The Zoologist— December, 18G7. 1003 



"1617. May 2d. Hunting the otter: killed one; taken another, 

 quick, at Salley. 



"June 24. To Worston Woode. Tiryed for ye foxe; found 

 nothing. £Towler lay at a rabbit, and wee stayed and wrought and took 

 her. 



"June 25. To the fox-hunting, 1 found in the warren. I hounded 

 and killed a bitch-fox. Wee to Salthill ; ther wee had a bowson 

 (badger), we wrought him out and killed him. 



"Aug. 12.* The king hunted and killed a buck.f 



"Aug. 13. Mirescough. The king killed five bucks. 



"Aug. 16. Hoghlon. The king hunting; a great companie ; killed 

 affore dinner a brace of staggs. Verie hot; soe he went in to dinner; 

 wee attend the lords table : and about 4 o'clock the king went downe 

 to the Allome Mynes, and was there an hower and viewed them 

 pcisely, and then went and shott a stagg and missed. Then my Lord 

 Compton had lodged two brace. The king shott again, and brake the 

 thigh bone. A dogg long in coming, and my Lo. Compton shott again 

 and killed him. 



" Aug. 23. Downham. Hunting fox on Warsoe ; killed one, another 

 to Pendle ; killed another fox, and earthed another, afterwards killed 

 in the hole. 



" Aug. 30. Went forth with Gregson, but light of nothing. To the 

 keeper's; hee with us betwixt Crosdale and top of Burne, aud into 

 Whitendale, to have killed a stag with peece, but found none. 



" Sept. 1. To Totteridge. Ralph Anderton shott a stag at topp of 

 the east end of Totteridge. The keepers two hounds cast off; brave 

 sport! killed him in the Fence. Soe to Thorn. Parker's. % Broke him 

 up ; eat the chine and the liver. 



" Sept. 6. All but Mr. Chancellor into Bollancl. At Stable Oak. 

 A stag killed at Harden, and another a little above which made 

 excellent sport. 



" Sept. 17. To Batterise, to Burnside and Whitendale, overrun with 

 goode deare ; a kuubb was killed and a calf. 



* Mr. Assheton was in attendance on King James the First, with the great 

 majority of the neighbouring gentry. The king was now making his royal progress 

 from Scotland to England, and was on his way to Hoghton Tower, where he was 

 received by Sir Richard Hoghton with becoming stale. 



f This was in Myerscough Forest, near Garstang: the forest has long aga 

 disappeared, and it is now under the plough. 



X Parker, of Brovvsholnie or Broxholme; still in possession of the family. 



