. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. 1.—TYPICAL BILSDALE FARM. 2.— THE BUCK INN. 3.—STOCKING ,—THE OLD FOX AND HOUNDS INN. 5.—ST. HILDAs -v* **>*v^t^ CHAPTER I. FOREWORD. Yorkshire lays claim to have been the birthplace of thefirst recognised pack of foxhounds and to the first pack ofharriers. With the latter—the Penistone pack—we are notconcerned in writing the history of Englands OldestHunt, but rather with the Bilsdale, Farndale, and Sinning-ton countries in the North Riding
. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. 1.—TYPICAL BILSDALE FARM. 2.— THE BUCK INN. 3.—STOCKING ,—THE OLD FOX AND HOUNDS INN. 5.—ST. HILDAs -v* **>*v^t^ CHAPTER I. FOREWORD. Yorkshire lays claim to have been the birthplace of thefirst recognised pack of foxhounds and to the first pack ofharriers. With the latter—the Penistone pack—we are notconcerned in writing the history of Englands OldestHunt, but rather with the Bilsdale, Farndale, and Sinning-ton countries in the North Riding, where the first houndswere kept solely for the purpose of hunting Reynard, the review the history of any pack of hounds of standingessentially takes us back to people and manners, to customs,strange beliefs, and occurrences of long ago. We are leadinto many side issues, all of intense interest and all havinga direct bearing upon the main subject. The fact of the matter is that a pack of hounds which hasbeen extant for a century or more seems as it were, to havebeen the hub of the circle of the history of the particularportion of the country in which its operations are in collecting the information for the story of En
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