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the aforesaid Roger, Earl of Winton, and Hugh de 

 Albaniaco, Earl of Arundel, in the court of the Lord 

 the King at Leicester. And if any wild beast, wounded 

 by any of the aforesaid bows, shall enter the aforesaid 

 park by any deer-leap, or otherwise, it shall be lawful 

 for the aforesaid Roger de Somery and his heirs to 

 send one man, or two of his, who shall follow the 

 aforesaid wild beast, with the dogs pursuing that wild 

 beast, within the aforesaid park, without bow and 

 arrows, and may take it on the day whereon it was 

 wounded, without hurt of other wild beasts in the 

 aforesaid park abiding ; so that if they be footmen 

 they shall enter by some deep-leap, or hedge ; and if 

 they be horsemen they shall enter by the gate, if it be 

 open ; and otherwise shall not enter before they wind 

 their horn for the keeper, if he will come." 



Under the seventh Earl of Stamford Bradgate 

 became one of the most famous game-preserves in 

 England or the world. Some of the largest bags 

 on record have been made there. Lord Walsingham, 

 in the Badminton volume on " Field and Covert 

 Shooting," gives the following results of two days' 

 pheasant-shooting there in December, 1861 : " First day, 

 with thirteen guns hares, 193; rabbits, 267 ; pheasants, 

 736; woodcocks, 7; various, 3; total, 1,206. Second 

 day hares, 173; rabbits, 190; pheasants, 1,605 J wood- 

 cocks, 26 ; various, 3 ; total, 1,997. And on one day in the 

 same week 3,333 rabbits, besides 26 head of other game, 

 were killed by thirteen guns. This number of rabbits 

 has only lately been exceeded in 1883 and 1885 by 

 3,684 and 5,086, with nine guns, on Mr. R. J. Lloyd 



