xiv PREFACE 



I desire more particularly to acknowledge my obligations 

 to Mr. Thomas Firr (late the Quorn), to Mr. Frank Goodall 

 (late Royal Huntsman), to the past and present huntsmen of 

 the Belvoir, Mr. Frank Gillard and Ben Capell, to William 

 Wells (Hertfordshire), who wrote me two most interesting 

 letters, William Dale (late Brocklesby, now of the Badmin- 

 ton), William Shore (Duke of Buccleuch), George Gillson 

 (the Cottesmore), Frank Bartlett (Lord Fitzwilliam), James 

 Cooper (late Warwickshire), F. Cox (Bicester), H. Pacey 

 (Cleveland), William Goodall (South Durham), Harry Bonner 

 (late Meyncll), Arthur Wilson (Essex and Suffolk), William 

 Matthews (Westmeath), Tom Bishopp (the Grafton), T. 

 Whitemore (Shropshire), J. Cokayne (Puckeridge), Tom Clark 

 (Tickham), Ned Farmer (East Essex), Charles Brackley (Mr. 

 Garths), J. Lawrence (Fitzwilliam), B. Champion (Lord 

 Zetland), H. Grant (Badsworth), W. Grant (Lord Middleton), 

 W. Gray (York and Ainsty), W. Burton (Morpeth), Charles 

 Travers (Cotswold), J. Stratton (S. and W. Wilts), John Scott 

 (Albrighton), T. Smith (Bramham Moor), German Shepherd 

 (Earl of Harrington), S. Morgan (Lord Galway), T. Burrows 

 (H. H.), William Barnard (late Monmouthshire). 



I am also indebted for useful letters and suggestions to 

 the following masters of foxhounds past and present : Colonel 

 Anstruther Thompson, Mr. W. W. Tailby, Mr. W. Wrang- 

 ham, the Earl of Longford, Sir Gilbert Greenall, the Rev. 

 Cecil Legard, and my friend Mr. Scarth Dixon (Ebon), who 

 wrote me letters which were full of suggestions and informa- 

 tion. It would be ungrateful, too, to forget the assistance 

 derived from the works of those who have preceded me in 

 writing of the history of hunting — Mr. A. E. Watson (editor 



