2 8 STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



letter itself was found by the lawyer at the bottom ot a 

 box of wigs, and runs as follows : — 



" DuLVERTON, Somerset, Sept. ^, 1759. 

 *' Sir, 



" I am ordered by my master, Courtenay Wal- 



rond, Esq., to trouble you with this letter, that you 



may have the pleasure of hearing of one of the finest 



stag hunts that ever happened in this kingdom. About 



one o'clock Monday morning, my master, with his 



brother and his steward, Mr. Brutton, set out from 



Bradfield, bravely mounted, attended by several 



servants which had horses. About ten o'clock they 



got to the woods and soon after roused a stag at the 



head of the Ironmill Water, where he took to Stucke- 



ridge Wood and crossed the river Exe, from thence to 



Exe Cleeve, and after running over Exmoor Forest, 



on the whole more than seventy miles, he was killed 



near Lowry Gate ; when he appeared to be about ten 



years old, his brow bay and tree angles having all his 



rights, and seven on one top and five on the other, 



and was to one inch fourteen hands high. This noble 



chase being ended, my master, his brother, and Mr. 



Brutton, with about twenty gentlemen more, waited 



on Sir Thomas Acland at Pixton, where each of them 



drank the health of the stag in a full quart glass of 



