220 BECOBDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



General Honeywood, Mr. Percy Wyndham, Mr. Ralph Jennison 

 (Master of George II.'s Buck Hounds), Brigadier Churchill, etc. 



The following narrative was copied from an old MS., framed 

 and hung up in an ancient farmhouse in FuntingtoD, nearly 

 illegible from age : — 



" A Full and Impartial Account of the Remarkable Chase at 

 Charlton, on Friday, the 2Qth, 1738. 



" It has long been a matter of controversy in the hunting world 

 to what particular country or set of men the superiority belonged. 

 Prejudices and partiahty have the greatest share in their dis- 

 putes, and even society their proper champion to assert the 

 pre-eminence and bring home the trophy to their own country. 

 Even Richmond Pack has the Dymoke. But on Friday, the 

 26th of January, 1738, there was a decisive engagement on the 

 plains of Sussex, which, after ten hours' struggle, has settled all 

 further debates and given the brush to the gentlemen of 



Charlton. 



" Present in the Morning. 



"The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Duke of St. Albans, 

 the Lord Viscount Harcourt, the Lord Henry Beauclerc, the 

 Lord Ossulstone, Sir Harry Liddell, Brigadier Henry Hawley, 

 Ralph Jennison (lilaster of his Majesty's Buck Hounds), Edward 

 Pauncefort, Esq., William Farquhar, Esq., Cornet Philip Honey- 

 wood, Richard Biddulph, Esq., Mr. St. Paul, Mr. Johnson, Mr. 

 Peerman of Chichester, Mr. Thompson, Tom Johnson, Billy 

 Ives (Yeoman Pricker to his Majesty's Hounds), David Briggs 

 and Nim Ives, whippers-in, 



" At a quarter before eight in the morning the fox was found in 

 East Dean Wood, and ran an hour in that cover ; then into the 

 forest, up Puntice Coppice, through Heringdean to the Marlows, 

 up to Coney Coppice, back to the Marlows, to the Forest West- 

 gate, over the fields to Nightingale Bottom, to Cobden's at 

 Draught, up his Pine Pit Hanger, where his Grace of St. Alban's 

 got a fall, through my Lady Lewkner's Puttocks, and missed 

 the earth ; through West Dean Forest to the corner of Collar 



