40. DEER AND DEER PARKS. Cfl. II; 



which inclosures are encompassed by fences. And thus it happened ,: the 

 huntsmen who had been ordered for the occasion, and who Hve in splendid 

 separate lodges in these parks, made some capital sport for his Highness* 

 In the first inclosure his Highness shot off the leg of a fallow-deer,, and' the 

 dogs soon after caught the animal. In the second they chased a stag for,a> 

 long time backwards and forwards with particularly, good hounds, over an 

 extensive and delightful plain ; at length his Highness shot him in front 

 with an English cross-bow, and this deer the dogs finally worried and 

 caught. In the third, the greyhounds chased a deer, but much too soon,, 

 for they caught it directly, even before it could get out into the open plain. 

 Then these stags were brought to Windsor and presented to his Highness; 

 one of them was taken to his lodging, and sent as a present to Mojis. d$ 

 Beauvois, the French Ambassador.'^ 



In 1591, the Queen was at Cowdray in Sussex, the seat of Viscount 

 Montague. An account of this visit has been preserved which despribes 

 how, 'on Monday August 17, at eight of the docke in the morning;, hef 

 Highness took horse, with all her traine, and rode into the, parke; where 

 was a delicate bowre prepared, under the which were her Highness' musicians 

 placed, and a cross-bowe by a nymph, with a sweet song, delivered to hey 

 hands, to shoote at the deere, about some .thiirtie iij ounjbgry put into £^ 

 paddock, of which number she killed three or four, and the ^ountesse of 

 Kildare one.,— Then rode her Grace to Cowdray to dinner, and aboute sixe 

 of the clocke in the evening, from a turret, sawe sixteen buckes, all having 

 fayre lawe, pulled downe with greyhoundes in a lawnd : all the huntings 

 ordered by Meister Henrie Browne, the Lorde Montague's thirde sonne, 

 Raunger of Windsor forest.'^ The position of a 'delicate bower 'of this 

 description, is still pointed out at Cowdray, and tradition asserts that her 

 Majesty dined under it, affording an apt illustration ' of the place where 

 and howe an assembly should be made, in the presence of a Prince, or 



' England as seen by Foreigners, 1865, p. 15. » Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii; p. 91. 



