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Friday, 2nd : Threw off by 7 o'clock at New Buildings, 

 and took a drag to Birck Banks, and had a good run by Mount 

 St. John, Fellis Church [Felixkirk], Thirsk, Knayton to New 

 Buildings, and lost him on the moor towards Hambleton. A 

 hard hoar frost and bad scent after the sun began to take the 

 frost. 



[Note. — Hounds had evidently laid out on April ist. 

 Probably at Newbuilding, now the residence of Mr. Geo, 

 Stafford Thompson, famed years ago as a gentleman jockey. 

 The Newbuilding country has always been part of the Bilsdale 

 domains, though in olden days the York and Ainsty occasion- 

 ally had a meet there, and evidently the Hurworth, so that it 

 was a sort of Tom Tiddler's ground, for the Hambleton Hounds 

 also hunted there.] 



Friday, 30th Nov., 1821 : Threw off at Dinsdale Wood, 

 earth'd a fox in a drain. Got him out and took him from the 

 hounds near Sadbergh, and the hounds went away with a fresh 

 fox, and killed him by one hound near Newby [near Stokesley], 

 after a hard run of 23 miles. The hounds were mostly called 

 off at Mandale [now the locale of Stockton Racecourse] and 

 Acklam, by the farmers that joined them, the sportsmen having 

 lost hounds near Hartburn. 



Friday, nth January, 1822: Captain Colling quarrelled 

 with Matthew and went home. 



Tuesday, 15th January : Threw off at Newsham Banks, 

 found a brace of foxes. Run one and earth'd him in Mr. 

 Jacksoh's Planting. A cold frosty day and bad scent. Matthew 

 staked his mare near Ormesby Lodge. 



On December 26th, 1823, while following him at a ford 

 near Worsall, the Rev. Marmaduke Theakston, son of the 



