96 THE YORK AND AINSTY. 



in their recurrence ; and partly by Col. Thornton, 

 Lord Lascelles, ^vho then hunted the Bramham 

 Moor country, Sir Tatton Sykes, and the Earl of 

 Darlington, who hunted the Pilmoor, BrafFerton, 

 and Sessay part of the country. 



There was also a pack of harriers kept in York, 

 the kennels being situated where the old station 

 now is ; and Mr. Charles Hornsey well remem- 

 bers hearing of their doings when a boy. They 

 were a very rough and ready lot, hunting any- 

 thing and everything they came across, a fox if 

 they could find one, which was very seldom, and 

 if they could not, contenting themselves with 

 hare huntinsf. 



The members of this hunt and the men Avho 

 composed the field were naturally not so closely 

 connected with the country as the inhabitants of 

 so out of the way a neighbourhood as Bilsdale, 

 where records of sport that took place in the 

 beginning of the century are forthcoming if 

 diligently sought for ; and unfortunately all our 

 efforts to obtain information of their doings have 

 been unavailing. 



Sir Thomas Slingsby of Scriven Park, an 

 ancestor of the man who made the York and 

 Ainsty famous in after years, had kept a pack of 

 hounds for some time, but about the time the new 

 pack was established he gave them up, and the 

 Goldsborough country becoming vacant, was 

 included in the new country. 



