Kecords of the Old Charlton Hunt 



From Lord Delawarr^ in the New Forest, to the Duke of 



RirJimond, in France.* 



Sept. 13, 1734. 



My Lord. 



I am to thank your Grace for the favour of yours of 

 the 3 Ins*, old S. from Paris. I rejoyce your Hounds I 

 sent you have given you so much Pleasure, and acquitted 

 themselves with so much honour when they encountered 

 those of your Brother Grand Ecuyer. I luckily have A 

 Couple of the Lancashire Chaps that were not able to 

 proceed farther than London att that time. So we have 

 the fewer to recruit for you. I have now good & Bad News 

 to Send you, the first is that your Hounds are well we have 

 hunted six times and kill'd Six foxes, a Brace Yesterday, so 

 miss'd but one Day and that was occassiond by A Violent 

 Shower, for I think they ran harder that day than I ever 

 saw them. The Bad is Andrews Black horse is Dead. He 

 hunted one day last Week, was rid by Tom who rid no 

 faster than I did on Scarborough. The Horse came home 

 perfectly well in all appearance but lay down in about ten 

 minutes and stretch 'd himself out and died. I am sorry 

 but Tom is mad, for he was A great Favourite. But as no 

 neglect or Carelessness was the Occasion of this Misfortune 

 I hope you will not have the worse Opinion of Old Tom. 

 Especially now IVI^ INIilburn is dead, and John Shaw I 



* The Dukedom of Aubigny in France devolved upon his Grace in 1734, 

 and early in the following year he was appointed Master of the Horse to his 

 Majesty, to which coming event Lord Delawarr probably refers in his 

 mention of " your Brother Grand Ecuyer," evidently meaning the official 

 that held the corresponding position in the Court of France. 



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