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Hamilton Moor, the pack had a good run after a hare. John Orr, Esq., Barrowfield, on the one part, and John Baird and Robert The minutes of the first meeting held on 8th April of the same year 8th April, 1771, is taken from an old book : — -" It was agreed as follows by Mr. J. Orr, Mr. R. Dunmore, Mr. John Baird, and Captain Roberton. place annually. The first of these to be some time in October or November territory, so that must be regarded as the origin of the chase on this ideas. There were just over a score of members on the list, but at the the pack formed in 1771, and the prime movers in the concern were a opening meet of the hounds, which were simply a scratch lot, only half a were hunting over a portion of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Dunmore, Esq. (as taking burden on them for the Glasgow Hunt), on the The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt* in 1771, that a pack of hounds was formed in the West, so that East country dozen turned out, and the sport was not of much account. From the diary " The Roberton Hunt or the Glasgow Hounds " was the title of of the late Mr. Orr, of Barrowfield, it would appear that the quarry was side of the Tweed. Be that as it may, it was only eight years later, or uniform, which was anything if not eccentric according to present modern SO far as records can be traced, it would appear that foxhunting other part, that they shall have a united Hunt which shall be called by the only a secondary consideration, for after hunting and killing a fox on was established in Scotland as far back as 1763, when hounds The first record of a meeting of this Hunt held at Bothwell Bridge on go to show that much consideration was displayed regarding the Hunt name of ' The Roberton Hunt,' and which shall have two meetings at this enthusiasts could not claim much in the matter of priority.

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