HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



ship, the pack was afflicted to a considerable extent 

 by kennel lameness, and each year fresh hounds 

 had to be purchased in order to provide the 

 requisite working number. These were obtained 

 from many sources, the chief being the Cheshire, 

 the Old Burton, Lord Eglinton's, and the Milton 

 kennels. 



When the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire and the 

 East Lothian Hunts were united in 1869, Mr H. W. 

 Hope purchased Colonel Gillon's pack, and shortly 

 afterwards acquired the Lothian one also ; but, 

 after a season, very few of the hounds which had 

 belonged to either remained in the kennel. During 

 the subsistence of the union it was necessary, in 

 consequence of the increase of country, to maintain 

 a stronger pack than previously, and both Mr 

 H. W. Hope, and his successor, Mr James Hope, 

 acquired drafts freely, the most important in point 

 of numbers being got from the Berkeley, Lord 

 Middleton's, the Atherstone, Mr Meynell-Ingram's, 

 and the Badminton kennels, and the most useful 

 perhaps from the Badminton. After the first year 

 of Mr James Hope's term of office, during which 

 the hounds were lent by Mr H. W. Hope, the pack 

 became the property of the Hunt committee, 

 and continued to be so throughout the mastership 

 of Major Wauchope, who obtained drafts from 

 Badminton, from Berkeley, and from the Earl of 

 Zetland, and in 1880 put on some fifteen couples 

 of entered hounds purchased at Lord Coventry's 

 and Mr Askew's sales at Bugby in that year. 



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