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money for Foxes, chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries. Packs of fox-hounds were maintained in our midst 

 at a much earlier period of history. For example, the Pipe-Rolls 

 of the third year of King John supply the following entry : — 



'Ric fit Truite redd comp de j. ni. p. hnd: Canibus ad lepore 7 

 uulpe. In thro libauit. Et Quiet' est.' 



Translation — 



'Richard the son of Truite returns account for one mark paid for 

 dogs for hunting hares and foxes. He has paid it into the Treasury. 

 He is quit. } 



During the earlier years of the present century the parish of 

 Martindale owned a pack of hounds, or at all events contributed 

 to their keep. Thus in the year 1826-27 we have an entry in 

 the churchwardens' accounts : ' Three stone of meal for dogs, 

 8s. 2d.' In the year 1827-28 we have an entry: 'To feeding 

 Hounds, 4s. Od.' It is repeated in the year 1830-31 : ' To Rd. 

 Mounsey feeding Hounds, 9s. Od.' In the year 1834-35 we 

 read: 'To Fox Heads and Keeping Dogs, lis. 8d.' The year 

 1835-36 furnishes another entry: * To Wm. Greenhow fetching 

 Hounds, Is. 6d.' The accounts paid on October 19, 1837, 

 include : ' To Wm. Jackson for feeding Hounds, 8s. 9d.' The 

 price of the meal required for the pack is named in the year 

 1824-25: 'To Dog Meal, 6 st. at 2/2— 13s. Od.' In some 

 cases keepers killed Foxes to save their Hares; yet this vulpicide 

 was gravely charged for. The Greystoke books supply two 

 entries of the kind. Thus in 1767 : 'Aug. 15. To the Game 

 Keeper at Graystock Castle for 3 Fox Heads and 2 Cubs, 

 £00, 10s. Od.' Again in 1780: 'April 23rd. To Richard 

 Holme, gamekeeper, for a ffox head, 3s. 4d.' But it was the 

 enterprise of private individuals, coupled with their love of 

 sport, that supplied most of the parish wiseacres with Fox 

 heads. The reward was sometimes disputed by the church- 

 wardens. The Rev. J. Wilson informs me that the order-book 

 of the Rolls of Quarter Sessions, held at Carlisle in July 1704, 

 furnishes a decision on the liability of the wardens to pay such 

 rewards : ' Upon the peticon of Thomas Watt setting forth that 

 he had killed fowerteen foxes, and ought to have fowerteen 

 shillings for soe doeing, and praying to have the same paid him. 



