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THE CHAELTON HUNT. 



Some years since, in an old farm-lionse at Euntington, 

 in West Sussex, a precious document was discovered, 

 relating to the Charlton Hunt, and consisting of a man- 

 uscript account of a run with the hounds. Commencing 

 with a heading, it is as follows : — 



"A rULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE 31EMAEKABLE 



CHASE AT Charlton, on Eridat, 26th Jan., 1738. 



" Present in the morning : the Duke of Eichmond, 

 the Duchess of Eichmond, Duke of St. Albans, Lord 

 Harcourt,the Lord Henry Beauclerk, the Lord Ossulston, 

 Sir Harry Liddell, Brigadier Henry Hawley, Ralph 

 Jennison, Master of His Majesty's buckhounds, Edward 

 Pauncefoot, Esq., William Earquhar, Esq., Cornet Philip 

 Honey wood, Eichard Biddulph, Esq., Charles Biddulph, 

 Esq., Mr. St. Paul, Mr. Johnson, Billy Ives, yeoman 

 pricker to His Majesty's hounds, David Briggs and 

 Mnn Ives, whippers-in. 



" At a quarter before eight in the morning the fox 

 was found in East Dean Wood, and ran an hour in that 

 cover, then in the Eorest up to Puntice Copse, through 

 Heringdean to the Marlows, to Covey Coppice, back to 

 the Marlows, to the Eorest West Gate, over the Holds 

 to Nightingale Bottom, to Cobden's Draught, up his 

 Pine Pit Hanger, where his Grace of St. Albans got a 

 fall; through West Dean Eorest to the corner of Collar 

 Down (where Lord Harcourt blew his first horse), 

 crossed the Hackney-place Down, the length of Colney 

 Coppice, through the Marlows to Heringdean, into the 

 Eorest and Puntice Coppice, East Dean Wood, through 

 the lower Teglease, across by Cocking Course, down 



