. Annals of the Warwickshire hunt, 1795-1895, from authentic documents. Horses; Hunting. yy / / / // A WOLFORI) WOOn KDX. Yy //// See my hrave pack ! how to the head tliey press. Jostling in eh)se array, then more diif use Obliquely wheel, while from their op'niug moutlis The vollevtHl thuuder l)reaks.—Somerville. CHAPTER II. SOMERVILLE MR. W RIGHTSON MR. JOHN W ARDE MR. CORBET HIS FAMOUS HOUND TROJAN THE EPWELL HUNT. The earliest record of hunting in Warwickshire is con- tained in a poem written Ijy Somerville, and called " The Chase," in which he shows that he thoroughly understand
. Annals of the Warwickshire hunt, 1795-1895, from authentic documents. Horses; Hunting. yy / / / // A WOLFORI) WOOn KDX. Yy //// See my hrave pack ! how to the head tliey press. Jostling in eh)se array, then more diif use Obliquely wheel, while from their op'niug moutlis The vollevtHl thuuder l)reaks.—Somerville. CHAPTER II. SOMERVILLE MR. W RIGHTSON MR. JOHN W ARDE MR. CORBET HIS FAMOUS HOUND TROJAN THE EPWELL HUNT. The earliest record of hunting in Warwickshire is con- tained in a poem written Ijy Somerville, and called " The Chase," in which he shows that he thoroughly understand.^ the art of hunting. He was born in , and lived at Edstone, in Warwickshire, and died in That he kept homids is proved bv the e])itaph on the tombstone of his huntsman Hoilt, who died in at the ao-e of eighty-five. It runs as follows : Hei'e Hoilt, and his sports and labour past, Joins his loved Master Somerville at last; Together wont the echoing' fields to trv, Together now in silent dust thej lie— Servant and lord, when once we yield our breath, Huntsman and poet are alike to death. The first pack of foxhounds in Warwickshire of which there is any record was kept by Mr. Wrightson, who had. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mordaunt, Charles, Sir, 1836-1897; Verney, Walter Robert, Hon. , 1846-. London : S. Low, Marston and company, limited
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