1845.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 123 



" Although, as I have before observed, Mr. 

 Villebois has no subscription to his hounds, 

 not even an earth stopped for him, they are 

 better known by the name of the H. H., or 

 Hampshire Hunt, which is a title of old stand- 

 ing in this county. Their kennel is at Harms- 

 ford* (Harmsworth), four miles from Aires- 

 ford, on the Basingstoke side of the town, and 

 close to the mansion-house in which Mr. Ville- 

 bois resides, and where he occupies a farm of 

 -^.ve hundred acres, which, together with the 

 house, is the property of Lord Rodney. He 

 also occupies a still larger farm of his own in 

 the neighbourhood of Popham-lane, so that 

 he cannot be said to be in want of rural occu- 

 pations. The kennel was built by himself, 

 has every convenience for so large an establish- 

 ment, and is particularly healthy and clean. 

 He has also another kennel at Hursley, four 

 miles from Winchester, from which he gets 

 his cub-hunting. Foster, the huntsman, re- 

 sides in a comfortable house about a quarter 

 of a mile from the kennel, where his own five 

 horses stand, as also eight others for the use 

 of the two whippers-in — those ridden by Mr. 

 Villebois being kept at the mansion-house. 



" Mr. Villebois lays claim to the honourable 



* Sic in orig. 



