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Fridatj, January 6th. — Fine but cold. Went out lumting at Brougliton 

 Castle, and had the best run I have seen for years. Chopped a fox first in 

 Brougliton Spinney. Found again in Tadniarton Heath, and ran by the 

 Highlands. Miloombe, South Xewington, and along the brow of the hill to 

 Swei-ford, thence to Great Tew, Heythro]), Chapel House, and at the l)ack of 

 Chijjping Norton towards Sarsgrove, and lost our fox. Rode the Squire, who 

 carried me splendidly, jumping the South Newington brook in capital style. 



On Thursday, January 12th, 1860, the hounds found in a spinney near 

 Oakley Wood, and ran l)y Moretou Morrell to Lighthorne ; and thence, leaving 

 Chesterton Wood to the left, over the hill by the windmill, nearly to Whit- 

 uash. thence to the left liy Highdown to Oakley Wood, Avhere tlie fox was 

 killed, after a brilliant fifty minutes without a check.* 



From Sir Charles Mordaunt's diary : 



On Jan. Uth 1 went Avith my Ijrother to the meet of the Bicester Hounds 

 at Lower Boddiugton. It was a very frosty morning, and as Squire Drake, 

 the master, did not much appreciate the large addition to the field which 

 came out from Leamington, he had his own and his servants' horses rough 

 shod for riding to covert.- and he put the hounds into Boddington Gorse 

 exactly at eleven o'clock, the consequence being that it was neai-ly impossible 

 for anyone living at a distance to arrive in time. The roads were like a 

 sheet of ice, and although we did our best, we only got to the gorse five 

 minutes after the hounds had gone away. We followed on the line as far as 

 Canons Ashby, but as there had been no cheek up to that time we did not try 

 to go any further, and we had a ride home of twenty miles, and heard after- 

 wards that they had run on nearly to Buckingham ! Captain E. Raleigh 

 King, who was one of a few who had got to covert in time from this side of 

 the country, went very well in this run on his chesnut horse Don Quixote. 

 Captain King was at that time one of the best riders with the Warwickshire 

 hounds, and he had another good chesnut horse called Zouave. 



On January Slst, 1860, a famous run took place from a meet at Mitford 

 Bridge. A fox was found at Wolford Wood, and went away at once in the 

 direction of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, but turned to the left, and ran over a fine 

 line of country down the Yale l)y Evenlode, between Adlestrop Hill and 

 Comwell, and thence by Boulter's Barn to Sarsgrove, where he tiirued to the 

 right and ran near Sarsden and then on to the Norrells, and was killed at 

 Pudlicote Quarries. The pace was the best for the first half hour of the run 

 down the Vale. The distance from point to point is nine miles, and the 

 liounds ran about fourteen in an hour and three-quarters. 



It happened to j^e the day of the Heythrop Hunt 

 meeting, and Mr. Henley Grreaves and his huntsman, 

 George Wells, and others, came to the White Hart Inn at 

 Chipping K^orton ; and Mr. Greaves presented Jem Hills 

 with the brush, saying that he would not sod that road as 

 he had promised from Stow to Bloxham, so he was quite 

 entitled to this brush. Jem had long since said he would 



* Not a bad sort of holiday. — W. E. V 



