THE ESSEX HUNT COUNTRY. 1 7 



near the Roding, opposite Suttons. It is a curious fact 

 that while the freehold of this covert belongs to Lord 

 Carlinyford, the timber belonfjs to Sir Charles Cunliffe 

 Smith. In the same district are the Dagnam coverts of 

 Sir Thomas Neave ; the Kelvedon Hall coverts of Mr. 

 Wright, and the Great Myless coverts of the Fane family, 

 including the queerly named Menagerie Wood. 



Some parts of the Monday country have acquired an 

 unenviable notoriety for their lack of foxes, but in other 

 parts foxes are well preserved and most excellent sport is 

 shown. The country is not an easy one to ride over. 

 Many of the fields are enclosed by high banks, often rotten, 

 and there are many cavernous ditches, particularly in the 

 neighbourhood of Curtis Mill Green. There is but little 

 wire fencinof in the district, though it has its share of 

 pasture land. 



We next take the W^ednesday country, again begin- 

 ning on the London side, and proceeding towards the east 

 and north. 



Between Waltham Abbey and Epping Forest are the 

 Warlies coverts of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, of which 

 Scatter Bushes is the most important ; also Obelisk Wood, 

 rented by Sir Fowell from the representatives of the late 

 Captain Tanzia Savary, and the Beech flill Park coverts 



