Book II.] S/R WALTER HUNGERFORD. 93 



proprietor of Naworth Castle, in Cumberland, the ancient 

 seat of the Dacre family. He also acquired by this alliance 

 Hinderskelle, the site of Castle Howard. Their father, 

 Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, shared the fate of their dis- 

 tinguished grandfather, for, being attainted of high treason 

 for his communication with Mary, Queen of Scots, he was 

 beheaded in 1572, when all his honours became forfeited.* 



'^ Sir Walter Hungerford, Knight, of Farley Castle, 

 — eldest son of Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford, of 

 Heytesbury, and Jane, daughter of Lord Zouche, of Harring- 

 worth, which nobleman was beheaded on Tower Hill with 

 Cromwell, Earl of Essex, July 28, 1541, when this barony 

 expired — obtained from Queen Mary a reversal of the at- 

 tainder imposed upon his father in the reign of Henry VHL, 

 save as to the enjoyment of the peerage. Sir Walter married, 

 1st, Anne Basset, and 2ndly, Anne, daughter of Sir William 

 Dormer, Knight, and had issue one son (who died without 

 heirs) and three daughters. Sir Walter Hungerford, unlike 

 many of his ancestors, eschewed political strife and court in- 

 trigue, and devoted his life principally to rural affairs and field 

 sports. The motto affixed to his portrait, with its append- 

 ages, demonstrates the man and his habits. He proclaims 

 himself Amicis Amicissimus — a most endearing expression ! 

 The motto alludes most forcibly to the fatal and ambitious 

 pursuits of his ancestors ; and the hooded hawk perched on 

 his glove in one picture, and the other curious portraiture 

 of the same personage on horseback, points him out as a 

 lover of the country and the champion of rural amusements. 

 The latter picture bears the following inscription : — " S'' W^alter 

 Hungerforde knight had in quene Elizabeths tyme the seconde 

 of her raine for fouer yere to gether a baye horse a blacke 

 greyhounde a leveratt his offer was for fouer yeare to gether 

 to all Eynglande not a boue his betters he that shoulde showe 

 the best horse for a man of armes a greyhounde for a hare a 

 haucke for the ryver to wine HI hundred poundes that was 



* See Book vi., sub.-tit. Langwathby, 1612. 



