WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 351 



MR. JOHN LOCKLEY. 



Mr. Lockley was born at Barton Hall, in the county of J)erby, 

 once the residence of the Protector Cromwell. From thence he went 

 to Boscobel, in the county of Salop, where he occupied a larg-e farm — 

 (Boscobel, from the Italian words bosco bello, beautiful wood.) It was 

 at this place that Charles the 2nd, and his friend, secreted themselves 

 in an oak tree, after he had been defeated at Worcester, by Cromwell ; 

 and he finally escajied fr<mi his pursuers by beins^ concealed for a time 

 in Boscobel House. His father weighed 28 stone, jockey weight ; and 

 he, by severe exercise, short sleep, and rigid abstinence, reduced him- 

 self from 17 stone to 13 stone 10 lbs. at or about which he continued. 

 In shooting, he walked in a straight line 1,5 miles, and back by a circu- 

 itous route. On the Turf he is one of the oldest masters of race horses 

 now living. 



He constantly hunted with Sir E. Lyttelton's hounds on Cannock 

 Chase, whose hour of meeting was at daybreak ; and after their morn- 

 ing sport was over, he used to go to the late liord Talbot's hounds, the 

 other side of the Trent, and hunt the remainder of the day. The late 

 Mr. Stubbs always prefaced his accounts of runs with Sir E. Lyttelton's 

 hounds — ' I breakfasted with Ijockley at twelve o'clock at night.' 



Three times in one year Mr. Lockley rode the same horse from 

 Newmarket to his own house, being 104 miles, in one daj' ; and a 

 gallow.ay from his house to Northampton, and back again the same 

 evening, a distance of 120 miles. He, at the age of 73, left his own 

 house at twelve o'clock one day, was at the fight of Spring and Neate, 

 at Andover, by one o'clock on the next day; rode home with me 

 to my house after the fight ; and was in London by four o'clock on the 

 third daj', making 162 miles on the same horse in 52 hours. 



Of Confidence, his celebrated hunter, I must say a few words. 

 He was thorough-bred, being got by Weazel, by Herod, dam by Yoiuig 

 Eclipse, and going back to the Lass of the Mill, by Traveller. Mr. 

 Lockley purchased him, at the foot of his dam, in 1797, in York, for 

 100 gs., and after riding him several seasons, sold him to the Earl of 

 Sefton for 600 gs. On his Lordship giving up Leicestershire, Mr. 

 Lockley bought him again, and in three seasons sold him to Mr. Best 

 for 750 guineas. He hunted in all eighteen seasons, only being once 

 lame, and then in consequence of getting his leg into a hurdle. Mr. 

 Lockley once rode him 36 miles to a fair and back, by way of exercise. 

 He had the power of a carthorse, and the docility of a lapdog. Confi- 

 dence was at last sold by public auction, at Northampton, in his 22nd 

 year, for .£100. 



