MR. TIENRV JOHN TONVERS AND HIS STAFF. J T, 



hours, and killed him in high style, after his leaving" Scarlet 

 Wood, in ihe Toppinghoe country. In the following season 

 (iS 16-17) the high repute of Old Park was maintained by a 

 February fo.\, which stood up before hounds through a good 

 hunting run of two hours and twenty-four minutes. 



The pack thus continued under the management of 

 Mr. Conyers until, by the death of his father in 1818, he 

 was placed in a position to keep the hounds himself and 

 from that date he devoted his superabundant energy and 

 ample means to hunting the Essex country until his death 

 in the year 1S53. Though the pack showed excellent 

 sport in the hands of Mr. Henry John Conyers, it was 

 apparently some little time before he obtained a really first- 

 class staff The aforesaid Cole, whom Colonel Cook had 

 described as "not a bad one," remained with the new- 

 master for about ten years ; but he doubtless outlived his 

 earlier reputation, and at last went out like the snuff of a 

 candle. The rou'di "in-drinking Tom Webb, who was 

 afterwards with the Ouorn, Old Surrey and Pytchley, is 

 said to have hunted the Esse.x hounds for a time, but with 

 what success is not known. It appears, however, that, for 

 many years prior to the year 1833, the pack was in- 

 efficiently handled, if, at least, any reliance is to be placed in 

 the statement of a chronicler of that year. " The packs of 



