l8 FOX HUNTING. 



changed to the "Providence Inn." In those good 

 old days, among the earlier noted hunters who 

 kept hounds were Abraham Martin, the Greens 

 of Edgmont, Henry Myers, Caleb and Minshall 

 Hoopes, John Broomall, James Hickman, Jesse 

 Walter, John Palmer, William and Pennell Han- 

 num, Jim Myers, of Thornbury, Evan Hannum, of 

 Concord, James Burns and Dr. William Gray, of 

 Chester, George Litzenberg, of Upper Provi- 

 dence, and Tom Beaston, of Upper Chichester.. 

 An honorary member of the Rose Tree Club, 

 Mark Pennell, also kept hounds many years ago, 

 and our well-known Master of Hounds, George 

 W. Hill, commenced his hunting with him in 

 about 1830, on foot, as Mr. Pennell often in- 

 dulged in that way of hunting. 



From this Mark Pennell, now eighty-eight 

 years of age, we learn that Charles Pennell, his. 

 cousin, died in 1829, and that he did some hunt- 

 ing as late as 1828; and that among his hounds, 

 was a celebrated blue and white hound named 

 "Plunder." Charles Pennell, who was born about 

 1760, kept hounds from his earliest manhood,, 

 and was well known as a skilled hunter and a bold 

 rider. He rode at several bag hunts from the: 

 old Anvil tavern. We heard of him from a 

 gentleman who was born in 1797, and who 

 when a small boy was watching, with his- 



