WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



and spared, what was then considered, no expence, in 

 making his establishment as complete as any Master of 

 hounds could wish. He had a huntsman and two whips, 

 whom he supplied with four horses each ; and by his own 

 experience, and that of his men, he afforded some capital 

 sport to the admirers of the chase. 



RUN WITH MR. WRIGHTSON'S HOUNDS, 



IX 1780. 



BY AN OLD FOXHUNTER. 



We once ran a brace of foxes from Alveston Pastures, 

 which we lost, and then went to Eatington Grove. We 

 foimd there, and ran a ring about the grove for an hour, 

 and killed. 



We found a third fox, a short time afterwards, at Hon 

 ington Spinies, and then ran him at a very fast pace, over 

 Idlicote Heath, close by Lord Northampton's, and on to 

 Shutford Long Hill, where the pack turned him up in 

 gallant style. 



The late Mr. Shirley, on a favourite chesnut horse ; 

 the late Mr. Dadley, on a chesnut horse ; and Mr. Wm. 

 Barke, on a brown mare, were the only persons up at the 

 end of this run, which was as good a one as any sportsman 

 could wish to see. 1 



1 Our venerable correspondent, ' An Old Foxhunter,' has sent us 

 this capital run with Mr. Wrightson's hounds. The reader will 

 perceive by the date, that it took place more than half a century ago, 

 and is, probably, the only authentic record now to be met with, that 

 describes a run with ' The Warwickshire,' previous to the one that 

 succeeds it, in the year 1795. — venator. 



