36-i Ihe Hunting Countries of England. 



SOUTH-AND-WEST WILTS* 



The combinate title of ttie country under notice is due 

 to the amalgamation of two Hunts under the present 

 Master. Colonel Everett commenced work in 1869 by 

 forming a West. Wilts country from such territory as 

 the South Wilts could spare him — little more than 

 Heytesbury, Warminster Down, Southleigh and 

 vicinity — to add to what he could have to the westward 

 on sufferance from the Duke of Beaufort and the 

 Blackmoor Yale. In 1871, Mr. Codrington (who had 

 held the South Wilts for two years, in succession to 

 Capt. Jarrett and Mr. Thomas Pain) resigned. Colonel 

 Everett then united the mother country with its 

 branch ; and has ever since been Master of the South- 

 and-West Wilts. About two years ago the Duke of 

 Beaufort reclaimed the nice strip of grassy vale that 

 he had lent his neighbours, in the north of their 

 country from Westbury upwards ; and the South-and- 

 West Wilts were accordingly driven in on that side 

 upon the downs of Salisbury Plain. To the w^est they 

 might still hunt far over vale and farther still over a 

 varied pleasant countiy — if only the dwellers in that 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheets 20 and 21, and 

 Hohson's Foxlmntiuo' Atlas. 



