The Wilkinsons' diaries. 27 



stopping expenses till 1799, but let the diaries speak for 

 themselves. 



Killed in the year 1787, by Hurworth Hounds : — 108 hares, 8 foxes ; 

 expenses £2, 14s. 



In the year 1788, 102 hares, 22 foxes, lost i fox ; expenses £c, 17s. 



In the year 1789, 153 hares, 17 foxes, lost 10 foxes; expenses 

 £7 19s- 9d. 



In the year 1790, 141 hares, 14 foxes ; expenses /g 13s. 



In the year 1791, 121 hares 13 foxes ; expenses £12 i8s. 



In the year 1792, 146 hares, 3 foxes; expenses £1^ 15s. 2d. 



In the year 1793, 125 hares, 7 foxes ; expenses £16. 



In the year 1794, 130 hares, 3 foxes ; expenses ;^i2 9s. 3d. 



In the year 1795, 136 hares, 6 foxes ; expenses £1"] 5s. iid. 



In the year 1796, 114 hares, 11 foxes ; expenses /13 9s. 



Expenses of hounds from London and dog fat for last season £6 19s. 



In the season 1797, 45 hares, 14 foxes ; expenses £67,. 



In the season 1798, 24 foxes, earthed 21 foxes; expenses £^2 3s. 



In the season 1799, 29 foxes, earthed 16 foxes ; expenses ^54. 



In the season 1800, 27 foxes, earthed 21 foxes ; expenses ^87. 



In the season 1801, 33 foxes, earthed 28 foxes ; expenses ;^84 is. 



In the season 1802, 39 foxes, earthed 18 foxes ; expenses ^81 2S. 



In the season 1803, 36 foxes, earthed 24 foxes ; expenses £gy 13s. 4d. 



In the season 1804, 19 foxes, earthed 10 foxes; expenses ;^io7. 



In the season 1805, 22 foxes, earthed 12 foxes ; expenses £g6 is. 4d. 



From the outset of the change from hare to fox, the 

 Wilkinsons had great sport in a portion of Yorkshire not ver^' 

 popular to-day with hunting men and women. I refer to the 

 moorlands above Arncliffe and Silton. Witness the following 

 extracts from the diary of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson : 



June 25th, 1789. — Mr. Gibson weighed this day, 12 st. 7 lbs. 

 Mr. M. Wilkinson, 12 st. 7 lbs. 



