312 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



The stagg came out of the wood neere where the Kinge 

 was, and nianie with him, whoe followed the hounds ; but 

 Prince George (whoe had married the Princess Ann), the 

 Duke of Albemarle, the Earle of Feversham, Lord Dart- 

 mouth, and seuerall others, being on the other side of the 

 wood, heard not the hounds, nor knew not that the staofPr 

 had left the wood vntill late, and so seuerall cast out, and 

 neuer reacht the hounds. The stagg made toward the 

 forest, and gott thither and rann almost as farr as Wanstead, 

 where, turninge head, he was at last killed between Rum- 

 ford and Brentwood, or neerer Rumford. The Kinge was 

 neere at the death ; he wtt a coach to carrie him to Brent- 

 wood (where his owne coach was) and well pleased that he 

 was in, and the Lords throwne out. They, not recouering 

 the hounds, went all to New Hall" [Boreham], "whither, 

 after 9 of the clock at night, his Majestic came to a supper. 

 A table was prepared for his Majestie, and others for the 

 Lords and gentlemen, but the Kinge would haue his 

 fellow hunters sup with him, and about a dozen sate downe 

 with him. The next day he hunted a stagg which lay in 

 New Hall parke, and had been there the most part of the 

 winter. After a round or two, he leapt the pale, tookt the 

 riuer, and rann thro' Bramfeeld, Pleshie, and so to the 

 Roothings, and was killed in Hatfield. His Majestie kept 



