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as loud as he could. This restricted right he migrht 

 not even share with his neighbours, for, as Manwood 

 says : " The purlieuman must hunt his own purlieu 

 himself, and with no other company than his own 

 serv^ants, and not otherwise, for he cannot license 

 any other person or persons to hunt there, because 

 the authority that he himself hath is only conditional 

 — 'tis a licence of profit which is strict, and cannot 

 be deputed to another. . . . Besides, the laws of 

 the forest do not permit a number of persons to 

 assemble themselves together to hunt in the purlieus, 

 because that is likewise ad terrorem of the beasts of 

 the forest." 



The purlieuman's rights were still further curtailed 

 in many ways. He might not hunt at night— a wise 

 restriction that prevented him shooting deer at feed 

 — nor on a Sunday, nor out of season, nor more than 

 three days a week, nor within forty days before or 

 after the King's coming to hunt in person. The 

 latter restriction made no difference on Exmoor, for, 

 so far as we know, no sovereign ever hunted there. 

 Charles II., when Prince of Wales, rode from Dunster 

 to Barnstaple with an escort of Hopton's Horse, but 

 he can have had little leisure to hunt. His present 

 Majesty, Edward VII., also starting from Dunster, had 

 a day on Exmoor, but he enjoyed a capital gallop 

 from Mr. Snow's Deer Park out to Chapman's 

 Barrows and back to Badgworthy, where the stag 

 was pulled down. His Royal Highness, as he was 

 then, was well up, and jumping into the water, 



