28 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



The country between Pleshey and Chelmsford is well 

 supplied with fox-coverts, and the interests of the hunt are 

 well cared for by the Messrs. Christie and Marriage. 



In the parish of Great Waltham there are four im- 

 portant coverts, known as Sparrowhawks, Israels, Fitz- 

 Johns and The Bushetts, all belonging to Colonel Nevill 

 Tufnell, of Langleys. To these, Mr. C. E. Ridley — one of 

 a family long known in Essex as keen foxhunters — has 

 added a new gorse at Hartford End, which he hopes to 

 make the most certain find in the whole of the Hunt. 

 The other principal coverts in the neighbourhood of 

 Chelmsford are Bush Wood and Boynton Hall Wood, both 

 the property of Lord Petre ; and College Wood, the pro- 

 perty of Mr. Edward Rosling. 



The Friday and Saturday countries have shared 

 largely in the agricultural depression of recent years, as 

 appears from the able report of Mr. Hunter Pringle, 

 published last year by the Royal Commission on Agri- 

 culture. However, it is some consolation to find that the 

 majority of the Scottish farmers who have come into the 

 county in the last ten years, are holding their own, and 

 there are fewer unoccupied farms than in 1886, whilst com- 

 plaints against sportsmen are confined to certain shooting 

 tenants, and no feeling is reported against foxhunting. 



