446 The Hunting Countries of England. 



LORD PERCY'S.* 



'On the maps referred to yoii will find, under the 

 denomination of Major Brown's, an approximation of 

 the country now hunted by Lord Percy in Upper 

 Northumberland. A part of that set down as ^^the 

 Northumberland and Berwickshire '' was in his hands 

 even previous to the demise of that Hunt ; while of 

 late a considerable further addition has accrued to him 

 by the apportionment of the territory of the deceased 

 between its three nearest neighbours. Belford and 

 Wooler were already on his northern boundary. 

 Now he goes as far as Ford and Lowick, and has a 

 joint right (with the North Berwickshire and the 

 Duke of Buccleuch) to the topmost corner of Eng- 

 land. The Cheviots on the west, and the North Sea 

 on the east, are his lateral boundaries — and serve to 

 denote his general whereabouts. A mixed and 

 various country is Lord Percy^s. Some of his best 

 will take rank with anything that is under tillage ; 

 some is rough and mountainous ; some is soft and 

 sedgey ; and a strip of it is a neat pretty vale. 

 Foxes are strong and plentiful ; and whatever ground 



* Vide Stauford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 2, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



