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structed, and the subsequent unhappy episode in 

 Whitehall. One causeway, indeed, near Matley, 

 is known to all men as the "King's Passage," 

 but which King made it, and at what date, we 

 know not. Some of these " causeways" are very 

 old. Let those who now use it for hunting bow 

 the head and thank the monarch who ordered it 

 to be made, without forgetting those who have 

 maintained it in good order during all these 

 centuries. 



In 1641 a warrant was issued by the Earl 

 of Holland to the officers and minister of the 

 said Forests (being this side Trent) to permit 

 " this noble French Lord the Baron of Vieville, 

 second son of the Marquis Vieville, to hunt, and 

 kill with his hounds or beagles, the game of hares 

 within the said Forests, Chaces, and Warrens, or 

 any of them, for his recreation, at reasonable times 

 arid in convenient places where herds of deer do 

 not life" (sic). 



The order issued by Charles II for the addi- 

 tions and repairs to the King's House and for the 

 erection (see preceding pages) of a stable to 

 contain " fortie horse," seem to point to the main- 

 tenance of a pretty large hunting establishment. 

 And the casual reference, which I have quoted 

 on a preceding page, to the King and all his 

 attendants, in 1637, having gone out hunting and 



