42 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



on the right, so the point was pretty straight up to Canfield 

 Hart, where they ran into him, about eighteen miles distance 

 over as strong a country as any in England." 



Up to Latton Park the field experienced strong fences 

 upon high banks, deep ditches and very deep ground ; 

 thence the character changed — "sound ground over large 

 fields, wide ditches ; but taking off and landing to be de- 

 pended on." The writer remarks that the '' yawners, as 

 they are styled in Essex, become awful if you don't keep 

 the wind in your horse, otherwise they are easily got over ; 

 but in most runs over it a cart or plough horse have 

 been found most important friends." 



The great run above-mentioned must have taken 

 Mr. Coke beyond his own proper boundary, for whilst 

 he hunted that wide country round Holkham and Castle 

 Hedingham, to Harlow and Epping, other hounds were 

 hunting the Roothings, or, at any rate, a country which 

 included them. The elucidation of this part of the 

 hunting history of Essex is by no means easy. An 

 apparent complication is brought about by the fact that 

 there were in early times two Newmans, not related, 

 hunting in Essex, and both their countries seem to have 

 reached to about Chelmsford ; but the explanation is that 

 Mr. Charles Newman, who lived at Scripps, Coggeshall, 



