SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



taking a fox to Stowlangtoft ; the hunted fox 

 going back through Tostock was lost close to 

 Hessett Rectory. In Mr. J. Orel's third and last 

 season the best run was from Norton Wood, 

 hounds going down the railway to Mr. Jennings' 

 arch at Thurston, Jarvis and Mr. (now Sir) 

 E. W. Greene jumping the fence and riding 

 along the railway. Turning off the rail- 

 road hounds went through the Beyton Groves, 

 Rougham coverts away by Blackthorpe to Tin- 

 ker's Grove, Free Wood, through Monk Park, and 

 killed where Mr. Algernon Bevan's house now 

 stands. 



On Mr. Ord's retirement in 1867 Mr. 

 Josselyn again took the country and showed 

 varying sport for four seasons, with several 

 changes in the establishment. Will Jarvis re- 

 tired and his place was taken by Jefferies, who in 

 turn gave place to Wilson, the latter hunting the 

 hounds up to the date of Mr. Josselyn's resigna- 

 tion in 1 87 1. Messrs. Edward and E. Walter 

 Greene (now Sir E. Walter Greene) took the 

 hounds when Mr. Josselyn gave up. Sir E. W. 

 Greene carried the horn himself, with T. Enever 

 and R. Simmonds as whippers-in. He was par- 

 ticularly fortunate on the Thurlow side, where 

 he showed some grand sport. At the end of his 

 third season, however, he sustained injuries in a 

 bad accident with his coach, and this kept him 

 out of the saddle for some considerable time. 

 With Mr. Edward Greene alone in command 

 for the fourth season, Tom Enever hunted the 

 hounds, but in 1875 when it appeared that Sir 

 E. Walter Greene's disablement would prevent 

 his resuming an active share of responsibility for 

 an extended period, Mr. Josselyn again took the 

 management, Mr. Greene kindly lending his 

 hounds for a season. Ben Morgan was Mr. Jos- 

 selyn's huntsman, and Tom Enever his first 

 whipper-in. Morgan, who only remained in 

 Suffolk one season, was a fine huntsman and 

 seemed able to keep hounds on the line of a fox 

 on the worst of scenting days. An example of 

 this talent was shown one day in November, 

 1875. Findinga fox in Woolpit Wood, Morgan 

 hunted him in the wood for a longtime, then got 

 him away to Northfield Wood, where he again 

 dallied. Away to Tot Hill and back again, 

 hounds at last got him away bv the 'Union,' and 

 began to run steadily over the river by Stow- 

 markct through all the Boyton Groves, America, 

 up to Devil's Wood in the Essex and Suffolk 

 country, where he turned back and was killed 

 close to the mill at Hitcham, on Hitcham cause- 

 way. In December, 1875, a very fast gallop on 

 theThurlow side was from Hart Wood ; crossing 

 the Bradley and Brandies road half way to 

 Branches Park, just touching the lower side of 

 Branches Park coverts, over the Upend road to 

 the Cropley Earths, into the Ouseden coverts, 

 where they lost him, Morgan and Mr. Jim 

 Gardiner having the best of the first part of the 

 run. The following season, Mr. Greene having 



sold his hounds, Mr. Josselyn got together another 

 pack, with which, retaining Tom Enever as hunts- 

 man, he hunted the country till 1880, showing 

 some good sport especially in the season of 1876-7. 

 A good run on the Thurlow side was from the 

 Black Thorns at Weston Colville to Brinkley 

 and on to Six-Mile-Bottom over the railway, 

 where, turning right-handed nearly to Dulling- 

 ham the fox recrossed the railway and was killed 

 in the fir covert while pointing back for Brinkley. 

 In 1 880 Sir E. W. Greene again took the country 

 and held it for three seasons. Perhaps one of his 

 best runs was that in January, 1 88 1, from Trund- 

 ley Wood through Abbacy. The fox leaving 

 Thurlow rectory on his right ran straight to 

 Weston Colville, through it to ground in Mr. W. 

 King's earth at Brinkley. Another, of which few 

 of the field saw anything, was in February, 1 88 1, 

 from Stanstead Great Wood into the bottoms 

 below Glemsford, turning left-handed through 

 Cavendish Northy and King Wood and killing 

 close to Clare osier-bed. Another very fast run 

 took place in December, 188 1, from West Hall, 

 leaving Burgate Wood on the left, to Mellis where 

 hounds ran into their fox. 



In 1883 the Suffolk country was divided from 

 the Thurlow ; Mr. Edward Brown took the 

 Suffolk side and Mr. Jesser Coope the Thurlow 

 side. The bounds of the territory retained by the 

 former were as follows : — From the boundary 

 with the East Essex below Glemsford through 

 Glemsford to the bottom of the hill, turning lett- 

 handed by Trucket's Farm, leaving Thurston Park 

 on the left, to the Boxted and Hawkedon road, 

 turning to the left to Hawkedon Green, Denston, 

 Denston Plumbers' Arms, Wickhambrook White 

 Horse, Lidgate, bearing left-handed to the four 

 crossways on the Ouseden and Silverley Tower 

 road, leaving Dalham Park just on the right to 

 Gazeley, crossing the Newmarket road at Need- 

 ham Street to Barton Mills. 



Mr. Brown's two seasons, 1883-5, were 

 distinguished by good scent, especially that of 

 1883-4. The first run of any note was on 

 1 December, 1883, from the Dalham coverts, 

 when the fox ran through Lipsey to Coys Grove 

 to Glumpsey, to ground in covert in Ouseden 

 Park. They got him out and raced him through 

 Spring Wood by Bromley's to the Denston road 

 above Denston Plumbers' Arms, through the 

 Stews and Slater's Groves to Hawkedon Green 

 to the Thurston Bottoms, turning right-handed 

 and killed in the open, one field from Stansfield 

 church. The best run of many years in Suffolk 

 was that on 29 December, 1883, from the Link ; 

 going away nearly to Raw Hall the fox turned 

 left-handed and then right-handed through Chen- 

 cell Grove into Monk Park, turning right-handed, 

 leaving Cockfield Stone on the right to Bulls' 

 Wood by Mr. Edgar's on the left along the 

 meadows nearly to Lavenham, left-handed over 

 Mr. Wright's firm nearly to Preston Mills, again 

 to the left through Bulls' Wood, Monk Park, by 



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