FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 47 



the month of April for that purpose. After 

 the Deer Removal Act of 1851 the red deer were 

 ordered to be destroyed, and Captain Buckworth 

 Powell of Foxlease, with Mr. Hay Morant of 

 Brockenhurst Park, were some of the first to 

 start a few couples to hunt them ; then Mr. 

 Grantley Berkeley, with two or three blood- 

 hounds, killed a few, and they all gradually 

 disappeared. 



In the following years some packs of harriers 

 came down during April to hunt the fallow deer, 

 but the harriers were not a success. After this, 

 Mr. Lovell of Hincheslea got occasional leave to 

 hunt them; he took up the matter in earnest, 

 and kept a few couples all the year round as the 

 nucleus of a larger pack which he got together 

 every spring for about six weeks' hunting in the 

 Forest, and permission had to be obtained from 

 the Crown annually for that period. Since those 

 days the Forest has never been without a per- 

 manent pack of deerhounds, which hunt regularly 

 throughout many months of the year. I re- 

 member one April in 1861, when I came down 

 from Winchester Barracks, the fallow deer were 

 hunted by Mr. Augustus Gore (formerly of the 

 7th Hussars), and old Captain Shedden, a former 

 M.F.H., acted as huntsman for him, but that 

 arrangement did not last long. 



