TO THE MOST NOBLE 



THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD, 



£c. £c. &c> 



My Lord 



In introducing under the sanction of your Lordship 

 this, the first attempt to give a collected chronicle of a sport 

 now established amongst our most prominent pastimes, an 

 ample guarantee is afforded of the claims in the subject 

 itself to the attention and countenance of true sportsmen. 

 Few indeed have taken a more active part in the deservedly 

 prized pleasures of the Field, and none have gained greater 

 honor or more merited popularity in the practice of them. 

 For the one in particular to which the following pages are 

 devoted, your Lordship has ever shewn a strong but consis- 

 tent support — an influence of name and character hand- 

 somely extended to the present work, of which it is hoped 

 it may in some measure be found worthy. With grateful 

 acknowledgments then, for an honor so readily allowed us. 



We are, 



My Lord, 

 Your greatly obliged and very humble Servants, 



THE PUBLISHERS. 



London, February. 



