MR. FOLJAMBE'S HOUNDS 27 



From defective sight, in 1845 Mr. Foljambe was 

 compelled to give up a pursuit of which he was a most 

 unwearied patron and adherent. Under the influential 

 hammer of Messrs. Tattersall, the hounds were sold in 

 lots at the kennels, and realised upwards of 3,500. 

 The horses were taken to London, where four of them 

 produced 1,170, and the remaining sixteen averaged 

 115 each. The aggregate amount is a sufficient test 

 of the judgment which prevailed throughout the 

 establishment. 



The principal purchasers of the hounds were Lords 

 Gal way and H. Bentinck. The former nobleman hunted 

 the country one season, since which time they have 

 been under the direction of Mr. Lumley, Mr. Foljambe 

 continuing to take much interest in the breeding depart- 

 ment, although unable to accompany the hounds in 

 chase. At one period Mr. Foljambe had much to con- 

 tend with from kennel lameness. He erected kennels 

 at Beilby, the lodging-rooms of which were formerly 

 apartments in the old mansion-house. The soil was dry 

 and sandy; here the malady evinced itself in the most 

 formidable manner; all devisable means and remedies 

 were tried in vain, till they were removed to another 

 situation. About the period when Mr. Foljambe took 

 the country, a portion of it was, as I am given to under- 

 stand, retained by John, the fourth Earl of Scarborough, 

 who hunted it till his death, which unfortunate event 

 was occasioned by his horse falling in some ruts in 1835, 

 and was succeeded by Lord Henry Bentinck, who 

 removed into the Burton country in 1842; Sir Richard 

 Sutton at that time taking the Cottesmore, Captain 

 Percy Williams following Lord Henry Bentinck in what 

 had been denominated the Rufford Hunt. Thus no 

 vestige of the original pack kept by the Earl of Lincoln 

 can be traced, or even of any antecedent to those of the 

 two Earls of Scarborough. 



From the best information I have been able to obtain, 

 the Earl of Yarborough's hounds are the oldest estab- 

 lished of any that have continued in the same family; 



