RECORDS OF THE OLD 

 CHARLTON HUNT 



CHAPTER I 



CHARLTON AND THE CHARLTON 



HUNT 



A Pa3iphlet written in 1888 by T. I. Bennett 



We have all heard of Goodwood ; but where is Charlton ? 

 and what of it ? A httle more than a hundred years ago 

 these questions would have been exactly reversed ; then, all 

 the world had heard of Charlton, while the glories of 

 Goodwood, now become a household word among us, 

 slumbered in the womb of time. In an account of the 

 Judges' progress to Chichester in 1749 they are described as 

 being " entertained by the Duke of Richmond, at his seat, 

 near Charlton." The writer evidently either did not know 

 the name of Goodwood, or considered it would give no 

 information to his readers ; " near Charlton " was quite 

 sufficient guide as to its locality. 



Charlton was the ^lelton INIowbray of its day, and the 

 Charlton Hunt the most famous in England ; the resort of 

 the great and wealthy, eager to participate in our national 

 sport of fox-hunting. King WilHam III. and the Grand 



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