MR. THOMAS THORN HILL MORLAND 133 



death of Col, Warnford can make ; and I hardly 

 know who else there was at the time to attend a 

 meeting, as an owner of coverts, on the Tadpole side 

 of the country. 



Yours, very truly, 

 Thomas Thornhill Morland. 



{This letter was sent with the preceding^ 



Cirencester, Monday. 

 Dear Morland, — Cripps thinks that it would 

 not be very easy to get a meeting together now, but 

 I think I am safe in saying that we all in these parts 

 recognise the countries hunted by yourself, and Gif- 

 ford, as one ; and that the present division of them is 

 only for mutual convenience. At our last meeting 

 a claim was put in, on your part, to a sort of slice 

 of the country going somewhere towards Tadpole 

 Brook, I believe, which was objected to, because had 

 it been carried into effect it would have left all this 

 part of the country without hounds at all. 



Yours, &c., 



Jas. Button. 



Sheepstead, Aug. i6th, 1842. 

 Dear Mr. Button, — I have just received yours 

 of yesterday, wherein you state, " that the gentlemen 

 in these parts recognise the country hunted by your- 

 self, and Gifford, as one, and that the present division 

 of them is only for mutual convenience." I fear 

 that, in the situation in which I stand, I cannot con- 

 sider the recognition sufficient, and I must therefore 

 refer you again to my letter to Cripps of July 19th. 



I am, &c., 

 Thos. Thornhill Morland. 



P.S. — I think if you, or R. Cripps, would meet 

 me some day, perhaps we could arrange matters in 

 a few minutes. At any rate, a few words would be 

 more to the purpose than many letters. 



