26 The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



Thorp Perrow, and there his pack was housed. 



Mr. Milbank kept a most accurate and 

 interesting hunting diary, from which, 

 thanks to the courtesy of his grandson. Sir 

 Powlett Milbank, Bart., I am able most 

 fully to quote. In addition to the diary, 

 he kept a yearly record of every covert drawn 

 and whether a fox was found there or not, 

 also a list of the coverts from which foxes 

 were killed, a method which he no doubt 

 copied from Lord Darlington, who had done 

 the same. At this date there were many more 

 excellent whin coverts in the country than 

 there are at the present time ; in all of which 

 a fox was almost invariably to be found at 

 all periods of the year. 



Mr. Milbank hunted hounds himself, and 

 had George Barwick as his kennel huntsman 

 and first whipper-in, and Joe Mason as his 

 second. The former had been with Mr. 

 Hanbury until he gave up keeping hounds, 

 and the latter had been Mr. Milbank' s second 

 horseman before he took the hounds. 



Neither the Master or his servants had more 

 than one horse out (with very rare exceptions), 

 although a great deal of country used to be 

 covered in a day : but one notices on reading 

 through the record of twenty-four seasons, 

 that if there was a very high wind, if it 

 was very stormy or squally, or there ap- 

 peared to be no scent, hounds were taken 

 home. 



I have not been able to trace^'any Hound 

 lists, but judging from the number taken 



