222 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1863 



Henry Tumor's, through the Cliffs, down to Buttermilk 

 Hill, out by Gorsty Hill, close to Woodford Rough, turned 

 to the left, crossed the Uttoxeter Road at Cuckold's 

 Haven Gate, nearly to Loxley, by Kingston Village, 

 through Kingston Woods, Bagot's Woods, out at Lord's 

 Coppice, across Blithfield Warren, through the Warren 

 Covert, by Yeatsal and back to Dunstall, where they 

 caught him in the farmyard. Two hours and fifty 

 minutes. Hound never cast the whole time. Third 

 fox." This was indeed a fine performance on the part of 

 hounds. 



On the 31st of the same month there is rather an 

 interesting entry : " Black Slough. Found and ran him 

 to ground under the railway. Got on to a line between 

 the canal and King's Bromley, crossed the canal, which 

 Griffiths, Berkeley Paget, Harry {i.e. Mr. Boucherett) 

 and young Bass {i.e. the late Master, Mr. Hamar Bass) 

 plunged into." Lord Berkeley Paget is the only survivor 

 of this little band. Mr. Griffiths, as has been mentioned 

 before, was the writer of several accounts of runs with the 

 Meynell, over the signature of " A.G." 



People often talk of jumping the Foston Mill Dam, so 

 it is worth while to fix the exact date of one, at least, of 

 the occasions on which it was done. On March 7th, 1863, 

 hounds met at Swarkeston, and in those days no one 

 would expect in that case to find himself at night at 

 Foston. Such, however, was the case ; for they began 

 this day by finding in Mr. Ashton Mosley's Gorse, at 

 Burnaston, ran by Etwall, Sutton Gorse, down to the 

 Longford Brook, along the meadows to Hilton, turned 

 to the left, and caught him before he got back to Sutton 

 Gorse, after a good forty-five minutes. Then they found 

 at Hilton Gorse, and hunted their fox to Foston. 



The 10th was the Prince of Wales's wedding-day, and 

 every one, apparently, must have gone to see the wedding, 

 for no one went hunting with Tom (not even the Master) 

 from New Inn, except Miss Meynell Ingram, Lord Alex- 

 ander Packet, and Messrs. Boucherett and Bass. Tom 



