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Cumberland, and the Princesses, attended by a great con- 

 course of the nobility and gentry, hunted a stag, which was 

 killed " after four hours' sport." The Royal party were very 

 affable with the country people, " by conversing with them and 

 ordering them money." The highwaymen were very atten- 

 tive, some of the fraternity hunting belated hunting men 

 even within the sacred precincts of Windsor Park ! Owing to 

 the death of Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick, the King's 

 uncle, the Court went into mourning, and no hunting took 

 place until Saturday, August 17, which was a red-letter day 

 in the annals of the Royal pack. Between 10 and 11 o'clock 

 'Hheir Majesties, together with His Royal Highness the Duke, 

 and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses, came to the new 

 park by Richmond from Hampton Court, and diverted them- 

 selves with hunting a stag, which ran from 11 to 1, when he 

 took the Great Pond, and defended liimself for about half an 

 hour, when, being killed and brought out by the help of a 

 boat, the huntsman sounded the French horns. The skin was 

 taken off, and the carcase given to the dogs. His Majesty, 

 the Duke, and the Princesses Royal hunted on horseback; 

 Her Majesty and the Princess Amelia hunted in a four-wheel 

 chaise, and the Princess Carolina in a two-wheel chaise, and 

 the Princesses Mary and Louisa were in a coach. Several 

 of the nobility attended, and among them Sir Robert Walpole, 

 clothed in green as Ranger. When the diversion was over, 

 their Majesties, the Duke, and the Princesses refreshed them- 

 selves on the spot with a cold collation (as did the nobility at 

 some distance of time after), and soon after two in the after- 

 noon returned for Hampton Court.'" 



Saturday, August 31, Sunbury Common. — Their Majesties 

 and the rest of the Royal Family present. The stag took 

 them across the Thames, and was killed in the Eail of Lincoln's 

 park, after a chase of several hours. The Princess Royal 

 came to grief, " but received no hurt." 



Saturday, September 7. — Sir Robert Walpole and several 

 noblemen " diverted Count Kinski,* the Imperial Ambassador, 



* Count Philip de Kinski was at this time the Austrian Ambassador to our Court. 



