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Mr. Calcraft), Mr. Osbaldeston's (descended from the 

 celebrated pack of Lord Monson), Lord Vernon's 

 crossed with the Duke of Rutland's and also with Lord 

 Yarborough's and the Duke of Beaufort's, which were 

 in Vyner's days reported to be the steadiest and best 

 pack in existence ; Lord Lonsdale's descended from 

 Mr. Noel's and bought by Sir W. Lowther for looo 

 guineas, and the old Pytchley blood, descended in 

 a great measure from the famous Beaufort Justice — 

 who, according to the lately published Vol. I of the 

 Foxhound Stud Book, went to Badminton in 1803, 

 in a lot of two and a half couples from Sir Thomas 

 Mostyn's kennels. This Beaufort Justice — who will be 

 well known to readers of Surtees' works in connection 

 with Mr. Puffington and the Hanby hounds — was 

 by the New Forest Justice out of Hopeful, and his 

 blood has been handed down through many channels 

 to the foxhound of the present day. 



Mr. Vyner's book was published sixty-one years 

 ago, and yet we find that the first three packs in his 

 list are the Brocklesby, the Fitzwilliam, and the Bel- 

 voir, each of which has maintained its reputation to 

 the present day, and now stands just as high in public 

 estimation as it did then. Of the Badminton pack the 

 same thing can be said, but Lord Vernon's and Lord 

 Monson's have long ceased to exist. It is clear, how- 

 ever, that as far back as Mr. Vyner's day, when 

 railways were as new to the country as motor-cars are 

 at the present time, certain packs were being resorted 

 to by breeders because of the reputation they had 

 acquired. Transit of hounds from one part of the 

 country in the early days of last century could only be 

 achieved by road, and yet the earliest volume of the 

 Stud Book plainly proves that even a hundred years 



