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" confederates," as colleagues were termed in those days, 

 continued to show a succession of good sport. As 

 we proceed, however, in trying to unravel the uncertainties 

 of Essex hunting, we are occasionally met by complications. 

 In 1797, for example, we find it said that the hounds 

 passed from Mr. Harding Newman to Mr. Denn, or 

 Denne, of Tempsford. Now Mr. Denne, or whatever his 

 name was, succeeded General Barnett as master of the 

 Cambridgeshire ; and the General, a fine sportsman who 

 had previously hunted the hare, turned his harriers into 

 foxhounds about the year 1787, having his brother as a 

 partner in the undertaking. The exact year in which 

 General Barnett resigned in favour of Mr. Denne is not 

 known ; but he was supposed to have hunted the 

 Cambridgeshire country for about nine years, so that the 

 year 1797 would quite fit in. 



The explanation may be that Mr. Denne, knowing of 

 the fame of Mr. Newman's hounds, managed to secure 

 some of the pack ; but, whatever the facts of the case may 

 be, it is clear that Mr. Newman did not give up entirely in 

 1797, because in 1805 he sold his hounds to Mr. Conyers, 

 junr., when he started on his first period of mastership, and 

 then we hear no more of the Newmans of Nelmes for some 

 time. 



