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of fox-hunting. If at any future period you 

 should be in treaty for a country, (which 

 from political disputes, or other causes, has 

 not been kept entire, and other hunts have 

 taken the advantage during the inter-reg- 

 num, of drawing those coverts most conve- 

 nient for them to reach from their own 

 kennel, or those they may have known to 

 be the best situated for sport,) before you 

 arrange to hunt it as a country, it is nothing 

 more than common justice, according to 

 the laws of fox-hunting (as far as I always 

 understood them,) and to prevent future 

 misunderstanding, that the coverts so drawn 

 should be restored, and the hunt given up 

 to you entire. 



It is a very bad precedent for any one to 

 accept of a covert (which he knows from 

 time immemorial has belonged to another 

 hunt,) because the master of the hounds 

 who happens to hunt it at the time is not 

 approved of by the owner of the covert ; 



