10 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1815 



indiscriminately, and Squire Osbaldeston, who attempted 

 to hunt an enormous extent of country, even larger than 

 that which Lord Vernon had occupied. However, this did 

 not come immediately after the death of the latter. Mr. 

 Harbord kept things going in the Sudbury district for a 

 year, and Mr. Puleston brought his hounds from Shrop- 

 shire every other fortnight into Staffordshire. The famous 

 Colonel Cook, author of " Observations on Fox-hunting," 

 started a pack called the Warwickshire Subscription 

 Hounds, with which he hunted the Leicestershire and 

 south Staffordshire side, and a portion of the Warwick- 

 shire Woodlands, including Midclleton, Sutton Park, and 

 Chelmsley, having kennels at his residence, Cliff, near 

 Kingsbury. In 1814, the Derby Subscription Hounds, 

 under the mastership of Messrs. Hall and Arkwright, 

 hunted the Sudbury district, and also met regularly at 

 Loxley, Hoar Cross, and Seal Wood. But in 1815, both 

 the Derby Subscription Hunt and Colonel Cook gave up 

 their countries in favour of Squire Osbaldeston, who had 

 previously hunted a part of Nottinghamshire. In addition 

 to his own hounds he bought Lord Monson's, adding to 

 them several couples which had belonged to Lord Vernon. 

 " The Squire " carried the horn himself, Tom Sebright and 

 Dick Burton whipping-in to him. They both earned 

 subsequent distinction, the former as huntsman to Lord 

 Fitzwilliam for forty years, and the latter as huntsman to 

 Lord Henry Bentinck in Lincolnshire. The hounds were 

 kennelled at the Flitch of Bacon inn, Wichnor, at 

 Witherley, and at Barton Turns, and the country extended 

 from Radburne and Shipley on the north, to Sutton Park 

 on the south, and included the whole of the Atherstone 

 country. It was hunted four and five days a week. " In 

 January, 1816" — I quote from "Kings of the Hunting 

 Field" — "owing to an unpleasantness with Sir Henry 

 Every, he removed his establishment, consisting of ninety 

 couples of hounds and thirty hunters into Derbyshire. 

 The ' Squire ' felt aggrieved at something Sir Henry had 

 said or done, and wrote for an explanation, but, receiving 



