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is within my own personal knowledge, or the state- 

 ment is made on the authority of my hunting journal, 

 the hunt minutes, hound lists, newspapers of the 

 period, the works given in the list of those consulted, 

 or other authentic records or sources of information. 

 The trouble and research involved have been amply 

 compensated for by the ready help received wherever 

 it has been applied for. 



My thanks should first be tendered to the Misses 

 Carew of Haccombe for their encouragement and the 

 loan of Sir Walter Carew's most interesting hunting 

 journal and for permission to reproduce the pictures 

 at Haccombe. To the family of Templer, including 

 Captain J. G. E. Templer of Lindridge, his brother 

 Mr. A. H. Templer, his sister Miss Templer, and 

 the late R. W. Templer of Teignmouth, I am indebted 

 for help with the opening chapter of the book on 

 George Templer of Stover ; in particular, to Captain 

 Templer for the loan of the original " treasured 

 horn," of which my friend, Mr. Hubert Parry, has 

 produced the fine autochrome forming the frontis- 

 piece of this book, and to the late R. W. Templer for 

 allowing me to reproduce his hitherto unpublished 

 portrait of George Templer. I have to thank Miss 

 Mohun-Harris for a similar permission in respect of 

 the early painting of her father, the late Mr. Christo- 

 pher Arthur Harris, also for the loan of original 

 letters of Mr. Russell and Mr. Trelawny ; and Lady 

 Baker very kindly helped me in tracing the approxi- 

 mate date when Sandford Orleigh, her beautiful home 

 for many years past, was built by George Templer. 



