280 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1860 



Notary out of the Holderness Cowslip, and Kosy was by 

 Lord Henry Bentinek's Roderick out of the Holderness 

 Careless. In 18G7 Mr. Lucy put forward a bitch called 

 Careless, by Mr. North's Castor (which he had bought from 

 the Belvoir as a stud hound, by the Belvoir Comus out of 

 their Bosy) out of Bapid. This bitch was the dam of 

 Clasher,* by Nestor, by Nimrod, a hound bought by Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke and Mr. North in 18 02 at Mr. 

 Baker's sale of the North Warwickshire, but not of his 

 black and tan blood, f From this bitch Careless are descended 

 no less than fourteen prize winners at Peterborough. They 

 are as follows : 1888, Safety (1884), by the Bramham 

 Smoker— Rival* ; 1887-9, Coxcomb (1885), by Furley— 

 Choral* ; 1889, Stentor (1885), by the Bramham Sailor 

 — Frailty*; 1887, Pedlar and Petulant (1880), by 

 Proctor* — Abbess; and Playful (1880), by Proctor* 

 out of Ada; 1887, Trueman and Trusty (1887), by the 

 Brocklesby Tapster — Roundelay* ; 1889, Huntress (1888), 

 by Harper— Frailty* ; 1889-90, Student (1888), by Stentor* 

 —Flora; 1889, Harpy (1889), by Harper — Rosary* ; 

 1889-90, Hermit; and 1890, Heiress (both 1889), by Harper 

 —Ruthless*; and 1889, Sympathy (1889), by Stentor* 

 —Famous. The dates in parentheses are the years of 

 entry. The hounds to which asterisks are attached are 

 those through whom the descent from Careless can be 

 traced. The hounds which may have said to have been 

 the pick of the pack during Mr. North's time were Saffron 

 (1859), by the old Saffron— Ruthful ; Talisman (1802), by 

 the Duke of Beaufort's Archer — Tempest ; Lavender and 

 Lapwing (1802), by Stormer — Lapwing ; Bedford (1802), 

 by Lord Southampton's Comus — Beatrice ; Ferryman 



* See note to the poem, " Shuckburgh Hill." — W. R. V. 



t Sir Charles Mordaunt is evidently indebted to " Castor's " most excellent publica- 

 tion, " A Century of Foxhunting " (for the use of which we cannot be too grateful), for 

 these and similar particulars, but our readers will remember that between 1889 and 1895 

 the triumphs of the Warwickshire hounds at the Peterborough Show increased rather 

 than diminished, and there are many more prize winners from the Warwickshire 

 kennels, especially those bred by the celebrated sires Harper and Hermit, whose 

 descent can be directly traced to Careless, and the Belvoir Notary and Belvoir Comus 

 blood.— W. R. V. 



