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of Derwent have all th« oountiy east' of tlie Healey Burn, and 

 tJae Haydon all the south side of the Tyne west of the Healey 

 Burn during five-sixths of the season. Thei T^nedale sdnoe 

 Mr. Priestman became Master of the Braes of Derwent have 

 never drawn east of Healey; bub they oome to' Newbiggen, 

 Dipton, and other places in Haydon domains in the late 

 spring, and I have seen them draw from Westi Dipton to with- 

 in a. mile or two- of Haydon Bridge some few years 

 ago. And a projyos the Tynedale and Haydon connection, I 

 have received the following interesting letter from Mr. John 

 Robson, of Newton, Bellingha.m : 



" Newton, Bellingham, Dec. 7, 1915. 



" Dear Shotley, — I have been very much interested in 

 your accounts of the Tynedale and Braes of Derwent hunts, 

 especially the former. 



" My father, who was an old man when he died over thirty 

 years ago, said that a Hexham solicitor called Stokoe kept 

 hounds at Slaley which were the origin of the Tynedale. 



" I see in Saturday's Field yon say that Mr. John (no 

 doubt this should be Nicholas, not John) Maughan did so. 

 Probably he followed Mr. Stokoe. This will account for the 

 Tynedale claiming that parti of their countiry south of the 

 Tyne. 



" Of course, they also own that portion called by Surtees 

 * Allgood's Corduroys,' but that can be accounted for by Mr. 

 Hunter Allgood's having the honnds, and their kennels being 

 at Nunwick. Do you remember the Braes of Derwent hunting 

 Hesleyside, or was it before your day? I succeeded them, and 

 they left the finest stock of old foxes I ever saw. 



" The ' Old Squire,' as he was called at Bellingham, was 

 the besiti pres^Jrver imaginable, and the Border was not a big 

 pack. I have seen aa many foxes as hounds in the Hesleyside 

 coverts, so much so that. I have hunted them three days in 

 succession, and found plenty on the third day. — I am, yours 

 truly, John Robson." 



The above letter goes a long way towards proving what I 

 have before suggested, viz., that when Mr. Maughan was 

 hunting the present Haydon country there was no other fox- 



