92 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



George Moore was a very religious man. He mentions 

 that tlie only thing he could find to say against foxhunting, 

 condemned by most of his Exeter Hall friends, was that he 

 could not help thinking about Saturday's run during Sun- 

 day's sermon. 



Jem Morgan, as we have already seen, did good 

 service to Mr. Conyers ; but we have no record of sport 

 in his time equal to that which was shown by the Essex 

 Hounds after he left in 1848. During the latter part, 

 the first whip, Will Orvis, became huntsman, and showed 

 first-rate sport ; in fact, good runs took place almost as 

 often as he had the horn at his saddle-bow. 



Not the least appreciative of his followers was a future 

 master of the Essex hounds, the present Lord Rookwood, 

 then Mr. Selwin. Between Copt Hall and Down Hall, 

 the entente cordiale had not, for some reason or other 

 obtained to the extent which both houses probably wished ; 

 but the appearance in the field of Sir John Selwin's son 

 was cordially welcomed by the " Squire" as an indication 

 that the friction of the past was to be forgotten. Mr. 

 Conyers and his future successor were soon on the very 

 best of terms, and the character of the sport in which both 

 participated may be judged of by Lord Rookwood's de- 

 scription of a capital run seen but by a few, from the High 



