Fox-huntinor 2 1 



One of the Lords of AVilton has stated in 

 his " Sports and Pursuits of the English," 

 that hounds were never entered solely to fox 

 until the year 1750; and the ''Badminton" 

 book on huntine: tells us that the famous 

 pack of the Dukes of Beaufort was only in 

 1762 " steadied from deer and encouraged to 

 fox." Charles 11. seems to have had a some- 

 what catholic taste in hunting countries, for 

 there are records existing of his hunting in 

 the West country at various places, in Essex 

 and Middlesex ; whilst my own grandfather 

 lived within the country of the Crawley and 

 Horsham Foxhounds in a little moated old 

 house which was said to have been used ex- 

 clusively as a hunting box by the Merry 

 Monarch, from which place of abode I have 

 sallied forth for many a good day's sport. 

 Henry YHI. favoured Essex as well as the 

 AVindsor district ; whilst "Good King George" 

 appears to have afifected the last-named 

 locality chiefly, but also hunted on the South 

 Downs. And coming down to the present 

 day, it is pleasant indeed to reflect that 



