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hounds, and had got them into a barn and shut the 

 door when the Essex Foxhounds appeared. There 

 was no one very near them and off we went at the 

 top of the hunt, and when they checked no one knew 

 where we had come from. We then returned for our 

 own hounds and started for home. It was market 

 day in Colchester, and we stopped to refresh. A 

 farmer, Mr. Cookes, came to me and said, " I hear 

 you have caught my deer". I said, " I think he is 

 mine now". We had a little argument on the sub- 

 ject, and agreed to refer it to two gentlemen. I 

 forget who they were, but they decided in my favour, 

 so I sent a cart and got him home. 



At the end of the season we were relieved at 

 Ipswich by the Scots Greys. They took over the 

 hounds from us. Lord William Hill was huntsman. 

 Unfortunately, he was galloping a horse in Bramford 

 Park, when his horse swerved against a tree, struck 

 his head and killed him. 



I went on leave in March to Leamington, where 

 my mother and sisters were staying. Madocks went 

 there also to his mother. 



8th February. Got out with North Warwick- 

 shire, Mr. Hillyar's, at Dunchurch, and Mr. Drake's 

 at Shuckborough. Also with the Warwickshire, Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke, master ; Stevens, huntsman ; 

 Morris, first whip. I saw " Nimrod " out hunting 

 one day with them. 



Went with Lord Worsley, Madocks and Carring- 

 ton Smith in a phaeton to meet Pytchley Hounds 

 at Welton (my back very bad with rheumatism). 



