MR. J. CORBET.— 1798. 



BY AN OLD FOXHUNTER. 



MEET WALTON WOOD. 



Wk had a very good run from this cover, some time in 

 1/98, but I forget the exact date. We found a fox in the 

 wood, and ran him straight over Meon Hill, and Mickleton 

 Grounds, to Weston Subbage, where we killed him in a 

 little garden. 



Mr. F. Canning, Mr. R. Canning, Mr. Greenall, 



and a few others, were up at the death. 



MEET SNITTERFIELD. 



We once found a fox at this cover, which broke away 

 at a famous rate, and led us through Alveston Pastures, 

 across the river by the mill, and on to Lord Willoughby's, 

 where we killed him after a most excellent day's sport. 



We ran another fox from the same Bushes for some 

 length of time, and killed him after swimming the ri\er at 

 Warmington village. 



Mr. Corbet first hunted the Meriden covers in 1778. At that time 

 Mr. Ward hunted Oxfordshire, and occasionally part of the Stratford 

 country, when his kennel was at Newbold, five miles from Shipston and 

 six from Stratford. On Mr. Ward declining Oxford, and taking to 

 Northampton, Mr. Corbet took possession of Warwickshire. Mr. 

 Wrightson, of Cashworth, Yorkshire, the Earl of Thanet, and Mr. 

 Willoughby (afterwards Lord Middleton,) severally hunted Warwick- 

 shire, until Mr. Corbet took it in 1791. He continued to hunt it with 

 the greatest success till he resigned to Lord Middleton. I believe, Mr. 

 Corbet was master of foxhounds, without having a guinea subscribed, 

 upwards of 40 years, with the exception of £5 a year by each iVIember 

 of the Stratford Hunt Club, to reward the earth-stoppers of the countrj-. 

 I heard him say, he had kept hounds longer, at his own expence, than 

 any man before him. Soon after Mr. Corbet took to the Warwickshire, 

 his friends advised him to go abroad, and the country was then hunted 

 by the Earl of Craven, Sir R. Puleston, and the celebrated Col. Wardle. 

 On his return, Mr. Corbet again became master of the Warwickshire. 



NIMROD. 



