EARLY HISTORY OF. THE HUNT. 



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4th, 1825, in Mr. Lloyd's first season, one of the leadinor 

 members of the hunt, Mr. Henry de Yarburgh, of 

 Heslington Hall, was seized with gout in the stomach 

 in the hunting field, and died the same night. 



I am able, thanks to the kindness of Mr. E. C. 

 Brooksbank, to give a little information about the hunt 

 during the thirties and forties. This information is taken 

 from the hunting diaries of Mr. Richard York and Mr. 

 E. York. These gentlemen kept their hunting diaries 

 fully and carefully, and though they generally hunted 

 with the Bramham Moor, they occasionally had a day 

 with the neighbouring pack. The first day I have to 

 record is a good day in the Ainsty, which took place in 

 the season of 1830-31 : — 



' Tuesday, November gth. Acaster Mill. Found in Stub Wood, 

 ' ran to Brocket Hagg, through the whin, down to Acaster 

 ' town end, down to the river side, and all along the Ings 

 ' nearly to Low Acaster ; turned up to the right to Brocket 

 ' Hagg, and killed him in Copmanthorpe Wood. One hour 

 ' twenty minutes. Found in the Dog Kennel Spinney, at 

 ' Nun Appleton ; ran over the park, through the Bridge 

 ' plantation, by the keeper's house, and lost him in 

 ' Mr. Markham's garden at Bolton Percy. Found in Palle- 

 ' thorpe Wood, ran by Beanland's house, past Oxton, up 

 ' to Oxton House, crossed the York road at Tadcaster town 

 'end, almost to the windmill; turned to the right, through 

 ' Catterton Spring, almost to Bilbrough Moor ; turned to 

 ' the left, and crossed the York road at Brettan Abbey, 

 ' through Pickering, up to Laycock's buildings, and lost 

 ' him in Mr. Markham's garden at Bolton Percy. Forty- 

 ' five minutes ; very fast.' 



This was an excellent day's sport, and it is not a little 

 curious that two foxes should be lost in the same place 

 on the same day. It seems probable that there was a 

 snug earth in Mr. Markham's garden, known to the foxes 

 but not to the earth-stopper, albeit that would probably be 

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