PACKS OF FOXHOUNDS. 



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of roaring and loud-ringing mouths, which must "beare the counter tenor," and also some 

 "hollow, plaine, sweete" voices, to make up the middle part of the cry. A few lines further 

 on he alludes to the fact that for the most part the Shropshire and Worcestershire hounds were 

 the loudest, and the Cheshire and Lancashire the deepest, in cry. 



The support given to foxhunting has vastly increased since the days of Gervase 

 Markham, and instead of the limited number of packs which existed in his time there are 

 considerably over one hundred packs in England alone. The following is a complete list of the 

 packs in the United Kingdom in 1880, with other details, condensed, by permission, from Tiie 

 Rural Almanac: 



ENGLAND. 



Hunt. 



Master. 



11 



Albrighton 



Atherstone 



Badsworth 



Beaufort's, Duke of 



Bedale 



Belvoir 



Berkeley 



Berkeley, Old 



Berkshire, Old 



Berks, South 



Bicester and Warden Hill. 



Bilsdale 



Blackmore Vale 



Blankney 



Blencathra 



Border 



Braes of Dervvent 



Bramham Moor 



Brocklesby 



Burstow 



Burton 



Cambridgeshire 



Cattistock 



Cheshire, The 



Cheshire, South 



Chiddingfold 



Cleveland 



Combe's, Mr. 



Cornwall, North 



Coryton's, Mr. W 



Cotswold 



Cotswold, North 



Cottesmore 



Coventry's, Earl of 



Craven 



Crawley and Horsham 



Cumberland .. 



Cunard's, Sir Bache . 

 Dartmoor . . 



50 Mr. T. F. Boughey 4 



54 Mr. W. E. Oakeley 4 



59 Mr. C. B. E. Wright ... 4 



75 Duke of Beaufort 5 



42 Major H; F. Dent 3 



62 Duke of Rutland 5 



61 Lord Fitzhardinge 4 



50 Mr. A. H. Longman ... 3 



47 Earl of Craven 3 



60 Mr. John Hargreaves ... 4 



60 Viscount Valentia 2 



10 Mr. Nicholas Spink 2 



55 Sir R. G. Glyn, Bart. ... 4 

 50 Mr. H. Chaplin, M. P.... 4 



12^ Mr. John Crosier 3 



10 Messrs. Robson and Dodd 2 



22 Lieut. -Col. J. A. Cowen 2 



50 Mr. George Lane Fox ... 4 



48 Earl of Yarborough 4 



25 Mr. Henry Kelsey 2 



58 Mr.F.J.S Foljambe, M.P. 3 



45 Mr. Charles S. Lindsell... 2 



30 Mr. John Codrington ... 4 



51 Capt. E. Park Yates ... 2 



29 Mr. H. Reginald Corbet . 2 



30 Mr. C. B. Godman 2 



28 Mr. J. Proud Yearby ... 2 



30 Mr. Richd. H. Combe ... 2 



17 Mr. Charles F. Pollard ... 2 



30 Mr. Wm. Coryton 2 



50 Mr. A. Holme Sumner... 3 



35 Mr. Algernon Rushout... 3 



65 Lord Carington 4 



55i Earl of Coventry 6 



48 Mr. E. R. Wemyss 4 



50 Lt.-Col. A.M. Calvert... 3 



50 Sir W. Lawson, Bt. , M. P. 



and Mr. H.C.Howard 3 



42 Sir Bache Cunard 3 



33 Admiral G. Parker 3 



ENGLAND (continued'). 



Hunt. 



>.$ 

 $ t. 



Devon, South 20 



Dorset, South 30 



Dulverton 22 



Durham, North 40 



Eden's, Sir Wm 32 



Eskdale 16 



Essex 50 



Essex, East 30 



Essex Union 50 



Essex and Suffolk 28^ 



Ferrers's, Earl 25 



Fitzwilliam's, Earl 60 



Fitzwilliam, The 60 



Flint and Denbigh 34 



Garth's, Mr 60 



Glamorganshire 26-. 



Grafton's, Duke of 53 



Grove 50 



Haldon 23 



H. H. (Hampshire) 53 



Hambledon 5 



Haydon 17 



Herefordshire, North 28 



Herefordshire, South 30 



Hertfordshire 5 



Heythrop 60 



Holderness 5 2 



Hursley 30 



Hurworth 30 



Irthing Vale 17 



Isle of Wight 40 



Johnstone's, Sir H 28 



Kent, East 50 



Kent, West 60 



Lamerton 25 



Leconfield's, Lord 55 



Ledbury 43 



Master. e^J 



a 



Mr. Augustus F. Ross ... 2 



Mr. C. J. Radclyffe 2 



Mr. J. Froude Bellew ... 2 



Mr. Anthony L. Maynard 3 



Sir Wm. Eden, Bart. .. 3 



A Committee 2 



A Committee 2 



Lt.Col. Jelfe Sharpe 2 



Mr. W. H. While 3 



Mr. B. C. Chaston 2 



Earl Ferrers 2 



Earl Fitzwilliam 3 



Marquis of Huntly 4 



Mr. H. R. Hughes and 



Major C. Rowley Conwy 2 



Mr. T. C. Garth 4 



Mr. John Samuel Gibbon 2 



Duke of Grafton 3 



Viscount Galway, M.P. 3 

 Sir John Duntze, Bart., 



and Sir L. Palk, Bart. 2 



Mr. H. W. Deacon 4 



Mr. Walter Long 4 



Mr. A. J. B. Orde 2 



Col. Heywood 2 



Mr. J. Ranken 2 



A Committee 4 



Mr. Albert Brassey 4 



Mr. Arthur Wilson 4 



A Committee 2 



Mr. James Cookson 2 



Mr. Thomas Ramshay ... 2 



Mr. B. T. Cotton 3 



Sir Harcourt Johnstone, 



Bart., M.P 2 



Mr. F. J. Mackenzie 3 



Hon. Ralph Nevill 4 



Mr. George Lobb 2 



Lord Leconfield 5 



Mr. A. Knowles 3 



