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On Mr. Ridge's resignation the old Re-forma- 



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lvilmiston Hunt, or original H. ±1. H> H? April 

 Club, was broken up ; and at a meet- 25 ' 1795 * 

 ing Held at Winchester, April 25th, 1795, it 

 was re-formed. It was then resolved that the 

 club should consist of twenty-five members 

 besides the president ; that it should be called 

 the Hampshire Hunt ; that it should meet on 

 the 12th of October, and every first Friday 

 in every month to April inclusive; that the 

 hounds should be kept at Bishop's Sutton from 

 the second week in October till the first week 

 in March; that Mr. W. Powlett-Powlett be 

 perpetual president, and the huntsmen and 

 other servants be entirely under his control. 

 The uniform was a blue coat, with a white 

 waistcoat with yellow buttons, having the 

 letters H. H. and the Prince of Wales crest 

 engraved on it. Two stewards were taken in 

 rotation, beginning with the oldest members 

 of the late club, for the monthly meetings; 

 dinner was to be on the table precisely at five, 

 and the bill called for at nine o'clock, by the 

 president's watch. Another rule was, that any 

 member making any bet or match at the club, 

 was at liberty to be off, on paying the next 

 morning two guineas to the stewards of the 

 meeting, which were applied towards the cup 

 run for that year. 



