54 HUNTING IN MANY COUNTRIES. 



whether the eastern end of the county was hunted at all 

 regularly during this period. The Slaley hunted the north- 

 west part of the district, more particularly the country about 

 Healey and Minster acres, and Mr. Maughan was Master of 

 the pack, but, as has been explained, in the late 'forties he 

 hunted a great deal of what is now the Tynedale country as 

 well, and all the information I have been able to gather goes 

 to suggest that though he paid a good deal of attention to the 

 country south ol the Tyue he seldom went east of the West 

 Auckland turnpike, which crotises the Derwent at Allansford 

 and reaches the Tyne at Corbridge. My father had much of 

 his early hunting with Mr. INIaughan, and he used to tell me 

 that so much country was available it was impossible to hunt 

 it all anything like fairly. I re'm ember Mr. Maughan very 

 well as a neat, horsey-looking man, not unlike Mr. John 

 Elarvey, of Durham, in his get-up and general ai3pearance, 

 and I have always heard that he was devoted to sport. It 

 was a son of his who many years later was for a few seasons 

 Master of the Haydon, and who had several disputes with the 

 Tynedale abont the boundaries of the two hunts. The fact 

 is, that this boundary question was always a difficult one 

 after there came to be more orthodox packs in the district, 

 and the trouble probably arose because of Mr. Maughan 

 taking over the Tynedale country, or a great part of it, when 

 the Northumberland and North Durham Hunt was dissolved 

 in 1845; while he at the same time retained and hunted the 

 Slaley country. A hunting atlas, published in 1856, bears 

 out my idea as tO' the Ebchester to Riding Mill-road being the 

 boundary between the Slaley and the Prudhoe and Derwent, 

 for in the year just named, when Mr. Maughan was Master of 

 the Tynedale, and hunting occasionally in the Slaley district 

 as well, the newly-formed Tynedale country, according to the 

 map, included on the south of the Tyne all the western side 

 of the present Braes of Derwent country and all the eastern 

 end of the present Haydon country. Indeed, the boundary 

 on the map is almost the line of the road — Riding Mill to 

 Ebchester — and this map was published after and not before 

 Mr. William Cow en established his pack. All the Shotley 

 coverts and the Sneep are marked as Tynedale country in this 

 map, but I never heard of the Tynedale drawing either of 



