HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



lithgow and Stirlingshire kennel may have tended 

 to effect the improvement in the pack which is 

 said to have taken place during his mastership.^ 



In conjunction with the home country, which 

 seems to have been worked from kennels at 

 Kettleston near Linlithgow, Mr Hay hunted 

 from Duns Castle, a considerable part of Berwick- 

 shire, at that time placed at his disposal by the 

 Duke of Buccleuch. This embraced, in addition 

 to the Duns country, the coverts of Paxton, Milne- 

 Graden, Fogo muir, and Marchmont, — the bound- 

 ary line between these and the Duke's own country 

 being Greenlaw Dean and the Greenlaw road as 

 far as Orange Lane, and the north and east limits 

 of the Castlelaw and Lennel estates.^ The home 

 country and the Berwickshire district appear to 

 have been hunted alternately, each for a month 

 or so at a time, and both seem to have afforded 

 good sport, although about this period the former 

 suffered a serious loss through the cutting down 

 and draining of one of its best coverts. This, the 

 great wood of Drumshoreland,^ from which many 

 good runs had taken place during the days of 

 Lord Elphinstone and Mr George Ramsay, conse- 

 quently now failed to hold a fox, and it is prob- 

 able that the occurrence of an event so unusual 

 may have suggested to the twelfth Earl of Buchan 

 the idea of giving to his excellent and amusing 



^ ' Sporting Magazine,' April 1831. - Papers at Dalkeith House. 



2 The name is spelt in various ways, Drumshoreland and Drum- 

 shorelane being perhaps the most common. 



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