)32 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



July, 1842. 

 Dear Mr. Button, — I received a letter from 

 Cripps, enclosing me a resolution which the gentle- 

 men of the Cirencester country came to at a meeting 

 at Fairford, by which I perceive you are desirous of 

 seeing a copy of the agreement which was entered 

 into in the year 1832, at which time there was a tem- 

 porary division of the Berks country ; I therefore 

 send you a copy. Cripps tells me that the meeting 

 was surprised, and considered it rather curious that 

 any such agreement could exist, as Lords Radnor 

 and Barrington and Mr. Pryse appeared so anxious 

 for Lord Gifford to hunt their coverts. I thought it 

 better to send those gentlemen a copy of my letter to 

 Cripps, with his answer, and I now send you copies 

 of their replies. I also wrote to Mr. Calley, the 

 owner of Tadpole, and send you his answer. 



Yours, &c., 

 Thos. Thornhill Morland. 



BiBURY, Aug. 2nd, 1842, 

 Dear Morland, — I beg to acknowledge the 

 receipt of your letter, with the documents enclosed, 

 which I will lose no time in laying before the persons 

 interested. Allow me, however, to observe that the 

 agreement is only signed by two individuals on our 

 side of the country, Lord Barrington and Col. Warn- 

 ford, of whom the latter is since dead. 



I remain, 



Yours, &c., 



Jas. Dutton. 



Sheepstead, Aug. 3rd, 1842. 



Dear Mr. Dutton, — The temporary division 



was made and signed by Mr. Pryse Pryse and Robt. 



Codrington, the latter acted as secretary to the 



V. W. H. Club. I do not see what difference the 



