28o Silk and Scarlet, 



very powerful broad-chested, and rather h'ght-coloured 

 hound, with a very sensible head, and short on the 

 leg. The latter feature was to be seen in all his stock, 

 who were remarkable as line hunters, and as sound 

 and hard fox-hounds as ever went out. Lord Mostyn 

 had him for a time, and so had Sir Watkin Wynne 

 and Mr. Selby Lowndes, and he was put away in 1848, 

 at the North Staffordshire kennels. His son Hermit 

 was from Fitzwiliiam Goldfinch by Yarborough Gany- 

 mede, and through crossing him with the Dorimont 

 blood, those illustrious brothers Remus and Rufus 

 arose, from whom nine and a half couple of the pre- 

 sent Badminton pack are descended. Each of them 

 for four seasons had about five couple of the best 

 Badminton bitches ; and the Belvoir, Berkeley, Rut- 

 land, and Brocklesby kennels used them both a good 

 deal, but Will Goodall's fancy was more for Rufus. 

 Potentate, a grandson of Remus, also went to Belvoir, 

 with whose kennel he was connected on the side of 

 his dam Whimsy, by Wildman. He was a handsome 

 style of hound, and a very quick, hard runner, but 

 without any great substance, and got his stock bigger 

 that himself, and the bitches invariably bigger than 

 the dogs. Like Sir Richard's Prompter, he was 

 so resolute that the whip was always obliged to 

 hold him when they were baying the fox, and 

 even then he would hardly be denied without punish- 

 ment. 



The Fitzwiliiam Marmion was not very successful 

 in introducing the Monarch blood ; he was a close 

 hunter and a capital finder, but required to be crossed 

 with very hard running bitches. The Fitzwiliiam 

 Finder did far more for Badminton through Freeman 

 from Drake's Oppidan ; and it was the second of their 

 two Flyers, father and son, of the Rutland Collier 

 blood, who got the Fitzwiliiam Feudal. Warwick- 

 shire Tarquin also left his mark on the kennel in the 

 shape of Trojan from Beaufort Gratitude. There was 



