6 HUNTING TOURS. 



quently hounds have a better chance of 

 driving their foxes. 



The earliest records of hunting in this 

 locality from which I have been able to obtain 

 any conclusive data are to the effect that the 

 late Mr. George Forrester, of Willey Park, 

 hunted a portion of it in the vicinity of 

 Bridgnorth, somewhat about the termination 

 of the last century. The late Earl of Stam- 

 ford and Warrington kept hounds a few 

 seasons, but I believe his lordship hunted a 

 part of Leicestershire, travelling his hounds 

 to either country to suit convenience. Sir 

 Richard Pulestone visited the Shiffnal side 

 occasionally, and the Worcestershire confines 

 were resorted to by the hounds kept in that 

 county. Mr. Stubbs, the grandfather of the 

 present worthy master, kept a pack of 

 harriers at Beckbury, indulging them now 

 and then with a taste of fox. My own recol- 

 lection serves me to trace the time when 

 Mr. Mytton, having a relay of hacks, would 

 ride from Halston, some forty miles, to hunt 

 his hounds, at that time kenneled at Ivetsey 

 Bank, and after a hard day's work return 

 home in the same manner. Masters of 

 hounds were accustomed in those days to 



