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you can refer to them for his pedigree. I 

 have therefore added a large collection, 

 which I have been favoured with by their 

 noble and distinguished owners. The alpha- 

 betical order has been followed, as I cannot 

 pretend to settle the nice point of which 

 is the oldest or the father pack ; but from 

 what I have heard, I should think either 

 Lord Fitzwilliam's or Lord Yarborough's 

 was ; the former has been in possession of 

 the noble owner fifty-three years, and were 

 purchased of Messrs. Crew and Foley, who 

 hunted Warwickshire or Oxfordshire. I 

 remember having heard, when I inspected 

 the yeomanry of the North Inland Dis- 

 trict, at one of the hospitable chateaus of 

 a Mr. Noel, who monopolized, if I may be 

 allowed to make use of the expression, as it 

 was not possible for one person to hunt the 

 whole, — Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, 

 Rutlandshire, and Nottinghamshire, — it was 

 called old Noel's hunt; I therefore con- 



