PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. THE MARSH AND FOREST PERIODS.

CHAPTER II. MORFE FOREST.

CHAPTER III. ROYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT.

CHAPTER IV. THE WREKIN FOREST AND THE FORESTERS.

CHAPTER V. WILLEY.

CHAPTER VI. THE WILLEY SQUIRE.

CHAPTER VII. THE WILLEY KENNELS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE WILLEY LONG RUNS.

CHAPTER IX. BACHELOR'S HALL.

CHAPTER X. THE WILLEY RECTOR, AND OTHER OF THE SQUIRE'S FRIENDS.

CHAPTER, XI. THE WILLEY WHIPPER-IN.

CHAPTER XII. SUCCESS OF THE SONG.

CHAPTER XIII. THE WILLEY SQUIRE MEMBER FOR WENLOCK.

CHAPTER XIV. THE SQUIRE AND HIS VOLUNTEERS.

CHAPTER XV. THE WILLEY SQUIRE AMONG HIS NEIGHBOURS.

THE SQUIRE'S CHESTNUT MARE.

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INDEX.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOOTNOTES.

Transcribed from the 1873 Bunny and Evans edition by David Price.

Portrait of Lord Forester

OLD SPORTS AND
SPORTSMEN

Or, the Willey Country

WITH SKETCHES OF SQUIRE FORESTER

AND HIS WHIPPER-IN

TOM MOODY

(“You all knew Tom Moody the Whipper-in well”).

By JOHN RANDALL, F.G.S.
AUTHOR OF “THE SEVERN VALLEY,” ETC.

LONDON:
VIRTUE & CO., 26, IVY LANE

SALOP: BUNNY and EVANS; and RANDALL,
Bookseller, MADELEY
1873

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