Mr. Edmund Byron 83 



found is now covered with villas, and cut up with new 

 roads, etc. 



1894. 18 January (when Cockayne was huntsman), 

 there was a great run. Found in Brasted Chart, ran to 

 Ide Hill, sank the hill, from there to Winkhurst Wood 

 in the West Kent country, and on to Penshurst, stopping 

 hounds at last at four o'clock near the village of Speldurst. 

 Two hours and ten minutes. Left off twenty miles from 

 home, and did not get back till past ten at night. Within 

 a month, namely, on 1 5 February, we had another good 

 run from Brasted Chart into the same country nearly to 

 Penshurst Station, but then turned back into our own 

 country, and running back to Brasted Chart killed our 

 fox there after a run of two hours and twenty minutes. 



1894—5. During this season hounds were stopped by 

 frost twenty-six days, but not consecutively. 



At the end of the season 1895-6 Cockayne left, and 

 as the country would no longer bear three days a week 

 the dog pack was sold, and Mr. Byron hunted the hounds 

 two days a week, beginning rather unluckily by falling on 

 his head into a road and being laid up for about three 

 weeks during the month of November, 1896. 



1897. 16 February. — Had a good gallop from Lag- 

 ham Wood to Godstone Church on to Nag's Hall and 

 Flower Wood, then up the hill to Churchwood, on to 

 Marden Park, and killed near the Godstone quarries. 

 Fifty-five minutes, very fast. On 20 February the Old 

 Surrey had another good run from Holwood Park to 

 Brasted Chart, and an account of that gallop appeared 



