172 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



entered were by Fleecer, Fencer, or Latimer, sons of the 

 Belvoir Fallible. 



The regular season opened well at Sutton Hall, where 

 there was an excellent show of foxes, and hounds kept 

 changing all day. The result was a very hard day without 

 blood, and as the country rode very deep, there were more 

 than the usual number of falls. The next day is worthy of 

 notice, inasmuch as hounds met out of their regular country 

 at the request of the Archbishop : — 



' Tuesday, November 5th. Bishop Monkton — not Ainsty, — at 

 ' request of Archbishop, as he had a meeting in York. 

 ' How powerful are the attractions of hunting ! Found in 

 ' whin ; ran to ground in quarry. G. Wickham viewed 

 ' another fox. Laid them on ; carried him through Burton 

 'Whin to Brearton village, where we lost. On to Warren. 

 ' Found. Raced through Mires, over grass fields by 

 ' Brearton to Bilton Banks, and on to a quarry of Miss 

 ' Rawson's, beyond Nidd. Here we made no more of him ; 

 ' lost. Some hounds crossed river, so we went back to look 

 ' for them. Found all but Forester. Mason met with an 

 ' accident, and is laid up.' 



The season was a very broken one, and snow came early, 



hounds being stopped by it from November nth to the 



1 8th, and when they were able to hunt there was not much 



sport. Colonel Fairfax speaking of it as the very worst month 



for scent he ever knew. December was one long frost, and 



from the 6th to the 30th hounds were kept in kennel. Then 



came a good day's sport, all the more welcome after such a 



long stoppage : — 



' Tuesday, December 31st. Buckle's inn. Though the "bone" 

 ' was scarcely out of the ground, we hunted with turned-up 

 'horses at Buckle's inn. Monro, two Newtons, Mills, 

 ' Nalton, Dykes, AUonby, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, my wife and 

 ' children, composed the field. We trotted off to Pickering 

 ' Wood. Found at once. Ran up to Kilby's, through 

 ' Willow Garth, Stank Hill, nearly to Colton House, over to 



