NATURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN 



I2I-2 ; clergymen and, 122-4; 

 professional hunt servants, 122-3; 

 the chase in Britain in early days, 

 123-4; evolution of, 124-8; Jacob- 

 ites and, 125-6; Earl Spencer 

 and, 126; Somervile and, 127-8, 

 207, 215, 219; Lord Willoughby 

 de Broke, 121, 128-9; John Corbet 

 and the Warwickshire, 128-30; 

 subscription packs, 131 ; great 

 private packs, 131 ; zenith of, 

 132-3 ; pheasants and, 133, 139- 

 42 ; decline of farming interest, 

 134; a critical period, 134; wire 

 fencing, 135 ; hunting rents, 136 ; 

 overgrown fields, 136; "cap- 

 ping," 137-8 ; deterioration of 

 manners in, 139 ; ladies and, 

 139 ; mange, 141 ; future of, 142 ; 

 Somervile and, 207-9, 215; and 

 badgers, 235-7 



Foxhounds of William Somervile, 

 207 



France, sand-grouse in, 263 



Francis Francis, Mr,, 279 



French partridge, weight of, 282 



Friston Place, 88 



Gallinago, coelestis ; nigripennis, 



319 

 Galway Bay, 226, 231 



Gamekeepers and kestrels, 197-8 



Garden warbler, the, 157 



Geese, wild, on Pevensey Marshes, 6 



Gentleman's Recreation, The, 106, 

 210, 243, 275 



George 1 1, and stag-hunting, 215-17 



Gerfalcon, the, 202 



Gifford, Lady, 122 



Gin-net, 146-7 



Glamorganshire, landrails in, 301 



Glenlair, bag of snipe at, 315 



Glennamong, 188 



Godwit, bar-tailed, 24-5, 286; black- 

 tailed, 2S6 



Goodwin, Thomas: a peasant, 172; 

 starving family, 172-3 ; his wife, 

 174; seeks work, 174; tracks a 



hare, 175-6; the death, 177; and 

 Sir Edmund Wing, 180-2 ; slays 

 Sir Edmund, 182 ; and his terrible 

 secret, 183-5 



Goodwood hounds, 131 



Gorse, beauties of, 293-4 '■> Linnaeus 

 and, 294 



Goshawk, the, 202 



Grafton, Duke of, hounds of, 131 



Grange, The, record bag of part- 

 ridges at, 280 



Grant, Will, and destruction of 

 badgers, 235-6 



Grasshopper-warbler, 298 



Grebe, little, 163 ; crested, 163 ; 

 eared, 163 



Green, Major, 252 



Greenland, landrail in, 65, 67 



Greenshank, 25 ; in South Africa, 

 161 



Grouse : in Ireland and Scotland, 

 186 ; in Mayo and Connemara, 

 186-7 ; sport with in co. Mayo, 

 190-5 



Gulls, 303 



Hailsham harriers, 10, 84-94 



Halifax, Earl of, 210 



Hampton Court, otter at, 253 



Hare, 213-14, 300; in the snow, 

 172-85 



Hare-hunt, a great, 84-9 



Hare-hunting : in Pevensey Mar- 

 shes, 9-10, 89-94; on the downs, 

 84-9; Somervile and, 207-8, 212- 

 14 ; scent in, 278 



Harrier, Montagu's, 8, 155; Marsh, 

 8 ; hen, on the downs, 303 



Harriers : Hailsham, 10, 84-94 '■> 

 Bexhill, 10 ; in Britain, 1 19 ; 

 Cotswold, 207 



Harting, Mr. J. E., 29, no, 114, 

 297 



Haven, the, 221-2 



Hawker, Colonel, on coots and 

 moorhens, 31 



Hawkstone otter-hounds, 254 



Heinemann, Mr. A., 240 



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