THE KING CHARLES SPANIELS. 
ties own Dog, and doubtless was stolen, for 
the dog was not born nor bred in England, and 
would never forsake His Master. Whosoever 
finds him may acquaint any at Whitehall for the 
Dog was better known at Court, than those 
who stole him. Will they never leave robbing 
His Majesty ? Must he not keep a Dog? 
This Dog’s place (though better than some 
imagine) is the only place which nobody offers 
to beg.—June 28-July 5, 1660.” 
In the Intelligence for January 9th, 
1664-5, is the following notice :— 
“Lost, on the 6th inst., a black and white 
Bitch (one of his Majesties Hounds). She has a 
cross on the right shoulder and a C.R. burnt 
upon her left ear, behind her right ear upon 
her neck (which is white) she has a black spot 
about the breadth of a silver 
crown. Whoever shall bring or 
send her to the back stairs at 
Whitehall shall be rewarded for 
his pains.” 
There are now four recog- 
nised varieties of the English 
Toy Spaniel, or, more properly 
speaking, five, as the Marl- 
borough Blenheims are con- 
sidered a distinct type. The 
latter are said by some to be 
the oldest of the Toy Spaniels ; 
by others to have been first 
brought over from Spain during 
the reign of Charles II. by 
John Churchill, first Duke of 
Marlborough, from whose 
home, Blenheim Palace, the 
name was derived, and has 
ever since been retained. 
If we may take the evidence of Vandyck, 
Watteau, Francois Boucher, and Greuze, in 
whose pictures they are so frequently 
introduced, all the toy Spaniels of bygone 
days had much longer noses and smaller, 
flatter heads than those of the present time, 
and they had much longer ears, these in 
many instances dragging on the ground. 
The Marlborough Spaniel.—The Marl- 
borough Blenheim has retained several of 
the ancestral points. Although this variety 
is of the same family, and has the same 
name, as the short-nosed Blenheim of 
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the present day, there is a great deal 
of difference between the two types. 
The Marlborough is higher on the legs, 
which need not be so fully feathered. He 
has a much longer muzzle and a flatter 
and more contracted skull. The Marl- 
borough possesses many of the attributes 
of a sporting Spaniel; but so also does 
the modern Blenheim, although perhaps 
in a lesser degree. He has a very good 
scent. Mr. Rawdon B. Lee states that 
“the Blenheims of Marlborough were ex- 
cellent dogs to work the coverts for cock 
and pheasant, and that excepting in colour 
there is in reality not much difference in 
appearance between the older orange and 
SPANIELS OF KING CHARLES BREED. 
FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR E. LANDSEER, R.A., IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. 
white dogs (not as they are to-day, with 
their abnormally short noses, round skulls, 
and enormous eyes), and the liver and 
white Cockers which H. B. Chalon drew 
for Daniel’s ‘Rural Sports’ in 1801.” 
This will bear out the statement that the 
smaller type of Spaniel may be descended 
from the Cockers. 
The ground colour of this dog is white, 
with chestnut encircling the ears to the 
muzzle, the sides of the neck are chestnut, 
as are also the ears. There is a white 
blaze on the forehead, in the centre of which 
should be a clear lozenge shaped chestnut 
