APPENDIX 223 



Before the stag-hunting of this season, Joe Faulkner, 

 the huntsman, reported that the sheep killers were gone, 

 and his pack in first-rate trim. On the loth of Sep- 

 tember, Dulverton was the fixture. Whilst many of the 

 assembled sportsmen were at breakfast, at the White 

 Hart Inn, a stag was seen standing in Burridge Wood, 

 a couple of tufters soon turned him out, and drove him 

 to Marsh Bridge ; here they were stopped, and the pack 

 laid on ; after giving him half-an-hour, as he appeared a 

 very heavy deer, they ran him to New Invention ; 

 through Shercombe Slade, to Threewaters ; he now 

 backed it to Buckminsterham, and crossed the river into 

 Mountsey Castle and through Dipper Copse to Sladewood, 

 and here waited for the hounds ; they viewed him from 

 this to Tarrsteps ; he now went up the water to Hinds- 

 pool, and broke over Westwater and Worth Hill, on to 

 Sandyway, as if to try his luck over the Forest of 

 Exmoor, but his strength would not permit of this, and 

 he backed it over Hawkridge Common to Willingford, 

 and went down the Danesbrook to Lyshwell ; broke to the 

 right on to Anstey Common, and again came to water at 

 Drewcombe gate ; beat down stream under Hawkridge 

 Ridge, and broke into Whiterocks, and lay fast ; they 

 came in on him, and viewed him to the Barle; he now 

 crossed into Mountsey Castle, and through it and Ash- 

 weak and Draydon Woods, came to water at Draydon- 

 ford, and beat down stream to Marsh Bridge, at which 

 pot he was set up and killed. This was the old 

 Burridges stag, which had for many years eluded his 

 pursuers. 



September 2\st. — Found at Hill Rock, in Sherwell. 

 Old 'Woodman ' found him, and the deer bayed him for 



