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' All shall join in jolly song, 

 Noble Sports to us belong ; 

 Hail the morning's ruddy face, 

 Now begins the sprightly Chase.' 



jyl-R. Wrightson, as correctly as I can remember, hunted 

 several parts of Warwickshire about the year 1780. He 

 had two kem^els, the one at Swacliffe Grange^, and the other 

 at the White Lion Inn, Stratford. This hotel was then, 

 and for many years afterwards, the principal place of resort 

 for the Sporting Characters of the country ; but more 

 particularly for those Gentlemen who resided in this and 

 the neighbouring counties. He was an excellent Sportsman, 



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