CHAPTER II. 



Early Foxhunting in Essex — Sir William Rowley — 

 Mr. Canning — The "Invincibles" — The "Talents" 

 Hunt — Mr. John Archer — Mr. Thomas William 

 Coke — Messrs. Harding and Charles Newman — 

 Mr. Tufnell's Hounds — The Woodford Foxhounds 

 — The Brothers Rounding— Mr. Conyers's First 

 Period of Mastership. 



Essex is a good sporting county ; it is, and probably 

 has been for a long period of time, religiously hunted from 

 end to end ; but, unfortunately for its foxhunting history, 

 no great family or historic pack has been kept withm 

 its borders. Packs like the Belvoir and Cottesmore 

 in the Midlands, Lord Yarborough's in Lincolnshire, and 

 others which might be mentioned, have not only made 

 history for themselves, but have been the cause of records 

 being kept of sundry less notable establishments hunting in 



