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request withdrawn the permission to the Ather- 

 stone Hounds of drawing his coverts on the north 

 side of the Leicester and Ashby Road, but that they 

 still might draw those on the south side. I made 

 Lord Howe and the gentlemen of the Atherstone 

 Hunt aware of what Mr. Martin had stated to me. 

 Upon which Lord Howe wrote to Lord Stamford, 

 and last week received a letter from him granting his 

 permission to the Atherstone Hounds to draw his 

 coverts on both sides of the Ashby and Leicester 

 Road on the same conditions as formerly." 



A meeting of the Atherstone Hunt Club was held 

 at Witherley on 9th March, 1848, there being pre- 

 sent : Lord Curzon, chairman ; J. A. Thomson, 

 Esq. ; Hon. E. Russell, M.P. ; C. R. Colvile, Esq., 

 M.P. ; Sir J. N. L. Chetwode, Bart. ; Sir W. Dixie, 

 Bart. ; Sir Hanson Berney, Bart. ; Captain Inge ; 

 George Moore, Esq. ; Hampden Clement, Esq. ; 

 Richard Jee, Esq. ; G. Chetwynd, Esq. ; Kirkby 

 Fenton, Esq. ; Charles Garnett, Esq. ; Henry Gar- 

 nett, Esq. ; Captain Charles Inge ; John Floyer, 

 Esq. Having taken into consideration the claim of 

 the Master of the Quorn Hounds to the exclusive 

 right of drawing the coverts, the property of the Earl 

 of Stamford, north of the Ashby and Leicester Road, 

 have agreed that it is their determination to maintain 

 the rights of the Atherstone Hunt, as enjoyed by 

 them for the last thirty years and upwards, and 

 they instruct their committee to reply accordingly. 

 (Carried unanimously.) 



