HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



and in the war in the Peninsula, owing to which 

 probably many of those who might otherwise have 

 been following the chase at home, were serving 

 their country abroad. 



The accounts end on the 31st of December 1813, 

 when, after having been " carefully gone over and 

 examined," and " narrowly compared with the 

 vouchers thereof," they are docqueted and signed 

 as in previous years by Mr Louis Ferrier. They 

 close with a balance of £136, 2s. ll|-d. due to the 

 treasurer, Mr Boyd, but from an examination of 

 them it appears that there was then at the credit 

 of the Hunt with " the Falkirk Bank," a sum more 

 than sufficient to meet this deficiency. Hunting, 

 however, seems to have been continued well into 

 the spring of the following year, for the sale of 

 the hounds and horses was not advertised^ to 

 take place until the month of April (1814). 



1 FOX-HOUNDS AND HUNTERS— To be sold. 



To be disj)osed of at Wordsworth's Repository, Nottingham Place, 

 Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 20th April current, the well-known 

 Pack of Fox-Hounds, belonging to the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire 

 Hunt, together with the following Stud of Horses, viz. : — 



Fairplay, a Chestnut Gelding, 8 years old, got by Statesman. 

 The Captain, a Grey Gelding, 9 years old, got by Scorpion. 

 Swagger, a Black Gelding, 9 years old, got by Scorpion. 

 Witchcraft, a Brown Mare, 9 years old, got by Star, thorough -bred. 

 WiLDGOOSE, a Grey ]\Iare, 7 years old, got by Cyrus, dam by 



Pumpkin, thorough-bred. 

 Silverlocks, a Grey Mare, 9 years old, got by Master Robert, 



nearly thorough-bred. 

 Skiprope, a Grey Highland Poney, 6 years old. 



N.B. — The Horses will be sold without reserve. 

 — Vide 'Edinburgh Advertiser,' Friday, April 15, 1814. 



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