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and two others ; a fourth, Lords Gardner and Powers- 

 court ; and others billeted wherever a good bed was 

 to be found. At the hotel stayed Earl Chesterfield, the 

 Prince Trautzmandorff, Hon. A. Arundel, Mr. De Burgh, 

 Mr. Shakerley, Lords C. Paget, Cranstoun, Ossulton, 

 Cantelupe, and Jocelyn. Stabling and forage were pro- 

 vided for more than i6o hunters, and the George, which 

 entertained the " Second String," was also full. The 

 following is a list of the Royal Hunt Club which was 

 formed at the White Hart, Aylesbury, in the year 

 1835 — President, the Master of the Buckhounds for the 

 time being ; First President, Earl of Chesterfield ; Lords 

 Frederick and Augustus Fitzclarence, Marquis of Clan- 

 ricarde. Earl of Erroll, Count D'Orsay, Colonel Sir 

 Horace Seymour, Colonel Sir Seymour Blane, Hon. A. 

 Arundel, Lieut-Colonel Standen, Captains Halford and 

 Cosbey, Messrs. De Burgh, Wombwell, Bushe, Hawkins, 

 Harcourt, G. Vyse, W. Vyse, Henry Bainbridge, Walter 

 Learmonth, Thomas Learmonth, Henry Seymour, 

 Shakerley, Newdegate, Carroll, Captains Sieveright and 

 Fairlie. Many names were afterwards added to these, 

 while on the Presidential roll as Masters of the Buck- 

 hounds I remember the Earl of Erroll till 1839 ; Lord 

 Kinnaird, 1840; Lord Rosslyn, 1841 ; Earl Granville, 

 1846. 



It was a fine sight to see the horses led round the 

 market square in the morning, after breakfast, and 

 brought up one by one to the portico of the hotel and 

 there mounted by their owners. The street was soon 

 filled with scarlet coats, and carriages and four, and all 

 sorts and conditions of conveyances going to the meet. 



