THE CHACE. 
Abingdon family, at Rycot, for at least three genera- 
tions, and hunted Oxfordshire and Berkshire. 
Mr. Warde was a master of fox-hounds during, as we 
believe, the yet unequalled period of fifty-seven years in 
succession. During this time he sold his pack to Lord 
Spencer ; but reserved three couples of bitches, from 
which he raised another pack, and thus never lost sight 
of his old blood. 
The late Earl Fitzwilliam comes very near Mr. 
Warde as an old master of fox-hounds. Soon after 
Mr. Warde purchased his first pack of the Honourable 
Captain Bertie, this peer bought the one called the 
Crewe and Foley, which had been very long established 
in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire ; and he kept them to 
his death nearly fifty years, and they are now in the 
kennel of the present Earl. 
The Belvoir hounds are also a very old established 
pack, but had an interval during the minority of the 
present Duke of Rutland, when in the hands, first, of Sir 
Carnaby Haggerstone, and afterwards of Mr. Percival, 
brother of the late Lord Egmont. 
The Duke of Beaufort's are another justly celebrated 
pack, now in possession of the third generation ; they 
date from the time of Lord Fitzwilliam's taking the 
Crewe and Foley hounds, which made an opening in 
that part of Oxfordshire which the Duke now hunts. 
Fox-hounds have been kept at Raby Castle, Durham, 
by the present Duke of Cleveland and his uncle, the 
late Duke, for more than a century ; and his Grace 
