1867] LULLINGTON GORSE. 245 



I am to proceed. I think you have more influence with Peter than any one, 

 and perhaps if you asked him to allow it to remain as formerly he might do so. 

 I asked him if, in the event of the boundary being fixed and Lullington in the 

 Atherstone countrj'-, I might continue the privilege to you of drawing it. His 

 answer was No. He would take care of you. I have no doubt he will. 



I believe that the arrangement made in 1849 as to the covert being neutral is 

 good according to the laws of fox-hunting, and that I should be quite justified in 

 drawing the covert, but I don't want to make any bother about it. I wish you 

 could settle it. 



Ever yours truly, etc. 



The history of LuUingtou Gorse is this. When Mr. 

 Colvile became Master of the Atherstone he made the gorse 

 and obtained leave from Mr. Meynell Ingram to draw it. 

 The Meynell contention was that it never had been, strictly 

 speaking, a neutral covert, as was shown by the fact of 

 leave having had to be obtained to draw it from Mi. 

 Meynell Ingram ; and that the Atherstone had no business 

 on the Meynell side of the Mease till higher up, where the 

 brook joins in and takes them up to Seal and Grange 

 Woods. After Mr. Colvile retired, the same arrangement 

 as to permission to draw the gorse continued in force. 



