NEW year's day 1883 



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Had first fall from the Gre)-, " Not our Faults," Mark also came down. 

 Found a brace in Screens and ran by Newton Hall, Chalk End, leaving 

 Good Easter on the left, and turned by Mashbury Mill up to Boyton 

 Hall, had two rings there and killed at Chignal. • One hour 20 minutes, 

 at times fast, and land awfully heavy. Plenty of grief; Sir Henry down 

 on the new Brown from Roxwell. Grey went splendidly, never making a 

 mistake, but sun puzzled him at times. Went to gruel at Screens and 

 rode home wilh Hargreaves, 22 miles, [My journal credits me with 16 

 miles home and a hack on afterwards to Loughton. — Ed.1 



General Mark Wood 



New Year's day, 1883, saw a large field, including Mr. R. Wood, riding 

 "Glenmore;" Colonel Lockvvood, " Gehazi ; " Mr. Hargreaves, "Ugly 

 Boy," &c., turn up at Harlow Common, also, mirahile didu, the following 

 coverts drawn blank : Harlow Park, Latton Park, Barnsleys, Vicarage 

 Wood, Mark Hall, and several others. An outlying fox near Pinnacles 

 afforded an outlet for our energies in the Parndon and Maries Wood 

 direction and brought several down, not omitting Messrs Borwick and 

 C'hisenhale Marsh. Two days afterwards we ran from Church Wood, 

 Doddinghurst, to Hutton Railway Arch, and, I suppose, to w^ork the 



* My Diary says in the open near Boyton Hall.— Ed. 



