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Cleveland Hunt, and that Mr. John AndreAv, 

 senior should be master. The hounds were 

 accordingly removed to White House, Saltburn, 

 where they remained for upwards of fifty years. 

 The title of the hunt was soon chanQ;'ed, and the 

 ' Roxby ' dropped ; but the Koxby men long 

 clahned three couples of the hounds as their 

 property, and the final transfer was made at 

 Ellerby one night before hunting, when Tommy 

 Page, the only living representative of the old 

 Roxby hunt gave up all claim to them, and they 

 become the j^roperty of Mr. Thomas Andrew. 



The new establishment was not an ambitious 

 one, and was carried on at a light expense. For 

 many years the subscription fell short of £100, 

 and the hounds were, as was frequently the case 

 w^ith provincial packs in those days, trencher-fed. 

 But the sport was first-rate, and notwithstanding 

 the many disadvantages with Avhich they had 

 to contend, the Cleveland hounds scon got the 

 reputation of being a killing jDack. In their first 

 season they showed what kind of mettle they 

 had in them, and it is pretty evident that our 

 Roxby friends knew a good bit about hound 

 breeding. 



. On Friday, January 16th, 1818, we read in the 

 master's journal, ''Found in Skelton Park, ran 

 by Forty pence and Whinny Nursery earths to 

 Waterfall earth, down Waterfall Gill, by Holly 

 Hill earths to Skelton Castle ; then to Skelton 



