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to be obtained from a variety of owners, of whom ymplicated title, and others again had let it on long led for; a large silk factory and three public-houses and rebuilt elsewhere; over 150 cottages and a huge sroposed improvements and then rebuilt further off; ble hedgerows dug up, ridges and furrows levelled, xtensive coverts and shrubberies had to be planted. t of the protracted and vexatious, nay exasperating yerties, or to enter into a detailed description of the time seemed hopeless of final accomplishment. The 1other which it became equally imperative to sweep ssitated the purchase also of the plot adjoining it. yn one naked spot showed up the bareness of its kept on extending the boundaries of the park fresh vany years we had virtually come to an end of our or on one side some of the Duke of Buckingham’s the other, thirty acres, which belonged to a tenant the Duke nor the farmer would hear either of yours, I once said to the Duke, while on a visit view would be spoilt.” ‘Come,’ he replied with a is house. ‘There; look out, he said, pointing to »w would be spoilt. After the Duke’s death his the possession of the farmer’s thirty acres to the