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the English," that, not until 1750 were hounds 

 entered solely to fox ; but against his statement 

 must be placed that of Charles J. Apperley, who 

 died in 1843, an< ^ ls favourably known under his nom 

 de plume of "Nimrod." He says that an ancestor of 

 Lord Arundel of Wardour had a pack of foxhounds 

 at the close of the seventeenth century, thus about 

 coeval with the Sussex and Leicestershire already 

 named; and the same reliable writer proceeds to say 

 that, remaining in the same family, they hunted in 

 Wiltshire and Hampshire until 1 782, when they passed 

 to Mr. Meynell, a name so historical in foxhound 

 annals. Another such pack was that of Mr. Thomas 

 Fownes, who was hunting from Stapleton in Dorset- 

 shire very early in the eighteenth century ; but the 

 Charlton Hunt and Squire Boothby's hounds had 

 before this been entered to fox, and, with our present 

 knowledge, with them must rest the credit of being 

 the earliest packs of foxhounds in this country. 



Mr. Fowne's pack went to Mr. Bowes, of Streatlam, 

 Yorkshire ; and the Belvoir hounds kennelled at 

 Melton Mowbray, with the Duke of Rutland as their 

 master, are lineally descended from those alluded to 

 by Lord Wilton. Since these early times and up to 

 the present every care has been taken, and no 

 expense spared, to produce a foxhound as near per- 

 fection as possible, in order to follow the calling 



