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the purposes required of them. With these 

 introductory remarks I will proceed with a 

 history of the Brocklesby Hounds, which 

 will, I think, confirm my observations, pre- 

 mising, however, that I include the Duke 

 of Rutland's, Lord Henry Bentinck's, the 

 Honourable George Fitzwilliam's, and Mr. 

 Foljambe's, or the Grove kennels, as being 

 in the county of Lincoln or the immediate 

 neighbourhood. 



Tradition assigns to the noble house of 

 Brocklesby the uninterrupted mastership of 

 the hounds during the unprecedented term 

 of one hundred and sixty years. Without 

 any conclusive evidence as to the precise date 

 of commencement, there is proof of their 

 having been in the family from the year 

 1713, in the form of a document drawn on 

 the 20th of April, in the aforesaid year, 

 by which memorandum " it is agreed between 

 Sir John Tyrwhitt, of Stanfield, Robert 

 Vyner, Esq., and Charles Pelham, Esq., that 

 the foxhounds now kept by Sir John Tyrwhitt, 

 and the hounds now kept by the said Mr. 

 Pelham, shall be joined in one pack, and 

 each of them, the said Sir John Tyrwhitt, 

 Robert Vyner, and Charles Pelham, to have 



