MESSRS. CHARLES AND HARDING NEWMAN. 43 



was not contemporaneous with Mr. Harding Newman, of 

 Nelmes, near Romford, who had kennels at Broomfield, 

 near Chelmsford, and at Navestock. 



We will deal in this chapter with Mr. Harding 

 Newman, because he was hunting towards the end 

 of the last century ; though in what year the pack was 

 established we do not know ; but there is some slight 

 evidence that it was in existence prior to the year 1790. 

 However that may be, it is clear that in 1793 Mr. Harding 

 Newman's hounds had a grand day from Broomfield Hall 

 Wood, near Chelmsford, as they ran a fox from there for 

 six-and-twenty miles without a check, and rolled him over 

 just as he was attempting to find shelter in Lord May- 

 nard's garden, near Dunmow. While carrying the line 

 of their fox through Lord Maynard's Park, many deer and 

 hares were met with, yet so free were the hounds 

 from riot, that a writer in the old Sporting Magazine 

 felt bound to testify that the hounds hunted "with a 

 steadiness not customary to some crack packs, which 

 sometimes hunted the country." This covert allusion, 

 this disparaging remark, may be supposed to refer to the 

 hounds of Sir William Rowley, of Tendring Hall, Suffolk, 

 between whom and Mr. Newman, there was a dispute 

 concernincj the rit^ht to draw certain coverts in the eastern 



