SPORTING 

 REMINISCENCES OF HAMPSHIRE. 



CHAPTER I. 



From 1745 to 1800. 



Mr. Evelyn in 1745 — Mr. Ridge of Kilmiston, 1749 — Joe Hall and 

 Phil Gosling — Hunt Songs by the Rev. C. Powlett — Members of the 

 old Kilmiston Hunt — Mr. V. H. Gilbert, and Hunting in the New 

 Forest, 1781— Hunting in North Hants in 1783 by Mr. S. Terry, 

 Mr. Poyntz, and John Topper — The old Hambledon Cricket Club, 

 and Patrons of the Game — Racing in 1788 — Mr. Stephen Terry — 

 Lord Stawell and Will Harrison— George IV. at Kempshot, 1788, 

 and at the Grange, 1795— Mr. W. J. Chute of the Vine, 1791— Mr. 

 Ellis St. John of West Court, 1790— Mr. Land of Park House, 1791 

 — Mr. Russell of Greywell, 1794 — Re-Formation of the H. H. in 

 1795, with List of Original Members— Mr. W. Powlett-Powlett — 

 Mr. R. Meyler of Crawley — Hunt Races. 



Books on hunting generally begin with a 

 long dissertation on its antiquity, its benefits 

 to the country, and to health, and a compari- 

 son of hunting in past and present times. That 

 it is a national benefit is an axiom. Now, the 

 object of the present work is not to object of the 

 w r rite on a topic which has been book ' 



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