I02 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



marked manner. The members of the club congre- 

 gated once more at Stratford, and on the first 

 Monday in November Lord Willoughby de Broke 

 entertained the Master and a numerous party to 

 dinner." 



There are so many recorded runs with Mr. Corbet's 

 hounds, some of which have been recorded in verse, 

 that I can only allude to the most important briefly, 

 omitting, of course, those which took place previous 

 to the commencement of the century. On the lOth 

 of December, 1801, a memorable run took place from 

 Lord Northampton's seat at Compton Wynites, when 

 a fox, found in the gorse by Epwell White House, 

 ran before hounds for four hours and a quarter, till 

 5.15 p.m., when they were whipped off on account 

 of the darkness. " Not one horse returned that night 

 to the stable he had left in the morning," says the 

 record. In another run from Wolford a fox eluded 

 hounds after running before them for six hours. 

 Only one man, viz. Jack Barrow, the first whip, 

 finished on the same horse that he started on. This 

 distance is computed at fifty miles. 



On Easter Monday, 1803, the finish took place in 

 Lady Hertford's ornamental dairy, when 



" The pack, heedless of the damsel's scream, 

 First ate the fox — then drank the cream." 



In 1806, starting from Bearley Bushes, hounds 

 accounted for their fox after four hours and fifty 

 minutes. Certainly Mr. Edward Goulburn, in his 



