COVERT. " Coverts," says Nelson, " are those woods which are thickets, and full of trees toucliing one another .... a covering or hiding-place for deer." Laws of Game. The great Surrey and Sussex family of Covert, whose contiguous manors are said to have extended from Southwark to the English Channel, traced their pedigree to temp. Henry II.

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