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at Withycombe ; beat up to Ashcombe, then crossed Ash 

 farm for Bye, and soiled in the Exe just above Nether- 

 cott, and went up to Lyncombe farm and lay in the 

 pool ; he now jumped up in view and backed it through 

 the river to Bye Common, and went down nearly to 

 Larcombefoot ; he now turned out over the hill again 

 for Withycombe, where we killed him. Mr. Lucas of 

 Baronsdown was blooded this day, being his first 

 experience of the death of the deer. 



1811. — On the 14th of January, Mr. Worth resigned 

 the management of the staghounds after eight years' 

 satisfactory direction, having killed one hundred and one 

 deer. 



August 14///, 1812. — Lord Fortescue, the Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant for the county of Devon, again resumed the 

 staghounds, and on this day killed his first stag. 

 Found in Emblewood, and laid on the pack at Amar- 

 zones ; they ran him over Porlock Common, for Horner. 

 He was blanched by some lime carts, and turned short 

 to the right, now crossed near the head of the Shillets, 

 and by Lucott Moor reached Blackford Water, and went 

 up to Nutscale Brake ; now broke to the left, and back 

 over Lucat Moor for the Shillets, and crossing Parson's 

 Hill for Parkwood, he broke from it for Hawkcombe, 

 and backed it secondly to Parkwood, and lay fast. They 

 now viewed him, and ran him close at his haunches 

 through Porlock and Ashley Woods, on to some rocks ; 

 the farmers routed him from this, and he went out to 

 sea, swam through the waves with six couple of hounds 

 in close pursuit, which they continued until a boat sent 

 out captured him, and five of the hounds were towed 

 to land on his back. It was a grand sight to see the 



