HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



and it is probable that the hounds were accom- 

 modated at Barnton when the eastern side of the 

 country was hunted, as they were at Hamilton when 

 the Lanarkshire district was visited. When Lord 

 Kintore's hounds were purchased by Mr Johnston 

 and Mr Gillon in 1825, they were taken to 

 kennels at Winchburgh, which had been occupied 

 by the Lothian, now the Duke of Buccleuch's, 

 pack during the period in which the Hunt was in 

 abeyance (1814-1824). In the same year (1825), 

 however, they were transferred from Winchburgh 

 to new kennels erected by Mr Johnston at the 

 Bonnytoun entry to Linlithgow, and from these 

 they hunted the whole country except the west 

 of Fife, the west of Stirlingshire, and part of 

 Dumfriesshire. On the occasions upon which these 

 outlying districts were visited, the pack was put 

 up at Torryburn, at Stirling, and at Lochmaben 

 respectively. It would seem that between the 

 years 1828 and 1830, during which Mr Hay had 

 the management, the hounds, when in the home 

 country, occupied kennels at Kettleston, about 

 a mile to the west of Linlithgow, and when in 

 Berwickshire, the kennels at Duns Castle. Through- 

 out Mr W. B. Ramsay's mastership the head- 

 quarters were at Laurieston, — the Barnton kennels, 

 and subsequently others at Golfhall, an old inn 

 and posting - house, receiving the pack when the 

 eastern and southern parts of the home country 

 were hunted. So long as Mr Ramsay hunted 

 the Duns country, it is probable that he had the 



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