286 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



old newspapers, relating to Mr. William Russell's 

 hounds: — "Oct. gth, 1788. — Yesterday, Mr. Russell's 

 hounds run a fox for an hour and a half ; when finding 

 himself pressed very hard, he took through Mr. Bonham's 

 hen-house yard, at Warley Common, run through the 

 lower part of his dwelling-house, and was killed in a 

 bedchamber above stairs." "1790. — Among the different 

 packs of foxhounds which have had remarkably good 

 sport this season, is to be enumerated Mr. Russell's, 

 which has killed the last fifteen without missing a single 

 fox, and most of them after chaces of two or three hours." 

 (Below this cutting is a note in Mr. Russell's [.''] 

 writing: — " N.B. — Killed 18 Foxes zuithont iiiissiiig a 

 fox, and con ded [concluded | the Season." Adjoining 

 the Stubbers property lies a large extent of land be- 

 longing to Mr. Benyon, of Berkshire ; his land is joined 

 by that of Mr. Ind, of Coombe Lodge, now, alas! gone 

 over to the majority, and Mr. Lescher, of Boyles Court. 

 Lord Headley, of Warley Lodge (another non-resident 

 landowner), adjoins. Captain Douglas Whitmore, of 

 Orsett Hall, is a large landowner, and a good friend to 

 hunting — his soq having a very merry pack of harriers 

 with which he shows great sport in the Orsett country. 

 Lord Rayleigh, of Terling Place, situated in the East 



