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on this subject, in 1842, was brought to an end by 

 what I considered an admission on your part of my 

 right to the old Berkshire country, which had been 

 temporily divided by the owners of coverts in 1832. 

 After your admission of my right I did not at that 

 time care to retake possession of more than one of 

 those coverts, viz., the Furze Hills, which I insisted 

 upon taking as a proof of my right. Last year, you 

 are aware that, in consequence of Lord Gififord's 

 inability to do justice to all the country which he 

 held, I, at his request, hunted Buscot and Coleshill; 

 and not supposing that this arrangement would 

 again be disturbed, gave up my Oxfordshire country, 

 I was perfectly willing to have continued the same 

 arrangement, but to my surprise, when I called upon 

 Lord Gifford in January last, he informed me that 

 the gentlemen of his hunt were dissatisfied at his 

 giving up Buscot and that therefore he must break 

 off the former arrangement. 



Upon this I consulted with my friends, and all 

 agreed that I must maintain my right and take 

 possession of the coverts which were, by suffer- 

 ance, temporarily allowed to Lord Ducie by the 

 division of 1832. On intimating my intention to 

 Lord Gifford, he proposed that I should retain 

 Buscot and Coleshill, in addition to which I demand 

 Beckett and Compton, thereby making the Rivers 

 Thames and Cole the division. If this is conceded 

 I am willing to let Lord Gifford, as long as he hunts 

 your country, make use of the other coverts west of 

 the Cole, on the understanding that it is on suffer- 

 ance, and not to prejudice the right of any person 

 who may hereafter succeed me in the Berkshire 

 country. 



If the coverts at Beckett and Compton, with those 

 at Buscot and Coleshill, are not conceded, I must 

 assert my right to the whole of the Berkshire 



