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Not forty yards from the place where they 

 killed him a fresh fox went away ; if there- 

 fore he could have held on only that short 

 distance, we should in all probability have 

 changed. The greatest distance / ever ran 

 a fox in Essex, was from Hempstead Wood 

 (a covert notorious also for stout running 

 foxes) to between Heddingham and Colne, 

 where we killed him, calculated at 17 miles. 

 But the most extraordinary run for dis- 

 tance was one the Hempstead hounds 

 (termed the Invincibles) had from Great 

 Hayles, a covert near Saffron Waldon, be- 

 longing to Lord Braybrook, to within four 

 or five miles of Bury St. Edmond's in Suf- 

 folk, near Glemsford earth, where they 

 killed him ; I should think the distance 

 25 miles at least as the crow flies. I could 

 enumerate many more capital runs to prove 

 the stoutness of the Essex foxes, which I 

 had from Manwood, Brickies, Witney 

 Wood, Lord Maynard's High Wood, East 



