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Hawkridge Ridge, went up the bottom and broke by 

 Rowdovvn to the Common, and kept it to Sandyway ; 

 then skirting Longvvood, up over Yarddown, and over 

 Emmett's to Cornham. Here the foxhounds got on 

 their own game, and lost the stag, which was all but 

 done. So much for amalgamation ! 



1803. — This year saw the staghounds kept by sub- 

 scription for the first time. John Worth, Esquire, of 

 Worth-House, near Tiverton, Devon, became the Master, 

 and the following gentlemen subscribed fifty pounds each 

 annually for the support of the pack, viz. : — Lord Lisle, 

 Mr. Chichester of Arlington, Mr. Bassett of Water- 

 mouth, Sir John Davy, Mr. Incledon, Honourable 

 Newton Fellowes, Sir Lawrence Palk, Mr. Templer, Sir 

 William Lemon, Mr. Bastard, and Mr. Chichester of 

 Hall. The first stag killed by Mr. Worth was on the 

 5th of September. The fixture was Bratton, and a right 

 good hart was found in South Chilfliam Wood. He 

 went down the Youlstone Bottom to Septscott and Cox- 

 leigh Meadows, Yeotown, Pilt, and on to Rawleigh. He 

 here broke to the north by Pilton, went on to Pudner 

 and Muddiford, and crossed at the bottom to Whitefield 

 Wood over Swindovvn, down to the back of Bittaden. 

 They brought him to bay at Mullacott, and, after a short 

 fight, he started, and they ran him in view to Score, near 

 Ilfracombe, at which place he was killed. He was a 

 very heavy deer, with four on top on each horn. 



September 2yth, 1804. — A stag was killed having but 

 one horn. Found him in Brayball, and killed, after a 

 good run, at Weir Marsh, in the parish of High Bick- 

 ington. This was a deer which was hunted by Lord 

 Fortescue two years ago, and lost near Simonsbath ; he 



