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Castle in the days of John Hall Stephenson, who, in his 



Cleveland Prospect, mentions him : 



Skelton, beneath the jocose muse's bower, 

 Smile on her bard and ancient humble tow'r, 

 Where feeling Tristram dwelt in daj's of yore, 

 Where joyful Panty made the table roar. 



" Panty" was the Rev. Robert Lascelles.] 



Mr. Thomas Wilkinson's diary for 1800 contains the 

 following list of the members of the Hurworth Hunt : 



jgoo. — Mr. Meynell, Mr. Scroop, Mr. Crathorn, Mr. 

 Chaloner, Mr. Hustlar, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Colling, Mr. R. 

 Colling, Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Webster, 

 Colonel Skeley, and myself, £s 5s- each, total £^S 5s. 



In the following year, the list was : 



1801.— Mr. Hustler, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Wilson, Messrs. H. 

 and T. Colling, Mr. Challoner, Mr. Crathorne, Mr. Meynell, 

 Colonel Skelby, Major Colling, Mr. Wilkinson (London), Mr. 

 Brown, Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Russell, and Mr. T. Wilkinson, £s 5s. 

 each, total /"Bg 5s. 



These names are interesting, and not unknown in 

 connection with sport to-day. Mr. Meynell belonged to a 

 very old Northern family, who, at this time lived at the 

 Friarage, Yarm-on-Tees. In the reign of Henry HI., the 

 Yarm estate came to Marmaduke Thweng, Lord of Kilton, 

 from whom it passed to the Meinells (or Me3mells) by marriage, 

 and to their descendants, the D'Arcy and Conyers families. Sir 

 Conyers D'Arcy, knight, about the year 1556, sold the Yarm 

 property to Sir Henry Bellasis, of Newburgh, whose descend- 

 ants were created Earls of Fauconberg. Subsequently, it was 

 conveyed in marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress of 

 Henry, the last Earl, to Sir George Wombwell, Bart. The 



