92 THE SOUTH DEVON HUNT 



appears an account of a run with " The South Devon 

 (Sir Henry Scale's)." 



It is most unfortunate that, though a record of Sir 

 Henry's hunting career is known to exist, it cannot 

 at the present time be found. 



The late Mr. Robert Francis Rendell of Kingston 

 kindly supplied me with the following account of a 

 memorable run that took place in the month of April 

 in or about the year 1862. Mr. Rendell was then 

 living at Willing, where he went in 1859, and his 

 recollection is that the run in question took place 

 two or three years after he went there. 



Having drawn all the Dartington coverts blank 

 after meeting at Shinners Bridge, a brace of foxes 

 were disturbed in Winnard's Copse in the late after- 

 noon. The pack got away on the line of the dog fox 

 and raced him to Willing Copse and across Willing 

 Farm, where Mr. Rendell viewed him scarcely two 

 hundred yards in front of the pack. He says that 

 never, before or since, has he seen such a grand fox. 

 The hounds ran on to Marley unattended, the pace 

 having beaten off the whole field. Here Anning, Sir 

 Walter Carew's keeper, set off in pursuit on his pony 

 and, thanks to his knowledge of the country and of 

 the run of foxes, managed to cut in with the tail 

 hounds on the moor. The fox went over Brent Hill 

 to Over Brent Wood, on to Shipley Bridge and right 

 out over Zeal Plain to the top and was killed at 

 Erme Pound. Anning found the hounds lying down 

 around the fox unbroken. He carried him back to 

 Marley in front of his saddle and sent the brush to 

 Mr. Tom Carew. This same fox had been run several 

 times by Trelawny's hounds, and, by always beating 

 them, had earned the sobriquet of '' the Conqueror." 



Another story, the truth of which is also vouched 



