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master of the East Essex Hounds, and liLinted the country 

 (now in possession of the Essex Union Hunt, and which 

 Mr. Marriott now lays claim to) up to the time of his 

 retirement, which took place in April, 1842, at which 

 period the country became abandoned, no one coming for- 

 ward to take the hounds as Mr. Newman's successor. The 

 former subscribers to the East Essex applied to the Essex 

 Union to hunt in the East Essex country, and accordingly 

 the Committee of the Essex Union Hounds applied to the 

 different owners of coverts for permission to draw them, 

 which was complied with without any restriction, except in 

 the cases of Lord Western and Mr. Bullock, both of whom 

 stipulated that in the event of the East Essex Hounds 

 being again established, their coverts should be given up 

 to that hunt again. 



■' In the summer of 1843 Mr. Marriott established his 

 pack of hounds under the title of the Elast Essex, and the 

 Essex Union Hunt immediately gave up to him the coverts 

 of Lord Western and Mr. Bullock, but Mr. Marriott de- 

 manded all the C()untr\- which Mr. Newman had previously 

 hunted. This demand was resisted, a correspondence 

 ensued, and ultimately the line of railway, as proposed by 

 Mr. Marriott, was fixed upon as the division between the 

 two countries ; and from that time to the present the E!ssex 



