IX 



In the progress of this work, I have 

 received much ready assistance from many 

 gentlemen of great talent and long experience 

 in the Field. The Original Contributors, too, 

 have furnished me with an interesting mass 

 of important information. The value of their 

 favours has heen greatly enhanced by their 

 manner of bestowing them, and I shall ever 

 retain a most grateful recollection of both. 



I have observed, amongst that class of 

 Sportsmen I most distinctly address — a kind 

 of social feeling — a sort of mysterious sym- 

 pathy — a species of freemasonry of the chase, 

 I may call it — which is rarely to be met with 

 elsewhere — and it is with pride and satisfac- 

 tion I acknowledge, that no small portion of 

 that good feeling has been kindly extended to 

 myself. 



To the manly and generous Sportsman, 

 then, T ap])eal. The Warwickshire Hunt now 

 lies before them. They can best estimate 

 the labour and perseverance that have been 



