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A KILL IN THE HEYTHROP COUNTRY. 



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well in this nm. The liounds crossed tlie high I'oad from Banbury to 

 Chipping Norton at their best pace. Rode Antelope. 



Lord North has an account of this run in his diary, 

 and the pad of this gaUant fox is still to be seen at 

 Wroxton Abbey. 



WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1861. 

 Lord Willoughby de Broke and Hon. W. H. North. 



Lord North's account : 



Tuesday, December 11th, Wedon Souse. — Bitches out. Found a fox in 

 Weston Park, and lost him near Cherring-ton. Found a brace in Whichford 

 Wood, and got away fast liy Rollwright Combs and Wark Gorse, Heythrop 

 Park, through the Ovens on to Sarsgrove, turned short by the lodge towards 

 Dran, on towards the river, pointing for the forest, but turned back to 

 Chadlington, and killed him fairly in the open near the Cross Roads. Two 

 hours. 



