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the present Masters of the Essex. As the engravings bear 

 date 1 83 1, the time represented must be during the 

 earHer part of Mr. Conyers's second mastership. The 

 figures in the pictures cannot now be identified ; but 

 they are said to include Mr. Thomas Hodgson (for whom 

 the pictures were painted), and his brothers, John and 

 Henry ; the latter was rector of Debden. Then come 

 Lord Petre, the Revd. Joseph Arkwright (on a white 

 horse), and Mr. Beale Colvin, of Pishobury. Amongst 

 a field of about fifty or sixty we should also probably 

 find Mr. Sheffield Neave, who was Master of the Essex 

 Stag-hounds ; Mr. Joliffe Tufnell, of Langleys, a fine 

 rider, who had a famous horse called " Pattipan " ; Mr. 

 Wilson, of Canfield, a good preserver of foxes ; and Sir 

 John Tyssen Tyrrell, of Boreham House, who, though not 

 living in the Essex country, was one of Mr. Conyers's most 

 liberal supporters, but he came in for as large a share as 

 anyone of the Master's abuse when he sailed away close 

 after the fox on one of his big Leicestershire horses. The 

 brothers Henry and Tudor Ouare, of Matching Green, 

 and Mr. T. D. Ridley, of Chelmsford, would be present 

 in green coats : while, amongst others, may be, Messrs. 

 Charles, James, and John Stallibrass, than whom there 

 were no better men to hounds. Mr. Woodbridge, of 



