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in favour of Lord Middleton, his lordship 

 abandoned the greater portion of what now 

 forms the North Warwickshire; and the 

 Warwickshire woodlands, as they were then 

 designated, were seldom enlivened with the 

 cheerino- notes of hounds and horn. Other 

 masters succeeded, and this state of affairs 

 continued upwards of twenty years, when 

 Mr. Robert Vyner established a pack of 

 hounds at Solihull to hunt the vacant country, 

 which then assumed the distinction by which 

 it is now acknowledged. In 1838, Mr. 

 T. S. Hellier succeeded Mr. Vyner, after 

 whom Mr. Wilson ; but that gentleman resign- 

 ing after two seasons' mastership, the country 

 was entrusted to neighbouring hunts, the 

 Atherstone taking the northern portion and 

 the Warwickshire, under Lord Willoughby, 

 hunting the remainder two days in the week. 

 Arrangements were entered into in 1853 with 

 Mr. Selby Lowndes, who occupied it two 

 seasons, when he relinquished it in favour of 

 the present master. It contains a consider- 

 able portion of very strong woodlands, which 

 hold stout and good foxes, very difficult to 

 bring to hand. It also contains a portion, on 



