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took place, by virtue of which those parts are now 

 in the lawful possession of the Dartmoor Hunt. 



In this connection the follo'^-ing passage from a 

 letter of Sir Henry Scale dated the 9th January, 

 1843, TSTitten to the master at Baggrave Hall is 

 interesting : 



" Your Marley keeper. Hanning,^ came over here (Hac- 

 combe) last Wednesday and desired me to mention, when 

 I wrote, that Bulteel's hounds had been drawing Brent Hill. 

 He told me that you had given him orders to forbid their 

 doing so, but they would draw the covert, and Mr. Bulteel 

 (I suppose he meant Courtenay) said : ' Never mind, it's 

 all right.' 



" They found, it seems, first in your wood by Brent and 

 the fox ran by the windows at Marley as before, and soon 

 wished them good morning. They then came back and 

 would draw your new plantation. Hanning says if they 

 are allowed to disturb it he cannot expect to have a litter 

 there. He wishes to know if you have given them leave to 

 draw there ? " 



It is during the early days of Sir Walter Carew's 

 mastership that we first find a record of the pack 

 having another name than that of its owner. In 

 the table of hunts contained in the New Spoiiing 

 Magazine for 1831 the pack is called " The Devon," 

 though this title drops out again in 1834. There is 

 no doubt that, whatever their formal style may 

 have been, the hounds were popularly known as 

 *' Sir Walter Carew's." The Misses Carew confirm 

 me in this, and I myself, in days gone by, have 

 heard folk speak of " Sir Walter's " homids, but 

 never of " The Devon." At any rate, the pack was 

 the private property of the master and was limited 

 at his sole expense. 



^ The man's n£ime wais Aiming ; it must be inferred from the above 

 spelling that he pronomiced it with an aspirate. 



