60 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RED DEER 



and there was no more of this businesse.' King 

 James himself seems to have had a penchant for 

 English deer. I find that a warrant was issued on 

 his application in 1593, for the delivery of deer to 

 persons to be appointed by Robert Bowes, Esq., 

 the Queen's ambassador with the said king, in order 

 to the storing of some ground of the king in 

 Scotland viz. for Marwood Park, ten ; Marwood- 

 hag Park, ten ; Little Park, called Wollhouse, five ; 

 West Park, and Langley pertaining to Raby, ten ; 

 Brancepath Park, the east and west park, thirty- 

 five. But the English had always a certain amount 

 of difficulty in preserving the deer in their own 

 parks, far away from lawless Scots. Especially was 

 it so in the time of the Civil War. The Royal 

 forests suffered as much as the parks of private 

 gentlemen. Thus, in July, 1642, we find that 

 Francis Beard, an under-keeper, made an affidavit, 

 that he had seen Richard Barnard and others hunt- 

 ing deer in Windsor Forest. In November the 

 same year, John Saunders, deputy-keeper under Sir 

 Thomas Manwaringe, made an affidavit that one 

 Hercules Trew had presumed to kill a stag in Old 

 Windsor Park. In April, 1643, Thomas Shemonds, 

 another keeper, made an affidavit that John Moore 

 and others had coursed the deer in the Great Park 



