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men in England." In the possession of Mr. Corbet, of 

 Adderlej, is an old horn, partly of horn and partly of 



Mr. Boothby's Horn (engraved by the kind permission of Mr. Corbet). 



Ordinary Horn. 



silver, with this inscription: "Thos. Boothby, Esq., 

 of Tooley Park, Leicestershire. — With this horn he 

 hunted the first pack of foxhounds then in England 

 fifty-five years. Born 1677 ; died 1752, Now the 

 property of Thos. d'Avenaut, Esq., county of Salop, his 

 grandson." This horn was engraved in the Field news- 

 paper some years ago, and is, I think, one of the most 

 interesting mementos in England, showing that Leices- 

 tershire possessed a ^' crack " pack of hounds nearly 200 

 years ago, and that two successive sportsmen hunted the 

 country for more than a hundred years. In Nicholl's 

 History of Leicestershire I find that " Tooley Park was 

 purchased by Judith, Lady Corbett, and Mr. Thomas 

 Boothby, her son by her first husband, enjoyed it in 

 1848, and in that family it continued till 1779, when 

 Skrymshire Boothby, Esq., sold it." Mr. Thomas 

 Boothby, the M.E.H., married an heiress named Scrim- 

 shire or Scrymshire, and took her name in addition to his 

 own. He had a son, who died before him, a granddaughter, 

 Anne, who married, as his second wife, Mr. Meynell, and 

 a grandson, known as " Prince " Boothby, with whom 



