THE CHACE. 
of the following eminent sportsmen : Mr. Errington, 
the master of the hounds ; Count Matuchevitcz, Mr. 
Massey Stanley, and Mr. Lyne Stevens. The other, at 
the house of the late Sir Harry Goodricke, is known as 
" Lord Rokeby's Club ;" and consists of Lords Rokeby 
and Eglinton, Sir Frederick Johnson, and Mr. Little 
Gilmour. The uninitiated reader would, perhaps, be 
surprised by an enumeration of the persons of rank, 
wealth, and fashion, who, during months of every year, 
resign the comforts and elegancies of their family mansions 
for a small house in some town or village of Leicester- 
shire, to the eye of any one but a sportsman, nearly the 
ugliest county in England. Amongst these devotees to 
fox-hunting are the following : The Earl of Wilton and 
his countess, in the town of Melton, at the house formerly 
occupied by the Earl of Darlington, to which he has 
greatly added, having purchased it : it is, perhaps, the 
most complete and splendid hunting-box at this time in 
England. At Little Poulton, the Earl of Darlington 
and family ; at Leicester, Sir John Key and his lady ; at 
Sowerby, Mr. and Mrs. John Villiers ; at Quorndon, 
Mr. Farnham; and at the Hall, late Mr. Meynell's, Mr. 
Angerstein ; at Ratcliffe, Captain Oliver and his lady ; 
at Oakham, Mr. Curwin ; at Lowesby, the Marquis of 
Waterford ; at Barleythorpe, Mr. Bevan ; at North Stoke, 
Mr. Turner ; at the Lodge, near to Melton, the residence 
of the late Earl of Plymouth, are domiciled, in the 
season, Sir David and Lady Anne Baird ; and nearer 
the town, the following well-known sportsmen : Mr. 
