6 THE COMPLETE FOXHUNTER 



tained a country of large area for a considerable number 

 of years, hunting often four days a week, and had a 

 first-rate pack of hounds, but when the fields dwindled 

 to a mere nothing it was felt that there was little use in 

 carrying on the hunt, and now much of the original 

 Goodwood, or Charlton, country is hunted by Lord 

 Leconfield, a little by the Hambledon, and some of 

 the country near Arundel by the Crawley and Horsham 

 pack. It may be mentioned, too, that the hunt which is 

 known as Lord Leconfield's had hunted the Goodwood 

 country for a period, during the early part of the nine- 

 teenth century, when Colonel George Wyndham, after- 

 wards the first Lord Leconfield, was master. 



From the above it will be seen that the continuity of 

 the original Charlton Hunt has not been strictly pre- 

 served, and if it has a legitimate successor in these days 

 to Lord Leconfield's Hunt the position must certainly 

 be awarded. But it is no easy matter to say with 

 exactitude when and how certain hunts began their 

 existence, and thus, according to Baiiys Hunting 

 Directory, Lord Leconfield's country was first hunted 

 by Lord Egremont about the year 1773, and the same 

 authority states that when Lord Egremont resigned he 

 gave the pack to the then Duke of Richmond. But it 

 is further recorded that at a later date Colonel Wynd- 

 ham moved the kennels to Drove House, near Good- 

 wood, from whence he hunted the Goodwood country, 

 while at the same time his brother, Sir Henry Wynd- 

 ham, hunted Lord Leconfield's present country under 

 the name of the West Sussex, having kennels at 

 Sladeland, and also at Findon. (The Findon kennels 

 are still in existence, and are used at certain periods of 

 the year by the Crawley and Horsham pack.) The 

 result of every investigation goes to prove that the 



