INTEODUCTOEY 5 



' Noe Doggs to be kept in Court. The King's heighnes 

 alsoe straiglitlie forbiddeth and inliibiteth that no person, 

 whatsoever they be, presume to keepe anie greyhounds, 

 mastiffs, hounds, or other doggs in the Court, then some 

 small spanyells for ladies or others ; nor bring anie unto 

 the same, except it be by the King's or Queen's command- 

 ment ; but the said greyhounds and doggs to be kept in 

 kennell and other meete places out of Court, as is con- 

 venyent, soe as the premisses duelie observed, and the 

 house abroad may be sweete, wholesome, cleane, and well 

 furnished as to a prince's house an state doth appertayne.' 



The virgin Queen Elizabeth was very attached to 

 dogs. The periodical above mentioned says that the 

 Queen was devoted to ' singing beagles,' a little breed that 

 Gervase Markham many years after said were small enough 

 to be carried in a man's glove. He called them ' Mitten 

 Beagles, which may be companions for a ladle's kirtle, and 

 in the field will hunt as cunningly as any hound whatso- 

 ever, only their Musick is very small, like reeds, their pace 

 like their body, only for exercise, not for slaughter.' 

 James I. was a devoted lover of dogs ; Charles II. was 

 much attached to the little spaniels called King Charles's, 

 and wherever he went he was accompanied by these little 

 dogs ; and our Queen and her children inherit the royal 

 love for dogs, and, as is well known, she constantly inspects 

 her kennels, and has a caress and a loving word to say to 

 each. 



