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walk along a" certain part of the hill, in order that he 

 might quietly drive the deer back to the hill, guiding 

 them to the vicinity of the ambuscade. 



Our good Scotch folk seem to have always had 

 a hankering after English venison a failing which 

 frequently induced them to take liberties when they 

 happened to cross the Border. For example, in 

 1285, Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, and John 

 de Seytone, his knight, were indicted before the 

 justices itinerant on pleas of the Forest of Cumber- 

 land ; the charge formulated against them being 

 that, when hunting in Inglewood, they had taken a 

 doe and a red deer ' priket ' in excess of their 

 allowance. Again, in 1353, Edward III., at the 

 request of his cousin Edward de Baliol, granted 

 pardon to the nobles and others who had hunted 

 with him on various occasions in Inglewood forest, 

 and had slain fourteen stags, two bucks, eleven 

 hinds, and sixteen red-deer calves in summer, and 

 sixteen hinds, fifteen red-deer calves, twenty-one 

 bucks and does, and seventeen fawns, in winter ; 

 these facts being attested by indenture between the 

 King and William Lengleys, chief forester of 

 Inglewood. Just two years later, on the 3rd of 

 December, 1355, we find Edward III. again granting 

 pardon to the same parties, who on this occasion 



