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hood as a pattern, who did formerly Live in the 

 most Intimate and Amicable manner, open, friendly, 

 and obliging to each other, and being desirous to 

 imitate so good an Example, and Conceiving Visits 

 at our private Houses not so frequent as desirable 

 besides being unavoidably subject to something of 

 Ceremony they cannot be so conducible to that 

 good end as a free meeting at some publick-House 

 would be under proper Regulations to prevent 

 disorders. Have therefore mutually agreed to meet 

 Weekly on Tuesdays at some publick-House, as 

 shall be agreed on from Time to Time And to 

 conform our Selves to the following Rules : . . . 

 That no person be admitted to be a Member of the 

 Society but such as shall first publickly lay his 

 Right Hand upon a Hunting Horn and declare 

 himself no Enemy to Cocking, Smocking, Fox- 

 hunting and Harriers. And shall endeavour to 

 discover all poachers, and shall promise to the 

 utmost of his power to promote the Interest of the 

 Society, and shall Subscribe his Name owning his 

 Consent to the Underwritten Rules. Clergymen 

 to be excused of the word Smocking and laying 

 their hand on the Hunting Horn. 



Rules of the Cleveland ^^ Friendly Society''' 



Lord Lonsdale's Harriers ^> 



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IT was an Earl of ancient name 

 Who hunted the fox, but preferred him tame ; 

 Though his sire had been a hunter free 

 As bold as e'er rode o'er a grass countrie. 

 This sire once mounted his high-bred horse. 

 And viewed the wild fox from hillside gorse j 

 His son had come down by the second-class train, 

 Worried a bagman and home again. 



