THE RULE OF Mr. GEORGE LANE FOX. r. 



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' hunting through Grimston Park, viewed him at the back 

 'of the road near the turnpike, and killed him at the back 

 'of Towton village. One hour and twenty minutes, first 

 'forty minutes fast. Second fox found at Tadcaster Willow 

 'Garth; ran him by Renshaw, Heyton Wood, Becca, 

 ' Potterton ; left Saw Woods on the right, Morwick on the 

 ' left, lost at Killingbeck. A fine hunting run, two hours 

 ' and ten minutes.' 

 'Dec. 26th. Milford. Fox away from the wood before hounds 

 ' came. Found in Brex AVood ; away to Gateforth and 

 ' Birkin, down to the river. Turned to tlie right to Byram, 

 ' got on a fresh fox ; hung about the park for a time, then 

 'went away for Buttress Hill, Milford, to Sherburn station, 

 'and lost. Good day's hunting.' 



This run took place just before a storm, when there is 

 often a holding scent such as there seems to have been on 

 this occasion. It will be noted that this run took place 

 over part of the Selby country, which was, in the earlier 

 days of the Bramham Moor Hunt, so famous for a fine 

 show of stout foxes, but which of late years has been rather 

 short of what an old friend used to call the 'raw material.' 

 There does not seem to be anything of much importance 

 to record in connection with the Bramham during the month 

 of January, 1850, but Mr. Fox relates a curious Incident which 

 took place when he met the York and Ainsty at Acaster. 

 They had a fair day's .sport, running their second fox from 

 Pallethorpe Whin to Healaugh, over the river to Blackfen. 

 During the run, the whipper-in, Stephen, was suddenly seized 

 with a curious illness, and lost his senses, and when he came 

 to himself, he found himself at Riccall village, far enough 

 from the line of the run. Whether he ever had any return 

 of the attack, or what was the cause of it, I have not been 

 able to discover. 



February seems to have been a good month. On the 

 4th, they had a good day from Garforth Bridge. They had 



