( 92 ) 



Brought forward. . . . 

 the Fox was headed, coming- back throut^h VVadham's 

 Down, to Elscombe Wood, where we changed to a 



disturbed Fox, stopping- the Hounds token nearly dark. 



Tuesday, April 12th, 1831. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met this day at Bat- 

 combe Wood, which they drew, blank, but found in 

 Monk Wood, near Mendip; coming- away with him at 

 the top of their speed across the enclosures to Batcombe 

 Wood, and across the corner of it for Woolly Wood, 

 and by Henley Wood, skirting- the town of Bruton for 

 Cogley Wood, near Redlynch Park, where the Hounds 

 got up to and killed him in fifty minutes, without a 

 check 



Saturday April 16th. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met on this day, for 

 the last thne, at Stoarton Inn; — finding their Fox on 

 Bidcombe Down; after a ring or two upon the hill, he 

 went away for the Marquis of Bath's Covers, but was 

 unluckily coursed by two cur dogs, and lost, there being 

 net a particle of scent on the Down. The Hounds 

 were then "walked down to the Bradley Lower Wood, 

 where they found immediately; running their Fox on 

 very good terms for forty minutes, but when killing, he 

 slipped into a small Earth, where he was left, at the 



request of the Gentlemen who lo ere present 



Total .... 



36 



W 



12 



37 13 



Signed., 



JOHN CHANNING, 



Huntsman to the Blackmoor Vale Hounds. 



END OF THE FIFTH SEASON. 



{"i^Hunted during the season 58 days. 



Blank days 5 



Found on 53 days. 



Killed and Earthed, 50 Foxes. 



