CHAPTER IX. 



B RAM HAM Moor Huntsmen. 



The Bramham Moor Hunt has generally been fortunate in 

 its huntsmen. They have almost always been men who 

 have spent long years in the country in one capacity or 

 another ; and this, it need scarcely be said, is a very important 

 factor in the well-being of a pack of hounds. Of the earlier 

 huntsmen but little record remains, and until Treadwell's 

 time there is not much to be learnt about them beyond their 

 names, and in some instances, the length of their service. 



The first huntsman whose name comes down to posterity 

 is Martin Walkerley, a heavy man with a remarkably fine 

 voice ; and as that is specially mentioned of him, it is to be 

 presumed that he was not chary in the use of it. He was 

 huntsman to Mr. James Lane Fo.x, who, though never 

 himself a hard-riding man, was particularly careful to have 

 his servants well mounted, a tradition which, it need scarcely 

 be said, is maintained to this day. In the kennel he was 

 a good man, as indeed he had need to be with so particular 

 a master, and he showed good sport, as is evidenced by 

 the old records of the Hunt. 



Luke Freeman, it may be stated here, was huntsman to 

 Sir Thomas Gascoigne, though whether it was when that 

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