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the 8th, 1 88 1, the hounds met at Besselsleigh 

 and had a blank day, this being the first blank 

 day experienced by these hounds for eighteen 

 years ! 



A meeting of members of the Hunt was 

 held at the Crown Inn, Faringdon, on Tuesday, 

 December the 19th, 1881 — present : Viscount 

 Barrington, in the chair, Sir W. Throckmorton, 

 Colonel Van de Weyer, Captain Loder^ 

 Symonds, Messrs. C, P. Duffield, D. Bennett, 

 B. H. Morland, Finlay Campbell, F. M. Atkins, 

 G. F. Crowdy, and others — when the following 

 resolution was unanimously passed: "This 

 meeting desires, in the most cordial terms, to 

 tender to Lord Craven its best thanks for the 

 very efficient manner in which he has hunted 

 the country the whole period of his mastership." 



Lord Craven, in reply, regretted he could 

 not continue to hunt the country in the same 

 way, but offered to continue for another year 

 if he was permitted to kennel the hounds at 

 Ashdown and to hunt from there, an offer 

 which was gladly accepted, Ashdown, it should 

 be mentioned, being in the Craven Hunt, 



The last meet of the season was on Friday, 

 April the 14th, 1882, when the hounds met at 

 Ashdown by special invitation from Sir Richard 

 Sutton, Master of the Craven. It was gener- 

 ally known that Lord Craven intended to 



