4.2 EARL or YAEEOP.OUGIl's PACK. 



those already mentioned), were kept by Lords Abing- 

 don, Craven, Monson, Althorpe, and Thanat, the 

 Dukes of Bedford and Richmond, Sir T. Mostyn, 

 Messrs. Meynel, Corbet, Selby, Duke Archer, Carson, 

 Cook, Chikl, and George. According to the informa- 

 tion furnished me by the late Duke of Beaufort, fox- 

 hounds Averc first permanently established at Bad- 

 minton in the year 1753, before which, stag- 

 hounds, fox-hounds, and harriers had been alter- 

 nately kept by his Grace's ancestors. 



About the same tyne, although I am inclined to 

 think rather prior to this date, fox-hounds were also 

 established in the Duke of Rutland's family at 

 Belvoir Castle ; and I have a list of noblemen and 

 gentlemen, members of his Grace's hunt, in the 

 year 1758, in number seventy-eight, including two 

 ladies, with two hundred and ninety-four horses, 

 who assembled in and near the good town of Gran- 

 tham, to do honour to his Grace's foxhounds. 



The Earl of Yarborough's pack is said to date 

 its origin from a much earlier period than either 

 of the above, as to which I have no correct infor- 

 mation ; and in Lord Titzwilliam's family, fox- 

 hounds have been transmitted from father to son 

 for more than a century, as I find a notice of 

 George Kingston being huntsman previous to the 

 year 17G5, when the pack of J\Ir. Chikl (who 



