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away with most of this rubbish and buy the Oakley, Lord 

 Tavistock having just given up the country ; and after 

 a time he sold these to Mr. Russell of Warwickshire, 

 and bought in their stead Lord Petres' Essex Union 

 hounds, adding to them the pack of Mr. Shaw. 



After Mr. Errington's resignation in 1838, Lord 

 Chesterfield bought his hounds to take into the Pytchley 

 country, and Lord Suffield, who comes next on the list, 

 bought the Lambton hounds for three thousand guineas, 

 and after a year sold them for one third of that sum ; so 

 Mr. Hodgson brought with him to the Ouorn country 

 the hounds with which he had been hunting the Holder- 

 ness country, and on his resignation in 1841 they were 

 sold, Lord Ducie taking the bitch pack at a thousand 

 guineas. Mr. Greene was the buyer of some of the 

 lots, but when Sir Richard Sutton succeeded Mr. Greene 

 in 1 847 he brought his own pack from the Cottesmore, 

 which necessitated Mr. Greene's hounds being dispersed. 

 About a month after Sir Richard Sutton's death his 

 hounds were sold at Tattersall's, seventy couples realis- 

 ing 1 82 1 guineas, by no means a large price when it is 

 remembered that their deceased owner had given the 

 utmost attention to them ever since he first took the 

 Burton country in 1824. They had been bred with the 

 utmost care, and amongst the buyers were Lord Stam- 

 ford, who succeeded Sir Richard Sutton, Mr. Richard 

 Sutton, Mr. Drake, Mr. Morrell, Mr. Collier, and the 

 committee of the Cheshire Hunt. Lord Stamford 

 taking the lots he had purchased at Sir Richard 

 Sutton's sale as a nucleus, added thereto the hounds 

 with which Mr. Shaw-Hellier, a breeder of great ex- 

 perience, had been hunting the Southwold country, which 

 he resigned in 1855 ; while he also bought the Bedale 

 hounds from Mr. Mark Milbank, the Duke of Cleve- 

 land's son-in-law, who gave up the country in the same 

 year in which Mr. Shaw-Hellier retired from Lincoln- 



