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ground and dug out near Kingsclere, when 

 the master ordered it to be chained up in the 

 dairy. On the following morning, Mr. Marsh 

 told him and the under whip to cut its hind 

 leg off, which they did. The fox was then 

 put into a sack and taken to Mr. Taplin's 

 close by. Mr. Marsh with the under whip on 

 horseback followed with twenty-six couple of 

 hounds. They then turned the fox out, who 

 ran about two hundred yards and was killed. 

 Mr. Marsh denied having ordered Searle to 

 maim the fox, and expressed his regret at 

 what had occurred. The bench said a gross 

 cruelty had been perpetrated as well as an 

 outrage to public decency and morality, in 

 the defendent taking his hounds out on a 

 Sunday, yet they found that according to the 

 Statute, a fox did not come within the mean- 

 ing of a " domestic animal," and, therefore, 

 they dismissed the case, but strongly repre- 

 hended the defendant's conduct. In conse- 

 quence, Mr. Marsh was served with a notice 

 prohibiting him from drawing the coverts or 

 entering the lands of Lord Portsmouth, Lord 

 Carnarvon, Melville Portal, Robert Portal, 

 Richard Pole, Lovelace B. Wither, W. W. 

 Beach, William Kingsmill, William Fisher, 

 Lieut. -Col. Duberly, and J. Holdin- 



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