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of the hall were still standing. The Tyrwhitts, in the 

 time of Edward II, intermarried with the Skipwiths. 

 Close by Bigby, at Melton Ross, lived the Ross family, 

 who, in the year 1603, meeting the Tyrwhitts, with whom 

 they had a feud, out on a hunting party, an affray 

 ensued, in which many were slain on both sides. James 

 I, on his progress from Scotland, hearing of the trans- 

 action, set up a gallows near the spot, and threatened to 

 hang the first, gentle or simple, who dared to appeal to 

 arms without royal authority. So the frays were put 

 down, but the Skipwiths continue hunting on the wolds 

 of Lincolnshire to this day. The Tyrwhitts, who have 

 taken the name of Drake, are to be found hunting, too, 

 in Oxfordshire, and still retain an estate within a ride of 

 their ancient lordship. 



As you ride by the road from Brocklesby to Great 

 Grimsby, you will pass through Aylesby, at the foot of the 

 wolds, a parish with one church and comprising two farms 

 only. One of these, occupied by William Torr, of short- 

 horn and Leicester sheep celebrity, has outhouses, very 

 recently called ' the Kennels,' although long used as 

 stables, where, a hundred and fifty years ago, Sir 

 Thomas Tyrwhitt kept a pack of hounds. Now, it is in 

 connection with the Tyrwhitts that we first find the name 

 of Pelham cropping up in the annals of the Chase. 

 There is still extant the following memorandum, dated 

 April 30, 171 3 : ' It is agreed between Sir John Tyrwhitt 

 of Stanfield, Robert Vyner, Esquire, and Charles Pelham, 

 Esquire, that the foxhounds now kept by the said Mr 

 Pelham shall be joined in one pack, and each of them, 

 the said Sir John Tyrwhitt, Robert Vyner, and Charles 

 Pelham, to have an equal share and interest in the 

 said hounds.' The curious and complicated agreement 



