The Sport of Our Jincestors 



venerable peer himself has now superintended the pack for 

 nearly fifty years, with a short interregnum of three or 

 four years, when Sir Gilbert Heathcote had them. 



Lord Yarborough's kennel can likewise boast of very 

 old blood, that pack having descended, without interrup- 

 tion, from father to son for upwards of one hundred and 

 fifty years. 



The hounds, late Mr. Warde's, sold to Mr. Horlock a 

 few years since for two thousand guineas, claim a high 

 descent, having much of the blood of Lord Thanet's and 

 Mr. Elwes's packs, which were in the possession of the 

 Abingdon family at Rycot, for at least three generations, 

 and hunted Oxfordshire and Berkshire. 



Mr. Warde was a master of foxhounds during, as we 

 believe, the yet unequalled period of fifty-seven years in 

 succession. During this time he sold his pack to Lord 

 Spencer ; but reserved three couple of bitches, from which 

 he raised another pack, and thus never lost sight of his old 

 blood. 



The late Earl Fitzwilliam comes very near Mr. Warde 

 as an old master of foxhounds. Soon after Mr. Warde 

 purchased his first pack of the Honourable Captain Bertie, 

 this peer bought the one called the Crewe and Foley, which 

 had been very long established in Oxfordshire and Warwick- 

 shire ; and he kept them to his death — nearly fifty years, 

 and they are now in the kennel of the present Earl. 



The Belvoir hounds are also a very old-established pack, 

 but had an interval during the minority of the present 



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