18951 PRESENTATION TO BOORE. 303- 



Eocket, by tlie Duke of Beaufort's Hermit"'" out of 

 Rumsey, was apparently own brother to Rosamond {f-ee 

 Mr. Fellowes's Hounds, 1830, p. 206, Old Book). He was 

 used in 1829, but does not appear in the Hound list of 

 L830, in which list there are: \\ couples, live years old ; 1 

 couple, four years old; 2 couples, three years old ; 3^ couples, 

 two years old ; and '2\ couples, one year old — all by him, 

 beiug a total of 10|- couples out of a pack of 52 couples. 

 The curious part is that though he does not appear in the 

 list of 1830, he must liave been alive, for there are two 

 couples by him in Mr. Russell's list, p. 25(5 of the Old Book. 



The following* letter appeared in the issue of the 22nd 

 of August, 1896, of the Lenmhic/ioii Spa Courier : 



JOHN CORBET AND HIS HOUNDS. 

 Sir — Soiut' years ag-o yon admitted a letter on the abovci .subjeet from my 

 late father, which, though primarily of family interest, was much noticed by 

 Warwickshire folk and also by the Meld. The interest apparently has not 

 died ont, though it is long since my kinsman of Sundcjrne and my grand- 

 father hunted the hounds in your county — Mr. Corbet from Stratford, Sir 

 AndrcAV from Wellesbourne. It will be in the recollection of the older 

 generation that an oil painting of John Corbet and his liounds was executed 

 Jjy Thomas AVeaver in ]812. and engraA'ed by Richard Woodman, and that 

 engravings are to be found in many coiantry houses, clubs, hotels, &c., both iu 

 Warwickshire and Shropshire. I had the fortune to get one myself through 

 the willing help of the late Rev. R. D. Glasspoole, of Clarendon-crescent. 

 As inquiries have again and again been made as to where, at this present day. 

 is th(! original oil painting, I am able to state, through the kindness of the 

 editor of the Shrewsbury Chronicle. i]\i\i it was sold some years ago at Severn 

 Hill, and bought by a chemist nanu>d Pyefinch; tliat thence it passed into the 

 possession of Mr. Harold Weaver, a grandson of the painter, barrister-at-law. 

 and with liim remains at his house in Manchester-square. A companion 

 picture is in Shrewsbury. I may add that the father of the Rev. G. H. 

 Biggs, Vicar of Ettington, sold to Mr. Corbet the grey horse Dapple on 

 which he sits in the picture. — Vei'y truly yours. 



Q^ A/r • -Di ci 1 ' . " " R. St. J. Corbet. 



St. Mary s Place, blirewslmry. 



In October, 1895, John Boore left Warwickshire, and 

 became huntsman to the Cheshire hounds. 



From the Leamingion Counter of November, IS95: 



Presentation to Jack Boore. — On Friday there was an exception- 

 ally large and fashionable company present at the meet, which was one of 

 the .special events of the season, at Chad>hunt Hou.'-e, the residence of 



* Hermit was bv the Duke of Beaufort's .Justice out of His Hoyden. 



