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Mr. Shirley, jMr. Townsend, Mr. Holden, aiul ]\Ir. Barnard. 

 After the retirement of Mr. Thornhill at tlie end of tlie 

 season lS35-3(), Mr. (Iranville acted as field-master. The 

 fine quality of the horses during his mastership M^as 

 particularly noted. The AYarwickshire are said to have 

 never previously possessed such a stud for quality. Mr. 

 Granville's own favourite mount was a horse called The 

 Admiral, for which he gave 300 guineas (a large sum in 

 those days), and afterwards sold it for 400 guineas. It was 

 this horse, we are told, that he gave to Tom Day at the 

 foot of Brailes Hill, in the course of a noted run from 

 Wellesbourne, whereby the huntsman was enabled to get 

 up and kill his fox. 



Mr. (Iranville also kept a pack of harriers at Welles- 

 bourne, which went out two days a week, and were hunted 

 by himself.* 



On Nov. 30th, lb30, from a meet at Bishop's Itchington, 

 Eadbourne Gorse was drawn, and, after running for half an 

 hour in covert, the fox went away, and was killed near 

 Southam after a run of twenty minutes nearly straight at 

 the best pace over grass. 



SEASON 1837-38. 



The next season was one of the worst yet recorded. 

 During tiii. early part of it sport was very poor, and from 

 Dec. Istf very severe frost stopped hunting for three 

 months and a half. 



The Warwickshire hounds were put into Ufton Wood 

 on Monday, 5th March, where they found a fox immedi- 

 ately. He took them two or three turns round the wood, 

 and then went away across the ploughings for AAHiitnash 

 Gorse, skirting which, he held on over grass at a good 



* Major Bevil Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall, the eldest son of Mr. Bernard Gran- 

 ville, was a capital rider to hounds. He served with great distinction during the 

 Crimean War, and was one of five out of twenty-four officers of the 23rd Welsh 

 Fusiliers who was not either killed or wounded at the battle of Alma. He was shot 

 through his coatee, and one of his epaulets was carried away by a bullet. 



1 1 was told by the late Mr. Everard, of Ladbroke Hall, that he remembered the 

 great frost of 1837, and that there was no hunting from December 1st until March 10th. 

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