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however, recourse was had to the Brocklesby 

 and Cottesmore strains. In the year 1821 

 Tom Sebright was engaged, and he, it appears, 

 went more extensively afield, procuring the 

 services of celebrities from the Oakley, the 

 Badminton, the Belvoir, the Brocklesby, his 

 previous master Mr. Osbaldeston's, Sir Richard 

 Sutton's, and the present Mr. Foljambe's 

 kennels. Isaac Guest, a veteran still living, 

 and liberally portioned off by the noble family 

 he served full thirty years, was first whip to 

 Sebright, till ]84I, when Wm. Barwick took 

 his place. George Carter came afterwards, 

 and having had one year's probation as under 

 whip, he was promoted to the second post of 

 honour about sixteen years since. Now a 

 word to the memory of the veteran Tom 

 Sebright, regarded as the father of huntsmen, 

 and a very great authority on all matters 

 relating to the pursuit of the fox, and the 

 cabalistic science of breeding hounds, a mys- 

 tery, be it said, that he was very chary of 

 imparting. In his time no lists of these 

 hounds were ever published, and an insight to 

 his private manuscript was doubtless a grant 

 of high significance. It is said that Tom 

 Sebright's father first studied the mystic art 



