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1861-1862. 



There was nothing worth mentioning up to Christmas, 

 except, perhaps, that, like a great many other packs, they 

 postponed their Chartley meet on the day of the Prince 

 Consort's funeral, December 23rd, to the next day. On 

 the 28th they found a fox in Jackson's Banks, and came 

 away by Dirty Gutter coppice, checking just over the 

 Byrkley Lodge road. The main body of the hounds 

 slipped everybody here, but Mr. Henry Jaggard and two 

 others met them in the Yoxall Lodge road, and they ran 

 on by Darley Oaks, through the Brakenhurst, away by 

 Moat Hall, in front of Eland Lodge (Holly bush) into the 

 Forest Banks, where they checked, and the field got up to 

 them at Marchington Cliff. Hitting it off again, they 

 pushed their fox out under Woodroffe's Cliff, and ran 

 across the open by Marchington Vicarage and Mr. Owen's 

 house (Field House), to within one field of Woodford 

 Eough. Here they turned to the left, by Mr. Bell's 

 of Uttoxeter High Wood, back to the turnpike where they 

 checked, but hit it off again and ran by Mr. Webb's 

 (Smallwood Manor), and killed him, close to the old mill 

 below Woodroffe's Cliff, after a good run of nearly three 

 hours. 



Byrkley Lodge, which is mentioned here, belonged at 

 that time to Colonel Newdigate, a good sportsman, who 

 sold it to Mr. Hamar Bass, in 1885 or '86. But Colonel 

 Newdigate let the place to Mr. B. Ratcliff some time in 

 the seventies, having married Lord Leigh's daughter, and 

 went to live at West Hallam in the South Notts country. 

 Miss Sneyd owned it before he had it. 



Mr. Bass pulled down the old liouse and built the 

 present one. Rangemore, which adjoins it, was rented 

 from the Duchy of Lancaster, first by Mr. Barton, then by 

 Mr. Haywood, and finally by Mr. M. T. Bass, father of the 

 present Lord Burton. The last named bought it from 

 the Duchy on his father's death in 1884. 



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