THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Edward Mostyu ; Sir John Gerard, who had most ^;[-836^-liS9^' 



perfect horses ; Sir Robert Brownrigg ; Captain Lamb, 



a big man and owner of Vivian and many other good 

 horses, which were always ridden for him by the well- 

 known Captain Beecher ; Captain Serancke from 

 Hertfordshire ; Mr. Bertie Matthews ; Captain 

 *' Dick " Magennis, who had only one arm ; Mr. De 

 Burgh, who formerly kept staghounds near London ; 

 Mr. Birnard ; Colonels Gooch and Trevelyan ; Mr. 

 Sanderson, of Leamington ; Mr. Andrew Whyte ; 

 Mr. Hyde Clark ; Mr. J. T. Charlton ; Mr. J. W. 

 Little ; Mr. R. Greaves of Stratford ; Mr. Way ; Mr. 

 Philip Bennett of Suffolk ; Captain Hibbert of Bilton 

 Grange ; Mr. Ivens ; Mr. H. Horley of Upton, one 

 of the hardest men in the country and who, like Lord 

 Howth, will be remembered in connection with some 

 water work during a previous run ; and Mr. Mytton and 

 Bob Clifton, who generally kept the pace alive. These 

 are the names to be chronicled as forming parts of 

 the Warwickshire fields. I regret that the list is to 

 such an extent, a bare one, and that I have not been 

 able to garnish it more with the individualities of the 

 different persons mentioned, but it is a far cry back to 

 ** the thirties." 



When Mr. Corbet hunted Warwickshire his coun- The extent of the 

 try may be said to have roughly comprised the whole 

 country, although in those early days the boundaries 

 were not fixed with the exactitude with which they 

 may now be told, and there is some diflSculty in fix- 

 ing the dates and the varying districts of the early 

 days of "the Atherstone," which comprised a slice of 

 north-west Warwickshire. After Mr. Corbet's re- 

 tirement the more northern portions of the county 

 began to be deserted, and the attentions of the sue- Neglect of the 

 ceeding Warwickshire masters were mostly devoted 

 to the grass districts of the south. The sound of 

 the horn was rarely heard in the woodland districts 

 of the north, and naturally some considerable dis- 



woodlanda. 



