20 THE COMPLETE FOXHUNTER 



country, and the Salisbury family had much to do with 

 them towards the close of the eighteenth century, 

 though hounds had been kept at Cheshunt before the 

 Hatfield pack came into existence. The country was 

 divided in 1799, when the Puckeridge Hunt was 

 formed under the mastership of Mr. Sampson Han- 

 bury, and meantime the Marchioness of Salisbury was 

 in office with the parent pack on the western side of the 

 country. The Cambridgeshire list of masters goes 

 back to 1827, but the hunt is said to be older, while the 

 Suffolk list begins in the same year, but it is well 

 known that the country was hunted long before. 



The Fitzwilliam hound pedigree book goes back to 

 1760, but it is known that there was an earlier book, 

 which was destroyed in a fire. The pack is a family 

 one, and the blood, which is some of the very best in 

 the kingdom, is generally spoken of as " Milton blood," 

 the kennels being located at Milton Park. There are, 

 too, other Fitzwilliam packs, known as Lord Fitz- 

 william's, and which cover the two countries formerly 

 known as Lord Fitzwilliam's and Lord Galway's, or 

 the Grove. The first named of these two establish- 

 ments, at Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, 

 was founded in 1S60, but the Grove Hunt, of which 

 Lord Gal way was master from 1876 to 1907, dates to 

 1827, and had hitherto been entirely in the hands of 

 the Lumley, Foljambe, and Lord Galway's families. 

 At the moment, however. Lord Fitzwilliam is master of 

 two countries, and has two separate establishments, one 

 at Wentworth and the other at Serlby. 



Of the Lincolnshire packs the Belvoir, Brocklesby, 

 and Blankney have been mentioned ; the Burton have 

 a list of masters which goes back to the third Lord 

 Monson, 1774, and the Southwold began in 1823, but a 



