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suffer hym soo to do I pray you as hartely as I can. W-ten at 

 Grenewiche the xx dale of Feverer. And I pray you Cousyn let 

 my broder take his disporte, and if he list let hym kyll one dere in 

 somer and a nother in wynter herafter. 



Yqr Cousin, 



Giles Daubeny. 

 To my Cousyn, 



Sir John Trevelion, Knight, 



We know that Henry VII. was very keen on stag- 

 hunting, and this Httle episode shows that, even in a 

 district so remote as Exmoor^ forest rights were 

 looked after and forest laws enforced. 



When, however, we find that a right to hunt, such 

 as is imphed in the Mastership of the Hart Hounds, 

 is conferred on the foresters, and when we remember 

 that, owing to the disabilities imposed on the Purlieu 

 men as to hunting in company and entering on the 

 forest, the chief forester, who could hunt anywhere 

 in any company, was the only person who could show 

 real sport, it is not unreasonable to suppose that he 

 kept the hounds of which he was Master in the 

 country where they would so frequently have to 

 hunt. 



Sir Hugh Luttreli's offence was hunting in an 

 ^* outwood " or purlieu, not 011 the forest] and was a 

 trespass rather against the Purlieu man than against 

 the King, and it is hardly likely Sir John Trevelyan 

 would have taken such a strong step as to seize 

 hounds had he not been acting on behalf of the 

 forester's hounds which wanted to draw the same 

 coverts. 



