36 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1745 to 



Pace, who was his whip, was an excellent 

 rider, and lived with Mr. St. John nntil his 

 death. Mr. St. John kept hounds for many 

 years, and latterly always had Mr. Powlett- 

 Powlett's drafts. 



Colonel Blasrave of Calcot, who hunted 

 with him, says : " We never had really a good 

 series of sport after Mr. St. John ;" though, 

 of course, his successor had many good runs, 

 there was not the same regular character of 

 sport. The reason of this was, that Sir John 

 Cope's country was much larger, and the 

 coverts not so frequently hunted. 



The Sporting Magazine of 1793 says : " That 

 Mr. St. John began his season hunting hare 

 in Windsor Forest, and then later hunted 

 buck at Overton." I much regret that I have 

 not been able to learn more of this excellent 

 sportsman ; he was the father of Mr. John 

 St. John of Finchampstead, to whom I shall 

 allude hereafter. 



Mr. Land of Park House, Ham- 

 Park House, bledon, kept a pack of fox-hounds, 

 with which he hunted deer all the 

 summer in the Forest of Bere. In the autumn 

 he hunted cubs with the same hounds ; after 

 two or three days they would stick to their 

 fox, and actually go through the deer they 



