THE YORK AND AINSTY. 101 



The dreadful accident at Newby Ferry, where- 

 in Sir Charles, together Avith Mr. Edmund Lloyd, 

 Mr. Robinson, and Orvis and others lost their 

 lives, caused a feeling of grief and consternation 

 not only in Yorkshire but throughout the king- 

 dom ; but it has been so well and so often 

 described that it is unnecessary to do more than 

 make passing allusion to the disaster, which took 

 place on February 4th, 1869. 



A melancholy interest attaches to the run of 

 the previous Tuesday. The hounds met at Stub 

 Wood, where they found at once, and ran their 

 fox very hard to Copmanthorpe and back by Cop 

 Wood, and across Greenlands to Colton Bridge 

 where he was killed. This was the last fox 

 Sir Charles and Orvis saw killed, and the 

 brush is still in the possession of Mr. George 

 Simpson, the tenant of the farm on which he 

 was killed. 



The York and Ainsty were not hunted any 

 more that season, but towards the end of it 

 neighbouring packs were invited to hunt portions 

 of the country. Perhaps the best run the visitors 

 had was when the Holderness met at Askham 

 Bryan. They found in the famous Askham bogs, 

 and ran at a great pace by Bufforth nearly to 

 Bed House, where the hounds were stopped as 

 they were approaching Captain Slingby's estate. 

 They could scarcely have missed killing their fox, 

 for they had never had a check. 



