202 LETTER FROM VISCOUNT CHURCHILL. 



APPENDIX. 



With reference to the dispute between the Quorn and 

 the Billesdon Hunt, which, owing to its importance, is 

 herein given at considerable length (see pp. 153-167), I am 

 in receipt of the following communication from Viscount 

 Churchill, just as the last part of this volume goes to 

 press : — 



In the year 1909, being a member of Mr. Fernie's Hunt 

 Committee, and one of the chief land owners in the district 

 hunted by him (a small question having arisen with the Cottes- 

 more Hunt, as to the exact boundary between the two Hunts 

 on the Skeffington Lordship, which entailed a certain amount 

 of correspondence with the Quorn Hunt Committee), I, after 

 consultation with the other land owners, &c., informed the 

 chairman of the Quorn Hunt Committe (Lord Belper), that 

 whilst acknowledging that in the old days Mr. Fernie's country 

 formed part of the Quorn proper, yet in view of the fact of its 

 having been hunted seperately for so many years, we had no 

 intention of its ever reverting again to the Quorn. We there- 

 fore thought it in the interests of fox-hunting, and to avoid any 

 controversy at the time when the country should again be 

 vacant, to tell them this definitely, in order that this point 

 should be an acknowledged fact. 



I have the whole of the correspondence which took place on 

 this occasion, but for the moment I cannot lay my hands on it, 

 and I am therefore sending you this short r^sum^. 



