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" made proclamation to all lords and 

 barons, gentlemen, landwardmen, and 

 freeholders, to compear at Edinburgh 

 with a month's victual to pass with the 

 King to danton (subdue) the thieves of 

 Teviotdale, etc., and also warned all 

 gentlemen that had good dogs to bring 

 them, that he might hunt in the said 

 country. The Earl of Argyle, the Earl 

 of Huntley, the Earl of Atholl, and all 

 the rest of the Highlands, did, and 

 brought their hounds with them to hunt 

 with the King. His Majesty therefore 

 passed out of Edinburgh with 12,000 

 men, and hounded and hawked all the 

 country and bounds. Next summer he 

 went to hunt in Atholl, accompanied 

 by Queen Margaret and the Pope's 

 ambassador, where he remained three 

 days most nobly entertained by the 

 Earl." There is also the better-known 

 case of Queen Mary of Scotland, who, 

 with great state and circumstance, "took 

 the sport of hunting in the forest of Mar 

 and Atholl in the year 1563." Minute 



