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CHAPTER IV. 



Mr. William Codrington, 1814 to 1824. 



Mr. William Codrington, of Wroughton 

 House, Wilts, who now took the hounds, was 

 the senior representative of the old family of 

 Codrington. They originally came from Cod- 

 rington in Gloucestershire, whence the name. 

 Various members of the family have rendered 

 their country important services by land and 

 sea, and they have received two baronetcies 

 in consequence. Mr. Codrington took the 

 hounds to New House, which he rented from 

 Mr. Blandy. There he lived with his friend 

 Mr. W. Wyndham, who afterwards hunted 

 the Craven 1828 to 1829. Tradition has it 

 that each of these two old bachelors insisted 

 upon keeping up his own separate establish- 

 ment ; to such a punctilious degree was this 

 done, that it was said they occasionally sat 

 down to dinner together, and found a leg 

 of mutton at each end of the table ! The 

 record remaining of Mr. Codrington's regime 

 is but a scanty one. 



