38 Some early sport. 



March 27th, for three horses at Guisborough,* 15s. 



March 27th, Richard Davison one horse 5s, 



March 29th, John Miles for one horse, 4s. 



Brought forward for meat, ;^8 is. — /18 12s. 6d. 



For hounds and bringing home, £11 4s. 



For meat, etc., at Guisborough, £^ gs. 



For earth-stopping, foxes, and flesh at Guisborough, £16 gs. 



Dog fat for one year, £8 8s. 



For mang. for one year, ^ig 5s. 



Total, ;^86 igs. 



February loth, 1801 : Earthed one fox at Snotterdale 

 from Arncliffe, after chasing remarkably hard for seven miles. 



[Note, — Snotterdale is in the Bilsdale country, and is a 

 moorland ravine above Faceby. It has for generations been a 

 stronghold of foxes, and, years ago, when the Cleveland 

 regularly hunted bagged foxes, the jet-workers used to set 

 stone-traps here, and whenever Mr. Andrews was in the neigh- 

 bourhood with his hounds, they met him with "a baggy," for 

 the payment of which the field subscribed. The Hurworth 

 paid for Snotterdale being "stopped" prior to 1805, as will 

 be seen shortly from a letter from Mr. Wilkinson to Lord 

 Darlington.] 



March 31st, 1801 : Earthed one fox at Snotterdale, and 

 five hounds went away with another to Hambleton. Both 

 found at Thimbleby. 



[Note. — Whether the fox which was earthed at Snotterdale 

 left Arncliffe and Raindriff to his left (as he probably would), 

 or ran through them, the run would be over as rough and 

 boggy a bit of country as one could find in the North.] 



October 15th, 1801 : Killed a foxatArden, near Hemsley. 

 Found in Thimbleby. 



*Why Guisborough — at that time vieing with Stokesley as the capital of Cleveland — 

 figures so prominently in the diaries at this period I am at a loss to explain. The old- 

 fashioned town is into teens of miles from Hurworth.— Editor. 



