CHAPTER 11. 



The Earliest Record and History of 

 THE Pack. 



THE earliest record I can find of liounds in 

 Wensleydale is 1775, when a pack of 

 harriers was kept at Askrigg by Squire 

 Pratt, who also had a stud of racehorses which 

 were trained there. He died at Newmarket in 

 1785. There is a tablet erected to his memory 

 in Askrigg Church. After that date there was a 

 pack at Middleham, the latter hunted foxes, hares 

 and occasionally deer. This pack seems to have 

 been the nucleus of the Wensleydale hounds. 

 After their dispersal fi-om Middleham, they 

 became the Thoralby and Burton Harriers. 



