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bark and seeing crowds gallop." We are told Lord Hervey 

 did not love hunting, although he was mounted on those 

 occasions on hunters placed at his disposal by the Queen. 

 With Walpole so prominent in connection with the pack it 

 is possible Lord Hervey deemed it prudent to avoid anything 

 which might be construed to give umbrage to the Prime 

 Minister, who could rarely brook a rival in the field or senate. 



According to the official certificate of the Master of the 

 Buckhounds, 55 stags and 15 hinds were hunted by the pack 

 during this season. 



1738. — Preparatory to the opening of the season of 1738, 

 with our pack, the Duke of Kingston was gazetted to the 

 ofiice of Master of His Majesty's Staghounds " on the North 

 side of Trent," vice the Earl of Carlisle deceased ; and the 

 Right Hon. Pobert Lord Walpole to be Master of His Majesty's 

 Harriers and Foxhounds. The Earl of Tankerville resigned 

 his gold staff as one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to the 

 King, and soon after embarked for Holland. George III. was 

 newly born. The Prince and Princess of Wales and young 

 George and his little sister arrived at Cliefden House " for 

 the summer season," where they received a present, from the 

 Earl of Chesterfield, " of Cato (his Black), who is recon'd to 

 blow the best French Horn and Trumpet in England."* 



Then we are told that there were " Shipp'd for Copenhagen 

 six fine hunting horses and a Pack of Stag Hounds for the use 

 of his Danish Majesty." " A Stag Hunter's Plate was run for 

 on Honslow Heath, and won by Dr. Munro's ch. gelding 

 All-deceiv'd-in-Toby." The King's hunting horses were 

 ordered to be in readiness against August 2 " for the stag and 

 hind hunting on Sunbury Common." 



* " Cato," previous to this time, had been in the service of Sir Robert Walpole. 

 His portrait was painted in a group of hunting celebrities by Wooton, and is 

 here engraved from the original picture in the possession of Walter Gilbey, Esq., 

 at Elsenham Hall, Essex. The Prince of Wales appointed " Cato " head game- 

 keeper at Cliefden, and afterwards at Richmond Park. Among the novel 

 presents sent to the Prince and Princess of Wales, on the birth of George III., 

 was a " newly invented " perambulator, made by "Mr. Bassinet, the eminent 

 upholsterer in Piccadilly.'' 



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