HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



that, in it, the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire may 

 have had its origin, — the sportsmen of the time 

 going gradually farther afield for the purpose of 

 hunting, and discovering out westward in the 

 shires of Linlithgow and Stirling a country well 

 adapted to the chase of the fox, — it is also possible 

 that both Hunts may have been in existence then, 

 the former overtaking Mid-Lothian, and the latter 

 the two counties from which it derives its title. 

 But however this may have been, it would seem that 

 Sir William Augustus Cunynghame, fourth Baronet 

 of Livingstone and Milncraig, was master of the 

 Hunt which forms the subject of this history, in the 

 last quarter of the eighteenth century. 



Sir David Cunynghame the third Baronet " died 



to hunt in time coming ; that he might be found hable in damages to 

 the complainers ; and that he might be lined in the sum of £50 SterHng 

 for contempt of the law, &c. 



A proof having been taken, the Sheriff found it proven, " That the 

 defender, Richard Vary, has hunted with a pack of hounds on the 

 grounds belonging to the complainers James Watson and James 

 Carmichael of Hailes, after the wheat thereon was brierded, and 

 that he once brushed through the hedge of an inclosure belonging to 

 the said Mr Carmichael ; Found, that the said defender had no right 

 to hunt with the said pack of hounds on the grounds belonging to 

 any of the complainers ; and therefore prohibited and discharged him 

 from hunting thereon in time coming, with certification. And found 

 the defender liable to the said Mr Watson and Mr Carmichael in 

 damages and expenses, and modified the same to £2 Sterling ; as 

 also, fined and amerciated the said defender in £5 Sterling, payable 

 to the procurator fiscal of Court ; and granted warrant to any 

 of the officers of Court to apprehend and incarcerate the defender in 

 the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, ^ the keepers whereof were ordered to 

 receive and detain him, until he should pay the said two sums." 



1 The Tolbooth Jail or Prison. Vide ' Minor Antiquities of Edinburgh ' 

 (Chambers), 1833, p. 122. 



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