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am perfectly satisfied with the present arrangement, and as 

 far as I can see the matter at present, will not consent to any 

 change : my opinion is that the country will and ought to 

 support you ; the only fear I see is, lest any of the Melton or 

 Leicester subscribers should take advantage of Lord Stamford's 

 offer to save their pockets. I don't think it a very courteous 

 proceeding towards you. 



Yours very truly, 



Henry Greene. 



London, February 24th, 1859. 

 Dear Tailby, — Holding the situation as I do as one of the 

 Stewards of Boodles' Fox-hunting Committee, to whom 

 disputes on Fox-hunting law are referred : I wish to guard 

 myself against giving a premature opinion, and beg you will 

 consider my letter of yesterday as merely conveying my private 

 individual satisfaction with the present arrangement, and my 

 approbation of the manner in which you hunt the country. If 

 you should have occasion to mention my opinion in the matter, 

 I should be obliged if you would confine it to this interpre- 

 tation. 



Yours truly, 



Henry Greene. 



In November, 1871, Mr. Tailby having announced his intention 

 to retire at the end of the season ; a meeting of the members of the 

 Quorn hunt (convened by letter), was held at the Bell Hotel, 

 Leicester. The Earl of Wilton in the chair. 



After a considerable discussion, during which Sir Arthur 

 Hazlerigg said : — 



' This meeting seems to ignore what was done by the 

 gentlemen on the Harborough side. For fifteen years they 

 w^ere left entirely in the lurch, and to their own resources to 

 hunt the country ; the covert owners, therefore, feel that they 

 are now quite free to choose their own master; and at a recent 

 meeting they were almost unanimous on the subject.' 



Lord Grey de Wilton observing that there appeared to be con- 

 siderable difference of opinion on the subject, moved, and Col. 

 Bumaby seconded, 



* That the question be submitted to the committee, at 

 Boodles, and that Mr. Tailby be written to requesting him to 

 appoint a committee to represent his views.' 



