NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



I. [Frontispiece^ Portrait of Sir Ralph Sadler, 



OF EVERLEY, WiLTS, GrAND FaLCONER TO QuEEN 



Elizabeth. From a painting on panel, attributed to 

 Marc Gerhardt, in the possession of Sir John D. 

 Astley, Bart. Reproduced in colour by W. Griggs 

 from the original picture preserved in the Manor 

 House at Everley. 



Sir R. C. Hoare, in his " History of Modern Wilts," folio, 

 1826, under the head of " Everley," writes : — " In the first year 

 of the reign of King Edward the Sixth a grant of the manor of 

 Everley, and park and free warren, was made to Edward, Duke 

 of Somerset, Lord Protector (1547), on whose attainder it re- 

 verted to the Crown, and was afterwards granted by Queen 

 Elizabeth to her royal falconer, Sir Ralph Sadler," of Standon, in 

 the county of Herts, who had been Chief Secretary of State to 

 Henry VHI. 



*' Sir Ralph was fond of hawking, and no place could have 

 been better adapted to that sport than Everley, with its extensive 



and adjoining open country He is said to have partly built 



the mansion-house there, and especially one room, where was his 

 picture in small life, with his hawk on his arm, as well as his crest, 

 and which painting is now (1826) removed from its original 

 situation, but is still preserved by the present owner." 



The picture referred to is that here reproduced, and is attri- 

 buted to Marc Gerhardt (1580-1635). A coloured print of it is 

 given by Clutterbuck in his '* History and Antiquities of Hert- 

 fordshire," 1827, vol. iii. p. 235. 



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