2i8 HISTORY 01 THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



of galloping ; but Mr. Fox could not put up with the wild 

 casts he made. ' There goes the stag,' he would say. when 

 Goodall was galloping with his hounds in the contrary- 

 direction to that in which the hunted fox had gone, followed 

 by an excited field. After a couple of seasons, Goodall, who 

 by the way was the brother of Will Goodall of the Belvoir, 

 and Frank Goodall who hunted the Royal Buckhounds, left, 

 changing places with Pred Turpin, who was for some time 

 with the Fife when Mr. Anstruther Thompson was master, 

 and who went from Scotland to the V.W. H. Turpin's 

 career in his new place was but a short one, but he made 

 a very favourable impression, and would doubtless have 

 made for himself a name in his new country had it not 

 been for his sudden death. He was found in an unconscious 

 state near Chestnut Grove, and it is believed that he had 

 taken a fit. He, however, never recovered consciousness. 



His successor was one of the famous Morgan family. 

 This was Goddard Morgan, son of old Jem Morgan, whose 

 name in hunting history will ever live. He was huntsman 

 to the Old Berkeley till he was seventy-six years old, and 

 Goddard started his career by whipping-in to him when he 

 was hunting for Mr. Conyers, who, it seems unnecessary to 

 say, was one of the foremost sportsmen of his time, and 

 with whose name hunting in Essex is inseparably connected. 

 He afterwards whipped-in to the Belvoir, and then he 

 went back to his father as first whipper-in to the Old 

 Berkeley under Lord Lonsdale's mastership. Subsequently 

 he hunted that country under Lord Lonsdale, and afterwards 

 Lord Maiden From the Old Berkeley he went to the 

 Bramham Moor. In the kennel he had no superior, and he 

 was undoubtedly a fine huntsman ; but some of the hard- 

 riding spirits thought him getting slow, and perhaps he was 

 not quite so quick in getting away from the big woods as 

 some of his predecessors. At any rale he left after three 



