Records of the Old Charlton Hunt 



changes in the world which have given to that nobleman, 

 what all the rank and power of his great ancestor could 

 never command, — the privilege of hunting West Sussex. 



Old Harry Budd, of Charlton, gamekeeper to the Duke 

 of Richmond, who died in 1807, at the age of 94, was one 

 of the last who remembered, personally, and could talk of 

 the frequenters of Charlton. He had heard his grandfather 

 speak of Monmouth, whom he had conversed with ; and 

 Harry had either seen himself, or heard from his grand- 

 father, the names of the following noted personages, as 

 visitors at Charlton: — Duke of Monmouth, Duke of Bolton, 

 Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Kingston, Duke of Montagu, 

 Duke of Montrose, Duke of Grafton, Duke of St. Alban's, 

 Dukes of Richmond, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Lincohi, 

 Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Kildare, Earl of Dalkeith, Earl 

 of Halifax, Earl Delawarr, Viscount Downe, Viscount 

 Harcourt, Lord Ossulstone, Lord Hervey, Lord Walpole, 

 Lord Ravensworth, Lord Nassau Powlett, Lords William 

 and Harry Beauclerc, Lord Robert Manners, Viscount 

 Dursley, Lord LifFord, Lord Cowper, Lord Bury, Lord 

 John Cavendish, Count La Lippe, Baron Hardenberg, JNIr. 

 Watson Wentworth (afterwards Marquis of Rockingham), 

 Hon. I. Dormer, Hon. C. Bentinck, Hon. G. Bennett, Hon. 

 Colonel Waldegrave, Hon. General Brudenel, Hon. John 

 Boscawen, Hon. Captain Legge, Sir Wm. Corbett, Sir 

 Matthew Fetherstone, Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Admiral 

 Townsend, General Honeywood, General Hawley, Mr. 

 Percy Wyndham, Mr. Ralph Jennison (Master of 

 George II.'s Buck Hounds), Brigadier Churchill, &c., &c. 



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