CHAPTER V. 



CONTEMPORARY PACKS. 



'EST for hunting in the early part of the 

 nineteenth century resulted in not a few packs 

 of harriers being kept in every country 

 regularly hunted by foxhounds. In the fore- 

 going chapter a lengthy quotation was given 

 regarding the early followers of the Hurworth 

 Hounds and, incidentally, both Mr.Maynard's Harlsey Harriers 

 i and Col. Hildyard's Stokesley pack were mentioned. Both were 

 exceedingly popular, and, as the powers that be with the local 

 foxhounds frequently threw in their lot with the hare-hunters 

 (whose sport boasts a much greater antiquity than the chase of 

 the fox), it was, no doubt, with their knowledge and consent 

 that when a fox was put up the harriers were allowed to run it. 

 Col. Hildyard's pack showed great sport in what is now the 

 Cleveland West (and one might say best) country, and occasion- 

 ally visited portions of the Hurworth domains. The Master 

 lived at the Manor House, at Stokesley, and was the son of a 

 sporting cleric who died in 1865. 



Sir Alfred Pease, in his book, refers to the Colonel as 

 keeping " a crack pack of harriers which showed great sport ; 

 he was a most hospitable man, and was known to keep a good 

 cellar ; throughout his life he had 1,100 dozens of wine always 

 in the house." He is recorded in the Cleveland Hunt records 

 as a "new subscriber" in 1835 (the year of John Andrew's 



* Initial letter the Marquess of Zetland. 



