^10 ORIGIN OF FOX-HUNTING. 



"As to drinking, it was ordered 'that three collar 

 bumpers be drunk after dinner, and the same after 

 supper ; after that eveiy member might do as he pleased 

 in regard to drinking.' 



" By another rule every member was ' to present on 

 his marriage to each member of the hunt, a pair of 

 well-stitched leather breeches, ' * then costing a guinea 

 a pair. 



"In 1769, the club commenced Fox-hunting. The 

 uniform was ordered to be changed to ' a red coat, un- 

 bound, with small frock sleeve, a green velvet cape, and 

 green waistcoat, and that the sleeve have no buttons ; 

 in every other form to be like the old uniform ; and the 

 red saddle-cloth to be bound with green instead of blue, 

 the fronts of the saddles to remain the same.' 



"At the same time there was an alteration in regard 

 to drinking orders — ' That instead of three collar bum- 

 pers, only one shall be drunk, except a fox be killed 

 above ground, and then one other collar glass shall be 

 drunk to " Fox-hunting." Among the names of the 

 original members in 1762, we recognise many whose 

 descendants have maintained in this generation their 

 ancestral reputation as sportsmen. For instance, Crewe, 

 Mainwaring, Wilbraham, Smith, Barry, Cholmondeley, 

 Stanley, Grosvenor, Townley, Watkin Williams Wynne, 

 Stanford. But, although the Tarporley Hunt Club has 

 been maintained and thriven through the reigns of 

 George TIL, George IV., William IV., and Victoria, the 

 pack of hounds, destroyed or removed by various 

 accidents, have been more than once renewed. But the 



* I tliiuk this is a mistake. lu a copy of tlie rules forwarded to me 

 by a Cheshire squire, one of the hereditary members of the club, it is 

 a pair of gloves. But in the notes, the songs and ballads by R. Eger- 



it is printed "breeches." 



