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pounds to the covert fund, and this conferred the right to 

 wear the hunt button. The King's Head alluded to is 

 now the St. James's Hotel, Derby. 



Field, M&y 4th, 1867 :— 



MEETING- OF THE MEMBERS OF MR. MEYNELL INGRAM'S 



HUNT. 



An influential meeting of the owners of coverts and subscribers to the covert 

 fund of this hunt took place on the 26th ult., at the King's Head Hotel, Derby, 

 at the earnest request of Mr. Meynell Ingram, and was attended by Lord Scars- 

 dale, the Hon. E. Coke, E. S. Pole, Esq., Sir Percival Heywood, F. Bradshaw, 

 Esq., L. K. Hall, Esq., F. G. Levett, Esq., and many others interested in the 

 hunt. Mr. H. Meynell Ingi-am said he regretted that it had been necessary to 

 give the gentlemen present the trouble of attending, and the more so as the 

 few words he should trouble them with were not of a cheering nature, but the 

 destruction of foxes during the past season had been so great in many parts of 

 both Staffordshire and Derbyshire, that he felt it necessary to bring it before 

 their notice. They were aware that, without the assistance and co-operation of 

 owners of coverts and farmers, hunting must come to an end, and unless the 

 preservation of foxes was more general, he feared their prospect of sport for the 

 next season was not a hopeful one. Mr. Meynell further said that, on his part, 

 if any suggestions should be made likely to conduce to the convenience of the 

 country in general, or to promote the preservation of foxes, he should be most 

 happy to give them his full consideration ; at the same time, from the long and 

 general kindness which had been shown him for so many years, he could not 

 help expressing both surprise and regret that anything should have happened 

 •calculated to give an impression that unfriendly feeling existed in any part of the 

 country he hunted. The meeting unanimously concurred in what Mr. Meynell 

 Ingram had stated, and expressed their determination to do all in their power to 

 secure a good supply of foxes for their next season. 



This meeting seems to have borne fruit, for towards 

 the end of the next season it was intimated to the master 

 that there were rather too many foxes in the Radburne 

 and Sutton country, and it would be well to kill one or 

 two. Tom went to Kadburne " with blood in his eye," to 

 use a Kocky-Mountain-ism, and found one in Mr. Newton's 

 osiers, and killed him; found a second in a turnip field, and 

 caught him in a plantation near the osiers; found three in 

 the osier bed at Bearwardcote, and caught two of them in 

 the next field but one ; and found another in Sutton 

 gorse, ran him into a stick heap on the hill near Etwall, 

 bolted and killed him. Total, two brace and a half 1 and 

 this in March. It was the fifth day of the month, so the 



