Eecords of the Old Charlton Hunt 



can report to you how affairs are. The Brass Horns * went 



last week and the Maitre de Musique sets out on Monday. 



My most Humble Service to her Grace from My Dear 



Lord Duke 



Your Graces 



Most Faithfull & 



Obedient Servant 



Delawarr. 



From Lord Delawarr , Bolderwood, to the DuJce of Richmond, 



Goodwood. 



[Complaining of the bad state into which the Hounds 



have been allowed to get by Jack Ware.] 



Aug. 11, 1733. 



My Lord. 



I have been here A Week, and am sorry to tell you I 

 found a great number of your hounds very much tainted, and 

 not the old ones only, but some of the most hardy, as Tapster,f 

 Kindness, &c. And I am much afraid it will break out still 

 more in the Pack. I find they have been fed as high and 

 with as much flesh this Hot Summer when they have not 

 stirr'd as in the Winter, when they Hunt ; It is easy to 

 imagine the Consequence. I have now lowerd their Diet, 

 and they are in a Course of Physick, not but they have been 

 very lavish of it, but without knowing how to give it. 



* The Huntsman, and probably one or two others as well, carried the 

 large circular French horn which will be seen in the illustration of " Grey 

 Cardigan." 



I See illustration at page 47. 



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