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Furneaux I'elham, and of Colonel Calvert, late Master of 

 the Crawley and Horsham fiunt. These hounds Mr. 

 Calvert subsequently purchased and removed to Albury, 

 where he was joined by Mr. Panton, probably father of Mr. 

 Panton, who afterwards hunted the Thurlow countr\'. Mr. 

 John Calvert succeeded to the hounds, keeping" them till 

 about 1 794, w^hen they became a subscription pack, and 

 were called the Hertfordshire. What are now known as 

 the Hertfordshire were orioinallv the Hatfield, of which 

 Lady Salisbury, who, after sur\i\'ing the risks of the 

 chase, was burned to death in her dressing-room at 

 Hatfield House, was the moving spirit. Mr. Calvert and 

 his fellow committee men, however, a[)pear to have paid 

 most of the expenses themselves ; for I find a notice in 

 a newspaper of 1795, that 'the subscription list does 

 not fill, as the country does not attract straneers.' 



"About 1796, Mr. Panton gave u]) the Thurlow 

 country, the Committee of the Hertfordshire taking to 

 his best hounds, and as much of the country as they 

 wanted : while Mr. Panton enrolled himself as a sub- 

 scriber, and took a hunting-box at Ware. In 1799, 

 Mr. .Sampson Hanbury, of Poles, became associated 

 in the management, and a couple of years later, on 



becoming sole master, bought the hountls of Mr. Coe 

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