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kept at Cottesmore village, near Oakham, from which 

 place they take their title. 



The present Lord Ancaster residing at Grims- 

 thorpe Castle, on the Lincolnshire side of the 

 country, for many years was chairman of the Hunt 

 Committee, and is one of the largest subscribers. 



Normanton Park, by Stamford, is the residence 

 of Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, eldest 

 son of the Earl of Ancaster, a keen politician, and 

 a hard rider on his day. By Stamford the Marquis 

 of Exeter owns a large slice of property, and from 

 Burghley House with his own pack of hounds de- 

 votes much time, capital, and energy in the interests 

 of the chase. There is good fox ground by Exton 

 Park, the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough, head 

 of the house of Noel, who founded the hunt some- 

 time at the end of the eighteenth century. On the 

 Leicestershire side of the country, a large property 

 is owned by the Earl of Dysart at Buckminster 

 Park, and Mr. John Gretton, the present Conserva- 

 tive member for Rutland, joins in at Stapleford 

 Park, the nearest Cottesmore fixture for Melton. 

 Then there is Lord Kesteven at Caswick Park in 

 Lincolnshire, whose father, when Sir John Trollope, 

 held a mastership, with such good neighbours in the 

 interests of hunting as Colonel Birch Reynardson at 

 Hollywell Hall, the Earl of Lindsey at Ufftngton, 

 Mr. Handley, the Squire of Clipsham, and Mr. 

 C. H. B. Hesketh, the new owner of Stocken 

 Hall. Nearer Oakham, there is Burley-on-the-Hill, 

 owned by the Finch family ; Sir Arthur Fludyer, 

 owner of a large property and Wardley Wood; 

 Captain Dawson at Launde Abbey, Colonel Palmer 

 of Witchcote, Mr. Lauderdale Duncan at Knossing- 

 ton, Mr. Robert Heathcote at Manton and Lob- 

 thorpe. 



