INDEX. 



ABB 



ABBEY, Arthur, anecdote of, 229 

 Acland, the second Sir Thomas, 



32 



Albert, Prince, the ribbon always 

 worn by, 31, note 



Aldermaston, a run from, to 

 Reading, 31 



Alfred the Great a skilled hun- 

 ter, 8 



Alvanley, Lord, anecdote of, 181 



Anne of Bohemia, 14 



Anselm, St., and the hare, 2 



Armada, Spanish, deficient 

 muster of cavalry against the, 

 162 



Arsenic administered to horses 

 by grooms, 91 



Arundel, Lord, on the first 

 regular employment of fox- 

 hounds, 28 



Ascot kennels, 112 



Athelstan prohibits export of 

 horses, 161 



Athenians as horse-riders, 200 



Atherstone pack and country, 

 247 



Aylesbury, Vale of, 252 



BADMINTON stables, 91 ; ken- 

 nels, plan of, 118; plan 



BIB 



of bitch and puppy houses, 



124 



Balaclava, incident of, 196 

 Barrymore, Lord, anecdote of, 



159 



Beagles, choice of, for hunting 

 the hare on foot, 85 ; best 

 method of hunting, 87 ; list 

 of, in the United Kingdom, 



343 

 Beaufort hounds, first diversion 



of, to fox-hunting, 28 

 Beaufort, Duke of, otter terriers 



of, 319. 



Beckford's ' Thoughts on Hunt- 

 ing,' 4, 20 ; decries hare- 

 hunting, 25 ; on the summer 

 treatment of the hunter, 97 ; 

 on kennels, no 



Bell, Dr., on the renewal of 

 horn in the stag, 40 



Belvoir hounds, antiquity of the, 

 28; history of, 217; their 

 singular beauty, ib. ; the 

 country hunted by, 218 



Berkeley family, fox-hunting 

 by the, 29 ; stag-hunting, 



33 

 Berners, Dame, and her ' Boke 



of St. Albans,' 5, 8 

 Bibliography, 354 



