HISTORY OF 

 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. 



THE MASTERS. 



1714-1902. 



The Brocklesby and Lord Fitz William's are the last of the 

 old family packs to maintain their ancient dignity and 

 traditions as private packs. The Goodwood is no more ; 

 the Belvoir no longer has a Manners as its Master, and 

 subscriptions are expected ; and although the Duke of 

 Beaufort still reigns over the destinies of the Badminton 

 pack, a subscription of £3000 per annum is guaranteed. 

 One of the oldest packs in existence, the Brocklesby 

 may be considered the oldest, in that it goes back further 

 than any other without break or dispersal sale, and that 

 from the very outset to the present day the Master has 

 been a Pelham. What other pack can show hound-lists 

 going back without break to so remote a date as 1746? 

 What other pack can produce such an unbroken record of 

 Masters, huntsmen, and hounds ? Its earliest records date 

 back to the seventeenth century. A Pelham was joint 

 Master in 1714, and a few years later became sole Master, 

 since when the pack has always been in the possession of 

 a Pelham, and a Pelham has been its Master. The bitch 

 pack has never been sold, though in 1895 Lord Yar- 

 borough found it necessary to reduce his establishment, 

 and so parted with the dog pack, retaining two stallion 

 hounds ; but three seasons later he once more besfan 



