34 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



says that he could not be displeased with them, as the 

 farmers who managed them were respectable people, fond 

 of sport, and had as much right to hunt as he possessed. 

 There was a similar clashing in Sussex, soon after the 

 Duke of Richmond took over the Charlton Hunt. An old 

 fellow named Land kept hounds on the outskirts of the 

 Duke's country, and very often he used to trespass round it 

 and disturb the coverts intended for the morrow's draw of 

 the Duke's hounds. On one occasion he even ventured, 

 after running a fox to ground, to dravij some of the coverts 

 near Goodwood House ; and, on being remonstrated with, 

 said to the Goodwood messenger : " Tell your master that I 

 hunted the country before he was born, and shall continue 

 to do so after he is dead and d — d." But he did not ! 



" The Talents Hunt " occupied the Dunmow country. 

 They had a good huntsman, who rivalled the deeds of him 

 of the Invincibles, though when became southwards, to the 

 neighbourhood of Chelmsford, he found that a fox from 

 Old Park (Colonel Cook's favourite covert) was not so easily 

 caught. 



Long before the end of the eighteenth century the 

 neighbourhood of Epping was occasionally hunted by a 

 pack of foxhounds of a different character from the scratch 

 packs of the North country. The master was Mr. John 



