



having roused a hart in the forest of Sherwood, pursued 

 him as fur as Barnsdale in Yorkshire, where the animal 

 foiled and escaped his hounds. The king in gratitude for 

 the diversion he had received, ordered him to be im- 

 mediately proclaimed at Tickill, and at all the neigh- 

 bouring towns, the purport of which was to forbid any 

 one to molest him, that he might have free li: 

 return to his forest 



vine gentlemen, in the time of Henry III., having 

 destroyed a white hart, which had given the king much 

 diversion (and which had probably been proclaimed), his 

 majesty laid a heavy fine upon their lands, an ackn - 

 lodgment of which was paid into the exchequer so late as 

 the rei^n of Queen Elizabeth."* 



Hutching in his History of Dorsetshire, It is 



paid to this ds; 



Deer cast their horns annually; and, if we a: 

 believe Buffbn, these horns are nothing but a redundant 

 and superfluous organic nourishment, which could not be 

 exhausted in expanding and supporting the animal body : 

 the oldest harts shed them first, about the beginning 

 April ; the younger ones follow in succession, according 

 age and condition. The shedding of the horns 

 tin the beginning of June; but deer of a 

 old win carry them till August or September. The new 

 their fun growth in three m^ > and appear 



Inusthestacr 



carries his horns about as long as die hind carries he 

 fcwn, which is eight months. It is not very long sinc 



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