CHAPTER I. 



LORDS DARLINGTON, AND DUKE OF CLEVELAND 



Although the doings of the Raby Hounds 

 do not intimately concern a narrative of 

 the ''Bedale/' yet some few incidents and 

 occurrences, prior to the formation of a 

 Bedale Country proper, may be of interest. 



From about the year 1787 until 1832 the 

 country of which the Bedale now forms 

 a part, was hunted by the second and third 

 Lords Darlington ; they also for six weeks 

 in the autumn and spring of each year, 

 hunted the present Badsworth Country. 



In September 1792, WilHam Harry suc- 

 ceeded his father as third Earl of DarHngton, 

 and shortly after 1794, he ceased to go to 

 the Badsworth, devoting himself entirely 

 to hunting in North Yorkshire and Durham ; 

 from the river Wear on the north, nearly 

 down to the river Nidd on the south. In 

 the season of 1810-11, we find him drawing 

 Aldwark Woods, Brafferton Spring, Golds- 

 boro' Woods, Laylands, Allerton Park, and 

 Sessay Wood, all of which now belong to 

 the York and Ainsty. The country within 

 the above mentioned northern and southern 



