78 Col. Hildyard's and Mr. Rowntree's Harriers. 



'vantage, overlooking Churchyard and Manor House, on the 

 Churchyard wall. Miss Hildyard, who was a big buxom 

 spinster of masculine tendencies, used to hunt with her brother's 

 hounds until she met with an accident, when she gave it up. 

 She was very fond of hounds, and wherever she went she had 

 two with her as companions. In Colonel Hildyard's time the 

 town was governed from the Manor House, where old Dr. 

 Handysides (who was prominent in connection with the Stokes- 

 ley race meeting and at local coursing meetings) was a frequent 

 visitor." 



The Captain Healey, to whom Mr. Burnett refers, was 

 indeed a boon friend of Colonel Hildyard's. He lost his arm 

 at the battle of Albuera, yet was a most daring rider. He was 

 one of the cracks of the day, and was often mounted on one 

 of the Colonel's hunters. 



A nephew of Colonel Hildyard's — Mr. Heneage Wynne, 

 afterwards Major Wynne — occasionally followed the Hurworth 

 and was an excellent horseman. He went with his regiment to 

 the Crimea, where he was killed at the battle of Inkerman, 

 November 5th, 1854. Colonel Hildyard had died on October 

 30th in the same year, aged 67, and had left his property 

 equally between two of his nephev/s. Major Wynne and Mr. J. 

 R. W. Hall, who afterwards took the name of Hildyard. 

 Major Wynne never knew of his good fortune. His share of 

 the property went to his father. 



Another pack of hounds hunting in the Hurworth country 

 in early years was that kept by Mr. Christopher Rowntree. 

 Regarding whom an interesting trial took place in 1803, and 

 was thus reported : 



" At an assize held at York, to decide whether one, Christopher 

 Rowntree, of Middleton-on-Leven, the celebrated Cleveland foxhunter, was 



