CHAPTER IV. 



The Essex W\}^t {con/ iiuicd) — Mr. Henry John Convers 



OF Copt Hall. 



We have seen that, when Colonel John Cook gave up 

 the Essex country, Mr. John Archer Houblon bouqht the 

 pack. He was apparently joined in the proprietorship by 

 Lord Maynard, and these two joint masters left the conduct 

 of the hunt to Mr. Henry John Conyers, junr. — his father 

 was still alive — who was designated the "manager." Under 

 this new rdgime the opening day of the season 1813-14 was 

 held at Grand Courts, Felstead; a strange fixture, at first 

 sight, as being some way from the kennels, and outside the 

 limits of the Essex country as at present constituted ; but 

 we have seen in Chapter I. that the right of Mr. Conyers 

 to Grand Courts Wood was admitted by the P2ast Essex. 

 The fixture, therefore, may have been arranged on the 

 invitation of Long Wellesley (well known in Leicestershire), 

 of Wanstead House ; as Grand Courts was also his 

 property, though like; his other possessions it soon passed 

 into other hands, owing to the pace at which he lived. 



