CHAPTEE I. 



EARLY RECORDS. 



SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CUNYNGHAME OF LIVINGSTONE. 



THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. 



1762-1806. 



It is difficult to assign a definite date to the 

 commencement of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire, 

 or Stirling and Linlithgowshire, Hunt.-^ In the 

 year 1762 part of the county of Mid-Lothian, which, 

 on the west, adjoins Linlithgowshire, was hunted 

 by the Edinburgh Hunt,^ and while it is possible 



1 In the earlier records the Hunt is frequently so called. 

 ^ Morison's ' Dictionary of Decisions of the Court of Session ' contains 

 the following report : — 



1763. August 9. James Watson of Saughton, Thomas Craig of 

 Eickerton, John Christie of Baberton, George Inglis of 

 Redhall, and James Carmichael of Hailes, against James 

 Earl of Errol, and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen of 

 the Edinburgh Hunt, and Eichard Vary their servant. 



In May 1762, a petition and complaint was exhibited to the 

 Sheriff of Edinburgh by the pursuers, with concourse of the fiscal, 

 against Eichard Vary, huntsman of the Edinburgh pack of hounds, for 

 breaking down and leaping over their hedges and ditches, and riding 

 through sown corn, and for hunting a pack of hounds, which he was 

 not entitled to do ; and therefore praying, that he might be discharged 



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