112 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



huntsman was John Treadwell, son of James Treadwell, 

 huntsman to Mr. J. Farquharson, who hunted nearly all 

 Dorsetshire. He was three years younger than his 

 master. They were both born at Kingston Bagpuze in 

 Berkshire, and Treadwell, who had served Mr. Greaves as 

 whipper-in with the Cottesmore and Southwold, came with 

 him into Essex, while the first whip was the famous Dan 

 Berkshire. Treadwell killed his first Essex fox at Pyrgo 

 Park. It was a tremendously hot morning, and Mr. 

 Greaves said : " You are beat, Treadwell," but he answered, 

 " I will not go home without him ; " and then a single 

 hound, Marksman, caught him and held him firmly until 

 the body of the pack came up. 



During Mr. Greaves's Mastership the country was 

 regularly hunted three days a week, the fixtures being 

 advertised. For the meets north of Dunmow a hound-van 

 was provided. The Master's son, Mr. George Greaves, 

 who has a keen recollection of hunting in Essex as a small 

 boy, says : "Treadwell drove the van with a pair of horses 

 from Myless to Ongar, where my father added leaders and 

 drove it himself (he was a fine four-horse coachman) to 

 Dunmow, and back the same way, taking the leaders off at 

 Marden Ash, where we lived, and Treadwell driving the 

 pair back to Myless. I 07icc went, when I was about 



