26 RECORDS OF THE CHASE 



centuries ago it was hunted by Theophilus, the fourth 

 Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1667. He was succeeded 

 by his grandson, who maintained the establishment 

 twenty-five years, when he died without leaving issue, 

 and the hounds were either given up or supported by 

 the gentlemen residing in the country. Soon afterwards, 

 however, the country came into the possession of James 

 Sanderson, Lord Castleton, of Castleton in Ireland, and 

 Sandbeck, who kept the hounds till his decease in 1723, 

 having a very noted huntsman named Twisitleton. On 

 the demise of Lord Castleton, Thomas, the third Earl 

 of Scarborough, succeeded to the estates, and continued 

 to hunt the country twenty-nine years, when the final 

 who-hoop of mortality closed his earthly career. 



At the death of the last-named nobleman in 1752 the 

 titles and estates came to his son Richard, the fourth 

 earl, who maintained the honours of the chase with 

 great spirit during the succeeding thirty years, at the 

 expiration of which time he paid the debt of nature, 

 when the property fell to his eldest son George Augustus, 

 the fifth earl, who did not inherit a taste for hunting as 

 his noble predecessors had done ; consequently the 

 hounds were again returned upon the resources of the 

 gentlemen residing in the country. This was only for a 

 short period, when they were taken in hand by Mr. 

 Francis Foljambe, grandfather of Mr. George Saville 

 Foljambe, under whose management they remained till 

 the year 1788, at which period they were taken, during 

 the lifetime of his elder brother, by Richard, afterwards 

 sixth Earl of Scarborough, who kept them with great 

 success and in very first-rate style till 1822, when age 

 and infirmities compelled him to resign ; on which oc- 

 casion the hounds were disposed of to Mr. George Saville 

 Foljambe, a most zealous and highly accomplished 

 sportsman, who hunted them in person several seasons, 

 uniting great skill, untiring perseverance, and a liberal 

 expenditure of money, by which means he succeeded in 

 establishing one of the mosit celebrated packs of hounds 

 in the kingdom. 



