THE GOLDEN AGE 



keep possession of the Savile estates (contrary to the express 

 intention of the will of his maternal uncle, the late Sir George 

 Savile). Upon the decease of the said John, the seventh 

 Earl, in 1835, his hounds were kept successively by Lord 

 Henry Bentinck and Lord Galway, and were sold by the 

 latter to Sir Matthew W. Ridley, in 1837. I have been 

 obliged to enter into these particulars to prevent the con- 

 fusion which might naturally arise from the circumstance of 

 there having been two Lord Scarbroughs and two Mr. Lum- 

 ley Saviles, who respectively and separately kept two distinct 

 packs in adjoining counties. I believe the pack I now 

 possess were originally bred more from the old Monson pack,^ 

 and are in consequence, at this time, more closely and fully 

 related to Mr. Osbaldeston's than any pack of hounds in 

 England, a relationship which I think so highly of that I 

 have returned to the Osbaldeston kennel, and crossed deeply 

 with them during the last ten years, both with Ranter, and 

 through the Duke of Rutland's kennel with the Chorister 

 sort. Ranter, by the way, is as much of the Duke's blood as 

 Osbaldeston's, being a son of Furrier, who was bred at Bel- 

 voir. 



" Believe me, yours truly, 



"O. S. FOLJAMBE. 



" To Robert T. Vyner, Esq., 



" 17, North Audley Street, London." 



But the great hit of Goodall's career was made, as all the 

 world knows, when he introduced Rallywood into the kennels 

 from Brocklesby. In an appendix I have given the complete 

 pedigree of this hound, as the influence he has had on the 

 Belvoir kennel and through the Duke of Rutland's pack on 

 nearly every kennel in England is incalculable. There are 

 very few first-rate packs of hounds which have not some of 



^ The third Lord Monson, born in 1753, hunted what is now the Bur- 

 ton country till his death in 1806. He hunted the country for about 

 twenty years, and was succeeded by his son. Mr. Osbaldeston gave 800 

 guineas for the pack on taking the Burton in 1810. Noiitia Venaiica, ed. 

 1892, pp. 41-43. 



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