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on this occasion had killed nineteen harts, fourteen hinds, seven- 

 teen calves, two bucks, four ' sourells/ thirteen does, a ' priket,' 

 and two fawns. 



These offences were exactly what had occurred in Edward i.'s 

 reign. For example, in 1285, Eobert de Brus, lord of Annan- 

 dale, and John de Seytone his knight, were indicted before 

 the justices itinerant on pleas of the Forest of Cumberland ; the 

 charge formulated against them being that, when hunting in 

 Inglewood, they had taken a doe and a red deer * priket ' in 

 excess of their allowance. One of the most curious cases of the 

 day was that in which a beneficed priest figured as a lawbreaker. 

 In the year 1258 Robert de Veteripont appeared in a suit 

 against Walter, parson of Newbiggin Church, and Walrand of 

 Soureby, in a plea why they entered his park of Whynefel 

 (Whinfell) and there took staggs and bucks without his leave. 1 



Inglewood Forest long remained a royal chase, and as such 

 receives incidental notice in various public documents. Thus 

 it is mentioned among divers woods, lands, and tenements 

 ' wherein his Ma tie hath a right and title which is by some 

 persons of late controverted,' in a Treasury warrant issued from 

 Whitehall, on July 21, 1668. 2 



Even after the accession of the Prince of Orange, ' the Town 

 and Manor of Penreth and the Forest of Inglewood ' were held 

 'of her pr'sent Majesty the Queen Dowager as Lord thereof.' 8 

 William in. soon granted the Manor of Inglewood to the Duke 

 of Portland, who sold it to the Duke of Devonshire in 1737. 



I have failed to ascertain the precise date at which this magni- 

 ficent chase ceased to be the home of the wild Red Deer. * Edward 

 Hasell, who owned Dalemain from 1794 to 1825, inherited the 

 family sporting tastes, and with his hounds assisted at two 

 occasions, which may be called historical, the capture of the last 

 stag on Whinfell, and the capture of the last stag in Inglewood 

 Forest, when those two famous and ancient chases were dis- 

 forested. The Dalemain hounds continued to find stags in 

 Martindale, where the Countess of Lonsdale, in the glories of a 



1 Documents relating to Scotland, vol. i. p. 420. 



2 Palgrave, Antient Kalendars and Inventories, vol. iii. p. 441. 



3 Forty-first Annual Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 18. 



