264 . THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1863 



Lord North gives the time as two hours and twenty 

 minutes. He says they undoubtedly changed foxes at 

 Chesterton Wood. 



Lord North has down two good days which Sir 

 Charles' diary does not record. 



Thursday, February 1.2th, Goldicote. — Found an out- 

 lying fox in a stubble field near Hounds Hill ; ran very fast 

 to Walton, where other foxes were soon on foot, but we 

 stuck to our hunted fox, and got up to him in Bowshot, 

 raced him through Lighthorne Eough, and, passing 

 Bishop's and Yerney's Gorse, ran into him at Itchington 

 Holt. 



Monday, February :23rd, Charlecote Park. — Found in 

 Oakley Wood, and ran to Chestei-ton Wood, through it, and 

 on to Itchington Holt ; back to Chesterton, and out by 

 Lighthorne and Verney's Gorse, by Itchington Holt and 

 Bawcutt's new covert, and killed bini in the open close to 

 Fenny Compton. The first and last parts of the run 

 very fast. 



Lord North also records what Sir Charles omits, that 

 Friday, March 6th, they ran their fox through Ufton 

 Wood, and killed him just outside it. 



These three days must have been very satisfactory both 

 to master and huntsman, whatever they were in a riding 

 point of view. 



From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 



Ou March 6th, from a meet at AvoiiDassett, a very slow liiiutiug run witli 

 a capital fox from the Burton Hills, by Gayclon Spinney, and right-handed 

 by Kniglitcote ; and thence, leaving Itchington Holt to the left, across 

 Harbury Heath, and to the right over the Great Western Railway into Ufton 

 Wood, wliere several fresh foxes were soon ou foot. Tlie hounds had stuck 

 to tlie line OA'er a good deal of the distance, but had to be lifted several times 

 to holloas. They ran nearly nine miles, not much out of the sti'aight line, in 

 an hour and tliree-quarters. I saw the fox go away, and he was a very fine 

 one, and Avill no doid)t show a better run on some other day with a better 

 scent. Rode Chivalry. 



The last meet of the season was on April 10th at Shottery, and it is very 

 remarkaljle that the number of days himting, and foxes killed and run to 

 ground is as nearly as can be the same as during the pi-evious season. 

 Foxes killed, 40^ l)race ; run to ground, 31 brace ; days out, 110. 



On February 2Lst, L863, the Pytchley hounds met at 



