1896] SIR WALTER CAREW'S DIARY. 307 



shire before lie went to Leicestershire, but does not appear 

 to have seen mnch sport, though he had a good day on the 

 27th at Midford Bridge on Mr. Barnard's Toby. In 1845 

 he hunted entirely in Devonshire with Squire Trelawny, 

 Mr. Lane, the Tiverton, " Jack Eussell," and Mr. Newton 

 Fellowes; but in 1840 he was at Baggrave, in Leicester- 

 shire again; and in 1846-47 he had four days in Warwick- 

 shire at the close of the season, which inckided a very good 

 run from Pillerton Gorse on the IGth of March, when they 

 killed beyond Lord Northampton's. 



On Saturday, December 18th, 1847, the diary reads : 

 " I arrived at Melton," but he did not hunt with the 

 Warwickshire this season. On Thursday, February 8th, 

 1849, he met the Warwickshire at Dunchurch, found in 

 Coles' Grorse, ran fast, and killed, but he was back at Little 

 Dalby the next morning to meet the Cottesmore, when he 

 rode his favourite horse Harborough. In this season Sir 

 Walter hunted 103 times, from October 15th to April .:2(jth 

 — viz., seventeen days in Devonshire, five days with the 

 Duke of Beaufort, seventy-nine days in Leicestershire, and 

 twice in Warwickshire. He rode the Barl^er fourteen 

 times, Harborough eighteen times. Translation once, 

 Hungerford eleven times, Sampson twenty-three times, 

 Eocket seventeen times, Itufus eleven times, Nobleman 

 fifteen times, and Old England twice. Saw six foxes killed 

 in Devon, five with the Duke of Beaufort, twenty-three in 

 Leicestershire (a small jDroportion out of seventy-nine 

 days), and two in Warwickshire. It may interest some of 

 our readers to know that in Leicestershire he hunted 

 twenty-nine times with Sir Eichard Sutton, twenty-eight 

 times with the Cottesmore, and twenty-two times with 

 Lord Forrester. The best day seems to have been with 

 Lord Forrester's, when they met at Piper Hole on the 

 29th of January, 1849. " Found in Clawson Thorns, ran 

 very fast — lost. Found again in Melton Spinney, ran by 

 Thorpe Arnold, Freeby, Grarthorpe, etc., to Stapleford Park, 

 back by Thorpe Arnold, by Melton, to Ashfordby, &c. 

 Lost the hounds at dark. A very hard day." On 



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