22 THE COMPLETE FOXHUNTER 



the present Bedale and York and Ainsty countries, and 

 Sunderland Bridge, which is only four miles from 

 Durham, and half that distance from the North Durham 

 kennels. Lord Darlington gave up the Bedale country 

 in 1832, and since then a subscription pack has been 

 maintained, but the adjoining country to the north, 

 which has been known as Lord Zetland's since 1876, is 

 also part of Lord Darlington's Hunt, which dates from 

 the latter end of the eighteenth century. The Cleve- 

 land Hunt, formerly the Roxby and Cleveland, was in 

 existence more than a hundred years ago, and has a 

 complete list of masters since 1817, and earliest records 

 of the Hurworth occur in 1803. The two Durham 

 packs are the successors of Mr. Ralph Lambton, who 

 hunted the whole country from 1804 to 1838. From that 

 date until 1872 the pack was known as the Durham 

 Country, but in that year a division of the country was 

 made, under the titles of North and South Durham. 



The Braes of Derwent country was hunted by Mr. 

 Humble, of Eltringham, from the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, and the pack was known about a 

 hundred years ago as the Prudhoe. It then for a 

 short period was called the Prudhoe and Derwent, but 

 in 1854 it became the Braes of Derwent. Its neigh- 

 bour, the Haydon, was a very old harrier pack, but 

 fox has been the quarry since the days of Mr. 

 Nicholas Maughan senior, who was the first master 

 of the Tynedale, previous to 1854. The country 

 now known as the Tynedale had previously been 

 a part of Sir Matthew White Ridley's country, the 

 other part being the Morpeth country, which, like the 

 Tynedale, has existed in its present state since 1854. 

 The Percy country was originally known as Lord 

 Wemyss', and the master just named hunted the whole 



