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Victorious over the Curragh of Kildare for 300 guineas 

 each, and was also the winner of a great number of plates 

 and prizes. 



June, 1843. — William Collins, of Badminton, labourer, 

 aged 83 years, hearty, having the use of all his faculties, 

 and working on ye road, tells me he can remember 

 when foxes were destroyed at Badminton, ye keepers 

 being paid for it ; that ye Duke of that day kept stag 

 hounds and harriers, and that the deer were penned at 

 Oldham-on-the-Hill. That he remembers all ye hunts- 

 men, as under : — 



Baldwin ) 



Wilts J- Stag hounds, &c. 



Hellier J 

 Crane (began keeping foxhounds — a heavy man). 

 Kench. Alderton. Dilworth. 



Philip Payne. William Long. 



Then followed the 8th Duke of Beaufort and William 

 Stansby, Thomas Clarke in 1858, and left somewhat 

 suddenly before the close of the season 1867 — 1868. 

 The Marquis of Worcester then took the horn. 



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