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together with a portion of the Ledbury 

 country. I believe the late Lord Stamford 

 occasionally brought his hounds into Wor- 

 cestershire, but in those days it was so much 

 the custom to visit any places where foxes were 

 known to resort, that there is much difficulty, 

 at a period so remote, of tracing their move- 

 ments with certainty. After revelling in the 

 Elysian fields of Leicestershire, Lord Foley 

 brought his hounds into his own county about 

 the year 1812. Be that as it may, I have 

 good authority for stating that his lordship 

 was master of the hounds in this country the 

 following year ; and he likewise wandered, 

 making a portion of the Albrighton country 

 the arena of his rambles. In 1815, Colonel 

 Newnham was at the head of affairs, and he 

 hunted a similar tract of country to that of 

 his predecessor till the spring of 1818 — a 

 circumstance that I can with confidence 

 record, in consequence of an inspiring event 

 which made a most lasting impression on my 

 memory. The charms of foxhunting were 

 first impressed on my boyish sensibilities in 

 the Christmas holidays of that year by Colonel 

 Newnham's Hounds, when they met at the 

 gorse covert of my good old friend Mr. 



