THE QUARRY — LADIES IN THE FIELD. 



279 



Hunted and Killed by his Ma'^ Hounds since his Ma**' Accession to 

 the 13th day of Octob'" 1730, viz., 



Staggs, 131 at 40^ each, 262Z. 

 Hinds, 22 „ 20« „ 22^. 

 Bucks, 4 „ 10^ „ 11. 



Total, 286/." 

 — Treasury Records. K.W.B., vol. xxx., pp. 154-5. 



Ladies continued to indulge immoderately in the pleasures 

 of the chase, and the long, fast, and furious runs with the 

 Royal Buckhounds occasionally superinduced more or less 

 ill effects. Thus, in August 1729, we find Lady Hervey 

 writing to Mrs. Howard (soon afterwards Lady Suffolk) : " As 

 your physician, I warn you against such violent exercise as 

 you tell me you take. All extremes are, I believe, equally 

 detrimental to the health of the human body, and especially 

 to yours, whose strength, like Sampson's, lies chiefly in your 

 head. If you continue your immoderate hunting, depend 

 upon it, it will prove prejudicial to your constitution, as I 

 find it does to my entertainment, and will in time rob you 

 of as much satisfaction as it has already deprived me of." 



