3C4 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Union Hounds have always hunted the country south of 

 the railway." 



Award. 



"Arthur's Club, 



" London, 



''August 2?>tk, 1848. 



"We, the undersigned, after due consideration of the 

 respective statements placed in our hands by Mr. Marriott 

 and Mr. Ward, together with a letter from Mr. Payne, dated 

 March 9th, 1848, in which he admits that the country in 

 dispute was only lent to him by Mr. Marriott, to be relin- 

 quished upon his retirement from the management of the 

 Union Hounds, are of opinion that, according to the laws 

 of foxhunting, Mr. Marriott is entitled to the said country 



upon Mr. Payne's retirement. 



" N. Parry, 



" S. Neave." 



The Puckeridge. 



The early history of this old-established country is thus 

 given by "Arundel," writing in the Field of P'ebruary 

 2nd, 1889: — "So long ago as 1725 a few hounds were 

 kept at Cheshunt, near Broxbourne, one of the proprietors 

 being Mr. Calvert, an ancestor of Mr. Felix Calvert, of 



