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chaise and four, and Lord Sandwich and General 

 Gvvynne, in another, the royal party returned to 

 Windsor, highly delighted at the cheering events 

 of the day. 



In St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 

 is the following epitaph : — 



" To the memory of Sir Richard Pecksall, 

 Knight, Master of the Buck-hounds to Queen 

 Elizabeth. First married to Alianer, the daughter 

 of William Pawlett, Marquis of Winchester, by 

 wdiom he had four daughters ; and afterwards to 

 Alianer, daughter to John Ootgrave, who erected 

 this monument to his memory. "" 



On the basis of the pillars are four Latin verses, 

 thus translated, — 



" Death can't disjoin whom Christ hath join'd in love ; 

 Life leads to death, and death to life above. 

 In heaven 's a happier place ; frail things despise ; 

 Live well to gain, in future life, the prize." 



The roe-buck has partaken of the same respite 

 from the chase as the wild red-deer, although by 

 the old law\s of the forest he was not considered as 

 venison until hunted ; and, according to Caesar, 

 the Britons did not eat this animal at all. The 

 fact is, the roe-buck runs so short, after the first 

 ring, that he is said to hunt the hounds, instead of 

 the hounds hunting him ; an artifice by which he 

 hopes to elude his pursuers, as, of course, it must 

 produce a confusion of scents. Neither does his 

 cunning end here. When closely pursued in a 

 thick wood, he will bound to one side of a path by 

 a sudden spring, and, lying close down upon liis 



