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they have from many of his earthly censors, to whom, 

 and to all others who presume to judge their companions 

 in sin, the 11th verse of the 4th chapter of James is 

 strikingly applicable. '* Speak not evil one of another, 

 brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and 

 judgetli his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and 

 judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art 

 not a doer of the law, but a judge." On the 9th April, 

 Anno Domini 1834, his mortal remains were deposited 

 in the family vault at Halston Chapel, at the com- 

 paratively early age of thirty-eight. 



The late Sir Richard Pulestone, a very distinguished 

 sportsman, considered the best judge of hounds of his 

 time, hunted divers parts of Shropshire, and indeed 

 several other countries, during a period of between 

 thirty and forty years. To point out the various districts 

 and the precise dates would be impossible. During the 

 latter part of the time, he confined his hunting to the 

 neighbourhood of Emral, in Flintshire. I never met 

 his hounds but once, which was at the Twemlows, near 

 Whitchurch, a great many years ago, and have but a 

 very slight recollection of them. Sir Richard Pulestone 

 sold his pack in the spring of 1833 to Lord Radnor for 

 500 guineas, when he retired from the field as a master 

 of fox-hounds. He departed this life in 1849. 



In 1823 the gentlemen of Shrewsbury and the 

 neighbourhood built some kennels and stables about 

 two miles from the town ; soon after which Sir Belling- 

 ham Graham undertook to hunt the Shropshire in con- 

 junction with what was subsequently called the 

 Albrighton country, which he had previously himted 

 exclusively ; but that arrangement only continued one 

 season, the Albrighton men being inconvenienced 

 every alternate month or six weeks by not having 

 hounds within their reach ; and Sir Bellingham confined 

 his operations to the Shropshire side during the re- 

 mainder of the time of his keeping hounds. The 

 baronet hunted his hounds in person ; and as an amateur 

 huntsman, if he has been equalled, he certainly has not 



