40 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



can now be found there. It is not impossible that the 

 hounds were at one time kept near Epping ; possibly in the 

 kennels which had been used by Mr. John Archer. The 

 locality of the kennels is indicated by ,the statement in 

 "Scott and Sebright" (revised edition, p. 323) that "Mr. 

 Coke's hounds hovered between Castle Hedingham, 

 Holkham, and Epping," and in the Sporting Magazine 

 (November, 1792, p. 102) it is said that " Mr. Coke's 

 foxhounds are returned from Castle Hedingham to 

 Holkham, where they remain the present month, after 

 which they remove to Epping " ; but, as already mentioned, 

 Harlow Bush is given as the kennel address in Jones's 

 life. 



William Jones had been in Mr. Coke's service for 

 many years. He was born at Shrivenham, Berks, and 

 was the son of a huntsman, and to him huntino- and its 

 concomitants were a second nature. Mr. Meynell used 

 to say of him : " He is the best huntsman in England ; 

 he is a chef d'osuvre," and Lord Maynard's opinion was : 

 " Jones is a gentleman huntsman. 1 would sooner sit in 

 his company than in the company of half the Melton 

 Mowbray gentlemen." 



A writer in the Sporting Magazine, besides quoting 

 these sayings, speaks of him as "my hero, in his elegant 



