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Haines, W. Graham, R. Aldworth, Rev. W. 

 Aldworth, H. Bowen, M.D., J. Rix, A. D. 

 Brettell, H. Stone, James Empson, A. Whit- 

 field, T. Mallam, Wm. Kimber, B. Sharpe, H. 

 Godfrey, J. Kent, Wm. Badcock, Wm. Gould, 

 H. Peacock, Copeland, Gibbs, Wm. Palmer, 

 John Blake, Lord, Edmonds, Walters, John 

 Adams, John Dyke, Wm. Pinniger, W. A. 

 Medley, John Wallis, W. Penstone, Painter, 

 T. B. Myers, H. Godfrey, and many others. 

 The vice-chairs were taken by J. B. Barrett, 

 Esq., and G. F. Crowdy, Esq., the Honorary 

 Secretaries of the Hunt." 



The opening meet and breakfast at Oakley 

 became an annual institution during Mr. Duf- 

 field's mastership. In i860 two foxes were 

 killed and, curiously enough, each finished just 

 in front of Kingstone House. 



Foxes were plentiful and sport was good. 

 In one season John Dale accounted for sixty- 

 eight brace of foxes, not chopping or digging 

 out one. A great run occurred in 1862. The 

 hounds found on the canal bank at Childrey, 

 and ran their fox straight away through 

 Kingston Lisle, over the downs to Ashdown, 

 and then through Baydon without a check to 

 Membury Fort, a few miles from Marlborough, 

 when they killed. Mr. Duffield described this 

 run as the best he ever saw. Mr. P. Crowdy, 



