382 



HUNTING. 



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Belvoir hounds, antiquity of the, 

 28 ; history of, 227 ; their 

 singular beauty, ib. ; the 

 country hunted by, 228 



Berkeley family, fox-hunting 

 by the, 29 ; stag-hunting, 33 



Earners, Dame, and her ' Boke 

 of St. Albans,' 5, 8 



Bibliography, 372 



Bicester pack and country, 260 



Billesdon Coplovv run, the, 237 



Billesdon kennels, plan of, 123 



Bits, use of, 116 



Blades, William, his conclusion 

 respecting Dame Berners, 6 



Blaine's ' Encyclopaedia of Rural 

 Sports,' I ; records Queen 

 Elizabeth's hunting prowess, 



13 



Blome, Richard, ♦ Gentleman's 

 Recreation 'of, 18; on hare- 

 hunting, 23 



Boolhby, Thomas, an early 

 keeper of fox-hounds, 28 



Bradwell Grove, 267 



Brian, Reginald, Bishop of 

 Worcester, his love of the 

 chase, 11 



' Brooksby ' on the Pytchley 

 Wednesday, 248 ; on the es- 

 sentials of a Vale hunter, 263 ; 

 on riding in the Heythrop 

 country, 265 



Bulteel, John, his plan of arti- 

 ficial drains for otters, 313; 

 his observations of otter life, 

 314 



Canute, regulation of the chase 

 by, 9 



Carter the huntsman, 156 

 Casting, in hunting with beagles, 



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' Cecil,' his notice of ' The 

 Maister of the Game,' 7 



Charing Cross, old Berkeley 

 kennel at, 29 



Charles II., remarkable stag- 

 hunt in the reign of, 31 



Chaucer on the addiction of the 

 clergy to the chase, 1 1 ; cited 

 in illustration of fox-hunting, 

 26 



Checking, 149 



Chopping of foxes, 148 



Christian, Dick, on thorough- 

 bred hunters, 178; on the 

 method of making a hunter, 

 186 ; his reminiscences of a 

 great run at Cottesmore, 240 



Clark, Thomas, an example of a 

 bad whipping-in system, 152 



Clergy, hunting by the, in former 

 times, II 



Clowne, Abbot William de, a 

 breeder of hounds, 12 



Cockaine, Sir Thomas, 7 ; on 

 fox-hunting, 28 



Cocktail breed of hunter, 177 



Colic in horses, 115 



Collier, Mr., on otter-hunting, 

 307 ; on the breeding habits 

 of the otter, 308 ; successful 

 heading back of an otter by, 

 325 ; his experience of trail- 

 hunting, 326 



Collins, Digby, on the treatment 

 of diseases in the horse not re- 

 quiring veterinary aid, III 



Collyns, Dr. Palk, instances 

 abnormal number of points in 

 stags' horns, 40 



Compensation to farmers, 163 



Cook, Colonel, on thorough- 

 breds compared with cocktaila, 

 180 



