INTRODUCTION 



to be constantly out, and to carry my recollections 

 of good runs as far back as most. But I must stop, for 

 every good run were I to record. Sir, I ne'er should 

 have done. — Yours truly, 



"J. B. GLEGG." 



The race over Tatton Park from Mobberley 

 Cover, 4 miles in 8 minutes, was an extraordinary 

 performance. 



Sir Harry Mainwaring supplies me with some 

 further particulars of about the same period : 



"Jan. 12, '65. 



" In the palmy days of hunting in Cheshire it 

 must be recollected that Glegg first refers to the 

 time when George Heron kept the Hounds, when 

 Will Garfit hunted them, and Will Griffiths whipp'd- 

 in, when Doddington, Dorfold, Bolesworth Castle, 

 and Bryn-y-Pys, were the chief hunting houses, 

 when Crewe, Broughton, Tarleton, and (rather later 

 on) Tomkinson, Brooke, and Glegg were the heroes, 

 when the Cheshire hunted the Woore Country and 

 the Wyches, when they used to run as described by 

 Glegg from Woore to the Bishop's Woods, and from 

 Hampton Heath to the Duke's Woods, near Elles- 

 mere. Later on, when my Father took the Country, 

 and the Wyches were given up, gorses were made 

 in the Nantwich Country, and in the Chester Vale. 

 The Middlewich Country, then as it is now, the best 

 in Cheshire, was hunted the second week in every 

 month, and the Withington Country the last week, 

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