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Coxleigh Meadow, and lay fast in the water until the 

 hounds came up to him ; from this they viewed him to 

 Millerswood, and he soiled again at Westersnap ; then 

 passed on to Coxleigh, and forward to Pilton and 

 Bradiford ; then went down to Pottenton and crossed 

 the river to Fremington, thence on to Tapley Park ; 

 came to water under it, and beat up to Bideford Bridge ; 

 here some Bideford thieves shot and stole him, carrying 

 him away before any of the hounds or sportsmen 

 could get up ; they were afterwards ashamed of their 

 conduct, and sent the deer to Barnstaple with a dirty 

 apology. 



Septonber yt/i, 1808. — The meet at Dulverton. The 

 tufters found in Storridgewood, King's Brompton ; he 

 broke for Redcross ; the pack was laid on in the Mine- 

 head turnpike road, and crossing just above Witherham, 

 slanted the enclosures to Oatway Wood, and through 

 the coverts to Baronsdown, and came to water in the 

 Exe at Barledge Abbey ; broke up through Execleave 

 Wood on to Heatheridge, and crossed Court Down into 

 Loosehall Wood, and by Ballneck to Marsh Wood, and 

 soiled in the river Barle under Thunderball : he now 

 beat up stream under Shercombe Slade ; and leaving it 

 on the left, reached Northmoor above Hynam, and 

 passed on to Whiterocks, and came to water in the 

 Danesbrook at Drewcombe gate ; broke from it into 

 South Hawkridge, and crossed the ridge to North Hawk- 

 ridge Wood and down to water ; beat down some dis- 

 tance, and then broke from it into Dipper Copse and lay 

 down ; he was here fresh found, and crossed Slade farm 

 on to Mountsey Common ; and on to Winsford Hill barely 

 out of view ; skirted Burrow Wood and came to water 



