HUNTING 



BIG 



Bicester pack and country, 250 



Billesdon Coplow run, the, 227 



Billcsdon kennels, plan of, 113 



Bits, use of, 1 06 



Blades, William, his conclusion 

 respecting Dame Berners, 6 



Elaine's Encyclopaedia of Rural 

 Sports,' I ; records Queen 

 Elizabeth's hunting prowess, 

 13 



Blome, Richard, ' Gentleman's 

 Recreation 'of, 18 ; on hare- 

 hunting, 23 



Boothby, Thomas, an early 

 keeper of foxhounds, 28 



Brad well Grove, 257 



Brian, Reginald, Bishop of 

 Worcester, his love of the 

 chase, II 



1 Brooksby ' on the Pytchlcy 

 Wednesday, 238 ; on the es- 

 sentials of a Vale hunter, 253 ; 

 on riding in the Heythrop 

 country, 255 



Bulteel, John, his plan of arti- 

 ficial drains for otters, 303 ; 

 his observations of otter life, 

 34 



CANUTE, regulation of the chase 



by, 9 



Carter the huntsman, 146 



Cecil,' his notice of 'The 

 Maister of the Game,' 7 



Charing Cross, old Berkeley ken- 

 nel at, 29 



Charles II., remarkable stag- 

 hunt in the reign of, 31 



Chaucer on the addiction of the 

 clergy to the chase, 1 1 ; cited 

 in illustration of fox-hunting, 

 26 



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Checking, 139 



Chopping of foxes, 138 



Christian, Dick, on thorough- 

 bred hurters, 168 ; on the 

 method of making a hunter, 

 176 ; his reminiscences of 

 a great run at Cottesmore, 

 230 



Clark, Thomas, an example of a 

 bad whipping-in system, 142 



Clergy, hunting by the, in former 

 times, II 



Clowne, Abbot William de, a 

 breeder of hounds, 12 



Cockaine, Sir Thomas, 7 on 

 fox-hunting, 28 



Cocktail breed of hunter, 167 



Colic in horses, 105 



Collier, Mr., on otter-hunting, 

 297 ; on the breeding habits 

 of the otter, 298 ; successful 

 heading back of an otter by, 

 315; his experience of trail- 

 hunting, 316 



Collins, Digby, on the treatment 

 of diseases in the horse not re- 

 quiring veterinary aid, 101 



Coilyns, Dr. Palk, instances 

 abnormal number of points in 

 stags' horns, 40 



Compensation to farmers, 153 



Cook, Colonel, on thorough- 

 breds compared with cocktails, 

 170 



Corbet, Mr., 248 



Corns in horses, IOI 



Cottesmore hunt, 229 ; a re- 

 markable day's work of the, 

 230 



' Country Gentleman's Com- 

 panion,' 20 



Crib-biting, prevention of, 93 



Cross-country gallops, 186 



