AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



evidence of the fact that the white collar formed 

 part of the uniform of the Hunt at an early date, 

 shows that Forrester wore the Caledonian Hunt 

 badofe. It is thoua:ht that the Caledonian Hunt 

 never, except perhaps at its commencement,^ had 

 any regular hunting establishment, and that such 

 of its members as hunted with recognised packs, 

 or kept hounds privately, brought these to the 

 meetings fixed from time to time. It is more than 

 likely therefore that Forrester and the hounds 

 had attended several of these meetings, either 

 during the mastership of Sir William Cunynghame, 

 or during the rule of the committee of manage- 

 ment,^ and that for this reason he had been pre- 

 sented with the badge, which he afterwards wore 

 as a mark of distinction. 



In addition to being huntsman, Forrester, from 

 the date at which the hounds came to be kennelled 

 at Linlithgow, was landlord or tenant of the Hunt 

 Inn there. ^ But as he could not well have attended 

 to the business of the inn, and at the same time 



' The Druid mentions "a Hamilton pack, with Holy Town as its 

 kennel," presumably in the end of the eighteenth century. — Vide 

 'Field and Fern' (South), 1865, p. 218. 



2 Sir William Cunynghame, as already mentioned, was an original 

 member of the Caledonian Hunt. Lord Elphinstone and Mr George 

 Ramsay, who appear to have been hunting with the pack during the 

 management of the committee, were also members of the Caledonian 

 Hunt at that time. 



2 From inquiry it would seem that this was the same as the Fox 

 and Hounds Inn, a building which, according to tradition, had been in 

 existence for several hundred years before being demolished about 

 1839, and in which Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh is said to have 

 lodged the night before he shot the Regent Moray. 



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