CHAPTEE III. 

 The Haydon Country. 



The Haydon Hunt, which joins the Braes of Derwent 

 country on the nortii-westi, is more than one hundred years 

 old, for it wag in eixistenoe as long agO' as 1809. It was in 

 those days a, trencher-fed harrier pack, and I have not been 

 able toi fix the date when the hunt whipped off from hare 

 to fox. I havei, howeiver, mentioned that I had seen 

 a. scarlet coat, with a. Gothic arched stiand-up collar 

 which had belonged to a member of the Lee family of 

 Land Ends, near Haydon Bridge, and which it is thought was 

 made between 1830 and 1840. The scarlet colour suggests 

 that fox Avas then hunted by the Haydon, but on the buttons 

 were the letters H.H. and a running hare, and thia makes one 

 incline to thei opinion that eighty years ago some of thet 

 members of the Haydon went hare hunting in scarlet^. I may 

 here mention that hare hunting in scarlet has oooasdonally 

 been the fashion in certain countries, more particularly per- 

 haps where there were no foxhounds in the same neighbour- 

 hood. Even now scarlet is ocoasdonally worn by the officials 

 of harrier paoksi, and, for example, the Master of the Thanet 

 and Heme "wears a, red coat," while the huntsman and 

 whippers-in of the Vale of Lune are always clothed in scarlet. 

 A little later than the days of the coat referred to Mr. 

 Nicholas INIaughan was hunting a pack of foxhounds in the 

 Slaley district, but whether the foxhound pack was a distinct 

 establishment and the Haydon pack was still hunting a little 

 fiirther west. I do not know, nor have the many inquiries 

 I have made thrown any tirustworthy lighti on the subject. 

 Mr. Maughan's first pack, which, I believe, hunted entirely 



