5 6 VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF LAKELAND 



by the Countess of Pembroke, because all the others already 

 exist in books easy of access, and are really worn too threadbare 

 to stand in need of repetition here. 



' This summer/ writes the lady who played such a spirited 

 part in local history, * by some mischevious people, secretly in 

 the night, was broken off and taken down from the Tree, near 

 the Pails of Whinfield Park (which for that cause was called 

 the Harts-horn Tree), one of these Harts' horns which, as men- 

 tioned in the summarys of my auncestors Robt. Lord Clifford's 

 Life, were set up in the year 1333 at a Generale Hunting, when 

 Edward Bal-ial, then King of Scotts, came into England by per- 

 mission of King Edward the third, and lay for a awhile in the 

 said Robt. Lord Clifford's Castles in Westmoreland, when the 

 said King hunted a great Stagg which was Kill'd near the said 

 Oak Tree, in memory whereof the Horns were nail'd up in it, 

 growing as it were naturally in the tree, and have remained 

 there ever since, till that in the year 1648 one of these horns 

 were broken down by some of the army, and the other was 

 broken down as aforesaid, this year, so now there is no part 

 thereof remaining, the tree itself being so decayed, and the bark 

 of it so peeled off that it cannot last long.' 1 



The Scottish hunters were not over-scrupulous about limit- 

 ing their game to the number of head allotted to them by 

 grant, but any excess was noted and reported by the foresters 

 of the English King. 



Thus in 1353, just twenty years after the exploit of Harts- 

 horn Tree, Edward in., at the request of his cousin Edward de 

 Balliol, granted pardon to the nobles and others who had 

 hunted with him on various occasions in Ingle wood Forest, and 

 had slain fourteen stags, two bucks, eleven hinds, and sixteen 

 red deer calves in summer, and sixteen hinds, fifteen red deer 

 calves, twenty-one bucks and does, and seventeen fawns in 

 winter; these facts being attested by indenture between the 

 King and William Lengleys, chief forester of Ingle wood. 2 

 Just two years later, on the 3d of December 1355, we find 

 Edward in. again granting pardon to the same parties, who 



1 Countess of Pembroke mss. 



2 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. iii. p. 288. 



