CHAPTER VI. 



HUNTING ROUND MALTON, 



Early History of Lord Middleton's Country — 

 Sir M. M. Sykes — Division of the Country — The 

 Warwickshire Pack — Removal of the Hounds to 

 BiRDSALL — Sir Tatton Sykes — Mr. H. Willoughry — 

 The Birdsall Kennels — The Entry of 1888— Some 

 Old Hounds — The Stud Farm — Loutherbourgh — 

 The Hunting Stables — Peppermint and Escamillo 

 — Sir Charles Legard's Harriers — The Otter- 

 hounds. 



We've game in the autunm and cubs in the spring. 



WIujte-Melrilh: 



Lord Middleton's is one of the oldest packs 

 of foxhounds in Yorkshire, havino- with but one 

 brief interval, been in existence since 1704. 



The earliest record of the country is that in 

 that year Sir Thomas Gascoigne hunted it, and 

 that he continued to do so until 1773, when the 

 Duke of Hamilton succeeded him. There may 

 have been, and undoubtedly was, another pack of 

 hounds in the district during the time of Sir 

 Thomas Gascoigne's mastership, for there is a 



