AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



In a previous chapter ^ it has been indicated that 

 the Hunt as it existed in the end of the eighteenth 

 and the bemnninff of the nineteenth centuries was 

 to some extent a hunt club. Still, it was never 

 then alluded to otherwise than as the Hunt, and 

 no mention is made of the Hunt Club until the 

 year 1825. In the minutes of a meeting of the 

 Hunt, held on the 14th of February in that year, 

 it is stated that the secretary, Mr Boyd, had ad- 

 dressed a circular relative to the renewal of the 

 hunting establishment by Mr Johnston and Mr 

 Gillon, to the landowners in the counties of Lin- 

 lithgow and Stirling likely to give countenance and 

 support to the measure, as well as to " the whole 

 members of the present Hunt Club." These were 

 none other than the surviving members of the Hunt 

 as it was when the establishment was broken up in 

 the year 1814, and those who had joined it in "the 

 Interregnum," during which period occasional meet- 

 ings of a social character had been held alternately 

 at Linlithgow and Stirling, in accordance with pre- 

 vious custom. From the time when the hunting- 

 establishment was revived in 1825 until the present 

 day, the Hunt Club has continued to exist almost 

 uninterruptedly,^ and rules which were adopted for 



1 Vide p. 33. 



- The minutes of a meeting held on 31st March 1834, bear that 

 " the meeting, considering that the Chib has not met for some years, 

 and being desirous to revive the establishment, authorise the secretary 

 to address a circular letter to all the former members who are absent, 

 requesting a continuance of their support to the Club, and that they 

 would remit to the treasurer a sovereign as their subscription to the 

 same for the present year." — Minute-Book in the custody of Messrs 

 Glen & Henderson, Linlithgow. 



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