l6 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



smaller coverts. Starting from the point to which suburban 

 London has gradually advanced, we soon arrive at Clay- 

 bury, near Woodford. Here now stands a huge lunatic 

 asylum, but it is not many years since the shrubberies 

 were successfully drawn for a fox, whilst further south 

 hounds still occasionally run into the neighbourhood of 

 Barking Side and Romford. 



Amongst coverts now drawn, those nearest to London 

 include Lough ton Shaws, belonging to the Rev. J. W. 

 Maitland ; the woods of Mr. Ernest J. Wythes, the present 

 owner of Copt Hall ; Colonel Mark Lockwood's coverts 

 round Bishop's Hall, Abridge ; and the coverts belonging 

 to Mrs. Mcintosh and Mrs. Pemberton Barnes, at Havering. 

 Excellent sport has been afforded from Mrs. Mcintosh's 

 gorse-plantation, and a similar covert has been planted at 

 Bishop's Hall by Colonel Lockwood. On the northern side 

 of the Roding, near Gaynes Park, are the Hill Hall coverts 

 of Sir William Bowyer Smijth, including Beachett Wood, 

 Barbers and Shalesmore, and in the same neighbourhood 

 are the coverts belonging to Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith, 

 of Suttons. Returning to the southern side of the Roding, 

 and turnine eastward to the district between Ongar and 

 Brentwood, we find at Navestock the coverts of Lord 

 Carlingford. Curtis Mill Green is a considerable covert 



