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. 



