THE BILLESDON HUNT. 



nPHE antecedents of part of the country 

 in which was originally installed 

 Mr Tailby, may be traced to Mr Noel, 

 whose name was associated with the Cot- 

 tesmore ; and from the period when Mr 

 Meynell first enlivened the plains of 

 Leicestershire with hound and horn, to 

 that when Mr Richard Sutton had a pack 

 at Skefiington, no division or alienation of 

 the other portion had ever occurred. It may 

 be said, indeed, rather to have taken pre- 

 cedence of the far-famed Quorn district ; 

 as Mr Meynell, when he first kept hounds, 

 resided with his confederate, Mr Boothby, 

 at Langton Hall, when the kennels were 

 at Great Bowden Inn, bordering on North- 



