INTRODUCTION 



Ordered, that Mr. Grey is paid for the repairs of the 

 course, £^, 19s. od. Ordered, that Mr. Wilbraham 

 is paid for sowing and inclosing a cover, ;^i6, os. od. 



" 1778.— February. Voted, that Mr. Wilbraham 

 gives Mr. Stevens as a compliment for drawing the 

 lease of a cover on the Forest the sum of five guineas. 



" November. Voted, that an order made the 

 eighth meeting, Feb. 1776, that the part of that 

 order containing these words, ' that the Claret never 

 be admitted into the house bill ' shall be rescinded, 

 and that the deficiency of the Claret, after what is 

 pay'd for strangers, &c., be inserted in the bill. 



" The Secretary's accounts were settled and 

 allow'd, being on the Claret account ^^15, 5s. 6d,, 

 and on the house account £2, 2s. od. No more is 

 now left in his hands. Voted, that each member 

 of this Hunt do deposit 29s. in the Secretary's 

 hands for a fund to purchase Claret, and that Mr. 

 Roger Wilbraham be requested to order it down, 

 and that the Secretary do answer Mr. Roger Wil- 

 braham's draft for that purpose. 



" 1779. — Oct. Rev. Mr. Lane and Mr. Whit- 

 worth are voted honorary members ; it being the 

 unanimous wish of the Society that the Rev. Mr. 

 Lane as an original member, whenever he finds his 

 health sufficiently re-established, may be considered 

 a member of this Society. Agreed to allow Mr. 

 Southon fifteenpence a bottle, and the bottles, for 

 drinking our own claret. 



" 1780. — November. At this meeting a fox was 

 found for the first time in the new gorse cover, near 

 the Old Pale. 



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