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Poltimore's, the Puckeridge, Lord Portsmouth's, and 

 the Cheshire, while it may be added that Mr. Pain had 

 bought largely at the above-mentioned sale of Sir 

 Robert Vaughan's hounds. A few days afterwards 

 Messrs. Tattersall were again in request, this time in 

 the Crawley and Horsham country, where Mr. Stan- 

 ford was giving up, but the bad weather no doubt 

 affected the sale, for only three actual purchasers put 

 in an appearance, and only forty-three and a half 

 couples were parted with for 430 gs. 



When Lord Feversham was the Hon. E. Dun- 

 combe he had been master of the Bedale, which pack 

 he had formed with purchases from Lord Panmure's 

 Forfarshire country, the Quorn, Mr. Drake's, Mr. 

 Henley Greaves', the Burton, Bramham Moor, Holder- 

 ness, and York and Ainsty, but here again low prices 

 ruled, 580 gs. being the amount realised by forty-four 

 couples, the highest bid being 125 gs. for four couples. 

 The year 1868 saw another Quorn sale recorded, and 

 old Tom Day, who was one of the company on this 

 occasion, stated that he had been present at seven 

 previous auctions where packs which had hunted this 

 country were sold. On this occasion the dispersal was 

 brought about by the resignation of the Marquis of 

 Hastings, the sale taking place in the paddock adjoin- 

 ing the stables, and at the extremity of the railed-off 

 space a building fashioned in the shape of a little 

 Chinese pagoda had been built. On the day. in ques- 

 tion thirty lots realised 1057 gs., Lord Rendlesham 

 paying 155 gs. for four couples. 



In the May of 1869 two packs were sold which may 

 be said to have gone cheaply. In the first instance 

 Mr. Richard Marriot parted with the East Essex at 

 Abbott's Hall, Braintree, when twenty-nine and a half 



