NOTES TO THK 
wliicli lias lately been removed, are made of Sussex iron. I 
cannot here resist putting on record tlie origin of the pattern 
of the railings which surround the inclosure in Hanover 
Square. It is this : — Sir Francis Chantrey, the sculptor, my 
godfather, had just finished his statue of Pitt when he came 
down to visit my father at Oxford. The Dean (then Canon 
of Christ Church) introduced Sir Francis to the Judge of the 
Assizes. The judges at Oxford are always received and ac- 
companied by "javelin men," the attendants, who carry a spear, 
at the shoulder of which is a fringe of thick worsted tassels. 
These javelins had been placed in brackets along the wooden 
pen which keeps off tlie public. My father, sitting on the bench, 
saw these javelins— they had been consulting together about the 
pattern of a railing for Hanover Square — touching Sir Francis 
he said, "There are your railings." This, then, was the origin of 
the "javelin" railings in Hanover Square. 
Eed Deer, p. 16. — A gentleman well cognizant with the 
management of deer parks writes me : — 
" The great evil of all the forests and chases in England was the 
total absence of system and the want of an adequate force of 
keepers and watchers to protect the deer. Certainly very strin- 
gent laws were enacted, and very heavy penalties were in force, 
but in the days when 'police' had not been invented, and 
when almost free license reigned supreme throughout the land, 
we cannot wonder at the wholesale deer-stealing and poaching 
that prevailed, when detection and capture of the culprits was 
almost impossible, and when the temptation to run what slight 
risk there might have been was too great for the young and 
active to resist. 
" The mischief done by herds of deer to crops is very great, 
but the evil is generally traceable to the cruel neglect of many a 
proprietor of forest and park, who leaves the herd to fight for 
themselves in the winter, instead of providing them with ample 
provender against the time of scarcity." A very able pam- 
phlet on " Deer, their Habits and Management," by " Under- 
wood," 1870, can be obtained at Land and Water Office, 169, 
Fleet Street. 
Many very curious and interesting things are found in the 
bed of the Thames, by men who work the mud- and gravel- 
dredging barges. When at Windsor, I got together a fine col- 
lection of bones, especially of red deer, horse, and roebuck ; the 
dredger-men called these " water bones : " they take a beautiful 
polish. The Anglo-Saxons had tame deer, which were great 
favourites ; they taught them to decoy wild ones into nets. 
