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Horsley Castle, and went awcay very fast through the 

 Park by the Priory " (probably Breadsall) " almost to 

 Cliaddesden wood, where we were brought to hunting, 

 through Hay's AVood to Shipley, where we got up to a 

 fox, and went away fast by Ilkeston to Kirk Hallam, 

 when the fox lay down in a garden, and we viewed him. 

 One hound caught him by the brush at a fence, but he 

 got away, and beat us back thro' Shipley by Cotmanhay 

 Wood, and we stopped them when close to him after 

 hunting some time by moonlight. A hard day. I rode 

 Barleycorn ; Tom, Miss Fearn ; Joe, Spotless ; little Tom, 

 Muslin." This was on a Thursday. On the Saturday 

 following they ran hard from Radburne by Miekleover, by 

 AVheat hill (where Mr. Christopher Chandos-Pole has built 

 his new house), over the brook between Mackworth and 

 Langley, up to Kedleston village, turned to the left below 

 Mugginton, and killed their fox in Breward's Car. Tom's 

 brown horse gave him no less than three falls ! 



On the 12th they found a good hill fox at Longford, 

 and ran him by Bentley Car back to Longford, where 

 they changed, and away they went best pace through 

 Alkmonton (here spelt Orkmington) bottoms to the right 

 of Cubley, by Stydd, over the road between the Tollbar 

 and Darley Moor, almost to the lime quarries, turned to 

 the right by Snelston, crossed the Dove between May- 

 field and Calwich, and stopped the hounds at Stanton 

 Wood. 



The best run of the season up to date in Mr. Meynell's 

 opinion was on February 15th. Hunting had been stopped 

 by frost for over a month, and they met at Longford. 

 Finding there, they ran through Bentley Car, turned to 

 the left, crossed the Ashbourne Road beyond Cubley 

 Tollgate, went to the end of Lord Chesterfield's covert 

 (Cubley), down to the Ellastone Road, where the hounds 

 turned short back, and ran a ring, coming back by 

 Marston, over Marston Park, down to the meadows by 

 Rocester, and back again by Marston Park to the 

 Aldermoor, through Sudbury Coppice, over Locker's Knoll, 



