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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Appendix B. 



APPENDIX B. 



THE GREAT RUN TO BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, 



The following letter and note on the run from Compton 

 Wyniates to Bourton-on-the- Water, in 1801, which 

 will be found on page 18, appeared in the Banbury 

 Guardian of January 8th and 15th, 1891, respect- 

 ively. 



Lighthorne Rectory, Warwick, 



January 2nd, 1891. 



Dear Sir, — Do we not read somewhere of "ancient 

 runs devoid of truth." I hope ** Castor " will not fall 

 into the error of maintaining these if there is not 

 authority for them. I cannot help being sure that the 

 great run which he described, as commencing at 

 Compton Wyniates and ending at Bourton-on-the- 

 Water must be a mistake. Bourton-on-the- Water must 

 be an error, I think, for Bourton-on-the-Hill, or Little 

 Bourton, the other side Chamberlayne's gorse, 

 especially as he says that there is no record of the 

 names of any places which the hounds passed through 

 between Banbury and his Bourton. It is quite im- 

 possible that any one fox could go so far, and unless 

 they walked after him no horses could have done it 

 either. I should be glad if he would give his authority, 

 which, I suppose, is the old book, ** The Warwickshire 

 Hounds," and let us know if there is any corroborating 

 eridence. If there is not, I hold that the fox ran to 



