THE BELVOIR HUNT. ii 



SO to Speak, to the chase of the fox. 

 When hounds were cheered on to either 

 fox, stag, or hare, whichever they might 

 find, renders it so difficult, nay. Impossible, 

 to define the data when they were made 

 steady to their game. Somervllle gives 

 confirmation of this in his remark — 



"A diff'rent hound for ev'ry diffrent chase 

 Select with judgment." 



He could not have expressed himself so 

 eloquently and classically as he did on 

 many essential points had he not been well 

 up in the " noble science." In the obituary 

 of the Gentlemait! s Alagazine^ bearing 

 date March 1750, which I have in my pos- 

 session, the death Is recorded of '' Charles 

 Newby, of Hooton Roberts, near Rother- 

 ham, Yorkshire, Esq. ; the oldest fox- 

 hunter in England." His age is not men- 

 tioned, neither is there any information as 

 to what hounds he enjoyed his pastime 

 with, yet it is evident they must have been 



