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John Dundas, M.P., Hon. Thomas Dundas, M.P., 

 Capt. Van Straubenzee, Major Healey, Mr. 

 Anthony Maynard, Mr. John Booth, Sir John 

 Beresford, Sir Edward Dodsworth, Mr. John 

 Bell of Thirsk, and others. 



Then again in 1838 we find that a Bedale 

 Hunt Song was composed in his honour by the 

 Rev. John Monson, the Rector of Bedale, an 

 excellent sportsman and very hard rider, of whom 

 Lord Darlington in one of his diaries says : '* I 

 cannot omit to mention that the Rev. John 

 Monson shone as conspicuously this day on his 

 grey mare as in the pulpit, and was alone with 

 the hounds over Ainderby Mires when they 

 killed at last, near Thornhills willow bed." 



There is an old Latin proverb which, when 

 converted into English says : '' If a man is not 

 born a poet you cannot make him one,'' and I 

 think that anyone will be inclined to agree with 

 that maxim who reads the following ditty, which 

 some fifty or sixty years ago was invariably 

 sung year after year at every Bedale Hunt Club 

 Dinner with acclamation : — 



THE BEDALE HOUNDS IN 1838 



"Here's to the old ones of fox-hunting fame, 

 Cleveland, Ralph Lamb ton, and Hare wood ; 

 Here's to the young ones that after them came, 

 Who will not say that they are good ? 



