Records of the Old Charlton Hunt 



hedge Row wee entapis'd * him, & ran him very hard by 

 Lordington wood to Stansted Parke, Stansted Forrest, the 

 new cutt peices, to Bourn Comon again, back to Stansted 

 Forrest, over the Earth at the Syndals to Racton Farm, 

 then by Lordington, up Adsden down, to Adsden Cops, 

 down again to llacton Parke, back again by Lordington 

 Meadows, up to the down, &; into Adsden Cops, & there 

 they kill'd him, an old Dog Fox. 



MuNDAY : Jan. 15. 



Grey Carey JNIy Self. 



Sturdy Lump Tom Leaver. 



Royal Joe Budd. 



S^ WiU"\ ... Will Macey. 



Saucy face ... M*". S^ Paul. 



Windsor ... Tom Johnson. 



Goliah ... David. 



Walker ... Nim. 



A horse of S^ 



Har^. Liddels Billy Ives. 



Try'd the Valdy, Broil Cops, Rows, (where the hounds 

 kil'd a martin) Rifles, Ashling woods, & all Stoke Cops's 

 without finding a fox ; butt whilst wee were drawing the 

 last, a Country Fellow Hallood a fox out of a hedge Row 

 by Adsden Farm, wee lay'd on to him, & ran him directly 

 to Stoke Coney Cops, from thence up Kingly bottom to the 

 top of Bow hill, there turn'd over Stoughton down, all along 

 Adsden down to Adsden Wood, where in the feilds below 

 wee lost him. Peck Williams hounds cornering into us, 

 however wee tryd all round Adsden, & then down to 

 Stoughton, butt as the night came on, wee took off, & went 

 home. 



* Tapiscd = " lurked, lay hid " (Hearne), quoted in Halliwell's Dictionary 

 of Archaistns and Provincilisms, 1887. Cf. French, se tapir, " to crouch." 



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