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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Mr. Barnard. 

 1839-1856. 



Names at Leam- 

 ington. 



A great run from 

 Weston House 



near Kineton proved blank, bat Pool Field Gorse pro- 

 vided a fox, who went off for Gaydon Inn where a 

 slight check occurred, but it was only a brief one for 

 they were soon off again through Itchington Holt and 

 went straight on to Burton Dassett where they lost. 



There was a large assemblage of foxhuoters at Leam- 

 ington for this season, including Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Best, Colonel Rolt, the Hon. W. Middleton Noel, 

 Captains Mulcaster, Reynolds, Lackie, and Hawkins, 

 and Messrs. W. H, Fazakerley, E Sanders, Welsh, 

 H. Peyton, Tower, J. A. Bruce, J. M. Berry, H. L. 

 Gaskell, Farrell, J. B. Phillipson, F. R. Price, H. 

 Clifton, J. Duckett, Lindsey, Mark Wood and Napper. 



On the 2l9t of January, 1845, a great run originated 

 in a meet at Weston House, at that time the residence 

 of Sir George Phillips, Bart. Mr. Barnard ordered the 

 small spinnies round Rollright to be drawn previous 

 to trying Whichford Wood. A fox was found in the 

 first spinney after passing Long Compton village, and 

 was chopped in covert. They then put into a small 

 covert near the brook at Rollright Coombs, the hounds 

 being put in at the bottom, near the brook, and drawing 

 towards Rollright Hill. A fox dashed out with the 

 pack after him. From first to last a sheet might have 

 covered them all. Up Rollright Hill they went at a 

 killing pace, first pointing to the left as if for Swerford 

 Park, leaving Buryfield Farm to the right. They then 

 turned to the right, and he gallantly faced the open, 

 making straight for Heythrop, leaving Heath Farm to 

 his right. He then went short to the left, through the 

 Gorse below Walk Farm, which was to the left, 

 and so on to the Chipping Norton and Banbury 

 Road which he crossed half-way between Chapel 

 House and Pomfret Castle. Here Ned Stevefls gave 

 the view "halloa." The pace, which had been 

 tremendous throughout, increased. He over-ran the 

 first earth and Redcap and the leading hounds raced 

 him over the last fields and were within seventy yards 



