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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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The
first
known
kennel
of
all
was
at
Wardour
Castle,
and
was
said
to
have
been
established
in
1696;
but
more
reliable
is
the
date
of
the
Brocklesby,
commenced
in
1713.
The
first
record
of
a
pack
of
hounds
being
sold
was
in
1730,
when
a
Mr.
Fownes
sold
his
pack
to
a
Mr.
Bowles.
The
latter
gentleman
showed
great
sport
with
them
in
Yorkshire.
At
that
time
Lord
Hertford
began
to
hunt
the
Cotswold
country,
in
Gloucestershire,
and
was
the
first
to
draw
coverts
for
fox
in
the
modern
style.
Very
soon
after
this
it
became
the
fashion
of
the
day
to
breed
hounds.
Many
of
the
nobility
and
large
landowners
devoted
much
of
their
time
and
money
to
it,
and
would
take
long
journeys
to
get
fresh
blood.
It
was
the
rule
to
breed
hounds
on
the
most
scientific
principles,
and
by
1750
there
were
fifty
such
breeders,
including
the
fifth
Duke
of
Beaufort,
Lord
Lincoln,
Lord
Stamford,
Lord
Percival,
Lord
Granby,
Lord
Ludlow,
Lord
Vernon,
Lord
Carlisle,
Lord
Mexbro,
Sir
Walter
Vavasour,
Sir
Roland
Winns,
Mr.
Noel,
Mr.
Stanhope,
Mr.
Meynell,
Mr.
Barry,
and
Mr.
Charles
Pelham.
The
last-named
gentleman,
afterward
the
first
Lord
Yarborough,
was
perhaps
the
most
indefatigable
of
all,
as
he
was
the
first
to
start
the
system
of
walking
puppies
amongst
his
tenantry,
on
the
Brocklesby
estates,
and
of
keeping
lists
of
hound
pedigrees
and
ages.
By
1760
all
the
above-named
noblemen
and
gentlemen
had
been
breeding
from
each
other's
kennels.
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