48 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Later in the last, or quite early in the present, century, 

 Mr. Charles Newman — no relation whatever to the other 

 family of which we have already spoken — is found hunting 

 the East Essex country, but of him we shall speak in a 

 subsequent chapter. 



A passing allusion should here be made to a pack of 

 foxhounds established in the year 1792 by two brothers, 

 Tom and Dick Rounding. These jolly fellows, who had 

 learned their hunting with Mr. Coke and Mr. Newman, 

 kept the " Horse and Groom " Inn, at Woodford, where a 

 field known as the " Dog Kennel Field " is pointed out as 

 the site of their kennels. Pierce Egan's " Book of Sports " 

 states that the Roundings hunted a great portion of Essex, 

 including a circumference of upwards of one hundred 

 miles,^ having runs equal to those of any pack of hounds 

 that ever hunted the country. " As the foxes in Essex are 

 so vermin bred," Dick used to say to Tom, " there will be 

 no end to such a fox." " But we'll try, Dick," replied Tom, 

 "and so let us be off, and see which has the best bit of 

 blood." In the true huntsman's style, it was a fine treat 

 to hear Tom Rounding in the field calling out, " Hark, 

 forward ! Look at Tyrant, Gladsome and Governess. See 



' In 1792, it must be remembered, Mr. Coke, Mr. Harding Newman, and 

 several other packs were hunting in Essex. 



