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Willson, Lord Brownlow, Sir Thomas Whichcote, 

 Colonel John Reeve, Captain Tennant, Mons. 

 Couturie, Mr. John Hardy, Sir John Thorold, 

 Colonel Charles Parker, and Mr. T. Robarts. 



The Belvoir Ash Wednesdays have often been 

 records in the annals of the hunt, and in olden 

 days the meet was always fixed for 12 o'clock by 

 Saltby Church, just when the congregation were 

 coming out from service. On this particular Ash 

 Wednesday of March 11th, the meet was at Piper 

 Hole, Avhere a very large field were assembled to 

 meet hounds. The wind blew very hard, and a 

 fox from Holwell Mouth cheeked the gale at a 

 rattling pace away over the vale, past the right of 

 Nether Broughton. The bulk of the field were 

 left the up-wind side of Holwell Mouth, having 

 failed to hear hounds leave covert owing to the 

 roar of the wind through the trees. After taking 

 a direct line for Hickling, he wheeled round and 

 ran between the two Broughtons, nearly reaching 

 Old Dalby before he took a right-handed turn 

 over the hill, after which he headed away in a 

 straight line for Willoughby on the Wolds, where 

 they killed him close to the village. The time was 

 one hour after leaving Holwell Mouth, and there 

 were plenty of applicants for a piece of this good 

 Ash AV^ednesday fox when hounds broke him up. 

 Over the chimney-piece of the comfortable hunting- 

 box Sanham House near Melton, a brace or more 

 of grinning foxes' masks killed with the Belvoir on 

 Ash Wednesday, and labelled as such, are the 

 pride of their owner the Hon. H. H. JNIolyneux. 



