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Boultbee, Rev. W. C. Brant, J. Skipwitli, Captain Gould, 

 J. Ivnightley. The subscription in 1845-1846 amounted 

 to 1195/., and afterwards, up to the year 1853, to nearly 

 500/. It was resolved that the amount of the said 

 subscriptions be disposed of in the following manner : 

 *' That a faggot covert be made at Watergall ; also 

 another at Compton Wyniates ; that if any part of this 

 subscription remain in hand, it should be distributed to 

 gamekeepers and those persons who take care of coverts ; 

 that the residue of the original Warwickshire subscription 

 for coverts be applied to the inclosing and sowing seven 

 acres with gorse seed at Watergall." 



Amonsrst those who hunted with the Warwickshire 

 Hounds at this time, were Mr. John Lucy, Mr. John 

 Little, Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. Darwin Gallon, Mr. 

 Bolton King, Colonel North, Mr. H. J. Sheldon, Lord 

 Villiers, Lord Yaux, Lord Mountgarret, Lord Leigh, 

 Lord Aylesford, Mr. Gustavus Smith, Mr. H. AlKrey, 

 Mr. W. Cowan, Mr. Bromley Davenport, Eev. H. C. 

 Knightley, Mr. Edward Greaves,* Mr. Eichard Greaves, 

 Mr. George Hawkes, Rev. J. Hawkes, Mr. Hugh Williams 

 (afterwards Sir Hugh), Mr. William Williams, Colonel 

 Shirley, Mr. Charles Earle, Captain Cunningham, Captain 

 Dallas. 



Mr. J. Little, usually known as Squire Little, of 

 Newbold Pacey, was a great sportsman and a remarkable 

 character. He hunted for a great many years before this 

 period, and subsequently up to the age of seventy-five. 

 He owned some celebrated steeplechase horses and fine 

 hunters, and there is an excellent portrait at Newbold Pacey 

 of two grey horses, wdiich were his best hunters. His 

 manners were, to say the least of it, abrupt, and he was 

 very much in the habit of " calling a spade a spade." On 

 one occasion, when he was hunting at Mitford Bridge, he 

 was riding one of his steeplechase horses, which, besides 

 being very good looking, had the best manners. The late Sir 



* The death of a Mr. Greaves, through an accident with the Warwickshire Yeomanry 

 at Meriden,is mentioned in the Sporting Magazine of June, 1788. 



