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near Stamford) take tliem to tlie most distant of their 

 Wednesday ground. 



Tlie following " official '^ document may be of 

 interest, as setting *fortli tlie limits, and something of 

 the history of the Hunt : 



Boundaries of the Cottesmore Hunt, 1842, when the Earl of 

 Lonsdale gave up the country : 



To the East, as far as practicable. 



To the South, it is bounded by the Kiver "Welland as far as 

 Duddington, it then extends to the Wakerley Woods, joining the 

 Welland and Harringworth, which again divides the country as 

 far as Rockingham. 



To the West, the Brook that runs from Rockingham to 

 Allexton is the division ; Allexton Wood is neutral ; the remain- 

 ing part of the West side of the country is marked by the 

 boundaries of the Lordships of East Norton, Tugby, Skeffington, 

 Tilton Newton, Marefield and Quorn (?). These Lordships are 

 all in the Cottesmore country with the exception of the coverts on 

 Newton Hills which are neutral. 



The North, the Lordships of Little Dalby, Burton Lazars, 

 Stapleford, Wymondham, Sewstern, Gunby, Stainby, Colster- 

 worth, are in the Cottesmore ; the road that runs between Easton 

 and AVitham Woods to Irnham village divides the country ; the 

 Burton Woods, Easton Wood and Pasture, Bitchfield, Osgaby 

 Coppice, Irnham Old Park Wood, Stol-e Park Wood, Butley Hall, 

 Kaishy, Kirkby, Aslackby, and Dunsby Wood being neutral. 



In 1807, Lord Sherard made a covert in Stainby conditionally, 

 that it should be hunted alternately by the Cottesmore and 

 Belvoir Packs. 



On the 11th March, 1822, it was agreed by Lord Forester on 

 he part of the Duke of Rutland and Colonel Lowther on the 

 part of Lord Lonsdale, that Stoke Park Wood, Kirkby and 

 Aslackby Woods, should be given up to the Belvoir Hunt. 



Sir Wniiam Lowther (afterwards 1st Earl of Lonsdale) lived 



