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the refinements of structure, so essential to 

 perfection are established. It appears that 

 Mr. Warde was hunting the Bicester country, 

 in conjunction with adjacent parts of War- 

 wickshire, in 1790, and had done so for 

 several years previously, and in all probability, 

 too, for a season or two afterwards, as Mr. 

 Corbet, his successor, hunted the country 

 about twenty years, and the date of his resig- 

 nation is well known to have occurred in 1812. 

 The pleasing precedents so happily established 

 by Mr. Meynell in the neighbouring county 

 were successfully adopted by Mr. Corbet, and 

 a hunt club on a very extensive scale was 

 established, the classical town of Stratford- 

 on-Avon being selected as head-quarters, 

 where the kennels also were constructed. Mr. 

 Corbet, however, had gained great celebrity 

 as a master of hounds, prior to his entering 

 upon Warwickshire, in his own native county, 

 Shropshire, and also around Shenstone in the 

 neiohbourhood of Lichfield. It was in the 

 latter country that he formed his pack, which 

 subsequently gained such wonderful fame, 

 principally from the excellence of a single 

 hound called Trojan, whose history is remark- 

 able. Mr. Corbet was the purchaser of some 



