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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. r. 



hunting deer with bloodhounds and with greyhounds, the huntsmen being 

 represented both on foot' and on horseback ; also the various modes of 

 approaching deer with the bow ; sometimes in ambush, ' where one ought 



to be dressed the same colour as the wood.' It is to be observed that the 

 common long-bow, and not the cross-bow, which was afterwards used in 

 shooting deer in parks, is represented in these ancient illuminations. 



The following translation of an agreement between Roger de Qijiincy, 

 Earl of Winchester, and Roger de Somery, Baron of Dudley, defining their 

 mutual rights of hunting in Charnwood Forest and Bradgate Park, Leices- 

 tershire, affords an illustration of another kind as to the ' noble science,' 

 and is an evidence at the same time of the importance which was attached 

 to it :— 



' This is the Agreement made at Leicester, on the day of St. Vincent 

 the Martyr (22nd of January), in the 3 ist year of the reign of King Henry, 

 the son of King John (anno 1247). Before Sir Roger de Turkilby, 



' King Henry V. is said, in Harrison's De- 

 scription of Britain (p. io8), to have dis- 

 dained to follow any fallow-deer with hounds or 

 greyhounds, but ' to have tired them by his own 



travails on foot, and so killed them- with his 

 hands.' See the Ist ed. of Holinshed's Chro- 

 nicles (1577).' 



