HUNTING SONGS 



Note 21, p. 18. 

 In right of his bugle and greyhounds, to seize. 



"The Master-Forestership of the whole was conferred by Randle I. 

 in the twelfth century on Ralph de Kingsley, to hold the same by 

 tenure of a horn." — Ormerod, vol. ii. p. 50. 



Amongst the list of claims asserted by the Master-Forester, are the 

 following : — 



"And claymeth to have the latter pannage in the said Forrest, 

 and claymeth to have windfallen wood . . . 



" He claymeth to have all money for agistment of hogs within the 

 said Forest . . . 



"And as to wayfe, he claymeth to have every wayfe and stray 

 beast as his own, after proclamation shall be made and not challenged 

 as the manner is." — Ormerod, vol. ii. p. 52. 



Note 22, p. 18. 



Whenever his liege lord chose a-hunting to ride. 



" Cheshire tradition asserts that the ancient foresters were bound 

 to use this horn, and attend in their office with two white greyhounds, 

 whenever the Earl was disposed to honour the Forest of Delamere 

 with his presence in the chace." — Ormerod, vol. ii. p. 55. 



Note 23, p. 18. 



It pass' d from their lips to the mouth of a Done. 



The Dones of Utkinton succeeded the Kingsleys as Chief-Foresters. 

 On the termination of this line, in 1715, the Forestership passed to 

 Richard Arderne, and through him to the Lords Alvanley. 



Note 24, p. 19. 



Thoti Palatine prophet I whose fame I revere. 



Robert Nixon was born in the Parish of Over. " The birth of this 

 individual," says Ormerod, " has been assigned to the time of Edward 

 the Fourth, but a second story also exists, which refers him to the 

 time of James the First ; a date palpably false, as many of the sup- 

 posed prophecies were to be fulfilled at an antecedent period. 



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