AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



is said that he did not care how he damaged 

 the horses he rode, so long as he got to his 

 hounds. Many a roll he got, too, " for he had 

 raw ones to make, and ratv enough they were 

 'in bodily estate' from the severe effects of their 

 'prenticeship " under him.^ During his first 

 season he received an allowance from the Hunt 

 for the maintenance of the hounds, horses, &c., 

 which, the accounts^ for the year 1806 indicate, 

 amounted to a considerable sum. These accounts 

 were kept by Mr John Boyd, solicitor, Linlithgow, 

 who for some years before and many years after- 

 wards, acted as secretary and treasurer of the 

 Hunt. In them, minutes, a minute book, and 

 other vouchers are constantly referred to, and 

 if these had been forthcoming much interesting 

 information mio^ht have been obtained. In them- 

 selves, however, they are sufficient to show that 

 it was the members of the Hunt who defrayed 

 the expenses of the establishment without the 

 aid or backing of a master, a circumstance which 

 makes it clear that the committee of management 

 was still in existence. And that the expenditure 

 was seriously considered by those who had to 

 bear it is evident from the fact that special 

 authority was annually given by the members to 

 Mr Louis H. Ferrier, younger of Belsyde, one 



1 ' Sporting Magazine,' May 1825, 



2 Volume of accounts among Hunt papers in the custody of Messrs 

 Glen & Henderson, Linlithgow. 



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