CHRONOLOGY.

1752. Papers were affixed in the avenues to both houses of parliament,

giving notice that the farmers and their servants intended to destroy

the pheasant and partridge eggs, and leverets, if the country gentlemen,

who had entered into an association for the preservation of game, did

not desist. There were sad hearts at this time between the owners and

occupiers of land, from the obnoxiousness of the game laws, and the

severity of their execution.

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