48 The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



mark their high appreciation of the sport he 

 had shewn, and how great was his popularity, 

 that within ten days the necessary sum of 

 money was easily collected, and the order 

 for the picture was given. 



Quaintly enough, as one brother set his 

 hand to perpetuate the present and recall 

 the past — in oils ; another of the family, 

 Jonathan — who must have been somewhat 

 crazy — set his, by fire, to do the reverse. 

 He was much annoyed with the organ in 

 York Minster, as he fancied it '* buzzed *' at 

 him. So, on February 2nd, 1827, he secreted 

 himself in the Minster, and making three 

 piles of books, one in the Throne, one in the 

 Organ loft, and one in the Pulpit, set fire to 

 them and escaped through the window of 

 the North Transept. The damage was con- 

 siderable, the Organ stalls and the roof of 

 the Choir being destroyed. Towards the cost 

 of restoration, which was completed in 1832, 

 ;;f65,000 was raised by subscription, and 

 £5,000 worth of Teak wood was granted 

 from the Royal Dockyards. 



All those who figure in the picture have 

 now joined the '* great majority,'* and I 

 believe the last survivors were Sir Frederick 

 Milbank, of Thorp Perrow, who died in 1898, 

 and the Rev. John Beresford, Rector of 

 Bedale, who died in 1899. Mr. Milbank is 

 riding a horse called '* Bribery,'' which he 

 bought from Mr. Morley, of Dishforth, He 

 rode it for many seasons without it giving 

 him a single fall. The hounds immediately 



