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ABBREVIATIONS

H.C. Hampshire Chronicle

H.R.O. Hampshire Record Office

R.A. Royal Archives

R.C.I.N. Royal Collection Inventory Number

R.M. Reading Mercury

V.C.H. Victoria County History

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1 V.D. Broughton, Court & Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: The Journals of Mrs

Papendiek (2v. 1887), I, pp. 201-2, 245-6.

2 H.C., 906, 1 Feb 1790.

3 A.M.W. Stirling (ed.), The Diaries of Dummer (1934), p.35.

4 W. Page (ed.), Victoria County History of Hampshire (5v. 1973), IV, pp.513-4.

5 H.C., 931, 26 July 1790. Crooke is written as Croke;

'Aesop', Sporting Reminiscences of Hampshire, From 1745 to 1862, (1864), p.26.

6 H.C., 950, 6 Dec. 1790.

7 H.C., 956, 17 Jan. 1791.

8 The Daily Universal Register, 660, 27 Jan. 1787. Dyde advertised as furrier to the Prince of

Wales and displayed the royal cipher. (The Daily Universal Register later was re-named The

Times)

9 H.C., 956, op.cit.

10 H.C., 936, 30 Aug. 1790.

11 W.H. Wilkins, Mrs Fitzherbert & George IV (1908), p.203; H.C., 1185, 10 Oct. 1795;

H.R.O. 24 M49 19, Terry to Miss Terry, n.d. Lade had a London stable of thoroughbred 'Greys',

costing £300 each.

12 R.M., 1374, 19 May 1788. Lade's new house had been destroyed by fire before completion,

however. The cause was unknown, it greatly endangering an adjoining stone house owned by

Lord Coventry. Whether Lade was still living in Piccadilly at this time is speculative.

13 R.A. GEO/MAIN/41959, Prince of Wales to Lade, 8 Dec. 1790.

14 H.C., 951, 13 Dec. 1790.

15 H.C., 953, 27 Dec. 1790.

16 RA GEO/ADD3/81 (formerly R.C.I.N. 1006823), William Poyntz, The Kempshott Hunt;

James Edward Austen-Leigh, Recollections of the Early Days of the Vyne Hunt (1865), p.37;

17 'Cecil', Notes on the Chase, Sporting Magazine, Feb. 1850, pp. 118-23;

'Aesop', op.cit., p.19; V.C.H., op.cit., p.514.

18 Poyntz, op.cit., the hunt servants are usually listed;

H.R.O. 24 M49 22, The Stephen Terry Diaries and Memoirs. The entry for June 1861 reads

'Gascoine, Prince of Wales's Stud Groom'.

19 Broughton, op.cit., I, p.257.

20 Austen-Leigh, op.cit., pp.20-1; 'Cecil', Notes on the Chase, loc.cit., pp. 118-23, states that Stawell

'had his own quarters very frequently' at Hackwood Park.

21 Ibid., Austen-Leigh.

22 R.A. GEO/MAIN/54491-2, Duke of Cumberland to the Prince of Wales, 8 Aug. 1790.

23 H.C., 895, 16 Nov. 1789. The Prince took Rookley House 'as a sporting seat ...'.

24 Austen-Leigh, op.cit., p.37; V.C.H., op.cit., p.513-4.

25 Poyntz, op.cit. Ridge's name is rarely towards the head of hunt lists; 'Aesop', op.cit., pp.4, 8;

H.R.O. 24 M49 19, The Stephen Terry Diaries and Memoirs. Entry for 13 Sept. 1860.

26 J.F.R.Hope, A History of Hunting in Hampshire, (Winchester 1950).

27 Poyntz, op.cit., entry for beginning of 1791; 'Aesop', op.cit., p.23, quoted;

J. Attfield, Henry Attfield, 18th Century Cricketer, (2008), p.2, refers to Edward 'Lumpy' Stevens.

28 Stirling, op.cit., p.76. Sharp's horse is misprinted as 'Blade'; Poyntz, op.cit, the name was

'Blaze'; 'Aesop', op. cit., p.19 & n.

29 Poyntz, op.cit. Sat. 1 Jan.

30 R.A. GEO/MAIN/41965, Prince of Wales to Lade, 3 Jan. 1791;

Poyntz, op.cit., the 4 Jan. was also inclement.

31 R.M., 1629, 8 April, 1793. Bagshot Villa, near Windsor, was on loan from the King;

R.M., 1658, 28 Oct. 1793. The Prince of Wales relinquished the seat in favour of Prince William of

Gloucester.

32 Poyntz, op.cit., Wed. 5 Jan.

33 Poyntz, op.cit., Fri. 7 Jan.

34 H.C., 955, 10 Jan. 1791.

35 The Salisbury and Winchester Journal and Hampshire and Wiltshire Chronicle, 600, 8 March 1784.

36 'Aesop', op.cit., pp.5,6.

37 'Aesop', op.cit., p.6.

38 R.A. GEO/MAIN/41966, Prince of Wales to Lade, 7 Jan. 1791.

39 Poyntz, op.cit., Mon. 10 Jan.

40 H.C., 958, 31 Jan. 1791; H.R.O. 72 M92/7/9, letter, Powlett to Miss Temple, 25 Jan. 1791, confirms

the H.C. report regarding the date of the ball given by Mrs North.

41 Poyntz, op.cit., 24 Jan., 7 Feb., 16 Feb. 1791. Crooke's name is absent from the other hunt lists.

42 R.A./GEO/MAIN/35347, Crooke to Cholmondeley, 26 Aug. 1797.

43 H.C., 960, 9 May 1791.

44 H.C., 1012, 16 July 1792. Figures doubtless were similar for 1791;

Poyntz, op.cit., 2 April, 1 Nov. 1791

45 Poyntz, op.cit. Beginning of 1792.

46 The Times, 2055, 21 June 1791; H.R.O. 24 M49 22 op.cit., entry for June 1861 reads 'Callington

[a] very tall keeper to... [the] Prince of Wales at Kempshot'; H.C., 967, 27 June 1791. The paper

copied The Times' report of 21 June on the following Monday, conveying the impression that the

incident happened on 24 June instead of 17 June.

47 Ibid., H.C.; R.M., 1590, 9 July 1792. The Commanding Officer was Lieutenant-Colonel Newton;

Austen-Leigh, op.cit., p.41, refers to the 'Hants Light Dragoons, stationed at Lewes', in 1798.

48 Poyntz, op.cit., Tues. 3 Jan. 1792.

49 Ibid., 16 Feb. 1791, 9 Feb. 1792; Hope, op.cit., p.45, mistakenly refers to Mrs Edwards as having

fallen; 'Aesop', op.cit., p.10, identifies Winstanley, and p.29 identifies Edwards.

50 H.C., 906, 1 Feb. 1790; H.R.O. 24 M49 19 op.cit. Lade also had a London stable of thoroughbred

'Greys' costing £300 each.

51 Poyntz, op.cit., 6 Jan. 1792; The Times, 2187, 22 Nov. 1791; H.C., 984, 2 Jan. 1792;

Aspinall, op.cit., II, p.400n. By 1795 Belzunce (also written as Belzance) had been appointed an

aide-de-camp to the (2nd) Earl of Moira; 'Aesop', op.cit., p.4. H.H. meetings were advertised in the

Hampshire Chronicle.

52 Poyntz, op.cit., Sat. 11 Feb. The Prince's other mounts during 1792 were Archilles, Briton, Gloster,

Magnum Bonum, Whistler & The Black Horse; H.C., 990, 13 Feb.1792; 'Aesop', op.cit., p.11 (refers

to a 'Mr Hodges' of the H.H., from Bramdean), p.5 (refers to Joe Hall and Phil Gosling, who was born

at Stockbridge. Ridge's second whip was 'a terribly hard riding, noisy fellow, rejoicing in the

euphonious title of Hell-fire Jack. His other name is not known'), pp.30-1.

53 R.A./GEO/MAIN/44018-20, Duke of York to the Prince of Wales, 9 Feb. 1792.

54 The Times, 2234, 20 Feb. 1792 & 2236, 22 Feb. 1792.

55 Ibid., 2253, 13 March 1792.

56 Aspinall, op.cit., II, p.239n.; R.A./GEO/MAIN/44018-20, op.cit.

57 H.R.O. 24 M49 19, op.cit.

58 Stirling, op.cit., pp.76-8; E.W. Brayley & J. Britten, A Topographical and Historical Description of

the County of Hants (1805), p.281; H.R.O. 24 M49 19 op.cit; Poyntz, op.cit., 12 April & 19 Oct.

1792 - no riders listed. Details of the Anglo-French hunt are not recorded suggesting that it was

too theatrical to warrant inclusion.

59 Poyntz, op.cit, 22 Jan., 1 Feb., 18 Feb. 1791. 6 Jan., 16 March 1792. 11 Feb., 23 Feb., 4 March,

15 March, 20 March 1793; H.R.O. 24 M49 19 op.cit., entry for 13 Sept. 1860.

60 Poyntz, op.cit., 7 Jan. 1791, 30 March 1793; Hope, op.cit., p.299.

61 R.A./GEO/MAIN/35337-8, Anstruther to Payne, 29 Sept. 1793.

62 H.C., 1073, 25 Nov. 1793.

63 Poyntz, op.cit. The rest of the manuscript was left blank.

64 V.C.H., p.514 & n. The 'royal pack was hunted as foxhounds [until] October 1795'. The extent of the

Prince's involvement with the H.H. following the demise of the Kempshott Hunt is unknown;

Hope, op.cit., pp.58-9. The H.H. first wore the new buttons on 25 April 1795, the same day that the

master of foxhounds, Thomas Ridge, resigned; 'Aesop', op.cit., pp.28-9.