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 



