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nearest to hounds were Lord Edward Manners, Mr. 

 and Miss Musters, Mrs. Cecil Chaplin, Mr. C. R. 

 and Miss K. Hodgson, Mr. F. Worsley, Captain J. 

 Rennie, Mons. Roy, Mr. James Hutchinson, Mr. 

 Heldmann, the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke, and Mr. W. 

 Gale. 



With Ben Capell's advent on the scene as 

 Gillard's successor in 1896, the sequence of stirring 

 events from Coston covert continued, though for 

 the last few seasons no run of note has taken place. 

 The first was in February 1897, when hounds 

 travelled very fast on the line of a fox, and the 

 little brook on the left of Wymondham emptied 

 several saddles, five getting in all together. Head- 

 ing straight through Woodwell Head, Capell lifted 

 hounds forward, kilhng his fox handsomely in the 

 vale by Ashwell. The brush on this occasion was 

 presented to the Hon. Mrs. Lancelot Lowther. 



It is always the unexpected that happens, and 

 the best gallop of the season was scored at the end 

 of February 1907, when the wind was blowing a 

 perfect hurricane and all the elements were at war. 

 The morning hunt, with Sir Gilbert Greenall in 

 command, was from Goadby Gorse, past Waltham 

 Thorns, to Coston covert, where the bitches killed 

 their fox. Perhaps the second hunt was even more 

 brilliant, and only a half-dozen with Ben Capell 

 were with hounds as they flew on the line of a 

 fresh fox from Coston covert to Woodwell Head, 

 the distance being covered in twenty minutes. 

 Avoiding the covert, they ran on to Cottesmore 

 Gorse, and killed their fox, stiff as a stake, by 

 Teigh village. It was the best forty-five minutes 

 of the season, run in a gale of wind and hail, the 

 bitches being so savage at the finish that only the 

 mask was secured by Ben Capell, who presented it 



