22 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



if at any future time either Mr Drax Grosvener 

 or his son Kichard should wish to take back the 

 Charborough country, Mr Farquharson should give 

 it up. Neither of the Drax Grosvenors wished to 

 do this. But Mr John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge, 

 who married Mr Erie Drax Grosvenors daughter, 

 and assumed the names of Erie Drax, started a 

 pack of harriers at Char borough, and after a few 

 years, wishing to exchange the hunting of the 

 hare for that of the fox, he demanded his father- 

 in-law's former country back from Mr Farquharson. 

 This the latter declined, on the ground that Mr 

 Drax had been no party to the original agreement ; 

 and, moreover, the Master said he felt himself 

 bound to keep the country in its integrity, as it 

 had been handed over to him. A lengthy corre- 

 spondence and a good deal of ill-feeling was the 

 result ; and when Mr Drax bought a property in 

 the very heart of Mr Farquharson's hunt country, 

 matters became very strained, and Mr Farquharson 

 was warned off all coverts belonging to his oppo- 

 nent. After Mr Drax resigned in 1853, Mr Digby 

 of Sherborne Castle, Lord Portman, and other 

 landowners joined in putting pressure on Mr 

 Farquharson to give up a portion of his immense 

 territory, so the old Master, in 1858, determined 

 to resign. 



As soon as the resignation had been effected 

 and the hounds dispersed, the Blackmore Vale 

 Hunt enlarged its borders. Lord Portman and 

 his son took that part which is still known 



