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Another Cleveland pack. 



Col. R. Chaloner, M.P., hardly agrees with Sir Alfred, and 

 some years ago wrote to me : 



" My great-great-grandfather, William Chaloner, kept a pack of 

 hounds here before the Cleveland hunt started. I have a picture of him in 

 my dining room, in a red coat with blue collar (which, oddly enough, is 

 now the dress of the Hunt). He was born on August 24th, 1745, and died 

 INIay 8th, 1793, and it was his pack which is mentioned in two old songs 

 quoted in Sir A. Pease's 'The Cleveland Hounds,' on pages 7 to 11, 

 and 256. As regards this book, it will be seen Sir A. Pease has made some 

 mistake, as, first, he says, on page 7, that ' there is little doubt that it was 



the same pack as Mr. Turner's hounds commemorated in the 



following verses.' He then finds two different verses of a song on a great 

 run on January 2gth, 1785 ; but on page 10 he refers you at the bottom to 

 page 256, where in the agenda he gives what he describes as 'an "old" 

 copy,' which is headed, ' A song of a chase with William Chaloner Esq's 

 Foxhounds, Guisborough in Cleveland, wrote by . . . .' Sir A. E. Pease 

 then says ' from this it is clear that "The Cleveland Hounds" was then the 

 title of Mr. William Chaloner's Pack.' Why ? Surely, the oldest copy, 

 actually written by a man who was in the run, is most likely to be the 

 correct one, and he never mentions the words ' Cleveland Hounds,' but 

 distinctly calls them ' Mr. William Chaloner's.' Nor could they be Mr. 

 Turner's hounds, if they were Mr. Chaloner's. Both Mr. Turner* and Mr. 

 Chaloner had packs then. Major C. Ward Jackson, of Normanby, has 

 some most interesting old diaries of that date, in which his ancestor relates 

 odd days with both these packs. I enclose a copy of a letter written by 

 Major C. Ward Jackson on the subject, which please return when read. 

 This Mr. William Chaloner's son, Robert Chaloner, was the first master 

 (joint master with Mr. George Lloyd), of the York and Ainsty." 



The following is the record of the run, as given in W. 

 Pick's Authentic Historical Raciftg Calendar, 1705- 1785 : 



" KiRKLEATHAM, Dec. 1 , 1775. 

 Mr. Charles Turner's hounds hunted at Ayreyholm, near Hurworth, 

 and found the noted fox Caesar, who made an extraordinary chase : After 



* It may be evidence, as well as explanation as to what persuaded Mr. Charles Turner to 

 hunt so far from home, to point out that he owned the Neasham Estate, the purchase of 

 which, from Sir William Blackett, Bart., is hereafter recorded. 



