188 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 11892 



On the 15 th there was a capital fast gallop from 

 Chartley Gorse up to Handleasow Wood, where they 

 turned short back into Birchwood Park. Here tliey 

 slipped everybody for a time and ran by Brindley Coppice 

 as if for Leigh, round Philips' Gorse, up towards Carry 

 Coppice, catching their fox in the deep ditch just before 

 they got there. Charles, Sir Charles Nugent, Mr. Fort, 

 and Mr. W. Eraser Tytler, by galloping along the road as 

 hard as they could go, were just in time to see them kill 

 him. Time, forty-five minutes, and very fast. 



In the evening of Noveml^er 21st a good fox went 

 away from the Aldermoor, through Sudbury Coppice and 

 the dingle below Vernon's Oak. Hounds ran very fast, and 

 from this point up to Marston Park only the two Messrs. 

 Fraser Tytler, Mr. Fort, Mr. Dudley Fox, and Mrs. 

 Randall were with them. The last-named lady got a 

 rattling fall behind Marston-Montgomery, and the Messrs. 

 Fraser Tytler and Mr. Dudley Fox jumped the big 

 bottom just beyond it. It is a very wide place indeed, 

 and there was a bullfinch on the taking-ofi" side, so it is 

 surprising they got over. Mr. Fox was riding a bay horse, 

 a very good one. From Marston Park hounds ran on 

 down to Clownholm — a very good forty minutes. From 

 there they ran slowly to Eaton Wood, whence they went 

 away with a fresh one, and were stopped. The hunted fox 

 was seen going on for Doveridge. 



In the evening of the 29th they ran a good ring from 

 Woodford Rough, which was chiefiy remarkable for the 

 fact that hounds slipped every one except Messrs. Gerald 

 Hardy and Brace, and Captain Dugdale. It happened 

 thus. When they found they ran l^y Taberner's Forge 

 and the Vicarage at Marchington up to the Forest Banks, 

 and on to Woodroff"e's Clift'. Every one went into the 

 Banks except the three above mentioned, and hounds, 

 getting on a fresh fox, turned back to them, and they had 

 a merry ride to Woodford, where the fox went to ground. 



Of Thursday, December 22nd, a printed account is 

 extant. The first part was a curious ride in a fog. 



