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Although the forest district, with its parks and warrens, did 

 not come under forest law by this reversion to the Crown, 

 nevertheless a word or two are admissible as to its governance 

 under Henry VIII. A survey that was taken in August, 1539, 



HUNTING COSTUME. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. (See pp. 66-7.) 



of Rothbury and its members, gives Sir Cuthbert Ratcliffe as 

 master of the game in the forests, chases, parks, and warrens 

 of Alnwick, and John Heeson as bow-bearer, with many other 

 masters and keepers of different parks. Cuthbert Carnabie, 

 master of the game in Warkworth park, was also constable of 



