing, and judging of sporting dogs, succeeded 
 his father, Mr. Evelyn Shirley, in the Ettington property. 
 He hunted a good deal at this time with the Warwickshire 
 hounds, and rode well. Although, unfortunately, he no 
 longer comes out, he is most pai-ticular that a wild fox 
 should always be found in his coverts — Ettington Grrove, 
 Eough Hill, and the Park. 
 
 "We are indebted to Mr. H. Lupton, of Stratford-on- 
 Avon, for the following excellent poem, describing this run 
 after the manner of " The Epwell Hunt:" 
 
 A GALLANT RUN FROM EATINGTON* GROVE. 
 
 January 4th, 1876. 
 
 Let the Quornite, so proud, toast the memory that haunts 
 Barkby Holt, or the Punchhowl, or famed John o' Gaimt's, 
 While the Pytchley man swears, " My dear fellow, of course, 
 No run equals our run from Waterloo Gorse ! " 
 
 * Spelt also Ettington, >mt Eatington is the more ancient form. 
 
1S76] MR. LUPTONS POEM. 351 
 
 Let the Heythrop men boast of their gallop so good, 
 When they killed, near to Fairford, their fox from Tarwood ; 
 But we Warwickshire men to ourselves fairly prove 
 That no run much surpassed ours from Eatington Grove. 
 'Twas an afternoon fox, and sad — sad to relate 
 Of the morning's fell work, and the pack's dreadful fate. 
 * * * s « * 
 
 But away with such memories, shameful and sad, 
 
 Away to the covert that made us so glad ; 
 
 And away with the fox, which so quickly we drove 
 
 From his snug, cosy kennel in Eatington Grove. 
 
 How gallant the field, which in pomp and in pride. 
 
 Followed Orvis's lead through the quiet woodside. 
 
 How scattered that field, ere yet evening's shades fell, 
 
 If you've patience to read, I'll endeavour to tell. 
 
 Scarce had Orvis's cheer sounded twice through the wood. 
 
 When a whimper was heard, which was quickly made good 
 
 By the whole of the pack, and the sweet chorus grew, 
 
 As quick to their leader the gallant hounds flew. 
 
 He's away ! Tally-ho ! and as straight as a holt, 
 
 Never doubting, he points straight for Kineton's good Holt_ 
 
 'Tis a seven-mile point, yet away with stout heart, 
 
 Pug points for the cover as straight as a dart. 
 
 Past Eatington Village, by Pillerton's side. 
 
 The gallant hounds stream, and the eager steeds stride; 
 
 With Orvis close to them. Sir Charles on his grey, 
 
 By steam-plough or fences will not be said nay. 
 
 'Tis a pleasure, I vow, when the ground's steep and strong,. 
 
 To see that good five-year-old bear him along. 
 
 Spencc; Lucy, the master, too, goes like the wind. 
 
 And in deep ground, or sound ground, is not far behind. 
 
 Lord Willoughby, too, as one safely may swear, 
 
 When hounds run their keenest is sure to be there ; 
 
 And her ladyship with him, not far in his rear, 
 
 While George Smith, of Ailston, still keeps p)retty near; 
 
 John Mordaunt goes happily sailing along. 
 
 Be the ground ne'er so deep, or the fences so strong ; 
 
 While on good " Charlie Foster," not far from the pack, 
 
 Shirley galloping on, on no fence shows his back. 
 
 But the cover is reached, and a slight pause ensues, 
 
 While a number discover the loss of their shoes. 
 
 But away once again, and believe me, my friend, 
 
 Not a nag once stood still from the find to the end. 
 
 In the Holt, as they cautiously picked the line through. 
 
 Horses came to a walk, all the respite they knew ; 
 
 And though "just cast a shoe " excused nags that were done. 
 
^52 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1876 
 
 With no liat one man went to the end of the run. 
 
 But away once again, they seemed i*eady to kill. 
 
 And go screaming along straight away to Edge Hill, 
 
 And if I might borrow a couplet from Scott, 
 
 I could tell how of riders a fair goodly lot 
 
 Tightened reins, and, in sooth, it was quite in despair, 
 
 When they saw, straight in front, Edge Hill's crest rise in air ; 
 
 But still on, on again, for no check here occitrred. 
 
 And away once again, straight as flight of a l:)ird. 
 
 Eor'ard still raced the hounds, and the pace was the best 
 
 Along the steep slopes to the said Edge Hill's crest. 
 
 Then down once again, close to Arlescote below, 
 
 Straight pointing for Warmington, on the hounds go ; 
 
 And they scream o'er the line, o'er those pastures of grass, 
 
 Though no longer we stick to them here, for, alas ! 
 
 It much grieves me to say, for the sake of our shire. 
 
 That down here we hear horrible murmurs of " wire," 
 
 That terrible word, quite sufficient to quell 
 
 The ardour of those who had followed so well. 
 
 By necessity turned here, at best pace we strode. 
 
 To nick in with the pack half a mile down the road. 
 
 Here kind fortune befriends us, we meet them again, 
 
 And to keep with them now every muscle we strain. 
 
 And for'ard, still for'ard, in capital style, 
 
 Their keenness unchecked, they race mile after mile ; 
 
 Whilst pug still holds his own, till, the sun going down, 
 
 He bends to the right near to Warmington town. 
 
 And, distance unheeding, the pace, too, that kills, 
 
 Once again with rare courage he faces the hills. 
 
 Here I steal a look backwards, as Orvis comes by, 
 
 And say, "But eleven bold riders I spy." 
 
 He replies, " A bit more, sir, to this lively tune, 
 
 •" And little the counting we'll need pretty soon." 
 
 And, panting and sobbing, near done by this time, 
 
 Once again our good nags up those dreadful hills climb; 
 
 And, scarce pausing a moment for breath at the top, 
 
 It is for'ard again. Will those hounds never stop ? 
 
 And this fox must his colours have nailed to the mast ; 
 
 " No surrender ! " his motto. A check comes at last. 
 
 And oh ! welcome the resj^ite, the nags nearly done, 
 
 The sun sunk to rest, and its light all but gone. 
 
 And how gladly atlast the pursuit we all yield, 
 
 To Upton House close in the very next field. 
 
 Of the finish I scarcely know what I must say, 
 
 For the fox had earned life, and the hounds earned their prey ; 
 
 Though i)ug owed his escaj^e at the last to the sheej), 
 
1876] THOSE WHO WENT WELL. 353 
 
 And its being too dark for a look eru a leap. 
 
 But wliiclieveir you think, we liad chased him in vain, 
 
 And the gallant fox lived to be hunted again. 
 
 But oh ! think after this what a swell he will be, 
 
 How sought after for ball and for afternoon tea ! 
 
 How he'll stroke his smart snout, and curl gaily his brush, 
 
 And protest that for Orvis he cares not a rush ! 
 
 While the cubs gaze with awe, and the vixens admire. 
 
 The bold rover who led us half over our shire. 
 
 'Twixt the points I have mentioned, his courage and wiles 
 
 Had forced us to follow nigh twenty-five miles, 
 
 And the size of the fences, deep groimd, and the pace. 
 
 Had scattered our field o'er near half of that space, > 
 
 For of all those bold hoisemen, so proud and elate 
 
 At the find, at the finish were left/^nly eight, 
 
 And the man who was nearest the hounds at the last. 
 
 Was George Smith, of Ailston, his roan unsurpassed. 
 
 Next to him, bravely carried the whole good run through, 
 
 Was Lupton, on Burton, who's scarce fifteen-two ; 
 
 Thovigh his stature be small, when it comes to a pinch, 
 
 He j)i'oves his heart large, and how good is each inch. 
 
 Sir Charles Mordaunt next, in a wonderful way 
 
 He was borne to the end on that five-year-old grey ; 
 
 While Orvis was next, and I scarcely need tell 
 
 How he stuck to his hounds, and went boldly and well. 
 
 Lord Willoughby then, with " his fair lady wife," 
 
 Who bravely kept on to the end of the strife ; 
 
 While good " Charlie Foster " was close at the end. 
 
 With another of Shirley's, he'd mounted a friend. 
 
 I don't know his name ; if I did I would tell 
 
 Who he was, for he went undeniably well. 
 
 But Pegasiis hardly will bear me again, 
 
 To relate when each fell, when each tired one drew rein ; 
 
 And, in fact, I don't know, for as one may surmise, 
 
 I went through that run with but one pair of eyes. 
 
 I looked at the finish — " Oh, where ! and oh, where ! " 
 
 Was the keen Corbett-Holland .'' He was not up there ! 
 
 John Moi'daunt, I heard, near to Kineton stood still. 
 
 And Annesley drew rein at the foot of Edge Hill. 
 
 Percy Hodgson spurred on in a grand disbelief 
 
 In his cob's finite powers, and at last came to grief. 
 
 Aye, sad that my miise is compelled to tell how 
 
 He received, as they rolled, a sharp kick on his brow ; 
 
 But the run he'll remember to life's latest day, 
 
 For he carries for ever the mark of the fray. 
 
 Clifford Chambers, who always goes boldly and straight. 
 
 Vol. I. A A 
 
354 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [i876 
 
 Stopped somewhere, but where I can't certainly state. 
 
 And Lewtj (did ever you hear such a prank ?) 
 
 Was last seen at work showing his steed down a bank. 
 
 Alas ! that consumption, so ruthless and gi'im, 
 
 Should have seized, ere next season, a victim in him. 
 
 Fifield Pitt, too, I saw going straight as a bird. 
 
 But where he stopped going I've never yet heard ; 
 
 Though he says, and I doubt not his words are quite true. 
 
 That he found, near the Holt, that he'd only one shoe. 
 
 Next day a friend said, " My dear fellow, I think 
 
 " That each glass of port wine which in future you drink, 
 
 " Will improved be in flavour ; in fact, 1 may say, 
 
 " You will find in each bottle a sweeter bouquet, 
 
 " For, remembrance made sweet by the good rosy wine, 
 
 "After dinner how oft you'll again ride the line." 
 
 He was right ; and how oft, when the wine has been best, 
 
 Has that good run imj^arted additional zest. 
 
 As I've raised the bright glass to a toast of my own, 
 
 And, quietly drinking, have tossed the wine down. 
 
 And I've noticed sometimes that mine host's eyes will shine. 
 
 As he thinks to himself, " Ah ! he likes the good wine ; 
 
 " My best vintage is not lost on him, to be sure, 
 
 " How he raises his glass like a brave connoisseur, 
 
 " While the ruby wine sparkles so clearly and bright, 
 
 " Just balanced midway 'twixt his eye and the light." 
 
 But you're wrong, my dear fellow, most kind hearted host, 
 
 For it was not your wine — I was di'inking a toast ; 
 
 I was drinking " Grood luck to the hounds we all love, 
 
 " Their master, his lady, and Eatington Grove." 
 
 Now, to make my conclusion where others commence, 
 
 I will venture, and hope I will give no offence, 
 
 To dedicate this, now my scribbling is done, 
 
 To the lady who rode to the end of the run. 
 
 The Eev. William S. Miller's diary {continued) -. 
 
 February 25th, Wroxton New Inn. — Rode Middletou. Found in Claydon 
 Hill, and ran well to Sliutford Clump, aud tlience by Slieimiugtou to Upton. 
 After a check here, got on a f resli fox, as I believe, and ran fast from Hornton 
 QuaiTies, across the Ratley Bottom to Arlescote Wood, and slowly to Perry's 
 Gorse, aud lost. 
 
 March 9th, Whatcote. — Rode the Major. Drew Idlicote Coverts aud 
 Honuiugton Thorns l^lauk. Found in Spencer's Gorse, and ran by Ogdeu, 
 imder Compton Windmill, leaving Tysoe to the right, along the meadows to 
 the Oxliill Road, and lost. Found again at Compton Wynniates, ran round 
 Broomhill, close to the Tysoe and White House road, then to the right, 
 leaving the Tysoes on the left, under the old lodge, across Hardwick Farm, 
 close to Kiueton Oaks, nearly to the old turnpike road, roimd to the left, 
 
1876] RUN FROM LADBROKE AT 4 p.m. 355 
 
 across Lady Willouglil)y"s farm to Starveall. Here a very hea\'y suowstorin 
 saved our fox after a very good luiutiug riiii. 
 
 March 16th, Shiickburgh. — Rode Zimri. Found in Calcut, and ran to 
 and over the hill on towards Catesby, then tui-ned short to the left to Flecknoe, 
 and lost. Went to Ladbroke, found, and after a long time in covert got 
 away ])y Radboiu'u, up to the canal, then turned to the right, alongside tlie 
 canal to Wormleighton Fields, then to tlie left over Boddington Hill, straiglit 
 as possible to within a mile of Griffin's Gorse on the right hand ; then to the 
 left, with a bend to the right, by Cliarwelton Village on the left and Hitch- 
 cock's Spinney, nearly to Byfield, thence still to the right again, to within a 
 field of Priors Marston, where we whipped off. A veiy fine run of two hours, 
 good all the way, and at times very fast. 
 
 I remember tliis run well. I was riding Euby, my old 
 chesnut mare that came from Devonshire, and met the 
 hounds at Ladbroke. It was ve^iy cold and snowy. We 
 did not get away from the covert till after four o'clock. 
 Lord Willoughby rode Confidence, and gave us a gallant 
 lead over the Watergall Brook, which was flooded bank full. 
 He never stopped looking round till he saw me safe over, 
 and told me afterwards that he thought Euby would not 
 clear it. Mr. E. P. Knott,* who also joined the hounds 
 at Ladbroke, went very well, and was the only one who 
 wanted to go on when hounds were stopped. The Hunt 
 horses were more tired, of course, than ours, as they had 
 been out all day and over a lot of ground in the morning. 
 When we were coming home over the railway bridge at 
 Northend my mare stumbled and nearly fell, and Lord 
 Willoughby said, " Don't be rough mtli her, she's cari'ied 
 you first rate."— W. E. V. 
 
 From the Leamington Spa Courier, March 25th, 1876 : 
 
 The Stag Hunt at Banbury. — Dear Sir, — Please insert the following 
 account of a good run with a stag : Last Saturday, tlie 18th, a stag was 
 turned out in the Warwickshire country and afforded a good rim, the 
 particulars of which I hope will be found correct. The rendezvous, to those 
 
 *An amusing anecdote is told concerning Mr. E. P. Knott's father, "the flying 
 Apostle," who was at All Souls' College, Oxford. On one occasion, after being at a w-ine 
 party, he and several of his friends made an excursion into the High-street. Finally, 
 he became detached from his party, and finding himself unable to proceed any further, 
 he was obliged to sit down on the pavement, leaning against one of the houses. Here 
 he was eventually found by some undergraduates belonging to a different college, and 
 they asked him his name, and what college he belonged to. He replied : "I am Knott 
 of All Souls." The next question was, " Well, if you are not of All Souls, what the 
 
 d 1 are you of ? " As no other answer could be given, he was taken round to a good 
 
 many colleges, and finally to the right one, where he was recognised by the porter as 
 Knott of AH Souls. 
 
 A A 2 
 
356 . THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. Ii87f. 
 
 wlio kiu'W of it, was at Mr. Si*riveii".s favm, Wonuleig'litou. Tiiere was 
 jjlonty of good cheer for those who chose to avail themselves of Mr. Scriven's 
 liospitality, which was especially acceptable, as the morning- was cold, the 
 wind l)lownng- from the N.E. A little after twelve, Mr. Holland Corliett put 
 in an appearance with eleven couple of his little bcaiities ; and the field at 
 once trotted off to Horwood's farm, Radburn, where the stag, provided by 
 Mr. Spencer Lucy, had been uncarted. The hounds at once hit off the 
 scent. They ran quick (pointing to Stoneton) uj) to the canal, where a 
 check occurred, owing to a hare jumping up and running, but the hounds 
 were quickly sto^jped, howevei", and taken over the canal, and immediately 
 picked up the course ; away up Wormleighton Hill, across Mr. Tliursby's big 
 pasture to the left, fast; skirted the lower part of the farm, pointing for 
 Lower Boddiugton. Here they ran well, tm-uing to Appleton and so to 
 Cropredy Lawn, past Croj)redy Station, on at a fair pace, following the grass 
 meadows, over the canal bridge, keeping- the Cherwell on the left, and the 
 Great Western Railway on the right, up to Banbiuy Here the stag was 
 viewed. He held on, however, and turned across the line, with the station 
 and Banbury on the left ; skii-ted the town by the cemetery, and so across the 
 road, nearly opposite Capt. Robinson's, where the hounds came up to him. 
 He was not beat yet, for after jumping a wall nearly 8ft. in height, he leaped 
 up the passage to the Grammar School. He then ran up the road towards 
 Wroxton, turned to the left, then up a small brook, and so to Broughton 
 Castle, where he took to the water, and, after an exciting chase in the water, 
 was captured, having run for over three hours, over seventeen miles of by no 
 means easy country. Great thanks are due to Mr. Spencer Lucy, of 
 Charlecote Park, for providing so fine a stag ; to Sir Charles Mordaunt, for 
 keeping and turning him out in such excellent condition ; and also to 
 Mr. Holland Corbett for sending his hoimds so far, and for tlie patient 
 manner in which he hunted them through the run, under, at times, rather 
 .trying circumstances. I noticed at the meet, and during the run, Lords 
 Camperdown and Willoughby de Broke, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Messrs. 
 Arthur Thursby (Wormleighton), Fabliu, Scriveu, and Merry, all of whom 
 went well. I regret that an accident to a young girl should have happened in 
 Banbury, and sincerely hope that she was more frightened than hurt. — I 
 inclose my card, and remain, yours, &c. Gentleman in Black. 
 
 I remember that on this occasion the pace was at no 
 time great, which is unusual when hounds are running 
 a stag. Some years previously, close to the moat at 
 Broughton Castle in which the stag was taken, the 
 Warwickshire Hounds were running a fox hard, but got 
 off his line, and nearly killed a large pet he-goat belonging 
 to Mr. John Fiennes, which just saved its life by jumping 
 into the water. — C. M. 
 
 With regard to' the breeding of hounds, Mr. Lucy did 
 not follow the example of his predecessors in procuring the 
 best foreign blood, and during the last season the effect of 
 
1876] 
 
 ME. LUCY AS A SPOETSMAN. 
 
 357 
 
 this, as Mr. Miller has pointed out, was particularly 
 noticeable in the clog pack. Taking him all round, 
 however, there is no doubt that he was a splendid sports- 
 man, and thoroughly understood hunting. Perhaps his 
 want of success, latterly, as a master of hounds and 
 amateur huntsman arose from the fact that he was so 
 fond of the gun, and was too fond of waiting under a 
 hedge for 
 
 AN OLD PARTRIDGE. 
 
II^DEX-YOL. I. 
 
 Acoljrte (hound), 38 n. 
 
 Adcock, W. (whip), 342 
 
 Adlestrop Hill, 90, 91, 244, 257, 266, 
 
 272 
 Admington, village of, 45, 61. 71, 
 
 80, 245, 335, 344 
 Admiral, the (Mr, Granville's horse), 
 
 130 
 Admiral (hound), 245 
 Ajax (sire), 245 
 
 Aleester, 223, 257, 258, 274, 310 
 Alcester "Woodlands, hmited by Mr. 
 
 North, 1864-5, 265, 266, 273 
 Aldermastou (Alderminster), 67, 141 
 AHord, Lord, 129, 130 
 Aiken, Henry, hunting sketches by, 
 
 77, 78, 105 n, 119 
 Alkerton, 244 
 AUenby, Mr. R., 276 
 Allesley, 218 
 AUfrey, Mr. H. W., 192, 208, 210, 
 
 242, 252, 276 
 Allfrey, Captain, 327 
 AUithome Wood, 334 
 Alne Wood, 275 
 Alscot Park, 36, 45, 67, 238 
 Althorpe, Lord, 67 
 Alvauley, Lord, 25, 39 
 Alveston Ford, 333 
 Alveston Pastures, 9, 14, 70, 71, 80, 
 
 102, 137 n, 174, 225, 238, 304, 
 
 313, 335 
 Anderson, Mr., 129, 130 
 Andertou, Mr., 328 
 Annesley, Rev. Francis, 214, 319-321, 
 
 353 
 Annesley, Rev. F. H., 320 
 Ansell, Mr., 206 
 
 Anson, Lord, hunts the Dmichurch 
 
 country, 74 
 Anson Hunt, the, 100 
 Aijsty Wood, 9, 273 
 Antelope (Sir 0. Mordaunt's horse), 
 
 255 
 Apperley, Mr., 72 n. See also " Nim- 
 
 rod " 
 Appletree Brook, 256, 262 
 Arbury HaU, 190 
 Archer (hound named), 348 
 Arkwright, Mr. John T., viii., 91 n, 
 
 182, 192 
 Arlescote, 68, 250, 251, 330, 341, 344, 
 
 352 
 Arlescote Wood, 252, 269 
 Armscote, 270 
 Armstrong, Captain, 327 
 Armstrong, Mr. Wm., 288 
 Arthur's Club, Mr. Spencer Lucy a 
 
 member of, 260 
 Arundells, the, 118 
 Ashby St. Legers, 269 
 Ashby Sallow Beds, 80, 121, 122 
 Ashorne Brook, 314 
 Aston Cantlows, 275 
 Aston Hales, 262, 272 
 Aston-le-Walls, 333 
 Aston Wood, 90, 219, 223 
 Aston Grove, 201, 233 
 Astwood Bank, 271, 274 
 Atkins' Bushes, 252 
 Atkinson, Tom, 288 
 Atty, Mr. Robert J., 163 
 Avalanches in Nonvay, 317, 347 
 Avon Dassett, 102, 104, 133, 251, 264, 
 
 299 
 Avon River, 54, 70, 315, 333 
 
360 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Aylesford, Earl of, 39, 208 
 Ayiiho, kill at, 68 
 
 Ayris, Harry (whip), 288, 302 ; lumts- 
 maii to Lord Fitzliardiug, 187 n. 
 
 Bachelor (houud), 59 and n. 
 
 Badby Wood. 6, 270, 290, 348 
 
 Bas-g-iiigtoii Wood, 100, 218 
 
 Bagshaw's Gorse, 242 
 
 Baird, Sir D., 135 
 
 Baker, Mr., 243, 250 
 
 Baker's Hill, 106 
 
 Ballad, " George Ridler's Oven,'' 
 231-2 
 
 Balscot, 239, 266 
 
 Banbnry, 69, 98, 286, 302 ; Imll at. 
 10; dinner to Bob Worrall at. 
 1869, 315-16; .stag hunt at. in 
 1876, 355-6 
 
 Banbury Guardian, account of run 
 from Shuckburgh, Jan., 1867, 
 in, 299, 300 
 
 Banker (hound), 279, 292-3, 302 
 
 Barby Wood, 80, 121 
 
 Barford, meets at, 8, 301 
 
 Barford Bridge, 307 
 
 Barke, Mr. Wm.. of the White Lion 
 Inn, 14-16 
 
 Barnard. Prebendary, 83, 138, 139 
 
 Barnard, Mr. John, 163 
 
 Barnard, Mr. R. J., 117, 120. 128. 
 129, 131, 163, 316; run from 
 
 " Debdale in 1816, 54; run to 
 Whitnash Fields, 1817, 57; 
 succeeds to tlie mastersliip of tlie 
 Warwieksliire Hounds in 1839. 
 137, 138, 143, 144; early days of, 
 138-141; extracts from his hunt- 
 ing diary, 141, 142, 160 ; list of 
 the hounds in 1838, 134; in 
 1839, 148; in 1840, 149 ; in 1841. 
 150 ; in 1842, 151 ; in 1843, 159 ; 
 in 1844, 164; in 1845, 170; in 
 1846, 173 ; in 1847, 180; in 1848. 
 188 ; in 1849, 193 ; in 1850, 199 ; 
 in 1851, 202; in 1852, 216; in 
 1853, 222 ; in 1854, 224 ; in 1855, 
 225 ; Stevens, huntsman to, 152, 
 155 ; tlie Hillmorton Run. 167 ; 
 run fnmi Withycombe. 1847,176; 
 run from Goldicote. 1848. 181-2 ; 
 
 and Stevens' system of himting, 
 187; Hunt Club dimier, 1849, 192; 
 public dinner to, at Leamington 
 in 1850, 195-198; and preserva- 
 tion of foxes, 203, 204 ; becomes 
 Lord Willoughby de Broke, 217; 
 agrees to hunt the country during 
 1853-4, 220-222; retires from 
 the mastership of the Warwick- 
 shire Hunt, 230, 233. See also 
 Broke, Lord W. de 
 
 Bamham Wood, 201 
 
 Barren's Park, 201 
 
 Barrow, Will, Mr. Corbet's hunts- 
 man, 17-20, 31, Ql, 82 », 112, 113 
 
 Barrow, Jack, 18 
 
 Barry, Mr. Smitli, foxhounds in 
 Cheshire, 1779, xii., xiii. 
 
 Barton, Mr. Hope, 154 
 
 Barton Grove, 46, 88, 89, 193, 266, 
 272, 274, 304, 313 
 
 Barton House, 324, 345 
 
 Barton-on-the-Heath, 54 
 
 Batli and County Harriers, 267, 268 
 
 Bath Hill, 168 
 
 Bath Hotel, Leamington, meeting at. 
 May, 1846, 152, 153 
 
 Batsford Park, 272 
 
 Bawcutt, Mr., of Burton, 328 
 
 Bawcutt's Covert, 7, 252, 264, 330,341 
 
 Bayzant, Mr. R., 26 
 
 Beach. Mr. B. B., 153 
 
 Beale (huntsman to Sir W. Carew), 
 124, 125 
 
 Beauchamp Spinney, 335 
 
 Beaufort, Duke of 67, 90, 109. 239, 
 245 ; homids of, 277-280 
 
 Beaumont. Mr. W., 135 
 
 Beckford, Mr., on a "huntsman," 
 97 n, 98 n. 
 
 Beckwith, foxhunting and fishing, 231 
 
 Beddoes, Mr., 130 
 
 Beers, George, 288 
 
 Beers, Frank, 138, 188, 288 
 
 Bellamy, Mr., 93 
 
 Belvoir Hounds, 13, 239; kennel, 277- 
 280 
 
 Bentinck, Lord Henry, 72 n, 239, 263, 
 291 ; Mr. E. Stevens, huntsman 
 to, 154 and n, 155 
 
 Bericote Wood. 38. IdO. 185. 186 
 
INDEX. 
 
 361 
 
 Berkeley, Mr. Augustus, 56, 58 
 Berkshire, Dau (luuitsmau), 242, 243 
 Berridge, Mr. Samuel, 315, 324 
 Berrington, Colouel, 30 
 Berry, Dame, 68 
 
 Best, Mr., his hunter Confidence, 16 
 Beviugton Waste,?, 243, 273,275, 295 
 Bicester Country, 304, 315 ; Mr. 
 
 North takes over the, 275-277 
 Bicester Hounds, the, 161, 247, 270, 
 
 275, 332-3 ; meet at Lower Bod- 
 
 dington, 220 ; meet at Cropredy 
 
 1862, 262-3; run to Chipping 
 
 Warden 1865, 275 
 Biddulph, Mr. John, 58, 126 
 Biddulph, Sir T., 115, 120, 122 
 "Billesdon Coplow " on foxhmiting, 
 
 42, 43 
 Billesley Hall, 189, 219, 223, 295, 
 
 304, 306, 309 
 Billingboro', 274 
 Bilton Grange, 160, 165, 241 
 Bingham, Mr., leap over the wall of 
 
 Hyde Park, 1792, 113. 114 
 Binley Common, 218 
 Binton, 219 
 
 Birchley Hayes, meet at, 45 
 Bird, Major R. Wilberforce, 52 n, 
 
 260, 324, 337 and n. 
 Birdingbury, 237 n. 
 Birmingham (hounds), prize winners 
 
 at, 281 
 Bishop's Gorse, 5, 9, 10, 264, 341 
 Bishop's Itchington, 104, 111. 131, 
 
 237, 251 
 Bitham House, 11, 298, 307. 313 
 Blackburn, Colonel, 328 
 Black Dog, the, 80 
 Blacklands, 92 
 Blackmore Vale Harriers bought by 
 
 Mr. S. Lucy, 253 
 Blackwell Bushes, 270 
 Blackwood's Magazine, poem on Mr. 
 
 Hodgson of the Quorn in, 308, 
 
 309 ' 
 Blakemore, 275 
 Bloxham, 11, 68, 69, 326 
 •' Bloxham Spire Day," 342 
 Bluebeard, Harry Jackson's horse, 54 
 Blundle, Mr., 171 
 Boddington, Mr., of Cubbington, 324 
 
 Boddington, 6, 123, 133, 220, 240 
 Boddington Gorse, 194, 247, 275, 
 
 277, 332 
 Boddington Hill, 43, 44, 89, 92, 102, 
 
 105, 147, 256, 298, 310, 328, 334 
 Bodicote Brook, 68, 69 
 Bollem, George (whip), 336 
 Boore, Jack (whip), 350 ; bitten by a 
 
 hound, 128 
 Boscobel, in Salop, 32 n. 
 Boultbee, Mr. Charles, 32, 110 
 Boultbee, Mr. J. M., 83, 208 
 Bourke, Mr. Harry, 228, 229 
 Bourton, 80, 126, 195, 242 
 Bourton Wood, 160, 262, 272 
 Bowshot, 80, 81, 102, 141, 169, 172, 
 , 198, 236, 264, 306, 307, 313, 330 ; 
 
 how so named, 150 ; covert, 132, 
 
 148, 150 
 Bowshot Cross Roads, meet at, 8 
 Boxall, George, 292 
 Boxall, William (whip), 67, 70, 79, 81, 
 
 97, 99, 108, 112, 122, 124, 126, 333 
 Boxall, Zac (himtsmau), 273 
 Boycott, Mr., 32, 35, 39, 110, 135, 
 
 309 n. 
 Bradley, Mr. ('• Hunter-making 
 
 Harry "), 31, 33, 34 
 Bradley, Dick, 46, 135 
 Bragborough, 269 
 Brailes Hill, 5, 30, 54, 61 and n, 87, 
 
 92, 131, 171, 246, 252, 256, 298, 
 
 306, 307, 309, 315 
 Brandon Plantations, 218 
 Brant, Rev. W. C, 208 
 Braunston Brook, 314, 318 
 Braunston Cleeves, 80 
 Braunston Gorse, 254, 262, 265, 266, 
 
 269, 306 
 Braunston Yale, 2 
 Brazen (bitch named), 287 
 Brickkiln Gorse, 5, 9, 99, 141, 142, 
 
 155, 172, 174, 239, 245, 246 
 Bright, John, and the "Pitchley 
 
 Hiuit," 230 n; salmon fishing 
 
 in Scotland, 332, 333 and ii. 
 Brilliant (hoimd), 287 
 Broad Marston, 80 
 Broadwell, 91 
 Brocklesby Hoimds, 13, 239 ; kennels, 
 
 279 
 
362 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Broke, John Peyto, Lord "Willoughby 
 do, a supijorter of Mr. Corbet's 
 houuds, 1810, 39 
 Bi'olce, Henry Peyto, Lord Wil- 
 louglil)y dp, a naval entlmsiast, 
 166 Ji 
 Broke, Robert John, Lord Willoughby 
 de, 163, 243 ; kills fifty In-aee of 
 foxes, 172 ; and the Warwickshire 
 Yeomanry, 249 ; becomes joint 
 master with Hon. W. H. J. North 
 of the Warwickshire Hnnt, 251, 
 254 ; dinner to Mr. H. Greaves, 
 252-3 ; sudden death of, in 1862, 
 258, 259, 261; and Bob Worrall, 
 289, 293. See also Barnard, Mr. 
 R.J. 
 
 Broke, Henry, Lord W. de (the 
 present), viii., 324, 332 ; refer- 
 ence to the Yale of Warwickshire 
 in his speech at complimentary 
 dinner, 3; and hound called 
 Acolyte, 38 n; stud book of 
 Warwickshire Hounds compiled 
 by, 85 (see also Hounds) ; pleni- 
 tiide of foxes, 172, 204; run 
 from Eatington Grove, 1876, 
 351, 353 ; run from Ladbroke, 
 1876, 355; stag hunt at Ban- 
 bury in 1876, 356 
 
 Broke, Lady W. de, 304 
 
 Brooke, Lord (Earl of Warwick), 58, 
 61 
 
 Brooke, Captain, 205 
 
 Brooke, Sir A., 135 
 
 Brookhampton Fields, 92, 133 
 
 Brooks, Mr., 182 
 
 " Brooksby," on hogging manes, 
 293 n. 
 
 Broom Hill Gorse, meet at, 10 ; rim 
 to, 340, 342 
 
 Broughton Castle, 10, 176, 326, 356 
 
 Broughton Spinney, 246 
 
 Brown, Dr., 292 
 
 Brown, Mr. John, 171 
 
 Brown, Mr. W., 148 
 
 Brownrigg, Sir Jolm, 166 
 
 Brown's Wood, 201 
 
 Bruce, Sir Hervey, 182, 205 
 
 Bruce, J. (Peg-leg), 182, 205 
 
 Bubbenhall Wood, 100 
 
 Buckingham, run nearly to, in 1860, 
 
 247 
 Buckle, Mr., on Mr. John Hawkes, 65 
 Buckuall, 285 
 Buckskin (Mr. Townsend's horse 
 
 named), 321 
 Bull and Butcher Wood, 70, 80 
 Bimker's HiU, 6, 114, 120, 155, 241, 
 
 297 
 Burgess, Captain, 135 
 Burmau, Mr., 56 
 Burmiugton Spinneys, 245, 273 
 Burton, Mr., Ill, 291 
 Burton (Mr. Lupton's liorse named), 
 
 324 
 Burton Dassett, 10, 11, 102, 103, 254, 
 
 270, 311, 330 
 Burton Dassett Church, 9, 240 
 Burton HiUs, 3, 7, 43-5, 105, 126, 133, 
 
 149, 251, 261, 263, 264, 269, 306, 
 
 307 
 Burton ToU Gate, 191, 245, 250, 252, 
 
 306, 336 
 Bush, Mr., 69 
 Butler, Wm., 8 
 Butlers Marston, 92 ; kennels at, 67, 
 
 128, 144 
 Byfield, 217, 220 
 
 Calcote Spinney, 221, 241 
 Caldecote Spinney, 262, 266, 270 
 Cameron, Jolmny (ghillie), 333 
 Campbell, Colonel, of Wellesboume, 
 
 276, 327 
 Campbell, Mr. Hugo, of Monzie, 53, 
 
 56, 57, 58, 68, 90, 110, 182, 186, 
 
 205, 206, 295 
 Campden, 302 
 Camperdown, Lady, of Weston House, 
 
 5,323 
 Camperdown, Lord, 5, 322, 323, 337, 
 
 356 
 Canning, Mr. Francis, 22, 26, 32, 74 
 Canning, Mr. Robert, 22, 25, 26, 31, 
 
 32, 46, 109, 111 
 Canning, Mr. Wm., 218 
 Canons Ashby, 247 
 Carden, Captain, 252 
 Careless (hound), 280 
 Carew, Henry, 165 
 Carew, Sir Walter, 123-125, 140 
 
INDEX. 
 
 363 
 
 Carter, Mr. George, 15.5 
 Carter's Bushes, 95 
 Cassel, Mr. Ernest, 324 
 Castor (celebrated hound), 298 
 Castor's " Century of Foxhunting," 
 
 viii., 15, 280 n 
 "Castor" on the Ditcliley Run in 
 
 1816, 53; i-un in 1844, 161; and 
 
 the run from Ufton Wood, 1849, 
 
 191-2 
 Catesby, 89, 217, 254 
 Cattell, Mr., 39 
 Causton, 241 
 
 Causton, Rev. C. P., 321 
 Cave, Sir J. R. Cave Brown, 163 
 " Cecil " on Lord Fitzharding's 
 
 Hounds, 187 n ; and season of 
 
 1849, 192 n ; and the costume 
 
 of Hodgson, of the Quoru, 309 n. 
 Cecil's " Kennel Stud Book," 289 
 Central Coverts of the "Warwickshire 
 
 Hmit, 8 
 Chaddington Down, 52, 254, 255 
 Chadshunt, 8, 38, 80, 81, 88, 157, 194. 
 
 240, 250, 275, 292, 297, 305, 307, 
 
 318, 326, 327, 344 
 Chadshunt Copjiices, 172, 178 
 Chadshunt Spinneys, 102, 103, 269 
 Chafford Oaks, 88 
 Chalford, 274 
 
 Chamberlain's Gorse, 12, 301, 304 
 Chamberlayne, Mr. W. H., of Stoney 
 
 Thorpe, 7, 124 n, 217, 220, 
 
 223 n, 265, 277, 288, 299-301, 
 
 318, 319 and w, 328 
 Chambers, Captain, 252, 293 
 Champion (hoimd), 277 
 Chance (mare called), 287 
 Chapel Ascot, 104 
 Chaplin, Colonel E., 313 
 Chaplin, Mr. Henry, 253 
 Chapman, Mr. R., 294, 315 
 Charlecote Park, 8, 70, 233, 236, 238, 
 
 260, 264, 292, 296, 304, 311, 314. 
 
 326, 339, 341, 345, 347 
 Charlton, Mr. Francis, 77, 80, 110 
 Charwelton Spinneys, 92 
 Chase Woods, 197 
 Chastleton Grove, 84, 91, 266, 272 
 Chelmscote Gorse, 328 
 Cheltenham, foxes killed near, 90, 93 
 
 Cherrington, 92 
 
 Chesford Bridge, kill near, 70 
 
 Chesham, Lord, 11 n, 210 
 
 Cheshire Hoimds, the, 90, 91, 278, 
 
 338, 339; kept by Mr. Smitli 
 
 Barry in 1779, xii., xiii. 
 Cliesterton MiU, 9, 157, 158, 172, 175, 
 Chesterton Pool, 326 
 Chesterton Spinneys, 225 
 Chesterton Windmill, meets at, 8, 10 
 Chesterton Wood, 5, 8, 38, 88, 91, 94, 
 
 95, 99, 103, 104, 111, 125, 126, 
 
 132, 142, 159, 169, 171, 250, 252, 
 
 256, 263, 264, 270, 272, 275, 304, 
 
 328, 330, 341, 348 
 Childe, Mr., of Kinlet, 18 
 Chillington, Mr. Corbet's run from. 
 
 21 
 Chipping Norton, 247 
 Chipping Warden, 270, 275, 277 
 Church Tysoe, 174, 177, 178, 181, 
 
 184, 192, 245, 307, 326 
 Church Wood, 92 
 Clark, Mr., 192 
 Clarke, Mr. Hyde, 182 
 Clasher (hound), 280 and n, 329 
 Clashmore (Miss S. Ycrney's horse 
 
 named), 213, 342 
 Clasper (hound), 189 
 Claverdon, 313 
 
 Claydon, 89, 92, 126, 149, 347 
 Claydon Hill Gorse, 304 
 Cleves, the, 265 
 Clifford, Lady de, viii. 
 Clifford, Mr., 324 
 Clifford Chambers, 80, 320 
 Clifton, Mr., 182, 205 
 Clonmell, Lord, 27, 30, 39, 90, 104, 
 
 109, 123 
 Clopton, 80, 160 
 Coates, Mr. R., 153 
 Coaching in Mr. Barnard's time, 140, 
 
 141 
 Cochman's Wood, 274 
 Cochrane, Mr., 267 
 Cockbill, Mr., the huntsman, 22 
 Cockbill, Mr. (sen.), 46, 47, 69, 77, 
 
 133 
 CockbiU, Mr. (jim.), 93 
 Cold Aston, 92 
 Coles, Mr. W., 328 
 
364 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Coiiibe country, the, 42 
 
 Combermere, Lord, kill iu park of, 
 91 
 
 Combroke, 133, 275, 287 ; covert at, 
 261 
 
 Comptou Veriiev, 8, 57, 92, 99, 132, 
 165, 169, 198, 240, 265, 299. 317, 
 323 ; head o£ Hillmorton fox at, 
 17 n ; lake at, swam by Mr. 
 Barnard, 140 ; naval pictiires at, 
 166 n. 
 
 Comj)ton Wyniates, 11, 14, 46, 54 
 and H, 61 n, 87, 93, 191, 208, 
 219, 232, 246, 257, 311 
 
 Confidence, celebrated luinter named, 
 16, 33, 34 », 37 
 
 Conjuror (Mr. R. Canning's horse 
 called), 32 n. 
 
 Constitution of the pack, the, 277-282 
 
 Conyers, Mr. John, 331 
 
 Cook, Mr., 286 
 
 Cooke's Gorse, 141, 241 
 
 Cook Hill, 274 
 
 Coombe Ahhej, 219 
 
 Coombs Hill, 275 
 
 Cooper. Captain, 285 
 
 Cooper, Mr., of Faruborough, 154 
 
 Coppington, 141 
 
 Co^jp's Hotel, Leamington, 135 
 
 Corbet, Sir Andrew, 15 n, 20 ; Char- 
 lotte M., 15 n. 
 
 Corbet, Mr, John, of Sundorne Castle, 
 15 and n, 61 ; his celebrated 
 homul Trojan, 16 ; hounds bred 
 by, 16 H, 17 n; famous run in 
 1795, 17 and n ; his huntsman 
 Will Barrow, 17-19 ; as a sports- 
 man, 19-22; meet at Ilmington, 
 22; the Epwell Hunt, 28, 29; 
 hunting in 1808, 30; and the 
 Warwickshire hounds, 37, 42 ; 
 foremost riders of his time, 39 ; 
 gives up the hounds, 39 ; pre- 
 sentation to, 40 ; sale of his 
 hounds and horses, 41 ; and 
 huntsmen riding amongst the 
 hounds, 81 n, 82 n ; Leamington 
 in Mr. Corbet's time, 135 
 
 Corbett, Mr. C. H., of Admington, 
 164, 182, 321, 323, 335, 346, 356 ; 
 harriers of, 343 
 
 Corsica (Lord Willonghby's bay 
 
 mare), 300 and n. 
 Cottesmore Hoimds, 267 
 Coughton Court, 7, 184, 191, 270, 
 275 ; park, 274 and n, 317 
 
 Country traversed by the Warwick- 
 shire Himt, description of, 1-12. 
 
 Court, Mr., 141 
 
 Coventry, hunting south of, 100 
 
 Coventry, Lord, 254, 307 and ;;. 
 
 " Covert Fimd," established iu 1858, 
 241 
 
 Coverts, neutral, of the Warwick- 
 shire Hunt and North Warwick- 
 shire Hunt, 243 
 
 Cowan, Captain, 333, 337 
 
 Cowan, Mr. Walter, 163, 192, 208,211 
 
 Cowper Mr., of Farnborough, 153, 
 211, 227 
 
 Ci-anbourne Chase Hounds purchased 
 by Mr. Shii-ley, 67 
 
 Cranstoun, Lord, 135 
 
 Craven, Lord, 129 
 
 Creed, John, 8 
 
 Creed, Thomas (keeper), 317, 318 
 
 Cremorue (horse named), 289 
 
 Crick, Northamptonshire, run to, in 
 1824, 70 ; in 1825, 80 
 
 Crick Gorse, 265 
 
 Crick Village, 114, 141, 171 
 
 Crimean War, Wai'wickshire Hunt 
 Club and, 224, 225 
 
 Crimscote Downs, 67, 219, 245, 253, 
 266, 270, 299 
 
 Cripp, Mr., 129 
 
 Crompton, Mr. H., 58 
 
 Cropredy, 126, 256, 262, 269, 315, 356 
 
 Crowdey, Mr., 295 
 
 Cubbington Toll Gate, 218 
 
 Ciibbington Woods, 38, 100. 126, 170, 
 178, 180, 326 
 
 Cubitt, Mr., 125 
 
 Cumins, Mr., 93 
 
 Cummings, J. (whip), 228, 235, 293 
 
 Cunningham, Captain, 208, 215 
 
 Cunynghame, Captain, 116, 124, 128 
 
 Curious (hound), 81 
 
 Curtis, Rev. Charles, anecdote of, 175 
 
 Dadley, Mr. John, 14, 129 
 Dadley, Mr., of Loxley, 325 
 
INDEX. 
 
 365 
 
 Dallas, Captain, 208, 211, 233 
 
 Dalliauce (lioiiiul), 81 
 
 Dane Bank, 270 
 
 Dauiell, Rev. W. B., notes on " The 
 
 EpwellHnnt," 29,30; anecdote 
 
 of a foiu* days' pursuit of a fox in 
 
 1808, 70, 71 
 Darby, Mr., 382 
 Darlington, Lord, 130 
 Davenport, Mr., 80, 262. 263 
 Davenport, Mr., of the South Stafford- 
 shire, 288 
 Davenport, Mr. Brondey, 208, 212, 
 
 213 
 Daventry Road. 269 
 Davis, the Queen's huntsman, 337 n. 
 Davy, Miss, 315 
 Day, Jack, 126 
 Day, Tom (whip), 108. 112, 122, 124, 
 
 126, 130, 131 
 Dean Cross Roads. 218 n. 254, 255, 
 
 274 
 Debdale (Deepdale), runs from, 6, 
 
 114-122, 219, 221, 223, 237, 241, 
 
 246, 298, 326 
 Debdale Covert, run frou\, 53. 74-77 
 Debdale Hunt, verses on the. by 
 
 Hon. R. Plunket, 115-121 
 Deepdale Run in 1825, verses on, 
 
 75-77 
 Deer Imuting- on Crimscote Down, 
 
 1861, 253 ; run in the Ladbroke 
 
 country, 254 
 Denbi'gh, Lord, 109 
 Denmark (liound), 245 
 Dewar, Mr., 275 
 Dewes, Mr., 81 
 Dillon, Lord. 90, 135 
 Ditchford, 67, 93, 245, 272 
 Ditchley Run. the great, 37 
 Ditchley Park, 52, 88, 109 
 Ditchley Woods, 90 
 Dixie, Willoughby, will of, 62-64 
 Dog-keimel Coppice, 141 
 Doherty, Chief Justice, " trying a 
 
 horse," 234 n, 235 n 
 Don, Sir Wm., 182, 205. 206 
 Don, Will (huntsman), 61 
 Doneraile, Lord, 348 
 Don Quixote (Captain King's horse), 
 
 247 
 
 Dorchester, Lord, 129 
 
 Dorn, 272 
 
 D'Orsay, Count, 105 and u, 106 
 
 Double First (horse called), 300 n. 
 
 Douglas, Lord, 130 
 
 Doyle, Colonel J. S. (Colonel North), 
 
 210 
 Drake, Squire, 109, 117, 123. 220, 
 
 247, 262, 270, 275, 277. 279, 316; 
 
 kennels of, 285 ; Worrall and. 
 
 289-292, 294 
 Drakeley, Elder, 62 
 Draj-ton, 270, 301, 327 
 Drinkwater, Mr. John, 83, 163 
 Dromo, Sir R. Puleston's favourite 
 
 hound, 17 n. 
 Drury Lane Theatre, anecdote about. 
 
 37%. 
 Drywell Hollow, 252 
 Dimcan, Lord, 163. See also Cam- 
 
 perdown. Lord 
 Duncan (gillie), 332, 333 and /(. 
 Dunclmrch Country, the, 42, 74, 141. 
 
 155, 160, 166, 171, 191, 194, 
 
 242 
 Dimchiirch, Mr. Barnard's horse. 141 
 Duncombe, Mr. Gerald. 326 
 Dunkeld, fox at, in 1808, 70. 71 
 Dunsden, 273 
 Dunsmore, 242 
 Du])pa. Mr. G., 328 
 Dusty Bob (Mr. Montgomery's horse), 
 
 i86 
 
 E 
 
 for 
 
 — , Squire of, f()ndne.>: 
 hei'aldry, 320 and /«. 
 
 Eales, Jesse, 8, 132 
 
 Earle, Mr. Charles. 182, 192, 195, 196, 
 205, 206, 208, 233 
 
 Earle, Miss, 211 
 
 East Langtou, 267 
 
 East Leamington. 114 
 
 Eastuor, Lord, 118, 135 
 
 Eatingtou Grove, 306, 350 and u ; rmi 
 from, in 1819, 58 ; poem describ- 
 ing a run from, 350-354 
 
 Eatingtou Park, 183 
 
 Eatington Village, 123, 141, 172, 194, 
 239, 246 
 
 Ebrington, 275, 345 
 
 Edgcote Park, 149. 262, 270, 332 
 
366 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Edge Hill, 3, 12, 46, 54. 6d, 68-70, 
 
 80, 81,(91, 98, 133, 135, 170, 217, 
 
 219, 223, 240, 256, 269, 272, 
 
 326, 328, 336, 352, 346 ; diimer 
 
 givou by Lord Middletou at, 41, 
 
 42 
 Edge Hill Tower, 283, 286, 302, 305, 
 
 310, 311, 313 
 Edstone Hall, 186 
 Eight Men's Marth at Waltou,171 n, 
 
 318 
 Eldridge, Mr. J., 328 
 Eldridgo, Mr. W., 328 
 Elliott^ Mr., of Althorp, 263, 330 
 Elwes, John, the celebrated miser, 
 
 51, 52 and n. 
 Emerald (mare named), 326 
 Enever, W. (whip), 228, 235, 293, 
 
 294 
 England, popularity of foxhunting in, 
 
 10 
 Eustone, 52, 88, 176 
 Epwell Village, 178, 189, 190, 251 
 " Epwell Hunt ; or, Black Collars in 
 
 the Rear," poem by Edward 
 
 Goulburu, 23-29, 39; notes on, 
 
 by Rev. W. B. Daniell, 29, 
 
 30 
 Epwell White House, 104. 158. 
 
 254 
 Eton. Mr. R. J. Barnard at, 139 
 Ettingtou Covert, 8, 9. See also 
 
 Eatington 
 Ettingtou Cross Roads, meet at, 8 
 Ettiiigton Grove, runs from, 9, 14. 
 
 See also Eatington 
 Evenlode, the, 47, 91, 247, 248, 266, 
 
 293, 307 n. 
 Everard, Mr., of Ladbroke Hall, 
 
 131 n, 327 
 Evesham Yale, 7, 8, 112 
 Eydou, 220 
 Eythorpe, 246 
 Eyton, Mr., 253 
 Eyton, Captain, 327 
 
 Fabling, Mr. Fred, 325, 356 
 Fairbrother, Mr., 325 
 Fairley, Captain, 135 
 Falconberg, lioi'se named, 294 
 Famington, 244 
 
 Farnborough, meets at, 10, 11, 43, 46, 
 47, 54-56, 68, 69, 89, 92, 102, 104, 
 105, 122-3, 126, 149, 217, 220, 
 251, 256, 263, 297, 299, 301, 306, 
 311, 315, 330 
 
 Farnljorough Brook, 288 
 
 Farqnharson, Mr., of Invercattld, 235 
 
 Fartliingoe, 220 
 
 Favourite (Mr. R. Canning's horse 
 called), 32 
 
 Fawsley Park, 237, 270 
 
 Fazakerloy, Mr., 135 
 
 Fellowes, Hon. Newton, 125 n. 
 
 Fellowes, Mr. Robert, of Talton, 
 viii., 69, 123, 130 ; succeeds Mr. 
 Hay as master of the "Warwick- 
 shire Hounds, 82 ; run from 
 Wolford Wood, 84; list of 
 hounds in 1827, 85-87 ; hounds 
 in 1828, 89 ; fox killed near Chel- 
 tenham, 90 ; hounds in 1829, 93 
 run to Itchiugton Heath, 94 
 and to Warwick Park, 94, 95 
 resigns the mastership of the 
 Warwick.shire Hounds, 97 
 
 Fenny Compton, 53, 69, 158, 251, 263, 
 
 264, 306 
 
 Fenny Compton Fields, 43, 44 
 
 Fenny Compton Station, 254 
 
 Feruio, Mr., hounds of, 267 
 
 Field, Mrs., viii., 214 
 
 Fiennes, Mr. John, 356 
 
 Finch, Hon. C, 192 
 
 Finnic, Mr. W., 233 
 
 Fir Grove, 9, 67, 71, 141, 238, 343 
 
 Fir Tree Hill, 9, 347 
 
 Firr, Tom, 138 
 
 Fisher, Mr., of Banbury, 328 
 
 Fishing in Norway, 212, 213, 259, 
 
 265, 296, 306, 316, 329, 347 ; in 
 Scotland, 332-3, 342-3 
 
 Fitzharding, Lord, 245 ; hounds of, 
 
 187 n. 
 Fitzwilliam hounds, xiii. 
 Flecknoe, 254, 270 
 Flecknoe Gox'se, 306 
 Fleming, J. (whip), 345, 349 
 Fletcher, Mr., 328 
 Fletcher's Coppice, 132, 172, 269 
 Flower, Mr., 252, 328 
 Flyford Flavel, 296 
 
INDEX. 
 
 367 
 
 Foley, Lord, liouiicls bred Ijy, 1815, 51 
 
 Folgofoud Glacier, 306 
 
 Fore's " Guide to the Houuds of 
 
 England," 1850, 155, 156 
 Forester, Lord George, 69, 183 n. 
 Forfeit, Bob (huntsman), 14, 15 
 Fortescue. Rev. A. T., 258 n. 
 Forteseue, Mr. W. B., 140 ; and the 
 Hillniorton Run, 165 and //, 166 
 Fortescue, Mrs., 78 
 Foss Farm, 133 
 Fosse Road, 103 
 Foster, Mr. W. H., .300 n. 
 Four-shire Stone, 47 and n. 
 Fox, Mr. George Lane, 139, 290 
 Fox, anecdote of a, having been 
 roasted and served up at table, 175 
 Fox, a large, killed in Lanarkshire. 
 
 203 n. 
 Fox finds its way from Westmore- 
 land to Kent, 258 
 Foxes, preservation of; meeting at 
 Wellesbourne.re, May, 1851, 203, 
 204 
 Foxes found in trees at Walton, 338 
 Foxhounds, first pack of, in War- 
 wickshire, 13, 14. See also 
 Hounds 
 Foxhunting in England, xii. ; an "Old 
 Sportsman " on, 99, 100 ; anec- 
 dote of a four days' pursuit of a 
 fox in 1808, 70, 71 
 Foxcote, 67. 112, 201, 245, 270, 302 
 Franktou Wood, 80, 173, 177, 237, 
 
 246 
 French, Mr., of Han well, 328 
 FretwUl, Mr., 24 
 Friz HUl, 275, 314 
 Frost, severe, stops hunting for three 
 
 months, 1837, 131 and n. 
 Fugleman (hound), 286 
 Fullerton, Mr. John, 163 
 Fulready, 58 
 Furley (hound), 38 n. 
 
 Gale, Mr. Edward Morant, 25, 34, 
 
 39,58 
 Gaily Oak, gor.se cover, 7, 45, 46, 80, 
 
 106, 320 
 Galton, Mr. Darwin, 163, 181, 182, 
 
 189, 192, 208, 209 
 
 Galton, Frank, 182 
 
 Gambler, Mr., 321 
 
 Gamester (hound), 281 
 
 Ganymede (hound), 125 */. 
 
 Gardiner, Lord, 129 
 
 Garrett, Tom, 297 
 
 Garrett, Mr., of Tadmarton, 328 
 
 Garrett's Bushes, 266 
 
 Gaydon, 81, 88, 263 ; Hill, 7, 133 
 
 Gaydon Inn, 165, 174, 188, 198, 225, 
 
 311 
 Gaydon Spinneys, 126, 252, 264 
 Gayman (horse rode by Stevens), 
 
 194 
 George IV. and Mr. John Hawkcs, 
 
 65 
 George RicUer's Oven, old Gloucester- 
 shire ballad, 231-2 
 Gerard, Sir John, 135 
 Ghillie called " The GaiU," 282, 283 
 GifBard, Mr., 39 
 Gilbert, Colonel, 93, 104 
 Gillibrand, Mr., 27 
 Gilmour, Mr. Little, 105 
 Gimcrack (hoimd), 245, 277 
 Gladstone, Mr., 192 
 Gladwin, Mr. Fane, 10 
 Gleg, Captain, 129 
 Glooston Wood, 267 
 Glover, Mr. Frank, viii. 
 Goddard, Ben, 289, 290 
 Goddard, Zac (whip), 47, 61, 69 
 Godmau, Mrs., 319 n, 342 
 Godson, Mr., 328 
 Golden Cross Covert, viii., 8 
 Gold finder (Mr. Lucy's horse named), 
 
 234 
 Goldicote, 58, 174, 181, 200, 211, 243, 
 263, 264, 301, 306, 307, 313, 335 
 Goldiug, Mr., 139, 140 
 Goodall, Stephen (huntsman), 21, 
 
 307 «. 
 Goodall, William, 138, 188; letter 
 
 from, 348 
 Good Boy (Mr. J. Mordaunt's horse), 
 
 319 
 Goodman, Mr., of Flocknoe, 325 
 Goodricke, Sir F. H., 129, 163 
 Goodricke, Sir Harry, run with his 
 
 liouuds 1833, 105, 106 
 Gooseham Gorse, 290 and n. 
 
368 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gordon, Duko of, a hound of, follows 
 a fox for four days in 1808, 
 70,71 
 
 Gould, Mr. Charles, 39, 110 
 
 Gould, Captain, 208 
 
 Goulburn, Mr. E., 26, 39; poem 
 '• The Epwell Hunt," 23-29 
 
 Grafton, Duke of, 230 
 
 Grafton Wood, 295 
 
 Graham, Mr., of Yardley, 287 
 
 Grandboroug-h, 2, 171, 241, 269 
 
 Grant, Captain, 135 
 
 Granville, Mr. Bernard, 116, 120, 129, 
 143, 144, 163, 197 ; field master 
 of the Warwickshire Hounds, 
 130 and n, 131 ; great run from 
 Wellesbourne, 9 ; list of War- 
 wickshire Hounds in 1837, 132 
 
 Gran\'ille, Mrs. Bernard, viii. 
 
 Granville, Rev. Gi'ay, 120 
 
 Granville, Major Bevil, 131 n, viii., 
 223 
 
 Great Alue, 275 
 
 Great Kiueton, 307 
 
 Great Rollwright, 52 
 
 Great Tew, 88, 176. 246 
 
 Greaves, Mr. Edward, 208, 211, 242 
 
 Greaves, Mr. George, viii. 
 
 Greaves, Mr. Henley, 221, 239 ; agi-ees 
 to hunt the country, 242-3; list 
 of hounds in 1858, 244 ; in 1859, 
 246; in 1860, 249; run to the 
 Heythrop country, 1860, 247, 248 
 
 Greaves, Mr. H., resignation of, 251; 
 dinner to, on April 6, 1861, 252, 
 253 
 
 Greaves, Richard. 80, 82, 93. 98, 129, 
 208, 211 
 
 Greaves, Mr., of Barford, 327 
 
 Greenhill Gorse, 52 
 
 Green way, Mr. K., 163 
 
 Gregory, Captain, 92 
 
 Greyling (horse ridden by Stevens), 
 *203 
 
 Grey's Mill, 275 
 
 Griffin, Mr. Charles, 250 
 
 Griffin, Mr. J., 328 
 
 Griffin's Gorse, 92 
 
 Griffiths, Mr., of Campden, 293, 294, 
 302 
 
 Griffiths, Mr. Hickford. 254 
 
 Grouse Shooting in Scotland, 1856, 
 
 235-6 
 Grove Park, 179, 201, 202, 272, 292, 315 
 Guernsey Lord, 192, 197 
 Guildford, Earl of, 56, 57 
 Gulliver, Mr., of Swalcliffe, 211, 226- 
 
 228, 257 
 Gulliver's Osiers, 211, 237, 244 
 Gumley Hall, Leicestershire, 276 
 Gunter, Mr., of Wetherby, 341 
 Guy (Mr. Fortescue's horse), 165 
 
 and n. 
 
 Haddon, Mr. J., 222 
 
 Hagger, George, 265 
 
 Hainton, litter of foxes at, 258 ti. 
 
 Halford Bridge, 141. 294 
 
 Hall, Mr. Joseph, of Ufton, 325 
 
 Hall, Richard (whip), 261 
 
 Hall, Thomas, 68 
 
 Halston, Shropshire, 207 and /;. 
 
 Hampton Lucy, 71 n, 72 n, 272 
 
 Hampton Gorse, 9 
 
 Hampton Wood, 9, 173, 314 
 
 Hanbury, Mr., 182 
 
 Hancox, Mr., 57, 110, 111 
 
 Haudley, Mr., 31, 39, 77 
 
 Hanging Well, 274 
 
 Hanmer, Sir J., 135 
 
 Hanwell, 12, 244, 256, 266, 269, 327 
 
 Hanwell Brook jumped by Mr. Lucy. 
 234 
 
 Harbage's, 11 
 
 Harbury Field, 94, 95, 219, 220 
 
 Harbury Heath, 88, 237, 250, 263. 
 264, 328 
 
 Harbury Station, 246, 256, 331 
 
 Harbury Village, 179, 301, 304. 305, 
 307 
 
 Harding, Mr. Charles, 163 
 
 Harding, Mr. Wm. Judd, 163 
 
 Hardwick, 270 
 
 Hardwick Field. 43, 44 
 
 Hardwick Hill, 331 
 
 " Hark Forward," run from Edge 
 Hill, Dec, 1823, 69, 70; run 
 from Alveston Pastures in 1824, 
 71 ; meet at Wolford Wood, 84; 
 verse by, 88 ; run to Edge Hill 
 in March, 1829, 91 ; run to War- 
 wick Park in Pel).. 1830. 94, 95. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 369 
 
 " Hark Halloo," and ruu from Light- 
 
 horne Rough, 1826, 81 
 Harlequin (horse ridden by Stevens), 
 
 203 
 Harris, H. (whip), 216, 217 
 Harrison, Mr. Edward, 275 
 Harwood's House, 158, 252 
 Hastings, T. (huntsman), 299, 313, 
 
 325, 326, 329 
 Hawkes, Mr. George, of Talton, 53, 
 208, 214 and n, 215, 242, 276, 
 295, 296, 328 
 Hawkes, Rev. John, of Talton, 32, 
 
 65, 110, 184. 208. 328 
 Hay, Mr. Wm., of Duns Castle, viii., 
 74, 83, 110 ; manages the War- 
 wickshire Hounds in 1825. 79 ; 
 runs from Princethorpe Wood 
 and Alvestou Pastures, 80 ; run 
 from Walton Wood, 80, 81 ; run 
 from Lighthorne Rough, 81, 82 
 Head, Will (of the Cheshire Hounds), 
 
 90,91 
 Heath, farmer named, 204 
 Heathcote, Sir G., 230 
 Hellier, Mr., 136, 143, 144. 163, 221 
 Hell Brake, 58, 87, 92, 93, 142, 245 
 Hell Hole, 275 
 Hellidon Village, 92 
 Hemming, Dick, 287 
 Hemming, W. (whip), 242, 273 and n, 
 
 281 
 Hemplow Hill=, 165-167, 265 
 Heueage, Lord, 258 n. 
 Heuley-in-Arden, 177, 201, 306 
 Herd Hill, 57, 336 
 Hero (Nimrod's horse), 39 
 Hertford, Lord, 7 
 Hewell Park, 271 
 Heyford, 90 
 Heythrop Country, the, 5, 169, 176, 
 
 193, 247, 248 
 Heythrop Hounds, the, 160 
 Heythrop Park, 52, 53, 88, 89. l09, 
 
 254-7, 274 
 Hibbert, Mr. Washington, 163 
 Hicks, Jack (whip), 153, 176/*, 182, 
 
 216, 287 
 Hidcote Coombs, 46 
 Highdown Hill, 57 
 Hill, Lord, 253 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Hill, Mr., 15 n. 
 Hillingdon Farm, 112 
 Hillmorton Gorse, 250 
 Hillmorton Rmi, the, Jan., 1845, 
 
 165-167, 211; head of. fox at 
 
 Compton Verney, 17 n. 
 Hillmorton Village, 141, 172, 177, 
 
 200 
 Hill Wood, 243 
 Hills, Jem, 165 7^ 168, 176 u, 193, 
 
 247, 297 
 Hintou House, 217, 262 
 Hitchman, Mr. John, 196, 215 
 Hit or Miss Coppice, 252 
 Hitchcox, Mr. George, 328 
 Hitehins, Mr. Wm. Thomas. 163 
 H6bb's Hill, 266 
 Hoduell, 147 
 Hodgson, Mr., of ihc Quoru; poem 
 
 on his costume, 308, 309 and /(. 
 Hodgson, Percy, 353 
 Hoilt, a himtsman, 13 
 Holbeeh, Archdeacon, 11, 68 
 Holbech, Mr. Hugh, 13 n, 163 
 Holbecli, Mr. William, of Faru- 
 
 borough, 39, 46, 47, 55, 56 and u, 
 
 7-i, 143, 163 
 Holden, Mr. Hyla, 123, 129, 130, 131, 
 
 143-145, 327 
 Holford, Mr. J., 276 
 Holland, Mr. F., 70, 81, 82, 110 
 Holland, Mr. G., 233, 242 
 Holloway, Ben, 77, 111 
 HoUoway Pool, 217 
 Holyoake, Mr., 28, 129, 302-3 
 Holyoaks Farm, 271 
 Honington Spinneys, 14 
 Hook Norton, 46, 47, 52, 53, 70. 244. 
 
 252, 257, 262, 267 
 Hopetoun, Lord, 135 
 Horley, 239, 244 
 Horley, Mr. H., 129, 147. 148 and «, 
 
 153, 182, 215 
 Honiihold, Mr., 81 
 Hornton, 251, 266 
 Horride, Mr., 129 
 Horrocks, Mr., 182 
 Horse cropping, 293 n. 
 Horse, trying a. Chief Justice 
 
 Doherty and, 234 n, 235 n. 
 Hoskyns, Mr. C. W., 164 
 
 B |{ 
 
370 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hothfield, Keut, run of a fox to, 
 
 from Westmoreland, 258 
 Hounds ; bred l)y Mr. Corbet, 16 n, 
 17 n ; Warwickshire Hounds, in 
 1825 ; " Nimrod " on, 36 ; Lord 
 Middleton as a breeder of, 42 ; 
 Lord Middleton's, in 1815, 47- 
 51 ; huntsmen riding amongst 
 the, 81 71, 82 n, 111 ; attacked 
 by disease 1836, 128 
 Hounds of tlio Warwickshire Hunt : 
 in Mr. Greaves' mastership, 
 245-6 ; prize winners at Bir- 
 mingham, 281 ; prize winners at 
 Peterborough, 280; the pick of 
 the pack in Mr. North's time, 
 280, 281; oil painting of, at 
 Wroxton Abbey, 281 ; poisoning 
 of, in 1871, 330; in 1875, 344; 
 Mr. Lucy and the breeding of, 
 356-7 ; lists of, in 1827, 84-87 ; 
 in 1828, 89 ; in 1829. 93 ; in 1830, 
 100 ; in 1831, 101 ; in 1832, 103 ; 
 in 1833, 114 ; in 1834, 121 ; in 
 1835, 127 ; in 1836, 130 ; in 1837, 
 132 ; in 1838, 134 ; in 1839, 148 ; 
 in 1840, 149 ; in 1841, 150 ; in 
 1842, 151 ; in 1843, 159 ; in 1844, 
 164; in 1845, 170 ; in 1846, 173 ; 
 in 1847, 180; in 1848, 188; in 
 1849, 193 ; in 1850, 199 ; in 1851, 
 202 ; in 1852, 216 ; in 1853, 222 ; 
 in 1854, 224; in 1855, 225; in 
 1856, 236 ; in 1857, 238, 239 ; in 
 1858, 244 ; in 1859, 246; in 1860, 
 249 ; in 1861, 255, 277 ; in 1862, 
 263, 277, 278 ; in 1863, 268, 278 ; 
 in 1864, 271, 278, 279 ; in 1865, 
 274 ; in 1866, 298 ; in 1867, 305 ; 
 in 1868, 312; in 1869, 325; in 
 1870,329; in 1871, 334; in 1872, 
 335; in 1873, 340; in 1874, 343; 
 in 1875, 349. See also Constitu- 
 tion of the Pack. 
 Hounds Hill, 102, 109, 246, 264 
 Howth, Lord, 129, 135, 166, 227 
 Hughes, Mr., of Broom, 295 
 Hunningham Coppice, 233, 252, 326 
 Hunningham Bridge, 326 
 Hunningham Hill, 174 
 Hunnington Toll Gate, 175 
 
 Hunt, Mr. Yate, 328 
 
 Hunt balls, at Stratford-on-Avou, 
 1852, 215; in 1857, 237-8; at 
 Warwick, Jan., 1847, 174; in 
 1858, 240 ; in 1862, 257 
 
 Hunt End, 271 
 
 " Hunter-making Harry " (Mr. Brad- 
 ley), 33, 34 
 
 Hunters, Mr. Lucy's favourite, 234 
 
 Hunting in England, xii. ; " Indispen- 
 sable Accomplishments," 42, 43 ; 
 a " Veteran Sportsman " on, 72, 73 
 
 Hunting songs composed by Rev. 
 H. R. Wolley, 58-60, 229, 230 
 
 Huntsbury Hill, 290 
 
 Huntsman, the, 123 n ; Mr. Beckford 
 on, 97 n, 98 n. 
 
 Hurlestane's House, 142 
 
 Husbands Bosworth, 300 
 
 Hyde Park, Mr. Bingham's leap over 
 the wall of, in 1792, 113, 114 
 
 Ilibert, Captain, 129 
 
 ItUicote, 5, 52, 53, 56, 87, 98, 142, 
 
 254, 272, 299, 304, 340 
 Idlicote Heath, 14 
 Ilmiugton, 8, 22, 112, 158, 299, 307, 
 
 315, 336 
 Ilmington Hill, 67, 344 n, 345 
 Ingestre, Lord, 276 
 Ireland, " Nimrod " on, 74 
 Ireland Farm, 251 
 Irons Cross, 275 
 
 Isabel (Mr. Chamberlayue's mare), 318 
 Itchington Heath, 56, 69, 88, 91, 94, 
 
 95, 104, 111, 126 
 Itchington Holt, 7, 8, 102, 103, 110, 
 
 123, 133, 149, 171, 172, 198, 223, 
 
 237, 250, 252, 256, 263, 264, 270, 
 
 275, 298, 307 
 
 Jackson, Harry (huntsman), 46; run 
 from Debdale, 1816, 54; and 
 Vanguard (hound), 60 n, 61 n; 
 disabled in 1818, 61 
 
 Jeft'ery, Mr., 215 
 
 Jenkins, Captain. 205 
 
 Jenkins, Mr. W. H. P. (Mr. Merton), 
 11, 319 
 
 Jennings, Captain, viii., 176, 177, 186 
 
 Jersey, Lord, 11 *i. 129 
 
V":- 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 371 
 
 Jessop, Mr. and Mrs., 328 
 
 JoUiffe, Mr. 0. H., 211 
 
 Jolmny Gilpin (Loi'd North's horse), 
 
 263 taud n. 
 Joues, Charlie, 218 and )i. 
 Joues, Jack (huntsman), 172, 217 
 
 and n, 228, 287, 288, 293 
 Joues, Mark (whip), 235, 242 
 Jupp (horse called), 300 n. 
 
 Katterfelto, celebrated horse, 38 
 Kaye, Sir John, 105 
 KenUworth Woods, 96, 272 
 Kennels, the, 299. See also Butler's 
 
 Marston, Kineton, Lillington, 
 
 Milvertou, Shottery, WeUes- 
 
 bourne 
 Kershaw, Mr. S. N., 164 
 Kersley Church, 190 
 Kiddiugton Tillage, 90 
 Kilmorey, Earl, 90 
 Kilsby Tunnel, 292, 300, 301 
 Kineton, 56, 88, 102, 103, 155, 179, 
 
 220, 285, 287 ; kennels at, 142- 
 
 145, 155, 168, 183-5, 189 
 Kineton Holt, 219, 240, 250,251, 256, 
 
 266, 269, 272, 273, 311, 317, 328, 
 
 335 
 Kineton House, 299, 302,306, 307, 341 
 King, Mr. E. Bolton, 83, 143, 163, 
 
 182, 192, 208, 209, 221, 233, 242, 
 
 252, 276, 290, 293, 297-300, 310, 
 
 315 
 King, Captain E. Raleigh, 124 n, 
 
 210, 247, 250, 252 
 Kingham Field, 84 
 Kinnaird, Lord, 123 
 Kinnersley, Mrs., 62 
 Knaveu Hill, i-un from, 9 
 Knightcote, 251, 252, 337 
 Knightcote Bottom, 43, 44 
 Knightley, Lord (Sir Raiuald K.), 
 
 166 and n. 
 Knightley, Sir Charles, 67, 166 n. 
 Knightley, Rev. Henry, 72 n, 166 n, 
 
 208, 211, 252 
 Knightley, Mr. John, 83, 208 
 Knightley, Rev. Valentine, 270 
 Knightley, Mr., of Oft'church. 37 
 Knighton Hill, 270 
 Knoll End, 104, 266 
 
 Knott, Mr. Edward, 153 
 
 Knott, Mr. E. P., 324, 355 and /(. 
 
 Knott's Spinney, 270 
 
 Knowsley, Mr. R. Canning's horse 
 
 called, 32 
 Kossuth (horse named), 288 
 Kjniaston, Mr. R., 24 
 Kytcs Hardwick, 183, 241 
 
 Ladbroke, 53, 147, 155, 158, 187, 245, 
 292, 307, 313, 355; deer hunting 
 in the L country, 254 
 
 Ladbroke Covert, viii., 91, 99, 104, 
 134 n, 139 
 
 Ladbroke Gorse, 2, 6, 111, 169, 194, 
 198, 223, 254 ; proposal to cut a 
 railway through, 161-164 
 
 Ladies and foxhunting, about 1825, 
 77,78 
 
 Lady Wood, 275 
 
 Laint, Captain, 135 
 
 Lamb, Captain, 117, 120 
 
 Lambtou, Mr. Henry, 277 
 
 Lanarkshire, large fox killed in, 203 n. 
 
 Landor, Mr., 150 
 
 Lane, Colonel Henry, 72 n. 
 
 Langton Brook, 105 and n. 
 
 Langton Caldwell, 106 
 
 Laurence, Mr., 172 
 
 Lawley, Mr. Beilby, 109 
 
 LaAvley, Sir Francis, 109 
 
 Lawley, Mr. Frank, 58 
 
 Lawley, Sir Robert, 109 
 
 Leam River, 4, 126, 206, 219, 237, 
 241-2, 269, 297 
 
 Leamington in 1824, 70; Duke of 
 St. Albans at, 82 n ; Jack 
 Mytton at, 91 a ; as a hunting 
 resort in 1830, 98 ; a great hunt- 
 ing centre in 1836, 135 ; popu- 
 lation of, in 1881 and 1891, 136; 
 meeting at the Bath Hotel, May, 
 1846, 152, 153; as a Inmting 
 resort in 1850, 155, 156 ; Captain 
 Jennings' ride from, in 1847, 
 177 ; public dinner to Mr. R. J. 
 Barnard at, in 1850, 195-198; 
 gentlemen hunting from, in 1851, 
 205-208; meetings at Regent 
 Hotel, 1852, 215 ; in 1853, 219, 
 221, 222 
 
 B B ;:^ 
 
872 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Leamington Hastings, 80, 93, 118, 
 237, 241-2, 326 
 
 Leamington Kennels, 218 
 
 Leamington Sj^a Courier; viii., 
 accounts of runs in the, 88, 89 n, 
 95, 102, 104, 106, 153, 172, 182-4, 
 194, 201, 215, 217-223, 230, 237- 
 242, 245, 251, 252-7, 261, 296, 
 297, 306, 326 ; account of a pub- 
 lic dinner to Mr. R. J. Barnard, 
 1850, 195-198 ; letter in, re Mr. 
 Corbet, 15 n ; Hunt Ball at War- 
 wick, Jan., 1847, 174; Hunt 
 Club dinner, Nov., 1849, 192; 
 stag hunt at Banbury, 1876, 
 355-6 
 
 Leek Wooton, 70 
 
 Legard, Rev. Mr., 289 and n. 
 
 Leicestershire, foxhunting in, 4 
 
 Leicestershire Hounds, ran with the, 
 in 1833, 105, 106 
 
 Leicester's Piece, 241, 242, 297 
 
 Leichwald, Mr., 129 
 
 Leigh, Lord, 6, 163, 196, 197, 208, 
 210, 221, 327 
 
 Leigh, Q.C., Hon. E. Chandos, viii., 
 118, 322 
 
 Leigh, Hon. W. H., 163, 192 
 
 Leuch Woods, 273-275, 295 
 
 Lennox, Lord W., 135 
 
 Lewis, Captain, 68 
 
 Lichfield, Rev., 221 
 
 Lighthorne Rough, 5, 9, 81, 82, 91, 
 92, 99, 102, 103, 110, 125, 132, 
 139, 148, 165, 171, 172, 223, 225, 
 236, 263, 264, 275, 306, 307 
 
 Lighthorne Village, 8, 142, 247, 292, 
 348 
 
 Lilford, Lord, 129 
 
 Lillington, kennel and stables at, 98, 
 127 
 
 Lhidsay, Mr. R. W., 235 
 
 Lines Spinney, 241 
 
 Little, Mr. John, 162, 163, 208 ; and 
 Sir Robert Peel, 209 
 
 Little Alne, 190, 295, 302, 306 
 
 Little Cliarlie (horse 1, 342 
 
 Little Conipton, 84, 257, 274 
 
 Little Rollwright, 88 
 
 Littleton, Mr. S., Ion. 
 
 Lloyd, Mr., of Drayton, 58 
 
 Lloyd, Mr. Wm., of Aston, 90 
 Lochy River, fishing the, 332, 333, 
 
 342-3 
 Lockley, Mr. John, 16, 32 and n, 69, 
 77 ; and his hunter " Confidence," 
 33 and n, 34 n, 37 
 Lomax, Captain, 276, 327 
 Long Combe Covert, 11 
 Long Compton, 30, 46, 88, 89, 92, 272 
 Long Itchington, 6, 133, 223, 307, 326 
 Long Marston, 298, 301, 306, 308, 310 
 Long Meadow Wood, 45, 190 
 Longman, Mr. A. H., 294, 295 
 Lord's Spinney, run from, 269, 270 
 Lower Boddington, 289 
 Lower Shuckburgh, 175, 200, 201, 
 
 219, 220, 299, 301 
 Lowndes, Mr. Selby, 222 
 Loxley, 225 
 
 Lucy, Mr. Berkeley, 328 
 Lucy, Mr. George, run from Gaily 
 Oak, 46 ; and kennels at Kiuetou, 
 142, 145 
 Lucy, Mr. Henry Spencer, 9, 124 h, 
 182, 242, 245, 276; jumps the 
 River Leam, 206 ; succeeds Lord 
 W. de Broke as master of 
 Warwickshire Hounds, 233, 234 ; 
 favourite hunters of, 234; his 
 character, 234-5 ; retires from the 
 hunt, 242 ; list of hounds in 1856, 
 236; in 1857, 238; buys the 
 Blackmore Vale Harriers, 253; 
 a member of Arthur's Club, 260 ; 
 again becomes Master of the 
 Warwickshire Hounds in 1860, 
 277, 284 ; and Bob Worrall, 284, 
 290-292 ; list of hounds in 1866, 
 298 ; in 1867, 305 ; in 1868, 312 ; 
 in 1869, 325; in 1870, 329; in 
 1871, 334 ; in 1872, 335 ; in 1873, 
 340 ; in 1874, 343 ; in 1875, 349 ; 
 complimentary dinner to, at 
 Warwick, March, 1868,310; rim 
 from Shuckburgh, Jan., 1867, 
 299-301 ; hunts the hounds, 326. 
 329, 347, 351 ; sells his private 
 pack to the Warwickshire Hunt, 
 334; in the Whitnash Brook, 345; 
 stag hunt at Banbury, 1876, 356 ; 
 and breeding of lioimds, 356-7 
 
INDEX. 
 
 373 
 
 Iiucy, Rev. John. 9, 32%, 46, 68, 69, 
 74, 90, 109, 110, 163, 192, 208, 
 233, 292; the Ditchley run in 
 1816, 52, 53; "Nimrod" and, 
 36, 37 ; memoir of, 71 n, 72 ?i; a 
 dinner to Mr. H. Greaves, 252, 
 253 
 
 Lucy, Sir Thomas, 37 ft. 
 
 Lupton, Mr. H., of Stratford, 324, 
 344 n ; poem, "Run from Eating- 
 ton Grove," 350-354 
 
 Lyttleton, Sir E., hounds of, 33 n. 
 
 Macclesfield, Lord, 139, 140, 245, 256 
 
 Maddocks, Mr. J., 166 
 
 Mad Tom (Jack Mytton's horse), 91 n. 
 
 Magennis, Captain, 118, 135 and n. 
 
 Maiden, J. (whip), 242, 288, 289 
 
 Maidwell, 250 
 
 Maiuwaring, Mr. Charlie, 307 n. 
 
 Mainwaring, Sir Harry, 90, 91. 
 
 Man Friday (Mr. Lucy's bay horse), 
 
 72 n. 
 Manley, Major, 328 
 Mann, Mr. John, 162, 163 
 Manning, Mr., 53 
 Market Harboro', 300 
 Marlborough, 327 
 Marmion (Mr. Shirley's chesnut 
 
 horse), 66, 67 
 Marmion (horse called), 218 n. 
 Marriott, Mrs., 68 
 Marsliall, Mr. W. G., of Hambleton, 
 
 viii., 333 
 Marston, 246 
 Marston Doles, 254, 289 
 Marston Grounds, 112 
 Martin, Rev. J., 15 n. 
 Martingales, 77 
 Mason, Jem, 300 n. 
 Mason, Mr. James, 228 
 Mason (Avhip), 261 
 Matthews, Tom (Imntsman), 253, 256, 
 
 257, 265, 269, 273, 276, 281 
 Mawe, William (huntsman), 235, 239, 
 
 241, 242, 245 
 May's Wood, 201 
 Melgimd, Lord, 300 
 Melville, Major Whyto, 268 
 Meuzies, Sir Rol)ert, song sung by, 
 303-4 
 
 Meon Hill. 8. 46, 71, 72, 80, 112, 225 
 
 Meriden Woodlands, the, 42 
 
 Merry, Mr. Samuel, 153, 356 
 
 Merry- Go- Round (Mr. Lucy's horse), 
 71, 72 
 
 Merton, Mr., 11, 319 
 
 Mickleton Wood, 46, 106, 266 
 
 Middleton, Lord, vii., 36,37 ; becomes 
 master of the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, 41, 42 ; his stud of 
 hunters, 42 ; first good run from 
 Burton Hill in 1811, 43-45 ; run 
 from Gaily Oak, March, 1814, 
 45, 46; run from Farnborough, 
 December, 1814, 46, 47 ; list of 
 hounds in 1815, 47-51 ; Imnting 
 in 1816, 51 ; rim from Debdale, 
 1816, 54 ; run from Pillerton 
 Gorse in 1817, 57 ; run from 
 Eatington Grove in 1819, 58; 
 hunting song by the Rev. H. R. 
 Wooley, 58 ; accident to, 61 ; 
 sale of his hunters at Leicester, 
 61 ; death of, 62 ; his house near 
 Stratford, 62 n ; gives his 
 hounds to Sir Tatton Sykes, 67 ; 
 run to Ditchley Park, 109 
 
 Middleton, Mr., of Tysoe, 153 
 
 Middleton, Mrs., viii., 155, 156 
 
 Middleton, Warwickshire, 62 
 
 Middleton Cheney, 69 
 
 Milcombe Bottom, 342 
 
 Miller, Rev. William S., 11, 213, 245, 
 271, 347 ; extracts from his hunt- 
 ing diary, 237, 239, 243-4, 246-7, 
 250-252, 336-8, 340-349, 354; 
 and season of 1841, 148, 149 ; his 
 black horse The Squire, 253 ; run 
 to Shuckburgh, Jan., 1867, 301 
 
 Mills, Rev. Henry, of Pillerton, 5, 9 
 
 Milne, Mr. R. 0., viii. 
 
 Milvertou Farm, 176 
 
 Milvei-ton Kennels, 286-7 
 
 Milward, Mr. James, 324 
 
 Minna (Mr. Lucy's horse named), 234 
 
 Mitford, Mr. Freeman, 5 
 
 Mitford Bridge, 88, 89, 92, 135, 155, 
 158, 160, 169, 171, 173, 179, 181, 
 189, 199, 201, 208, 243, 245, 247, 
 292, 297, 301, 305, 307, 308, 310, 
 311,313-15,317,337 
 
374 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Mitchell, Mr., 95 
 
 Mockloy Wood. 177 
 
 MoUiueiix, Mr., 135 
 
 Mollington Brook, 239, 349 
 
 MoUiugtoii Wood, 11, 46, 47, 252, 
 256 
 
 Moll's Grave Covert, 9 
 
 Molyneux, Lord, 37, 53 
 
 Moutg-omery, Captain, 135 
 
 Montgomery, Mr. James, 182, 183, 
 185, 186, 205 
 
 Moody, Will, 19 
 
 Moorland's Farm, 133 
 
 Morant Gale, Mr. Edward, 34, 
 39 
 
 Mordaunt family, the, and Bowshot, 
 150 
 
 Mordaunt, Sir Charles (the late), the 
 Ditchley rmi in 1816, 37, 53 ; nin 
 from Gaily Oak 1814, 46; run 
 from Dehdale 1816, 54; as a 
 sportsman, 54; run from Ufton 
 Wood, Jan., 1817, 56 
 
 Mordaunt, Sir Charles, 242, 252, 262, 
 271, 296, 299, 304, 351; gift of 
 Oxliill Gorse to the Hiint, 5 ; 
 ride from Oxford to Wolford 
 Wood in 1855, 228; grouse 
 shooting in Scotland, 1856, 235, 
 236 ; joins the Warwickshire 
 Yeomanry, 248, 249; meeting at 
 Wellesboume, 1866, 276 ; shoot- 
 ing in Scotland, 282, 283; stag 
 hunt at Banlniry, 1876, 356 ; and 
 Bol) Worrall, 295 ; extracts from 
 hunting diary, 245, 247, 250, 254, 
 
 256, 257, 262, 264, 266, 297, 301, 
 306, 307, 313-14, 316-17, 326-28, 
 330-336, 339, 342-350. Horses 
 of Sir C. Mordaunt's : Chivalry, 
 
 257, 262, 264, 266, 334, 340; 
 Confectioner, 341 ; Isabel, 328 ; 
 Limerick, 314, 327, 328; Mar- 
 mion, 250; Milkmaid, 307; 
 Norman, 256 ; Romsdal, 346 ; 
 Sir Arthur, 332; Statesman, 314; 
 Sutton, 256. 262, 267 ; Tenbury, 
 338 
 
 Mordaimt, Lady, ^^ii., on Romsdal 
 
 (horse), 346 
 Mordaunt, Sir John, 39, 261 
 
 Mordaunt, Mr. John, of Staple HiU, 
 
 252, 254, 259, 275, 277, 299, 319, 
 
 341, 351. 353; run with the 
 
 Bicester Hounds, 1862, 262, 263 
 Morrell, Mr., sale of hounds, 289 
 Moreton Common, 91 
 Moreton in Marsh, 54 
 Moreton Morrell, 69, 220, 223, 247, 
 
 299, 306 
 Moreton Pinkney, 220 
 Moreton Wood, 57, 141, 158, 223, 275, 
 
 330 
 Morgan, Ben (himtsman), 215, 217, 
 
 288 
 Morgan, George (whip), 273, 299 
 Morgan Rattler (Mr. Wyatt's horse), 
 
 58, 111 
 Morris, R. (whip), 1-52, 153. 155, 169, 
 
 172, 176 and n. 
 Morris (huntsman), 198, 201, 203, 235, 
 
 242, 287, 288 
 Mostyn, Captain, 118, 135 
 Mostyu, Sir E., 135 
 Mostyn, Sir Thomas, 76, 230 
 Movmtgarret, Lord, viii., 135, 166, 
 
 179, 180, 182, 185, 186, 208, 239 
 Multum-in-Parvo (horse named), 295 
 Munns, A. (whip), 235 
 Munton, Draper, and Munton, Messrs., 
 
 and the proposed railway tln-ough 
 
 Ladbroke Gorse, 162-164 
 Murrietta, Messrs., hunting at Har- 
 
 boro', 267 
 Musgrave, Mr. Christopher, 163, 196 
 Musgrave, Sir James, 57 
 Musters, Mr., 59 n, 109 
 Mytton, Jack, 91 and n, 182, 205-207 
 
 and n, 288 
 
 Naper, Mr. J., 207 
 
 Napier, Mr., 67, 69, 70 
 
 Napton, 53, 111, 148, 186. 191, 254, 
 
 313 
 Napton on the Hill, 194 
 Napton Folly, 220 
 Neverd, T. (whip), 342, 350 
 Newbold Fields, 76 
 Newbold Pacey, 141, 169, 185, 194, 
 
 200, 208, 302, 310, 313, 328, 330, 
 
 345 
 Newcombe's Wliite House, 106 
 
INDEX. 
 
 375 
 
 New Coppice, 271 
 
 New Fields, 326 
 
 Nicholl's Gorse, 219 
 
 Nill Gorse, 244, 262 
 
 Nimrocl (hoiuid), 298 
 
 " Nimi'od's Hunting Toiirs," extract 
 from, 34-38 
 
 " Nimrod," 15 aud «, 22 ; liorso 
 called Hero, 39 ; on Mr. Jolm 
 Hawkes, 65 ; and Jack "Wood, 
 67; on Mr. E. J. Shirley, 74 
 and n ; run from Walton Wood, 
 1826, 81 ; run from Liglithomo 
 Rough, 81, 82 ; and Mr. Robert 
 FeUowes, 82 ; '• Crack Riders of 
 Warwickshii'e," 109-111 ; story 
 told by, 125 n. 
 
 Noble, John, 125 n. 
 
 Nord Fjord, Norway, fishing in, 306 
 
 Norris, Colonel, viii., 10, 104 ; remi- 
 niscences of William Gulliver, 
 226-228 
 
 Norris, Mr. Henry, 164 
 
 North, Colonel J. S. (Colonel Doyle), 
 10 n, 163, 208, 210, 281 
 
 North, Baroness, 281 
 
 North, Hon. W. H. J. (afterwards 
 Lord North), viii., 10, 104, 262 n ; 
 list of hounds under, in 1861, 255 ; 
 in 1862, 263; in 1863, 268; in 
 1864, 271; in 1865, 274; be- 
 comes joint master mth Lord 
 W. de Broke of Warwickshire 
 Hunt, -JSl, 254, 261, 269 ; dinner 
 to Mr. H. Greaves, 252-3; ac- 
 count of a kill in the Heythroj) 
 Country, 254, 255 ; extracts from 
 himtiug diary, 256, 257, 262, 264, 
 266-7, 270, 273-6; himts the 
 Alcester Woodlands, 1864-5, 
 265, 266, 273 ; resigns the mas- 
 tership of the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, 1866, 275, 276 ; and over- 
 riding the hoimds, 277 ; list of 
 the best hounds during his 
 mastership, 280, 281 ; oil paint- 
 ing of, at Wroxton Abl)ey. 281, 
 282 
 
 Northampton, Lord, 11 
 
 North Cots wold Hunt, 8 
 
 Northend, 126, 149, 306, 355 
 
 Northleach, 92 
 
 North Newington, 176 
 
 NorthWarwickshire Himt, the, 1, 8, 9 
 Mr. R. YjTier and, in 1834, 135 
 Mr. Hellier and, in 1838, 136 
 boundaries of, in 1853, 219 and n 
 222; Mr. Greaves and, 221 
 neutral coverts in 1856, 233; in 
 1858, 243; hounds of, 250; run 
 Avith, November, 1866, 297 
 
 Norway, fishing in, 212, 213, 259, 
 265, 306, 3i6, 329, 347 
 
 " Notitia Yenatica." See Yyner 
 
 Nunn's Bushes, 253, 254 
 
 Oadby Gate Covert, 105 
 ^Oakham Cop]5ice, 9 
 Oakley Wood, 8, 9, 38, 57, 94, 95, 
 
 141, 158, 169, 181, 182, 191, 194, 
 
 198, 220, 223, 247, 252, 264, 272, 
 
 275, 326, 328, 330, 347, 348 
 OdenhiU, 104 
 OfEchm-ch, 37, 54, 252 
 Offclmrch Bury, 185, 200, 222 
 Offchurch Osier Bed, 223 
 Old Gervel, 273 
 Old Leys, 269, 327 
 Old Park Wood, 243 
 Ongley, Captain, 135 
 Ongley, Lord, 135 
 Orpheus (hound), 279 
 Orvis, Charles, 318, 325, 330, 331, 
 
 332, 336, 342, 347, 351-353 
 Osbaldeston, Mr., 52, 89 n, 109 
 Over, Mr. Harry, 211, 245, 299 
 Over Norton, 52, 88, 89, 92, 274, 304 
 Oversley Wood, 7, 201, 223, 233, 295, 
 
 306 
 Owen, Mr. Smythe, 253 
 Owlington, 133 
 Oxford, Mr. R. J. Barnard at, 139 ; 
 
 Mr. W. R. Yemey at, 300 n. 
 Oxhill Yillage aud Covert, viii., 58, 
 
 87, 92, 134 n, 142, 219, 245, 246, 
 
 254, 272, 326, 328, 336 
 Oxhill Gorse, 5, 153 
 Oxhill Yale, 9 
 
 Pacey, H. (whip), 299 
 
 Pack, the constitution of the, 277-282 
 
 Page, Mr., of Adderbury, 328 
 
376 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page, Ml-, of "Wanningtoii, 328 
 
 Page's Goi'se, 11 
 
 Paget, Lord A., and Faniliovongh, 
 
 56 n. 
 Painter, Captain, 327 
 Palmer, Mr., 182 
 Palmer, Captain, 252 
 Parker, Mr., 116, 120, 192 
 Parker, Sir Wm. Hyde, 58, 205 
 Parkinson, Mr., 277 
 Parr, Dr., of Hattou, 36 
 Patrick, Mr., 81, 82 
 Patriotic Fnud, Warwickshire Hunt 
 
 Club, 224 
 Paul, Captain, 11 
 Paulet, Captain, 327 
 Paxford Blakemore, 272 
 PajTie, Charles (huntsman), 138, 188 
 
 and n, 334 
 PajTie, P., 330 
 Payne, Mr. George, 130 
 PajTie, Sir P., 135 
 
 Peach, Captain, of Idlicote, 276, 294, 
 321 
 
 Peach, Mr. H. K., 233 
 
 Peareth, Mr. William, 6 
 
 Pearsons Wood, 274, 275 
 
 Pebworth, 71, 80, 330, 344 
 
 Pebworth Covert, 7, 112 
 
 Peel, Sir Robert, and Squire Little, 
 209 
 
 Peel, Mr. O., 233 
 
 Pemberton, Mr. T., 28 
 
 Pemberton, Captain, 267 
 
 Perfect Sportsman, the, 72, 73 
 
 Perry, Mr. T. Aloysius, 11 
 
 Perry, Mr. F., 276 
 
 Perry, J. (whip), 336 
 
 Peterborough, hounds prize winners 
 at, 280 and n, 293 
 
 Phillips, George, 163 
 
 PhiUips, Mr. Mark, 9, 192, 208, 210, 
 233, 242, 305 
 
 Phillips, Mr. Robert, 9, 163, 210 
 
 Pickering, Mr., 46, 58, 70 
 
 Pigott, Mr., 15 n. 
 
 Pile HiU, 202 
 
 Pillerton, 5, 142, 245, 246 
 
 Pillertou Gorse, 56, 177, 272, 336, 
 304, 306, 313; run from, in 1817, 
 57, 61 n. 
 
 Pillerton Hersey, 92, 93 
 
 Pillerton HiU, 275 
 
 Pillertou Priors, 239 
 
 PiUerton Toll Bar, 315 
 
 Pitchford, Joe (huntsman to Rev. C. 
 
 Curtis), 175 
 Pitt, Mr., of Wellesbourne, 171 
 Pittern Hill, 287 
 Plesters' Coverts, 70 
 " Pliny English," 122, 123 
 Plunket, Hon. R., verses on " The 
 
 Debdale Himt," 115-121 
 Pochin, Mrs., 62 
 Poem, "Run from Eatington Grove," 
 
 350-354 
 Pole, Mr., 95 
 
 Pole, Sir Pery, 5, 22, 90, 106, 327 n ; 
 engrings, &c., in his library at 
 Todenham, 230-232 
 Polecat run to ground, a, 96 
 Poole, Mr., the tailor, anecdote of, 228 
 Pool Fields Gorse, 172, 240 
 Pool Fields Osiers, 191, 269 
 Porter, Mr. Walsh, 30 
 Potter, Messrs., of Farnborough, 328 
 Potts (Lord Leigh's keepei-), 196 
 Powys, Mr., 20 
 Presentation to Mr. E. Stevens, the 
 
 huntsman, 152-154 
 Preservation of foxes, meeting at 
 WeUesbourne, May, 1851, 203, 
 204 
 Prestbury (horse called), 293 
 Preston Bushes, 45, 71, 106, 219 
 Preston Capes, 92, 310 
 Prickett (horse named), 229 
 Priestess (hound), 287 
 Princethorpe Wood, 80, 100, 177, 184, 
 
 326 
 Print Hill, 103, 126, 147, 185, 221, 
 
 223, 233, 252 
 Priors Hardwick, 89, 92, 105, 186 
 Priors Marston, 92, 105, 266 
 Pritchett, Mr. R. F., 347 
 Pryor, Mr. Arthur V., 300 n. 
 Pudlicote Quarries, 247 
 Puleston, Sir Richard, 19, 90, 91 ; 
 
 hounds bred by, 16 n, 17 n, 50 
 Pidestou, Rev. T. H. G., "The 
 Wynustay Country," xii. n, 
 xiii. n, 16 n, 90, 91 
 
INDEX. 
 
 377 
 
 Pytchley Country, 250, 301 
 Pytchley Hoiuids, the, 135, 348 ; run 
 
 from Waterloo Gorse, 1864, 267, 
 
 268 
 Pytchley Hounds meet at Weltou, 
 
 Feb. 21, 1863, 264, 265 
 Pytchley Hunt, John Bright and the, 
 
 230 n ; meet at Badl)y Wood, 290. 
 
 Quoni Hounds, rma with the, 1833, 
 105, 106 ; poem on Mr. Hodgson 
 of the, 308, 309 
 
 Quinton Village, 71, 80, 330 
 
 Radbourne Gorse, 53, 56, 57, 91, 111, 
 
 102, 104, 131, 133, 134, 148. 253 
 Radford, 54, 237 
 Radford Gate, 295 
 Radway, 58, 237, 244, 246 
 Radway Grange, meet at, 10, 11 
 Raglan. Lord, 307 
 Ragley Park, 7, 243, 269, 275, 295 
 Railton, the saddler, 292 
 Railway proposed throiigh Ladljroke 
 
 Gorse in 1844, 161-164 
 Rainbow, Mr., 323, 324 
 Rainbow (hound), 324 
 Rally wood (hound), 281 
 Ramsay, Mr., 192 
 Ransom, Jack (whip), 108, 126 
 Rapid Rhone (Lord Willoughby's 
 
 horse), 256, 288; ridden by Jack 
 
 Jones, 217, 218 n. 
 Ratley Brook, Mr. Lucy in the, 235 
 Rauma River, Norway, fishing in, 
 
 329, 347 
 Ravensthorpe, 301 
 Rawnsley, Mr., 258 n. 
 Rayner, Captain P., 327 
 " Reasons for Hunting," song, bj' 
 
 Rev. H. R. Wolley, 229, 230 
 Red Coat (Mr. Corbett's hunter 
 
 named), 322 
 Redesdale, Lord, 163, 169 ; hounds 
 
 of, 160 
 Red Hill, 160, 184, 201, 233, 295, 296, 
 
 306, 310, 314 
 Red Hill Wood, 43, 44 
 Red Horse Vale, 283 
 Red Rose (horse rode by Stevens), 
 
 194 
 
 Raid, Mr. Robert, 163 
 
 Reindeer in Norway, 317 
 
 Rennie, Mr., of Leamington, 327 
 
 Ricardo, Mr., 135 
 
 Rich, Mr. (jun.), 325 
 
 Roan Banker (Lord Middleton's 
 horse), 58 
 
 Robbins, Mr. P., 31, 98, 153 
 
 Roberts, Mr. H., 32, 39, 111 
 
 Robertson, Captain, 327 
 
 Robertson, Mr. A., of Banbury, 328 
 
 Robertson, Mr. E. C, 276 
 
 Rollwright Coombs, 46, 92, 168, 252, 
 254, 257, 262, 266, 267, 297 
 
 Romsdal Horn, ascent of the, 212, 213 
 
 Rook's Coppice, 272 
 
 .Rose, Mr. J., 153 
 
 Ross, Lord, 135 
 
 Rosslyn, Lord, poem by the late, 308, 
 309 
 
 Rough Hill, 9, 141, 243, 266, 270, 273, 
 274, 275, 336, 350 
 
 Round House, 326 
 
 Rous Lench, 274 
 
 Rowley, Sir Charles, 182 
 
 Royal (sire), 246 
 
 Ruddy l)roke (Dartmoor), 125 
 
 Rugljy, 99 
 
 Rumer Hill, 7, 112 
 
 Rushout, Mr., of the N. Cotswold 
 Hoimds, 214 
 
 Russell, Mr. Charles, 126 
 
 Russell, Captain, 70 
 
 Russell, Mr., 70, 72, 123, 207 
 
 Russell, Mr. John, of Upton House, 
 accepts the mastership of the 
 Warwickshire Hounds, 97, 98, 
 101 ; first meet at Idlicote, 98 ; 
 run nearly to Rugby, 98, 99 ; 
 list of hounds, 1830, 100; in 
 1831, 101; and in 1832, 103; 
 run to Itchington Heath, 104 ; 
 run to EpweU White House, 
 Jan., 1833, 104; run to Farn- 
 borough, 105 ; fine run to New- 
 combes Wliite House, March, 
 1833, 106 ; gives up the hounds, 
 107 ; death of, 107 ; liounds kept 
 by, 108, 109 
 
 Russell, Mr., of Hoduell, 182, 212 
 
 Russell, Mr. W., of Blockley, 46, 58 
 
378 
 
 NDEX. 
 
 Rutlaud, Duke of, 230 
 Rytou Wood, 100, 126, 326 
 
 Saffrou (hound), 277-282 
 
 St. Albans, Duke of. joins the War- 
 wickshire, 82 n. 
 
 St. La\NTence, Lord, 327 
 
 St. Maur, Lord A., 140 
 
 Saintluiry ViHage, 46 
 
 Salford Osiers, 313 
 
 Salmon fishing. See Norway, Scot- 
 laud 
 
 Sambourne, 274, 275 
 
 Sanderson, Captain, 135 
 
 Sandford Park, 89, 90 
 
 Sandwich, origin of the word, 327 n. 
 
 Sarjeant, Mr. Daniel, 153, 324 
 
 Sarsden House, 84 
 
 Sarsgrove, 246, 247, 254, 255 
 
 Saunderson, Mr. J., 182, 205 
 
 Savage, Mr. C, of Warmington, 328 
 
 Saxby Hall, 154 
 
 Scotland, salmon fishing in, 71, 332, 
 333, 342-3 ; shooting in, 282, 283 
 
 Scott, Lord John, 129, 196 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, Scotch song allu- 
 ded to by, in his journals, 303, 
 304 
 
 Scott, John (whip), 330 
 
 Scott, W. (whip), 330 
 
 Scriven, Mr. E., 328, 356 
 
 " Scrutator," 15 ; on the Epwell 
 Hunt, 22, 23; on the Ditchley 
 Run in 1816, 52, 53; and Mr. R. 
 Baruard, 129 
 
 Seagi-ave, Mr., 81 
 
 Seftou, Lord, and horse " Confi- 
 dence,"' 33, 34 n. 
 
 Serjeant, Mr. Daniel, 133 
 
 Shakespeare's Tragedies at Drury 
 Lane Theatre, anecdote, 37 n. 
 
 Sliannon, Lord, 294 
 
 Sharman's Hill, 217 
 
 Shaver (Mr. Pitt's horse), 171 
 
 Shaviugtou, meet at, 90, 91 
 
 Shedcombe, 93 
 
 Shekell, Mr., 7 
 
 Sheldon, Mr. H. J., of Brailos, 5, 58, 
 83, 110, 192, 207, 208. 210. 233, 
 242, 276 
 
 Shelley, Sir J., 30 
 
 Sheniugtou Mill, 183, 244 
 Shennington Village, 104, 239, 256 
 Shennington Gorso, 219 
 Shepherd W. (whip), 350 
 Sherbourue, 218, 272 
 Shipstou, 297 
 
 Shirley, Mr. Arthur, 128, 129, 131 
 Shirley, Mr. E. J., of Eatingtou 
 Park, vii., 14, 36, 83, 90, 143, 163 ; 
 becomes master of the hovmds in 
 1821, 66 ; purchases the Cran- 
 bourne Chase Hoimds, 67 ; meet 
 at Alscot, Febraary, 1822, 67, 
 68 ; run from Edge Hill, 1822, 
 68, 69 ; two rims from Edge 
 Hill, December, 1823, 69, 70; 
 loss of hounds in 1823, 69 n ; 
 run from Alveston Pastures, 
 1824, 71, 72 ; resigns the 
 management of the Warwick- 
 shire Hounds, 73; presentation 
 of plate to, 73 ; " Nimrod " on, 
 73 n ; hounds purchased from, 85 
 Shirley, Mr. Evelyn, 350 
 Shirley, Mr. SewaUis, 350 
 Shirley, Colonel, 201, 208, 211 
 Shooting in Scotland, 282, 283 
 Shottery, 264, 299 ; kennels at, 128 
 Shotteswell, 239 
 Shrewsbury, Lord, 276 
 Shropsliire Hoimds, the, 90, 91 
 Slmckburgh, Mr., of Bourton, 58 
 Shuckburgh Hill, 3, 4, 6, 89, 148, 217, 
 237, 241, 254, 262, 266, 269, 270, 
 287, 297-9, 305-307, 311, 313- 
 315, 322, 344, 354; fine run 
 from, January 31, 1867, 299-301 
 Shuckburgh Park, 161, 169, 182, 183 
 
 Shutford, 
 
 266, 30^ 
 
 Shutford Brook, 239 
 Shutford Clump, 244 
 Shutford Hill, 14, 87 
 Shutford Spimieys, 68, 69 
 Sibford, 52, 53 
 Sibford Heath, 256 
 Simmonds, Charlie, 259 
 Sinfi (Sir C. Mordaunt's horse), 266 
 Sira River, Norway, fishing in, 316-7 
 Sketfington Vale, Leicestershire, 4 
 Skipwith, Sir Grey, 26, 30, 35, 39 
 and n, 83 
 
INDEX. 
 
 379 
 
 Skipwith, Colonel, 337, 338 
 Skipwith, Mr. J., 208 
 Skipwith, Sir T. G., 242 
 Slack! Wood, 273-275 
 Sliugsby, Sir Charles, 331 
 Smatehley Covert, 9, 313 
 Smetlmrst R. (whip), 349, 350 
 Smith, Capt. Arthur, \'iii. 
 Smitli, Mr., of Aldermiiister, 182 
 Smith, Mr., of Pebworth, 129 
 Smith, Fred (whip), 265, 269, 273 
 
 and n, 281 
 Smith, Mr. George, of Ailston, viii., 
 
 153, 324, 345, 351, 353 ; extracts 
 
 from Ins hunting diary, 326, 330, 
 
 336, 341-346 
 Smith, Mr. Gustavus, 163, 208, 210, 
 
 233, 276 
 Smith, Tom (whip), 46, 58, 61, 
 
 111 
 Smith, Mr. W., of Stratford, 80 
 Smythe, Mr. Carriugton, 163 
 Smythe, Mr. E. M., 90, 91 
 Smythe, Sir Edward, 39, 90, 91, 
 
 253 
 Snitterfield, 8, 65, 190, 202, 299, 305, 
 
 306, 309, 313 
 Snitterfield Bushes, 9, 223 
 Solihull, 127, 135, 178 
 Somerset, Lord Edward, 123 
 Somerset, Duke of, 139 
 SomerviUe, the poet, 156 ; poem, "The 
 
 Chase," 13; and hound called 
 
 Trojan, 16, 20-22 
 Somerville, Lord, 206, 327 
 Song sung by Sir Roljert Menzies, 
 
 303, 304 
 Southam, 223 
 Southampton, Lord, 248 ; kennels of, 
 
 278 
 South Staffordshire Hounds, Worrall 
 
 and the, 288 
 Southwold Country, 286 
 Spencer, Lord, entertains the Prince 
 
 of Wales, Feb., 186.3, 265; and 
 
 hound Archer, 348 
 Spencer's Gorse, 307, 326, 328, 340, 
 
 341 
 Spenial Park, 201, 273-275 
 Spiers, Mr. Alex., 129 
 Spit«fid (hound), 75 
 
 8po7-ting Magazine : a famous run in 
 1795, 17 ; accoimt of the hound 
 Trojan, 20-22 ; extracts from the, 
 37, 38, 104, 125 ». 
 
 Sportsman, the perfect, 72, 73 
 
 Spragget, Mr., 331, 332 
 
 Squire, the (horse owned by Rev. W. 
 S. MiUer), 213, 244, 247, 253. 
 See also Miller. 
 
 Stag Himting with Mr. Corbett's 
 harriers, 343-4 
 
 Stag Hunt at Banbiary in 1876, 355-6 
 
 Stanley, Mr., of Leamington, 218, 
 299-301, 332 
 
 Stanley, Mr. Massey, 129 
 
 Stanley, Mr. W., 153 
 •Staples, Will (of the Shropshire), 90, 
 91 
 
 Starkey, Mr. J., 276, 327 
 
 Staverton Wood, 76, 89, 182, 254, 270, 
 292, 301, 315 
 
 Steele, Mr. Maxwell, 163 
 
 Steeples, Tom (huntsman), 61 
 
 Stevens, Edwin, 138, 259, 290; be- 
 comes huntsman to the Warwick- 
 shire Hounds in 1842, 150; his 
 early days, 151, 152 ; presentation 
 to, in 1846, 152-154; goes to Lin- 
 colnshire as huntsman to Lord H. 
 Bentinck, 154, 155 ; limiting diai-y 
 kept by, 8, 156, extracts from, 
 157-161, 165, 168-195, 198-202 
 horses ridden by, 194, 203 ; suc- 
 ceeded by Ben Morgan, 215; 
 and Bob Worrall, 285-287 ; acci- 
 dent to, in 1847, 176 ; his system 
 of hunting, 187 and n, 188 
 
 Stevens, Jack (whip), 61, 124 
 
 Stockton, 80, 245 
 
 Stoke Wood, 201, 245 
 
 Stoneleigh Abbey, 155, 234 
 
 Stoneleigh Deer Park, 38, 54, 218 
 
 Stonewall Jackson (Mr. W. R. 
 Verney's horse), 300 n. 
 
 Stoney Thorpe, 186, 223 
 
 Stordal River, fishing in, 259, 265 
 
 Stormer (hound), 277 
 
 Stour River, 80 
 
 Stourton Village, 245 
 
 Stow-on-the-Wold, 90, 294 
 
 Stracey, J. (whip), 217, 288 
 
380 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Stratford, Colonel, 288 
 
 Stratford-on- Avon, the "White Lion" 
 Inn at, 14, 15, 17 n ; Hnnt Ball 
 at, 16, 45, 128, 215, 237-38, 333 ; 
 snpper given by Lord Middleton 
 at, 58 ; Lord Middleton's house 
 near, 62 n ; meetings of "War- 
 wickshire Hunt Club at, 83 
 
 Stretton, 80 
 
 Stretton Hall, 105 
 
 Stubbs, Mr., 22, 28, 33 n. 
 
 Stublis, Mr., of Beekbury, 51 
 
 Stud of the Warwickshire Hunt, 146, 
 147 
 
 Stud Hounds, Lists of. See Hounds. 
 
 Studley, 270, 317 
 
 Studley Osiers, 275 
 
 Sugars well Farm, 302 
 
 Sullivan, J. (whip), 269 
 
 Sundorue, Barrow's tombstone in 
 churchyard of, 19 ; Trojan buried 
 at, 22 
 
 Siui Rising, Edge Hill, 180, 275, 326 
 
 Sun Rising Gorse, 251, 252, 256 
 
 Surtees, Mr., and the immortal 
 Jorrocks, 243 
 
 Sutton, 92 ; the brook at, 52 
 
 Sutton, Mr. R., 239 
 
 Sutton, Sir Richard, 125, 294, 295 
 
 Sutton Bridge, 201 
 
 Swalclift'e, 68, 89, 239, 244, 252, 257, 
 267, 299, 302, 305-307, 310, 311, 
 314, 326, 345, 349 
 
 Swalcliffe Grange, pul)lic named, 
 14 and n. 
 
 Swalcliffe Osiers, run from, 183 
 
 Swalcliffe Park, meet at, 10 
 
 Swerford, 176, 246 
 
 Swerford Osier Bed, 299 
 
 Sykes, Sir Tatton, 67 
 
 Tachbrook Tillage, 5, 169 
 
 Tachbrook Toll Bar, 155 
 
 Tadmarton, 87, 340 
 
 Tadmarton Heath, 246, 345 
 
 Taglioni (mare named), 285, 291-2, 
 299, 306, 315 
 
 Tailby, Mr., hounds of, in Leicester- 
 shire, 267 
 
 Tall)ot, Hon. Walter, 296 
 
 Talbot, Lord, hounds of, 33 n. 
 
 Taltou House, 245, 299, 306, 314 
 
 Tamworth, 201 
 
 Tarporley Hunt Clul), 39 n. 
 
 Tattersalls', sale of Mr. Thornhill's 
 stud of hixnters at, 129; Mr. 
 Lucy's sale at, 291 
 
 Tavistock, Lord, 109 
 
 Taylor, Harry (huntsman), 147, 148 
 
 Taylor, Mr. Thomas, 153 
 
 Taylor, Rev. J. FitzwUliam, 166, 
 182 
 
 Taylor, Wm. (keeper), 318 
 
 " Tempest Room " at Wliite Lion 
 Inn, Stratford - on - Avon, 14, 
 17 n. 
 
 Teubury (Mr. J. Mordaunt's horse), 
 319 
 
 Thanet, Lord: run of a fox from 
 Westmoreland to Kent, 258 
 
 Thompson, Colonel Anstruther, 136, 
 290, 292, 315 
 
 Thompson, Mr. Beilby, 109 
 
 Thornels (Thornhill's) Gorse, 190, 
 194 and n. 
 
 Thornhill, Mr. W. P., of Hounds 
 Hill, 139, 144, 145, 163, 197, 
 274; succeeds Mr. Russell as 
 master of the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, 1833, 108; first meet 
 at Hounds HiU, 109; kill on 
 Rumer HiU, Dec, 1833, 112; 
 list of hounds in 1833, 114 ; runs 
 from Debdale, 114-122; list of 
 liounds in 1834, 121 ; meet at 
 Farnborough, March, 1834, 122- 
 3 ; list of hounds in 1835, 127 ; 
 gives up the hounds, 128; sale 
 of his hunters at Tattersall's, 129, 
 130 ; accident to, 137 n. 
 Thorpe Maudeville Gorse, 149, 289 
 Thorpe Rough, 237, 319 
 Three Oaks, 243 
 Throckmorton, Sir Wm., 7 ; and Bob 
 
 Worrall, 289-291, 294-5 
 Tliurlastou Tillage, 80, 241 
 Thursby, Mr., of Wormleighton, 327, 
 
 356 
 Tidings (hoimd), 20, 75 
 Tidnnngton, 273 
 Tile Hill, 109 
 Tilton Wood, 6 
 
INDEX. 
 
 381 
 
 Tipperary Boy (Mr. Lucy's liorsc 
 
 named), 234 
 Titcliborue, Sir H., 135 
 Todeuham, 67, 245 
 Todenham Spiuueys, 160 
 ToiTO, Rev. H. J., of Norton Curlieu, 
 
 302, 303, 308 
 ToATiiseud, Mr. Fredk., of Houing- 
 
 ton, 5, 321 
 Towuseud, Mr. John, 83, 163 
 To^vusend, Joseph, 83, 128, 129, 131, 
 
 137 and /(, 143, 144, 163, 242 
 Trafford Bridge, 220 
 Traitor's Ford, 251, 257, 339 
 Tree, Mr., of Ashborne, 8 
 Trela\viiy, Sqnire, 125 
 Trencli, Mr., 153 
 Trevelyan, Lady, 9 
 Tribick, James (whip), 299, 325 
 Tritton, Mr. E. W., 300 n. 
 Trojan, homid called, 16 and n, 37, 
 
 38 ; history of, 20, 22 
 Trollope, Mr. Anthony, 300 n. 
 Troyte, Dr., 125 n. 
 Trueboy, hound called, 20 
 Tubney, hound sale at, 289 
 Tumor, Mr. Algernon, 300 n. 
 Tweeddale, Marquis of, 201 
 Twj-ford Vale, the. 267, 268 
 Tysoe Village, 46, 56, 58, 219, 251, 
 
 313, 315, 341 
 
 Ufton Wood. 7, 30, 53, 56, 88, 99, 
 103, 110, 131, 133, 147, 155, 161, 
 171, 174, 175, 178, 187, 191, 195. 
 219, 220, 222, 237, 245, 246, 252, 
 264, 275 n, 298, 306, 308, 310. 
 313, 315, 326, 337, 347 
 
 Umberslade Park, 201 
 
 Upton 101, 104, 250, 251 
 
 Upton Gorse, 141, 219, 252 
 
 Upton House, 10, 11, 317, 352 
 
 Vale of Warwickshire, 3, 4 
 
 Vale of Wliite Horse, 258 n; Mr. 
 Greaves and, 251, 253; Sir 
 William Throckmorton and, 289- 
 291, 294-5 
 
 Vangiiai-d (hound), 60 and n, 61 /(. 
 
 Vaughan, Mr., 135 
 
 Vaughton, Mr., Ill 
 
 Vaux, Lord, 208 
 
 Vefsen River, fishing iu, 296 
 
 " Venator," vii., xi., verses on the run 
 from Burton Hill, Feb., 1811, 43- 
 45 ; run from Farnborough, Feb., 
 1817,54; run from Ufton Wood, 
 Jan., 1817, 56 ; run from Alscot, 
 Feb., 1822, 67, 68 ; account of a 
 run to Kiddington Village, 1828, 
 89, 90 ,• fox killed near Chelten- 
 ham, 90; run from Wolford 
 Wood in March, 1829, 91, 92; 
 run to Rugby in 1830, 99 
 
 Venour, Mr. Joliu, 39, 111 
 
 Vemey, Hon. Robert R., 213 ; deatli 
 of 335, 336 
 
 'Vemey, Miss Susan (Mrs. Godmau), 
 342; horse named Clashmore, 
 213 
 
 Verney, Rev. W. R., and the Rev. 
 WiUiam Miller, 237 n ; account 
 of rim from Shuckburgh, Jan. 
 31, 1867, 299, 300 
 
 Verney, Mrs. Walter, A-iii., 337 n; 
 hunting sketch by, 260 
 
 Verney's Gorse, 38 n, 132, 236, 250, 
 264, 275 
 
 Vernon, Lord, 60 n, 61 
 
 " Veteran Sportsman " on himtiug, 
 72,73 
 
 Victory (hound), 75 
 
 Villebois, Mr., 290 
 
 ViUiers, Lord, 39, 163, 192, 196, 208, 
 210, 242 
 
 Voltaire on horse cro^jping in Eng- 
 land, 293 H. 
 
 Vyuer, Mr. R., 127, 135; '' Notitia 
 Venatica," 128, 175, 181 n ; 
 accoimt of a run to Crick in 
 1824, 70 ; verse on the Deepdale 
 Run, 75-77 ; account of a run to 
 Itchington Heath in 1829, 94; 
 a polecat run to ground, 1830, 96 
 
 Wady, Mr., of Warkworth, 265 
 
 Waiubody Wood, 218 
 
 Wales, Prince of, at Welton Place, 
 
 February, 1863. 265 
 Walford, Mr. William, 57 
 Walker, 337 
 Wallingtou, General, 207 
 
382 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Walton, meets at, 8, 69, 80, 81, 264, 
 296, 297, 305, 306, 310, 311, 314, 
 318; curious limiting prints found 
 at, 42, 43 ; foxes killed by the 
 keepers at, 168 ; Mr. Pitt and a 
 run from, in 1845, 171 ; foxes 
 found in trees at, 338 
 
 Walton Coverts, 245 
 
 Walton Wood, 80, 81, 99, 102, 110, 
 132, 223, 225, 272 
 
 Wanton (hound), 23 
 
 Wappenbury Wood, 100, 326 
 
 Ward (whip), 242 
 
 Ward, Mr., 155; teaches Mr. Barnard 
 coaching, 140 
 
 Ward, Mr. Fred, Litchfield, 148, 239 
 
 Warde, Mr. Charles T., 163 
 
 Warde, John, a famous sportsman, 
 14 and n, 15, 82 and n, 83 
 
 Warden Hill, 133, 217, 220, 262, 332, 
 334 
 
 Warden Hill Gorse, 310 
 
 Wardiiigton, 262, 310 
 
 Wark dorse, 254, 255, 274 
 
 Warmington, 68, 69, 346, 352 
 
 Warmington Hill, 251 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, 39, 58, 61 
 
 Warwick, Hunt Balls at, 45, 174, 240, 
 257 ; complimentary dinner to 
 Mr. Lucy at, March, 1868, 310 
 
 Warwick Arms, meetings at, 74, 83, 
 101, 143-5, 221; head of fox 
 (killed on Rumer Hill) at, 112 ; 
 Hunt Club dinner at, Novem- 
 ber, 1849, 192 ; dinner to Mr. H. 
 Greaves at, April. 1861, 252, 253 
 
 Warwick Park, 8, 9, 95, 194, 252, 
 314, 315 
 
 Warwick Racecourse, Mr. John 
 Hawkes' matches on, 65 
 
 Warwickshire Hunt, description of 
 the country and coverts, 1-12 ; 
 boundaries of, in 1853, 219 and n. 
 See also Hounds, Kennels, &c. 
 Warwickshire Hunt Club, formation 
 of the, 83, 84; ball, 1836, 128; 
 members of, in 1844, 163, 164 ; 
 dinner of, Nov., 1849, 192 ; and 
 the Crimean War, 224, 225; 
 meeting at Wellesbourne, March, 
 1858, 241 
 
 Warwicksliire Hunt Stud, 146, 147 
 Warwickshire Yeomanry, 248-250 
 Watergall, 6, 110, 133, 134 h, 240, 
 
 245, 254, 256, 323 
 Watergall Brook, 355 
 Watergall Covert, viii., 91, 104, 194, 
 
 208 
 Waterloo Gorse, rim from, 267, 268 
 Watson, Mr., 296 
 
 Waverley Wood, 100, 126, 218, 326 
 Webb Heath, 271 
 Weethley Wood, 274, 275, 295 
 Weekes, Captain, 205 
 Welchman, Mr., 328 
 Welcomb, mansion at, 210 
 Welland River, 267 
 Wellesbourne, 5, 8, 9, 128, 131, 145, 
 
 169, 171, 268, 298, 307, 312, 313, 
 
 329, 345, 347; meeting at, re 
 
 preservation of foxes, May, 1851, 
 
 203, 204; meetings of Hunt Club 
 
 at, March, 1858, 241-243 ; Feb., 
 
 1861, 251 ; in 1866, 276, 277 
 Wellesbourne Wood, 9, 30, 102, 159, 
 
 225, 236, 238, 246 
 Wellington (hound), 277 
 Wells (of the Staffordshire), 90, 91 
 Wells, George (huntsman), 242, 247, 
 
 248 
 Welsh Road Covert, 134 n. 
 Welton Place, 6, 299, 301, 314 ; the 
 
 Prince of Wales at, in Feb., 
 
 1863, 265 
 West, Mr. J. M., of Alscot Park. 
 
 36,45 
 West, Mr. James R., 163, 242 
 West Haddon, 141, 250, 292, 299, 301 
 West Kent, Bob Worrall and the, 
 
 288 
 Westmoreland, run of a fox from, to 
 
 Kent, 258 
 Weston House, 5, 54, 168, 188, 192, 
 
 299, 305, 307, 315, 322, 323, 336, 
 
 339 
 Weston Mills, 326 
 Weston Park, 106, 254, 255, 257, 262, 
 
 266, 272, 302, 305 
 Weston Wood, 100, 126, 170, 180 
 Whatcote, 200, 346, 354 
 Whateley, J. (whip), 133, 242 
 Whichcote, Sir Thomas, 307 
 
 I 
 
INDEX. 
 
 383 
 
 Whichfovd Wood, 5, 35, 46, 54, 92, 
 158, 177, 179, 192, 218 n, 245, 250, 
 252, 254, 257, 262, 266, 267, 272, 
 302, 307. 347 
 
 Whimpstoue Bridge, 106, 219, 225 
 
 White, Captain, 242, 267 
 
 White Lion Inn, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 14, 15, 17 n. 
 
 White's Bushes, 11, 251, 266, 301, 323 
 
 Whitley Abbey, 218 
 
 Wliitnash Brook, 220, 345 
 
 Wliituash Buslies, 9. 
 
 Wliituash Fields, run to, in 1817, 57 
 
 Whituash Gorse, 94, 95, 99, 103, 131, 
 247, 252, 256, 263 
 
 Whitwiek, Mr., 81, 32 
 
 "Wlioo- Whoop," meet at Lighthorne, 
 Feb., 1835, 125, 126 
 
 Whyte-Melville, Major, and Katter- 
 felto, 38 
 
 Wickstead, Mr., 90, 91 
 
 Widdicombe, 233 
 
 Wiggiugton Heath, 10, 11. 176. 178, 
 266^ 299, 311. 326 
 
 Will of Willoughby Dixie, 62-64 
 
 Williams, Mr. Harry, 110 
 
 Williams, General, 39, 110 
 
 Williams, Sir Hugh, 137, 166. 197, 
 208 ; and the xjroijosed railway 
 through Ladbroke Gorse in 1844, 
 2, 161-164; and the kennels at 
 Kineton, 142-145 
 
 Williams, Cap+ain, 206 
 
 Williams, Mr. William, 208 
 
 Williamscote, 270 
 
 Willoughby, Mr. H., 46 
 
 WUloughby Gorse, 183 
 
 Willoughby Osiers, 269 
 
 Wills Pastures, 328. 331 
 
 Wilscote, 304 
 
 Wilson, Captain. 291 
 
 Wilson, Mr., of Ilmingtou, 324, 344 n. 
 
 Wilson, Mr. E. P., 324 
 
 Wilson, James (huntsman), 273 and n. 
 
 Wilson, Mr. WiUiam H., 163, 166 
 
 Winderton, 257 
 
 Windmill Hill, 68, 103, 105, 261 
 
 Wingfield, Mr. C, 265, 285 
 
 Winslow, 228 
 Winwick Yillage, 265 
 Wise, Mr. Henry C, 163, 192 
 
 Wise, Mr. Matthew, 135, 163 
 
 Withccomb Gorse, 157, 252 
 
 Withyeombe, 176, 270, 295 
 
 Withvcomlje Covert, 201, 327 
 
 Wolford Wood, 5, 39 n, 47 «, 67, 84, 
 90-92, 93, 128, 160, 169, 179, 199- 
 201, 228, 244. 247, 250, 257, 262, 
 266, 271, 272, 274, 290, 293, 297, 
 313, 315, 327 n, 336, 339 ; Mr. 
 Corliet's famous run from, in 1795, 
 17 and H. 
 
 WoUey, Rev. H. R., lumting song 
 composed by. 58-60; song, 
 " Reasons for Hunting,'' 229, 230 
 
 Wolscot, 269 
 
 Wolstanton, near Bur.slem, 288 
 
 Wolston, run to, 181, 182 
 
 Wolverhampcote, 269 
 
 Wolverton, 223 
 
 Wonder (hound). 95 
 
 Wood, Mr. F., 328 
 
 Wood, Jack (huntsman), 35, 36, 67- 
 70, 79. 82, 90. 94. 96, 97 ; extract 
 from lumting diary. 317 
 
 Woodcote, 190, 272 
 
 Woodfield, John, 287 
 
 Woodlands of the Warwickshire 
 Hunt, 4, 5 
 
 Woodlands, Mr. Russell hunts the, 98 
 
 Woodley, Jack (huntsman), 273 
 
 Woodman (hound) in the Farn- 
 borough run, Dec., 1814, 47 
 
 Woodmass, Mr. Charles, 163, 265, 
 328 
 
 Woodward. Mr.. 112 
 
 Woolston, 242 
 
 Woore Homids, the, 90, 91 
 
 Worcestershire Hunt, 273; lioimds, 
 296 
 
 Wormleighton, 89, 133, 147, 194, 310, 
 356 
 
 Wormleighton Bottoms, 43, 44 
 
 Worrall, Robert (kennel boy), 153 
 
 WorraU, Robert (huntsman), ^^ii.. 
 129, 261; his early experiences, 
 284-290; joins the Warwickshire 
 Hounds, 290-296, 325; extracts 
 from his hunting diary, 297-302 
 304-315; complimentary dinner 
 to, 315-316 
 Wright, Mr., 258 n. 
 
384 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wriglit, Ml-., of Priors Marstou, 328 
 Wright, Mr. Tom, of Tidmiugtou, 
 
 328 
 Wrightsoii, Mr., 13, 14 
 Wroiightoii, Mr. Philip, 300 n. 
 Wroxton (Colouel Gilbert's horse), 
 
 104 
 Wroxton, 239, 252, 269, 326 
 Wroxton Abbey, 10, 72 /;, 141, 157, 
 
 176, 179, 189, 195, 255, 266, 276, 
 
 301, 307, 314, 317, 318 
 Wroxton Alibey, oil painting of 
 
 hounds and hunting staff at, 
 
 281-2 
 Wroxton New Inn, 158, 172, 178, 
 
 190, 301, 304, 308, 311, 326, 344, 
 
 346, 354 
 Wyatt, Mr. H., 22, 58, 70, 111 ; and 
 
 Radbourne Gorse, 56, 57 
 Wyeh Hill, 294 
 Wykham Brook, 176 
 
 Wyndham, Mr. Mainwariug's horse 
 
 called, 307 n. 
 Wyniates, the word, 54 n. 
 Wynn, Sir Watkin, 245 ; hounds of, 
 
 277-280 
 Wynniatt, Mr. Reginald, 30, 31 
 Wynnstay, 248 
 
 Yates, Mr., 46, 129 
 
 Yates, Mr. Park, 335 
 
 Yeatman, Mr., 252, 253 
 
 Yelvertoft, 167, 171 
 
 Yelverton, 141 
 
 Yeomanry stories, 248-250 
 
 Young James (huntsman), 329, 330 
 
 Zaidee (Fred Ward's mare), 239 
 Zimri (hor.se owned by Rev. W. S. 
 
 Miller), 213, 337 
 Zouave (Captain King's horse), 247 
 Zouche, Mr., of Milcote, 15, 16 
 
 $ 
 
Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine 
 
 Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at 
 
 Tufts University 
 
 200 Westboro Road 
 
 North Grafton. MA 01536 
 
#.. 
 
 '-^Mft, 
 
^* 
 
 .^ 
 
 ■^