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It does not appear from the records that the stag- 

 hounds under the old regime ever hunted deer on the 

 Ouantocks, though on rare occasions they ran a deer 

 In that direction. In 1827 the new pack ran a deer 

 across to the hills from Haddon, and In 1846 the 

 hounds met once at Cothelstone. How often they 

 may have hunted there In the meantime Is unknown ; 

 but the Ouantocks certainly lay quite out of the range 

 of the old pack, and were only occasionally visited by 

 the new. Mr. BIsset, however, had some reason to 

 wish to hunt there. Through his marriage with the 

 heiress of Bagborough, he was the master of a house 

 actually situate on the Quantocks ; and In the autumn 

 of 1 86 1 he had run a stag thither from Haddon, when 

 having been (luckily) the only one that viewed the 

 deer ascending the hills, he was able, by stopping the 

 hounds, to leave at least one addition to the small 

 Ouantock herd behind him. Further, the deer In the 

 Forest were still unsafe ; a hind was found dead by 

 Horner Water early In 1862 with a bullet In her 

 head ; the Luxborough covers had ceased to hold 

 deer, and the Bray covers were still empty. There 

 was therefore something to be said for raising a herd 

 In a country where It would be strictly preserved, and 

 that too In covers belonging to the master himself. 



