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the Master had Swinley Lodge in Windsor Forest as a 

 hunting-box, and had a special allowance of £2,00 a year 

 to provide breakfasts for the followers of the Hunt. 

 Being himself a five-bottle man, Jenison made a jolly 

 host, and there were some ' rare doin's o' nichts ' at 

 Swinley Lodge in his time. 



George the Third was extremely fond of hunting, 

 but it may be guessed that a run with the Buckhounds 

 was rather slow work in his day, seeing that hounds 

 were perpetually being stopped to let the King get up 

 with them, for he is said to have ridden nearly nineteen 

 stone. Still, he was an enthusiast, and would follow 

 hounds all day without any refreshment. Once when 

 a long run had taken him to Aldermaston, some miles 

 beyond Reading, he journeyed home in a butcher's cart, 

 holding affable conversation with the butcher all the way. 



In 181 3 Charles Davis, who, as Lord Ribblesdale 

 says, is ' the great tradition of the Royal Pack,' on the 

 break up of the Old Charlton pack at Goodwood, went 

 to the Ascot kennels as first whip to Sharpe, whose 

 daughter Davis afterwards married. In 1822 Charles 

 was appointed huntsman, and the Prince Regent, who 

 in his early days, before he grew too fat for the saddle, 

 rode well to hounds, and had had many a good run 

 with Davis and the Old Charlton, thus congratulated 

 him on the appointment : ' It delights me to hear that 

 you have got the hounds. I hope you'll get them so fast 

 that they'll run away from everybody.' 



Charles Davis was a great huntsman. ' His hounds,' 

 says Dr Croft, who was as well qualified to judge as any 

 man of his day, ' in a forest were as perfect and close 

 hunters as harriers. They were left to depend on them- 

 selves, and so required but little assistance. " Let them 



