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he complains bitterly of a '' confounded farmer '' 

 who gave him wrong information in order to pre- 

 vent the field riding over the farm. This is the 

 only mention made in the whole of the Diaries 

 of any trouble with the farmers or yeomen. 



'' January i6th, 1819. Baxterley. — Twenty- 

 three couples; Y. P. Found in Bentley Park, 

 after one rattle round the covert, went to ground 

 in the main earth. Drew Merevale Gorse and the 

 Grendon woods blank. Went and bolted a fox out 

 of a drain close to Grendon House ; ran him by 

 Warton, where he was headed, crossed the river, 

 past Lord Grey's House, and killed him near 

 Ratcliffe after thirty-five minutes without a 

 check ; a dog-fox. Rode Lupus and Skylark ; 

 Kit, Chicken ; Jack, Doctor.'' 



The Diary for this season ends here abruptly, 

 but mentions that it was '' a very good season, 

 a great deal of hunting, and killed thirty-nine and 

 a half brace of foxes.'* 



