Lord Orford and His Stags, by Lionel Edwards
Lionel Edwards illustrated this scene taken from the life of the eccentric Earl of Orford. “One day he happened to be driving his team of four stags from his Norfolk country seat, Houghton Hall, to Newmarket, at the same time as the Essex Hounds were out. The hounds by misfortune picked up the scent of the deer as the Earl was nearing his destination, and promptly gave chase. Their ‘cry’ frightened the stags, who got out of control and galloped hell for leather into the town, and dashed through the gates of an inn into the courtyard. A potboy with great presence of mind banged the gates to, after them, thus cutting off the hounds.”
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From the book Royal Newmarket, illustrated by Lionel Edwards.