HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Bempton, Catchem, Honest Harry, Archer, Star- 

 gazer and Jenny Nettles — all mentioned in his 

 diary — besides a number of young ones, brood 

 mares, foals, and hacks were disposed of at the 

 hammer : and to have seen the string wending its 

 way from King's Cramond to the place of sale 

 — Wordsworth's Repository, Nottingham Place, 

 Edinburgh — must have been an imposing and to 

 his friends a sorrowful spectacle. 



Although Lord Elphinstone severed his official 

 connection with the Hunt at the end of the season 

 of 1809, a settlement of his claims upon it was not 

 effected until the 30th of January 1811, when 

 Mr Boyd, the secretary and treasurer, travelled to 

 Edinburgh for the purpose, and paid over to him 

 the sum of £307, 18s. as the value of the horses. 

 No mention, however, is made of the hounds, and 

 it is possible that his lordship either formally 

 presented them to the Hunt on his resignation, 

 or eventually waived his claim to them. Notwith- 

 standing his retirement he continued to subscribe 

 to the Hunt funds up to the time of his death, 

 although it would seem that he now began to keep 

 hounds of his own, and engaged Christopher Scott 

 as his whipper-in, since Scott is referred to in the 

 * Sporting Magazine ' ^ as " a veteran, who has whip- 

 ped- in to or hunted every pack in Scotland, but 

 the Duke's, in his day, and some that are not now 

 in force, — Lord Elphinstone's for one," and since 

 he, Scott, is represented as whipper-in in a picture 



^ 'Sporting Magazine,' September 1835. 



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