lOO Last day with Mr. Mark Milbank. 



Miss Scurfield, Miss Stowell, Miss Neasham, Amy and Sally. 



26th March, 1856. — We all went to Pepper Hall to see 

 Bedale foxhounds for last time. Very wet morning, rain and 

 sleet, a large field. Found a bag fox close to the Hall. A 

 short ring and lost. Found at Hutton Bonville, fast for a few 

 fields, headed by a woman in a paddock, back through the 

 cover, difficult hunting about railway, over the Wiske and lost. 

 Rode chestnut ; Danby out on " Quaker." 



[Note. — At the end of the season 1855-56, Mr. Mark 

 Milbank, son-in-law of the Duke of Cleveland, gave up the 

 Bedale Hounds. He had been master of the country for 24 

 years, having formed what is now the Bedale territory in 1833, 

 when the Duke gave up hunting owing to failing health. The 

 author of The Bedale Hounds, says (page 60) : He 



" had got plenty of good whin coverts made, which were all well stocked 

 with foxes, and had shown some capital sport and killed an average number 



of foxes A successor to Mr. Milbank was found in Mr. Duncombe 



(now the Earl of Feversham), who took up his residence at The Leazes. 

 He started the formation of a new pack by buying the Forfarshire Hounds 

 from Lord Dalhousie, a few from Mr. Milbank, and also a good draft when 

 Capt. Percy Williams sold his Rufford Hounds."] 



27th March, Thursday. — Croft Bridge. Found in Allen's 

 Whin, half an hour in cover, ran to Dalton, killed on the Scar, 

 close to Rockcliffe, fox lost in river and sank. A very pretty 

 kill. Major Williamson was fishing in the river for salmon and 

 after we left dived for the fox many times without success. 

 Found in Mr. Allen's Plantations and ran back to Mr. Allen's 

 Whin, where hounds were stopped, fox being too long gone and 

 scent bad. Rode " Quaker." Amy, Sally and uncle out. 



15th November, 1856. — Entercommon. Rode chestnut, 

 who was quite sound. Beverley Wood blank. Found in Mr. 

 Allen's Plantation several foxes. One broke and went away 



