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A SHOOTING TRIP IN 1734. 
The following letter, reprinted from The Scottish Field, 
has been preserved among family papers in Buckingham¬ 
shire. It was written to an ancestor of its possessor 
by another ancestor on the mother’s side: 
To John Durham, of Grange, 
nigh Edinboro: Northampton, 
September 20th, 1734. 
My Dear Friend—This letter our Member of 
Parliament has kindly promised to have con¬ 
veyed to jmu. I will give you, as I promised 
before I set out, some account of my long 
journie into Perthshire, and something of what 
befel me during my visit to my old schoolfel¬ 
low, and also some of the methods he emplois 
in taking the game of those hills. I had sent 
my long gunne on to his care by waggon a 
moneth previous, and it was no doubt much to 
my convenience, for how I should have passed 
through that countrie burthened with it on my 
horse I know not at all, altho I took my knave 
John (a very trustie fellowe, the son of an 
apothecary, who has fallen on evil times for 
himselfe) who carried saddle bags behind him, 
rather heavy for so long and rough a journie, 
as we found later. And he had also a wide 
blunderbuss keept always loaded with small 
bullets and I a brace of road pistols, for I am 
not a mind that road agents have it tlieire owne 
waye, and stand pieceable to be robbed. We 
also carryd swords, but I hoped not to use 
them, as swords are no weepons of mine. I 
took my owne horses so far as Nottingham, 
which is about 50 miles, and a longish journie 
for John’s horse, who was burdened with gear, 
but my owne was as fresh as at first, indeed 
we had baited them and ourselves at Leicester 
at the Bell Inn. where excellent fare was pro¬ 
vided. John, although my servant, is a decent 
fellowe, and something reade, and on my 
journie always dined and supped at my table. 
At Nottingham we supped and lay the night, 
starting very earlie in the morn, I on my 
owne horse and John on a hired one, for his 
was very stiff. That night we stayed at a little 
town called Barnsley, having passed through 
Chesterfield, where is a church spire which 
looks it woulde fall upon you as you ride under 
it, so through Rotherham to Barnsley. Here 
I got two fresh horses, getting the host of our 
inn to name me a decent man to take back the 
innkeeper’s horse at Nottingham, and take my 
own back to Northampton, where he took a 
letter ordering he should have a guinea if my 
horses were looking well. 
Two nights after, we lay at Carlisle, having 
had several amusing events on the journie, very 
pleasant to my temper. At Carlisle they gave 
us, to our supper, some delicious trout that 
they said came up the river Eden from the sea. 
They showed me some also just from the 
angler’s hand, they resembled salmon both out 
and in, for their flesh was pink. When I 
learned they coulde be catched with worms I 
sent for a manne who would show me where 
these fish swam, and he bargained to fetch me 
a rod and tackling, and next morning early 
we two went. He first catched two or three to 
tutor me, hut I could get none for some time, 
so he took my hands and the rod in his and 
showed me the strike, after which I catched 
some, and resolved to stopp in that place all 
that daye, and did, taking the manne into a 
taverne by the river at noon, where we had 
very excellent hamme and egges, and some 
ayle they sayde from York, very strong, so that 
I fell asleep for two hours, and then fished 
again, and so to supper and bed at the King’s 
Arms, a good hostelrie. 
The horses they gived to ns at Carlisle were 
strong mountaine breed, for we had a_ rough 
and wild country to travel for foftie miles, all 
moors and hills. On this day John's gunne 
proved useful, for ten miles on our journie a 
horseman wearing a black mask stopped us. 
and asked for almes, whych I refusing. I saw 
him beginning to handel a large pistol in his 
belt, and called on John to shoote at his leg, 
which he did. and the fellowe shouted qute. and 
made as to fall offe. but whether he did or no 
I knowe not, for we spurred on at a gallop. 
John looked hack, and said he seemed to be 
