SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



horse for a trueblue that staid up the hills. Billy 

 Ives likewise took a horse of Sir Harry Liddell's), 

 went quite through the Forest and ran the foil 

 through Nightingale Bottom to Cobden at Draught, 

 up his Pine Pit Hanger to My Lady Lewknor's Put- 

 tocks, through every mews she went in the morning ; 

 went through the Warren above Westdean (where we 

 dropt Sir Harry Liddell) down to Benderton Farm 

 (here Lord Harry sank), through Goodwood Park 

 (here the Duke of Richmond chose to send three 

 lame horses back to Charlton, and took Saucy Face 

 and Sir William, that were luckily at Goodwood ; 

 from thence, at a distance, Lord Harry was seen 

 driving his horse before him to Charlton). The 

 hounds went out at the upper end of the Park over 

 Strettington-road by Sealy Coppice (where His Grace 

 of Richmond got a summerset), through Halnaker 

 Park over Halnaker Hill to Seabeach Farm (here the 

 Master of the Stag Hounds, Cornet Honeywood, 

 Tom Johnson, and Nim Ives were thoroughly satis- 

 fied), up Long Down, through Eartham Common 

 fields and Kemp's High Wood (here Billy Ives tried 

 his second horse and took Sir William, by which the 

 Duke of St. Alban's had no great coat, so returned 

 to Charlton). From Kemp's High Wood the hounds 

 took a way through Gunworth Warren, Kemp's 

 Rough Piece, over Slindon Down to Madehurst 

 Parsonage (where Billy came in with them), over 

 Poor Down up to Madehurst, then down to Hough- 

 ton Forest, where His Grace of Richmond, General 

 Hawley, and Mr. Pauncefort came in (the latter to 

 little purpose, for, beyond the Ruel Hill, neither 

 Mr. Pauncefort nor his horse Tinker cared to go, so 

 wisely returned to his impatient friends), up the 

 Ruel Hill, left Sherwood on the right hand, crossed 

 Ofham Hill to Southwood, from thence to South Stoke 

 to the wall of Arundel River, where the glorious 

 23 hounds put an end to the campaign, and killed an 

 old bitch fox, ten minutes before six. Billy Ives, 

 His Grace of Richmond, and General Hawley Ia were 

 the only persons in at the death, to the immortal 

 honour of 1 7 stone, and at least as many campaigns. 



Among those who hunted with the Charlton 

 Hunt during its great days were the Dukes of 

 Richmond, Devonshire, Kingston, Montagu ; 

 the Earls of | Pembroke, Lincoln, Sunderland, 

 Kildare, Dalkeith, Halifax, De La Warr ; 

 Viscounts Downe, Dursley, and Harcourt ; 

 Lords Ossulston, Hervey, Walpole, Ravensworth, 

 Robert Manners, Lifford, Cowper, Bury, and 

 John Cavendish ; Count La Lippe, Baron 

 Hardenburg ; Mr. Watson Wentworth, after- 

 wards Marquis of Rockingham; Generals Honey- 

 wood, Churchill, and the Hon. Brudenell ; the 

 Hon. C. Bentinck, Hon. John Boscawen. One 

 other distinguished personage hunting in another 

 part of Sussex at this time was Holies Pelham, 

 duke of Newcastle, the well-known statesman of 

 the reigns of George I and George II. His 

 principal seat was then at Halland, near East 



la General Hawley, who made so great a figure in 

 this historic run, was the soldier who commanded 

 King George's troops at Falkirk, eight years later 

 (1746), when they were defeated by Prince Charles 

 and his Highlanders. 



Hoathly, but he seems to have hunted in a 

 more distant part of Sussex, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bishopstone, near Seaford, where he had 

 a house. He writes thus to his duchess : a 



Bishopstone, 



Nov. z8th, 1738. 



I have just time to tell my Dearest that we have 

 this day had the finest chase that ever was seen. 

 Nobody was properly in but the two huntsmen, 

 Lord Lincoln, Tom Chambers, Tommy Cook, and 

 myself. I rode Badger, which carried me charm- 

 ingly. Poor Whitefoot is lame and I have Brown 

 Jack well. I am very much obliged to you for your 

 most kind letter. We expect Jimmy every moment 

 and wonder he is not yet come. To-day being 

 Public Day we have a good deal of company. Our 

 other Days are very quiet, except now and then 

 when they come overnight from distant parts of ye 

 County. Lord Lincoln gives a Ball on Thursday 

 next to ye Ladies of Seaford. My Dearest has a 

 charming day for Claremont. I hope you will find 

 everything, pond etc. in a good forwardness. Our 

 provisions can't go from here till Monday next, but I 

 hope you don't think ' la petite ' can ever be forgot. 

 All here send their compliments pray mine to 

 Mrs. Spence. I am, 



Ever most affectionately and sincerely yours 



(signed) J. HOLLIS NEWCASTLE. 



P.S. Jimmy is just this moment arrived. 



THE GOODWOOD HOUNDS 



In 1750 the second Duke of Richmond died. 

 His successor, the third duke, in 1789 built 

 spacious kennels at Goodwood, and took the 

 hounds thither, and thenceforth Goodwood glories 

 eclipsed the splendours of the old Charlton Hunt. 



This Duke of Richmond was one of the keen- 

 est sportsmen of his time. In his day hounds 

 met at 8 a.m. He spared neither trouble nor 

 expense to make his hounds the finest in the 

 kingdom, and his kennels have been cited as the 

 perfection of cleanliness and order. He was a 

 great stickler for fair sport, and would never 

 allow his hounds to be assisted by a view halloa. 

 If any one outside the covert was heard to view 

 away or seen to head the fox, the duke would 

 ride up, smartly cracking his whip, and cry, 

 ' Hark to covert ! Hark to covert ! ' The cry 

 of the hounds and the sound of the horn alone 

 notified the field that hounds were away. Under 

 this system the Goodwood Hounds were drilled 

 into a pack perfect for the work they had to do. 

 Tom Grant, a famous huntsman of this duke 

 and his two successors, who died so late as 1839, 

 at the age of eighty-eight, had many amusing 

 anecdotes to tell of this period. If he (Grant) 

 was hunting a sinking fox late in the afternoon, 

 the duke would say to him, ' Sir, whip off 

 hounds immediately, or I must send for a candle 

 for you.' The duke was extremely fair to his 



' From the original letter in the possession of 

 Major H. P. Molineui. 



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