MR. THOMAS THORNHILL MORLAND 169 



to be hunted by the Old Berkshire, and on the 

 opposite sides of the said rivers by the V.W.H. 



" 2nd : That the earths at Sevenhampton, Crouch, 

 Stanton, Buscot, Coleshill and the Beckett coverts 

 should be stopped and put to for both packs. 

 " (Signed) Barrington. 



" M. Hicks-Beach. 

 " E. Martin-Atkins." 



Then follows on the same sheet what we think 

 will be quite sufficient if generally signed, which we 

 do not (with two or three exceptions) doubt will be 

 the case without any further meetings : — 



" We, the undersigned, fully agree to the foregoing 

 arrangement, and consider the country to be perma- 

 nently divided accordingly." 



Beach says they mean to hunt three days a week 

 so long as the country will stand it. From what 

 I told him he considers Burderop belongs to their 

 side, it therefore stands so. 



I should think in another week or so each pack 

 may go to work on the new arrangement. 

 Yours affectionately, 



E. Martin-Atkins. 



The arrangement was accepted with the 

 exception of a protest signed by two members 

 of the V.W. H., Messrs. James Dutton and 

 J. Raymond Barker. 



Sixty years have passed since this dispute 

 arose, and no survivor remains of those who 

 took part in it. The correspondence between 

 Mr. Morland and the V.W.H. was all pub- 

 lished at the time, and the matter is still a 

 subject of conversation in the Hunt, though 



