4 T?IF, ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



it runs along the railway to Roydon, and on down the 

 River Lea to the suburbs of London about Chingford. 



According to present arrangements, the boundaries of 

 the Essex, East Essex and Essex Union countries, meet 

 at Chelmsford, but we learn from Mr. Thomas Kemble, of 

 Runwell Hall, that Moulsham Thrift Wood, a covert of 150 

 acres, near Galley wood Racecourse in the Essex Union 

 country, was regarded as a neutral covert every other month 

 during the masterships of Mr. Conyers and Mr. Henley 

 Greaves ; but the covert has not for many years past been 

 drawn by the Essex hounds, and it has now disappeared, 

 all but about twenty acres close to the town of Chelmsford. 



In Mr. Conyers's time the Essex Hunt country 

 extended farther east than at present, and included 

 the coverts of Panfield Hall, near Braintree ; Grand 

 Courts, near P'elstead and Lion Hall, at Great Leighs. 

 The great distance from Copt Hall to these coverts 

 rendered it difficult for Mr. Conyers to hunt them. 

 He consented that Mr. Charles Newman, the master 

 of the East Essex, should hunt Panfield Hall, Lion 

 Hall, and other coverts neutrally with the Essex, but 

 a suggestion put forward by Mr. Richard Marriott in 1831, 

 that Grand Courts and other coverts should be neutralised 

 also, was emphatically declined by Mr. Conyers. Through 



