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hunt in Worcestershire with the subscription 

 he received ; and accepted the proposition, of 

 the committee of the Old Berks Hunt. 



The country he took over was very much 

 reduced, for not only had the present V. W. H. 

 hunt been divided off, but a further great loss of 

 territory occurred on the west. In consequence 

 of the Oxfordshire country having been rather 

 neglected for some years, great dissatisfaction 

 prevailed. Lord Kintore had asked Mr. 

 Harvey Combe to hunt it, and a claim was 

 now set up that it was a distinct country, 

 having been formerly hunted by Colonel 

 Parker and others ; and with the assent of 

 Lord Abingdon, and other owners of coverts, 

 it was taken away from the Berkshire Hunt in 

 1832. It was then hunted by Mr. Lowndes 

 Stone for two seasons and by Mr. John 

 Phillips for one. Mr. Parker's country was 

 smaller therefore than the present Old Berks 

 country, for he had not any coverts beyond 

 Faringdon. 



The separation of the Oxfordshire country 

 did not, however, meet with universal satisfac- 

 faction, even in Oxfordshire, for years after the 

 Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, M.P., 

 wrote as follows : — 



Dear Morland,— . ... I did not think it 

 according to foxhunting law, when that Worcester- 



