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Appendix C. 



APPENDIX C. 



SOME WARWICKSHIRE REMINISCENCES. 



The following letter appeared in the Banbury Guardian 

 of April 16th, 1891. 



To the Editor of the Banbury Guardian. 



Dear Sir, — I have been so much interested in 

 "Castor's" history of foxhunting in Warwickshire 

 that I venture to write a few lines to notice that he 

 has omitted the celebrated Hillmorton run which took 

 place in the period when my father, the late Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke, then Mr. Robert Baraard, was 

 master. The fox was found at Hillmorton and ran 

 perfectly straight to the Hempton Hills in about 50 

 minutes, over the finest country in the world. Ned 

 Stevens was then huntsman. My father was riding 

 "Comet," who carried first him and then Stevens 

 through the run, and came home at night nothing the 

 worse. Two of my uncles, Squire Fortescue, of Fullaa- 

 pit, and the Rev. Fitzwilliam Taylor, of East Ogwell 

 Rectory, who are both alive and well, were out and 

 went to the end. After they got to the Hempton 

 Hills there was a great deal of running up and down 

 with a beaten fox before the fox was killed. A good 

 many sportsmen (?) who had been out of the real run 

 made too much use of their horses then ; and report 

 says that 18 died that night. They were bled at Dun- 

 church in the old barbaric fashion which pnjbably was 

 the cause of their deaths, if they actually took place. 



