LORD SOUTHAMPTON 129 



The pencils of various artists have made us familiar 

 with the styles of hunting dress in vogue at different 

 dates, but here is the description of a hunting attire 

 which was brought to the notice of the dlite during Lord 

 Southampton's reign. The cut of the coat was described 

 as being quite new, while the colour depended upon the 

 hunt. It was a double-breasted garment with small 

 lapels ; the pockets at the hips were cut across, and 

 they had rather wide flaps, while there were also flaps 

 across each breast, but the top ones were not required to 

 be made with pockets. A buff, or white, double-breasted 

 cashmere waistcoat, with buttons wide apart, four on 

 each side, was de rigucur, the vest itself being bound with 

 black ealloon. The breeches were of white cord, with 

 ribs running about three to the inch, and they were made 

 to fit as tight as possible from the crutch downwards. 

 They were short at the knee, by which one may pre- 

 sume they had no continuations, and the tops were 

 braced up tightly to meet them. A green and crimson 

 silk cravat completed what the journal in question desig- 

 nated "this very fashionable and decidedly new hunting 

 dress." Very new indeed, one would imagine. 



Lord Southampton, like his predecessors, had occu- 

 pied Ouorndon Hall, but partly perhaps owing to its 

 distance from some of the fixtures, and partly from other 

 reasons, he determined, in 1830, to exchange that resi- 

 dence for Belgrave, not very far from Leicester, while 

 new kennels were built at Humberstone Gate, Leicester. 



Belgrave Hall, though doubtless a very eligible 

 hunting residence, had not sufficient stabling for Lord 

 Southampton's purposes, so he leased the Bazaar, in the 

 Humberstone Gate, and there he kept a portion of his 

 stud, while he gladdened the hearts of the surrounding 

 farmers by ordering in ample supplies of forage. Quorn- 

 don Hall then came once more into the market, and its 

 attractions were duly set forth in the local journals, the 



