Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… Image Henry Alken, 'A Squire Trap, by Jove!' Nimrod [Charles James Apperley], Life of John Mytton, London, 1915. Résumé Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since the middle ages, … just as the earliest hunting treatises published centuries before had done. 1 . Peter Beckford, Thoughts on Hunting (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the … entertainments’ given by Mr Meynell to his friends. 3 2 . William Bray, Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire (London, 1783), p. 98. 3 . John Nicholls, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 4 vols. (London, …
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