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in the. chase that he encouraged his old mistress to 

 come along and take leaps which were quite alarm- 

 ing, but which she was too blind to do more than 

 acquiesce in. I saw her once on horseback when 

 she was very old. She had ridden over to Lady 

 Dacre's at the Hoo near Hatfield, and it was my 

 firm impression that she was tied on to her saddle ; 

 but I believe it \\'as only a strap which held up some 

 of the long voluminous 

 folds of the habit of 

 the day." 



At a later date (1835) 

 Mr E. P. Delme Rad- 

 cliffe had a four-season 

 mastership, and his ex- 

 periences in the Hert- 

 fordshire country led 

 to the writing of the 

 classic work, " The 

 Noble Science of Fox- 

 hunting," published in 

 1839. Up to 1875 the .^ 

 hunt was known by the v^ 

 name of the reigning 

 master, but since then 



it has always been styled the Hertfordshire, and 

 possesses a fine tract of grass, arable, and wood- 

 land country for four days a week, some thirty 

 miles long and twenty-three miles wide. A por- 

 tion of country on the south side had not been 

 hunted in recent years till 1907, when arrangements 

 were made with the Hertfordshire hunt, and Mr 

 G. Smith-Bosanquet established a two-days-a-week 

 pack, at his residence, Broxbornebury Park, carry- 

 ing the horn himself. From small beginnings, 

 this young hunt has become firmly established, 



