HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



Wauchope, Mr Wilson, Cowden ; and Mr Thomas 

 Young, Oatridge/ 



Soon after Mr Hope's retirement it became 

 apparent that it would be impossible, mainly 

 owing to the insufficiency of the subscription, to 

 continue to hunt the same extent of country as 

 before, and it was accordingly resolved^ that in 

 the future the Dalkeith and Stow district should 

 be relinquished, and that the remainder — the old 

 Linlithgow and Stirlingshire country — should be 

 hunted alone as it had been prior to the Union. 

 Thus ended the Lothians Hunt and with it the 

 many bright days by which its comparatively 

 short existence was gladdened,' first under the 

 reign of Mr H. W. Hope of Luffness, and after- 

 wards under that of Mr James Hope, Easter 

 Duddingston. 



^ 'Edinburgh Courant,' 1st November 1877. 

 2 Minute-book, vol, i. p. 161. 



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