68 HUNTING TOURS. 



Events of ancient date serve to identify 

 foxhunting in its legitimate character with 

 this district, though, as in all the other 

 instances, I have failed to discover the pre- 

 cise period of its commencement. I have, 

 however, been enabled to ascertain that Lord 

 Monson's Crier was introduced into the 

 Brocklesby kennels as a sire in the year 

 1781 This, the third Lord Monson, was 

 born in 1753, therefore he must have com- 

 menced as a master of hounds early in life; he 

 kept them till the period of his death, which 

 happened in 1806, when they came into the 

 possession of his son, at that date wanting a 

 few montlis of his majority. The pack was 

 in high repute with the most talented authori- 

 ties of the age, who patronised the stallion 

 hounds most extensively — incontestable evi- 

 dence of the high estimation in which they 

 were held. The huntsman's name was Evans, 

 the first whip Tom Barnes, and the second 

 whip James Wilson, who lived many years 

 with Sir Richard Sutton, by whose liberality 

 a pension was granted when age and infir- 

 mities stole upon the veteran servant. The 

 fourth Lord Monson's career was brief in- 

 deed ; he only survived his father three short 



