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"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. 



