Records of the Old Charlton Hunt 



for the early meet (eight o'clock in the morning). The 

 walls of the principal room are ornamented with paintings 

 relative to the chase, and stand almost the sole relic of the 

 " Charlton Hunt." About this time occurred that famous 

 Fox-chase, even now remembered in the county of Sussex, 

 lasting ten hours : an event of sufficient importance to cause 

 an account of it to be written and hung up in many of the 

 houses about, where the names of both huntsmen and 

 hounds are carefully preserved. 



The Hunt continued to flourish during the life of the 

 second Duke of Richmond ; but at his death in 1750, his 

 successor, the third Duke, though a sportsman, was 

 probably not so devoted to the chase as his forefathers. He 

 indeed caused splendid kennels to be built for the hounds at 

 Goodwood ; but it is probable that the removal of the Pack 

 from Charlton detracted somewhat from its general 

 popularity, and accordingly we are not surprised to find, in 

 a fist of the " Goodwood Hunt," as it was then called, years 

 after, that the members of it were pretty much confined to 

 the county of Sussex. On the fourth Duke of Richmond 

 going to Ireland, as Lord Lieutenant, the hounds were 

 presented to King George IV., and soon after, symptoms of 

 madness showing themselves amongst the pack, they were 

 all destroyed. 



So end the glories of Charlton and the Goodwood Pack. 

 Foxhall was pulled down ; the residences of the various 

 noblemen in the village have disappeared, (the Duke of 

 Richmond's lodging only remaining), with all vestiges of 

 the Charlton Hunt, once so famous ; and the villager, as 

 he hears the distant cry of Lord Leconfield's Hounds 

 occasionally in the neighbourhood, may wonder at those 



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