50 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



year he was discharged for neglecting the hounds, 

 but came back in October, having '' made proper 

 submission and asked pardon." In March 1790 

 a note is made that '' the fox was lost by Wood's 

 obstinac}^/' and in May of the same year he was 

 discharged. 



Notwithstanding his dismissal Woods does 

 not seem to have done badly, as he was a man of 

 saving habits, and when he died at Lyndhurst in 

 1820 his relations found after his death over a 

 thousand pounds in his cottage, of which 5^39 

 was in silver. After Mr. Gilbert came Mr. John 

 Compton of Minstead Manor, who had for his 

 huntsman Thomas Sebright, the father of the 

 famous Tom Sebright so long in the Milton 

 Country. 



In 1808 came the celebrated Mr. John Warde, 

 who had then been an M.F.H. for thirty-five 

 years. He had his kennels first at the King's 

 House and afterwards at Foxlease, near Lynd- 

 hurst. Mr. Nicoll succeeded him in 1814, and 

 was his own huntsman, keeping his hounds at the 

 kennels where he lived in Lyndhurst, opposite 

 to Bolton's Bench. Mr. Nicoll retired in 1828, 

 selling his pack to Lord Kintore for ;f 1000. After 

 him Mr. William Wyndham took over the country, 

 keeping his hounds at Burnford House, Bramshaw, 

 and hunting them himself. He went on for ten 



