244 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Nuneham Coverts. In deference to the 

 strongly expressed views of Mr. Harcourt 

 the following resolution was passed by the 

 committee of the Old Berks Hunt: "That 

 this meeting, in deference to the strongly ex- 

 pressed wishes of Mr. Harcourt, acquiesces in 

 his suggestion of making the Nuneham Coverts 

 neutral between the Old Berks and South 

 Oxfordshire Hunts, for a period of seven 

 years, assuming that the latter Hunt will 

 include the Baldon Coverts in the neutral 

 zone, and the Old Berks conceding Sandford 

 Brake to the same arrangement." This agree- 

 ment was duly ratified and acted upon. 



The seven years having expired a further 

 arrangement took place in Mr. Thomas Duf- 

 field's time, when Nuneham Coverts and Sand- 

 ford Brake were given exclusively to the South 

 Oxfordshire Hunt for regular hunting, but 

 were exclusively retained by the Old Berks 

 for cub-hunting, a written agreement to this 

 effect being executed. This latter arrange- 

 ment is still in force in 1904. 



