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named Clark, but no particulars are forthcoming respect- 

 ing them save that John Atkinson was a first-rate hunts- 

 man, and when he got too old for active service, Mr. 

 Marshall of Wrelton, allowed him an annuity. 



The reputation for hard riding seems to have belonged 

 to the members of the Smnington from the earliest times, 

 for I was told of many wonderful exploits in the way of 

 jumping, Mr. Dawson's jump over Ness lane being about 

 the biggest of them. 



It Avould seem that many old papers in connection with 

 the Sinnington hunt had at one time beeu in the custody 

 of a relative of my informant, and that after his decease 

 they had inadvertently been destroyed. Amongst these 

 papers was an old parchment detailing the boundaries of 

 the hunt. It seems to have been of the nature of a 

 charter, and it is a matter of regret that so interesting 

 a document should have been destroyed. My informant, 

 who had frequently perused it in his youth, says that 

 it was dated 1678 or 1698, and that amongst the signa- 

 tures were the names of Villiers and Graham. It is 

 evident that the earlier date is more like being the 

 correct one, as the Duke of Buckingham died in 1687. 



The boundaries of the hunt, as defined in the old 

 charter are as follows : — From Old Malton, up the Rye, 

 up Howl Beck, and to the source of it ; thence to ByJand 

 Abbey, from there to Tom Smith Cross and Hambleton 

 Plain, and across the East Moors to Bilsdale and Brans- 

 dale End. The boundary e.xtended from Mitchell's 

 Plantations to Lowna Bridge ; thence up Hangman's Slack 

 to Hartop Beck meetings, and by Aislaby Whin to 

 Pickering. The Pickering country they were not allowed 

 to hunt on account of the deer on the Crown lands in the 

 neighbourhood, and there was a clause binding them to 

 stop the hounds if running within a certain distance of 

 the said Crown lands. ■ 



