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such: slaughter was made as twenty-seven stagges were slayne in the tbyles 

 in one day, and many others, on that and the next stollen and havocked ; 

 whereof when this Lord (Henry) being then at Callowden, was advertized, 

 having much set his dehght in this game, he sodainly and passionately 

 disparked that grownd ; but in a few months after he had a secret friendly 

 advertisement from the Court " that the Queen was informed how the same 

 was disparked by him, on repining at her coming to his house (for indeed it 

 was not in her jests), and at the good sport she had in the park, advising 

 this Lord to carry a wary watch over his words and actions, least thus that 

 Earl '(meaning Leicester) that had, contrary to her set justice, drawn her to 

 his Castle, and purposely had caused that slaughter of his deare, might 

 have a further plot against his head and that castle, whereto he had taken 

 no small likeage, and affirmed to have good title therto, and was not far 

 from his Manor of Wotton, lately recovered against him." '• 



When Frederick Duke of Wirtemberg came to England in August 1 592, 

 he visited Queen Elizabeth at Reading. His private secretary wrote and 

 published an account of his Highness's travels which have been lately 

 translated into English by Mr. Rye of the British Museum, from whose 

 entertaining volume I make the following extract relating to the sports of 

 the Field at that time in fashion, and with which His Highness was 

 entertained : — 



' It had pleased her Majesty to depute an old distinguished English lord 

 to attend his Highness, and she had commissioned and directed him not 

 only to show his Highness the splendid Royal Castle at Windsor, but also 

 to amuse him by the way with shooting and hunting red-deer, for you 

 must know that in the vicinity of the same place Windsor, there are 

 upwards of sixty parks (.') which are full of game of various kinds, and 

 they are so contiguous, that in order to have a glorious and royal sport the 

 animals can be driven out of one inclosure into another, and so on; ali 



' Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, p. 203. 



