LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Henry Charles, Eighth Duke of Beaufort. . Frontispiece 



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The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester .... 26 



Badminton : East Front 48 



Badminton : South Front 58 



Stag Hunting at Badminton circa 1730, with Portrait of the 

 Third Duke, Lord C. N. Somerset and the Earl of 



Lichfield 68 



Fox Hunting on Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge in the Distance 72 



"Echo" 75 



The Fox up a Tree 88 



Map of the Badminton Hunt loi 



" Rapture " 105 



Hounds (from the picture by Barraud) "Whirlwind," " Poten- 

 tate," "Paragon" 113 



The Badminton Sweep 126 



The Seventh Duke of Beaufort 132 



William Long 150 



Portrait of the Eighth Duke of Beaufort when a Boy at Eton 168 



William Dale with the Hounds 175 



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