Surrey archaeological collections . t out and therewas great sport to be had hunting the outlying deer homeagain or killing him if he declined to return. Mr. Shrubb again took the hounds when my father gavethem up. The last Master was Mr. J. C. H. Driver. Now there are a number of beagle packs—three of whichare of ancient establishment—the Horsell, Surbiton and theWorcester Park. Before taking over the Mastership of theRipley and Knaphill my father hunted a pack of basset houndson foot. He had been educated largely in France, where hehad hunted with bassets and he imported a pack to
Surrey archaeological collections . t out and therewas great sport to be had hunting the outlying deer homeagain or killing him if he declined to return. Mr. Shrubb again took the hounds when my father gavethem up. The last Master was Mr. J. C. H. Driver. Now there are a number of beagle packs—three of whichare of ancient establishment—the Horsell, Surbiton and theWorcester Park. Before taking over the Mastership of theRipley and Knaphill my father hunted a pack of basset houndson foot. He had been educated largely in France, where hehad hunted with bassets and he imported a pack to literally grew up with the hounds, for from my earliest recol-lection I remember rolling about on the floor with the bassets,for quite a large proportion of the young entry lived in thenursery. But little more remains to be said of Surrey hunting. Theremust have been a pack of draghounds occasionally huntingin Surrey from Camberley or Aldershot—but in those days,although drag-hunting had been for years established at PLATE VI. 00 ?^e o facing page 14] HUNTING IN SURREY. 15 Oxford and Cambridge, it was not thought much of. In theBadminton Library volume on hunting issued in 1885 theword is not even mentioned. I fear there is nothing to be said of otter-hunting in Surreyin earlier days, for the Crowhurst Otter-hounds which nowhunt the county were not established until after the close ofthe nineteenth century. One cannot leave the subject of hunting in Surrey withoutmentioning the fact that both the Garth and the Crawleyand Horsham occasionally cross our border, the latter atOckley and the former at Camberley and Bagshot. It wasbetween the latter place and the Berkshire border that theykilled two roe deer in 1894. I must close my observations with the same remark as Iopened them and regret that the records of hunting in Surreyare so meagre. For such information as I have been ableto obtain I have to thank the Secretaries of the packs ofhounds hunting in Surrey—Lord Hylton,
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