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that position for twenty years, for these were the days of long 

 masterships. He seems to have devoted his life — as did many 

 of the squires of that period — to sport, and when the hunting 

 season was at an end in the Shire of broad acres, he hurried 

 across the Channel to France, there to hunt the bear at Char- 

 leroi. In 1765, he resigned the mastership of the Sinnington, 

 and a year later died. On his death, his son, another John 

 Kendall, took the pack, and for five years showed sport. After 



MR. T. M. KENDALL, SENR., MASTER OF THE SINNINGTON 1830-1838' 



his era some uncertainty occurs as to the successors. Mr. John 

 Kendall, Junr., was followed by a Mr. Wells, who held office 

 in the early portion of the nineteenth century. He resided 

 at Pickering, but either he had no descendants, or none can 

 be discovered to give any account of his term of office, 

 which is shrouded in obscurity. His house, however, has 

 been shown to me in Pickering, just below the bridge as one 

 crosses the railway. 



Either in or about 1830, Mr. T. M. Kendall, of East 

 Ness and Pickering, took hounds for a while, and though 

 it is uncertain just how long he had them, it was not for long . 

 Certainly, before 1840, his younger brother, Mr. William 



