EARL OF CRAVEN AND MR T. DUFF I ELD 291 



Hon. Osbert Craven undertook the duties of 

 Master in the field. 



On Monday, January the 7th, 1884, the 

 hounds met at Steventon Green. On their 

 way, to draw a Httle covert on the top of 

 Steventon Hill, a fox was put up behind the 

 hounds by some of the field when crossing a 

 fallow. The hounds were turned back and 

 quickly got on to his line. He went through 

 the hop grounds and across the Illsley Road 

 and over Milton Hill, through Mr. Bowles's 

 shrubberies and on to the Gorse, which he just 

 brushed through ; then he turned and set his 

 head straight back for the hop grounds, through 

 them and on to the little copse the hounds 

 were going to draw. The fox then crossed the 

 Milton Road and the railway leaving Steven- 

 ton Station to the left, through the enclosures 

 between Milton and Steventon villages, out 

 over the Abingdon Road, just below Steven- 

 ton Green and into Steventon fields, which 

 they crossed, hunting well and steadily at a 

 good pace and nearly to Hendred Cowleaze ; 

 here they checked a minute or two, but he 

 did not go into the covert, but bearing to 

 the right ran over the grass grounds to the 

 canal, which they crossed, where it runs 

 under the railway. Here most of the field 

 went wrong, going down the green lane and 



