224 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



long checks, but they managed to creep on, and 

 eventually a lucky holloa at East Newton Hall 

 took them over the Rye beck and railway at Nun- 

 nington Station. Getting close to their fox in 

 Loska}^ Hill covert, they ran him away across the 

 railway, through Scarlet wood, and killed near 

 Stonegrave village, after one hour and ten minutes, 

 making a good finish to a fine day's sport. 



The Hon. H. Vane's Hounds 



The country as at present constituted has existed 

 since 1808, when Mr Richard Hill formed a pack 



with which he hunted until 

 1855. At his death Mr 

 John Hill took over the 

 mastership and sold the 

 hounds in 1862 to the Duke 

 of Grafton. Mr Harcourt 

 Johnstone formed a fresh 

 pack in 1862 and continued 

 master till 1881, when he 

 was succeeded by Captain 

 the Hon. Francis John- 

 stone, who established a 

 good working pack, which 

 on his retirement in 1900 

 was sold for £1000, to 

 Mr W. Baird, master of 

 the Cottesmore, and Mr 

 <^^ ^ W. M. Wroughton, master 



Captain the Hon. F. Johnstone and ^^ ^^^ Woodlaud Pytchlcy . 



The hunt had until then 

 been in the mastership of the Hill and John- 

 stone families for ninety-two years, and was im- 

 mensely popular with the country-side. In 1900 



