INTRODUCTION 



Warburton, Sir Richard Brooke, and, I believe, 

 Mr. Broolce, of Mere, built the kennels at Sandiway, 

 to which the hounds were removed from Arley. 



Mr. Smith Barry still kept his pack, and lived 

 during the hunting season at Ruloe. I have heard 

 from an old resident in that neighbourhood a story 

 which, if true, shows that he must have hunted 

 under the difficulty of having no country beyond 

 the limits of his own property, and the shifts to 

 which he was consequently compelled to resort. 

 Old Richard Bratt, his huntsman, was constantly 

 in the practice of hiring a man to run a drag early 

 in the morning from the kennel at Ruloe straight 

 away to some cover belonging to the Cheshire Hunt. 

 The scent carried the hounds into the gorse, and 

 so gave the chance of finding a fox in a cover which 

 their master had no right to draw. 



I cannot ascertain in what year Sir Peter War- 

 burton resigned the management of the Cheshire 

 Hounds to George Heron ; but the following 

 anecdote in Daniel's Rural Sports, vol. iii. p. 456, 

 shows that they were hunted by Sir Peter as late 

 as 1807 : 



"To prove that the notes of hounds have an 

 overpowering influence upon the horse, this incident, 

 which occurred Anno 1807, is related : As the 

 Liverpool Mail Coach was changing horses at the 

 inn at Monk's Heath, the horses which had per- 

 formed the stage from Congleton having been just 

 taken off and separated, hearing Sir Peter War- 

 burton's Foxhounds in full cry, immediately started 

 after, their harness on, and followed the chase until 



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