Eecords of the Old Charlton Hunt 



to have again some merry hours with your Grace in the 

 Forest, and att Charlton, and if a Birth day does not fall out 

 regularly att Bolderwood, we must make one ; and Charlton 

 I beleive generally every day is such. I am glad to find 

 Nanny keeps in your good graces, I dare answer she had 

 your bed well aird. And hope she will take care you 

 want not calverd Salmon or any thing else that country 

 affords. As to your proposal of planting, put in as many 

 trees as you please, and where you will, tho it is to be sure 

 the worst place in the world for that sport, I have planted 

 hundreds without any Success, and therefore would advise 

 planting them in basketts, I have tryed every other way. 

 The Earl of Lincoln sett out this day in order to hunt with 

 you on Saturday ; I beg you to keep him in some order, for 

 killing a Heath hen, or Partridge on the Heath, att this 

 Time is destruction. And tho I do not look on his 

 Lordship as a very excellent shot, yet I know by experience 

 that a Gun is A very dangerous instrument, for I remember 

 to have Seen A Gun go off in the late Lord Sussex's (Totty 

 Sussex we calld him) hand ; and he killd a Partridge, tho 

 he was looking another way, and did not see the couvee.* 1 

 must own your Grace was very alert, to sally forth 

 immediately on the going off, of the Snow, I hope now the 

 wind is come to the West, you will have better weather, 

 and better Sport, and should that lead the Earl into a Bog, 

 I hope you will not conceal it from me. Who have you 

 got with you ? If Pauncefort, I then suppose he takes up 

 his Habitation in the Library which I beleive he does not 



* How history repeats itself ! For is not the very same feat recorded in 

 the ' Pickwick Papers ' as having been performed by the immortal Mr, 

 Tracy Tupman? 



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