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About 1740 the Duke of Bolton had his pack 

 of hounds at his residence of Burley Lodge, and 

 correspondence passed between his Grace and 

 the Duke of Richmond, complaining that there 

 was not room for both packs. That was likely 

 enough, with the kennels barely two miles apart, 

 but there is nothing to indicate to us which 

 pack were deemed interlopers, and which ought 

 to give way. 



A little later Lord Eglinton came to reside 

 at Somerley, and though that mansion was well 

 across the river Avon, yet he seems to have 

 pursued his sport in the New Forest, and again 

 provoked remonstrances, this time from the Duke 

 of Richmond, while foxes seem to have become 

 very scarce no wonder. In these circumstances 

 the hunting of the country must have become 

 chaotic, and it was high time that some one 

 should intervene for during all this time the 

 local pack of hounds, of which Mr. Gilbert was 

 master, was hunting over the whole Forest when- 

 ever he could squeeze in a day. 



It was high time that the matter was taken 

 in hand authoritatively, and in 1784 we find 

 a manifesto issued by the proper authority 

 for controlling these matters viz. the Lord 

 Warden, who at that time was H.R.H. the 

 Duke of Gloucester. This edict throws light on 



