MR. CHARLES NEWMAN. 299 



Mr. Charles Newman, who Hved at .Scripps, Little Cogges- 

 hall, where he kennelled his pack. When Mr. Charles 

 iVewman first took the field cannot be ascertained ; but he 

 was hunting the country in 1S17, and in a year or so he 

 took the Thurlow country as well, in succession to .Mr. 

 Wilson, above-mentioned, his two kennels being thirty 

 miles apart — a long way truly ; yet it must be remem- 

 bered that Mr. Oshaldeston was at the same time Master 

 of the Thurlow and Pytchley countries for two or three 

 seasons. Mr. Charles Newman appears to have been an ex- 

 cellent sportsman ; he hunted his own hounds, and accord- 

 ing to "Gelert," lifted them very quickly, and rode where 

 few of his field were disposed to follow him. Meshach 

 Cornell before referred to whipped in to Mr. Charles New- 

 man, and from all accounts he was quite a master ot his 

 duties. For nearly thirty years did Mr. Charles Newman 

 keep hounds ; he was successful in showing excellent 

 sport ; but, in an evil day, he was tempted into specu- 

 lating in Welsh mines — a channel through which large 

 sums of money ran away in the "thirties" and "forties." 

 The loss of this money compelled him to give up hounds 

 and leave Essex, to the great regret of the farmers, with 

 whom " poor old Charley Newman " was a very great 

 favourite His popularil\- was recognised by the pre- 



