SIR HENRY PAUL SEALE, BART. 81 



Fallapit and hunted after him, the country south- 

 west of Stanborough Hill,^ and also that between 

 Stanborough and the River Dart. A part of this 

 country belonged to the Dartmoor, and Mi'. R. H. 

 Watson of Totnes tells me that leave to hunt it was 

 given to Mr. Fortescue by Charles Trela-s^Tiy. The 

 part in question seems to have been the Cm-tisknowle 

 coverts and Woodleigh Woods, a request to hunt 

 which was made to Mr. Trelawny by Sir Henry Scale 

 in a letter dated the 12th August, 1846, which is 

 preserved among the records of the Dartmoor Hunt, 

 and on which that hunt still bases its claim to the 

 above-named coverts. 



On the retirement of Mr. Lane at the end of the 

 season 184S-9, Sir Henry Scale extended the field of 

 his operations in a northerly direction and became 

 master of the Devon Hounds, or South Devon as they 

 were beginning to be called, in addition to what he 

 had been hunting before. Accordingly, we read that 

 *' Sir Henry will now hunt a large portion of 

 the late South Devon countrv resigned bv Mr. 

 Lane " ;- and the same authoritv gives amonor 

 a list of Sir H. Scale's favourite fixtures : Berry, 

 Stover Lodge, Dartington Cot, Ogwell, Sandy Gate, 

 Furzelev and Haccombe — all remilar South Devon 

 fixtures. 3 



For the following season, 1850-1, '* Cecil '" gives 

 the undermentioned fixtures, which purport to be 

 taken from the hunting appointments for the 

 previous year, as Sir Henry Scale's, by which name 

 the pack continued to be called.^ 



* Forte's Guide, p. 18. 



* Fores's Guide tor 1850 (compiled for the season 184&-o0, see p. 73). 

 ^ See pp. 36 and 63. 



* See Hoiind List at end of chapter, also The Fozhuntefe Guide for 

 1850-1, by " CecU.'' 



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