406 The Hunting Countries of England. 



Spinnies and Kingthorne Wood ; Blakesley for Seawell 

 Wood and Grimscot Heath. To draw Plumpton 

 Wood, a favourite covert of considerable size — they 

 meet at its outskirts. 



Once a year hounds are run through Huntsbury Hill, 

 near Northampton — once a good covert, but now 

 almost — if not entirely, wiped out. 



Among the chief covert owners and fox preservers of 

 the country are the Duke of Grafton, Lord Penrhyn, 

 Sir R. Knightley, Mr. Kobarts, Mr. Loder of Whittle- 

 bury, &c., &c. 



The kennels are at Wakefield Lawn near Stony 

 Stratford ; and His Grace has had the hounds quite a 

 score of years — during which they have always been 

 maintained on the most liberal scale, and, as now, well 

 hunted and whipped- in to. As a pack they have 

 attained a very high degree of excellence, both in field 

 and on the flags. 



