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sometimes thirty brace in a day. This, however, is but 

 moderate sport to some that might be quoted. T. W. Coke, 

 Esq., ( the late Earl of Leicester) on the 7th of October, 

 1797, upon his manor at Warham, and within a mile's 

 circumference, bagged forty brace of Partridges in eight 

 hours, at ninety-three shots, every bird was killed singly ; 

 the day before, on the same ground, he killed twenty-two 

 brace and a half in three hours. 



A more recent match, as recorded in Pierce Egan's 



Anecdotes, and in the Naturalist's Library, affords still 



further proof of the abundance of the Partridge, and the 



excess to which the sport may be carried. This was a bet 



between Mr. William Coke and Lord Kennedy, for two 



hundred sovereigns a-side, play or pay, who shot and 



bagged the greatest number of Partridges in two . days 1 



sporting ; both parties to shoot on the same days, namely, 



the 26th of September and the 4th of October in the same 



season, 1823. Mr. William Coke to sport upon his uncle's 



manors in Norfolk, and Lord Kennedy in any part of 



Scotland he pleased. The result of Mr. Coke's first day's 



shooting was eighty and a half brace of birds bagged. On 



Saturday, October 4th, Mr. W. Coke took the field soon 



after six o'clock in the morning ; he was accompanied by 



his uncle, T. W. Coke, Esq., M.P., and by two umpires 



Colonel Dixon for Mr. Coke, and F. S. Blunt, Esq., for 



Lord Kennedy ; also by two of his friends, Sir H. Good- 



ricke, Bart., and F. Holyoake, Esq. He was attended 



by several gamekeepers, and by one dog only, to pick 



up the game. Several respectable neighbouring yeomen 



volunteered their labours in assisting to beat for game, and 



rendered essential service throughout the day. Mr. Coke 



sported over part of the Wigton and Egmere manors. The 



morning was foggy, and the turnips were so wet that 



