MR. THOMAS THORN HILL MORLAND 143 



The Grange, Thursday, May 9th, 1844. 

 Dear Morland, — I quite agree with your arrange- 

 ment, which, I believe, only includes Buscot, and that 

 the rest of the coverts, viz.. Crouch, Beckett, Water 

 Eaton, Tadpole, Sevenhampton, Stanton, Burderop 

 and Stainswick, are still to be drawn by my hounds ; 

 and that by our private arrangement Buscot and 

 Coleshill are to be yours as long as you and I hunt 

 the country, I shall be quite delighted to meet your 

 views, and I cannot help what the country may say, 

 as I am sure we have both done for our mutual good. 

 If the country choose not to agree with me, I sup- 

 pose, as you say, it must be settled by the owners 

 of coverts. Be so good as to give me a line to say 

 if I understood you right about the arrangement I 

 have mentioned in the first part of my letter, as 1 

 did not quite understand about the boundary of the 

 Rivers Thames and Cole, having no map here. You 

 mention the earths at Beckett to be stopped for me. 

 Do you also mean upon your present arrangement to 

 claim Beckett? If so, I must at once decline going 

 on with my present country, as it will be quite im- 

 possible for me to give satisfaction for three days a 

 week with such a scrap of country. The reason I 

 write this is, that because having no map here, you 

 made a division of which I am totally ignorant, not 

 knowing what coverts you wish. I understood plainly 

 from Folkestone that the only arrangement you 

 wished was a renewal of my letter of last year. I 

 thought I would do more by giving you up Buscot, 

 or rather that after 20th Octbr. you should draw 

 Buscot, the word alternate being left out. I must 

 state candidly that I could not, in justice to myself or 

 the country, give up more than Buscot and Coleshill 

 on the present terms. If more is wished to be taken 

 from me I shall as candidly state that I cannot go 

 on with the country; and I have no hesitation in 



