28 The Wilkinsons' diaries. 



Mr. Colling, ii st. 6 lbs. 



Mr. H. Colling, g st. 9 lbs. 



Mr. L. Wilkinson, 10 st. 4 lbs. 



January 26th, 1790: Run a fox from Sadbergh to Sherburn, and 

 killed him ; only Haigh Robson and myself up. 



January 14th, 1794: Drowned four hounds in the ice at Sockburn, 

 and killed fox near Fettles, after crossing Tees three times. 



January 23rd, 1796: Killed a fox at Acklam, which ran upwards of 

 twenty miles. 



May 17th, 1798 : Got from Bramham pack huntsman six couples of 

 hounds. 



1799: Earthed one fox at Sir William Fowles' Wood 

 from Arncliffe, after a good run, 



[Note. — Sir William Fowles' (sic Foulis') Wood is at 

 Ingleby Greenhow, and is in the Cleveland country, though 

 hounds never draw it nowadays because — well, they never 

 draw it.] 



January 31st, 1800: Earthed a fox Keelbeck, found at 

 Beverley Wood, ran about forty miles. 



March 20th, 1800 : Killed a fox at Gillemoor, after running 

 him forty miles. Found in Mount Spendy, near Skelton 

 Castle. 



[Note. — Regarding this most wonderful run from Skelton 

 to Gillamoor (two and a half miles from Kirbymoorside), I wrote 

 to Squire Wharton, M.F.H., as to what the Hurworth could be 

 doing at Skelton Castle and if he had ever heard of the great 

 hunt. He replied : *' I am sorry I can throw no light on the 

 matter. There is a *' Mount Shandy Wood" at Skelton — 

 could this be it ? " One is probably not far wrong in surmising 

 that Shandy Wood was so named after Laurence Sterne 

 (Tristram Shandy), who used to pay frequent visits to Skelton 



