PREFACE 



1877) during which the Hunt and that of East 

 Lothian were amalgamated under the title of the 

 Lothians Hunt, it is possible that it may also 

 possess some small outside interest. 



To all who have in any way given me help — 

 and I have received much from acquaintances and 

 strangers as well as from personal friends — I render 

 my warmest thanks ; for without their aid the 

 information which the book contains would cer- 

 tainly have been either less extensive or less 

 accurate. The index was prepared by Mr A. W. 

 Jones, Chester, and I am most grateful to him 

 for the expenditure of time and trouble involved 

 in doing so. 



While these pages were passing through the 

 press, the deaths took place of Mr John Ross, 

 head forester to the Marquis of Linlithgow, and 

 Mr William Shore, late huntsman to the Duke 

 of Buccleuch, whose names occur in the text, and 

 for each of whom I had much regard. 



Edinburgh, December 1910. 



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