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. 



