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5th, Sir Thomas Lake wrote to Salisbury : " This 

 morning his Majesty staid within, being sermon day, 

 and partly from hard riding yesterday, for they all 

 came very weary last night, and laid long a-bed 

 to-day. The prince was also distempered, never- 

 theless, as I hear, they hawk at the field in the 

 afternoon, and make trial of the Spanish hawks. 

 The matches went well enough yesterday with the 

 king, and he himself boasts they are with him, but 

 the other side will not yield. As I was writing this 

 letter I hear his Majesty is gone afoot up the hills to 

 see if it is possible that his dogs may hunt for the 

 frost. He will make another day of it for his 

 matches." On the 6th, Sir Alexander Hay,^'"^ in a 

 letter to Salisbury, tells him that the frost was too 

 hard for hunting, " and no prospect of sport for seven 

 nights." However, on the 13th, Sir Thomas Lake 

 announced that " the match is ended yesterday, and 

 yielded to my Lo. Dunbar,*" and you will shortly 

 hear of a bill of charges about it." * 



*^ Sir Alexander Hay, knighted in June, 1608, was Secre- 

 tary for Scottish affairs, and participated largely in the king's 

 " free-gifts." 



*^ Sir George Hume, knight, third son of Alexander Hume, 

 of Manderston, and great-grandson of Sir David Hume, of 

 Wedderburn, having accompanied James I. into England, 

 was elevated to the English peerage, July 7, 1604, ^s Baron 

 Hume, of Berwick. He had previously succeeded Lord 

 Elphinston, in the treasurership of Scotland, and was created 

 a peer of that kingdom, July 3, 1605, in the dignity of Earl 



* Lake to Salisbury, Newmarket Dec. 5. State Papers, Dom., vol. 1., 

 No. 14 — 52. 



