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had a chapel in his park, or enclosure, at Kingsley/ 
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and Richard, Duke of 
York, say my evidences, were both, in their turns, wardens 
of Wolmer Forest; which seems to have served for an 
appointment for the younger princes of the royal family, 
as it may again. 
I have intentionally mentioned Edward III. and the 
Dukes Humphrey and Richard, before King Edward II. 
because I have reserved, for the entertainment of my 
readers, a pleasant anecdote respecting that prince, with 
which I shall close this letter. 
As Edward II. was hunting in Wolmer Forest, Morris 
Ken, of the kitchen, fell from his horse several times ; at 
which accidents the king laughed immoderately : and, when 
the chase was over, ordered him twenty shillings;^ an 
enormous sum for those days ! Proper allowances ought 
to be made for the youth of this monarch, whose spirits 
also, we may suppose, were much exhilarated by the sport 
of the day ; but, at the same time, it is reasonable to 
remark that, whatever might be the occasion of Ken^s 
first fall, the subsequent ones seem to have been designed. 
The scullion appears to have been an artful fellow, and to 
have seen the king^s foible ; which furnishes an early spe- 
cimen of that his easy softness and facility of temper, of 
which the infamous Gaveston took such advantages, as 
brought innumerable calamities on the nation, and involved 
the prince at last in misfortunes and sufferings too deplor- 
able to be mentioned without horror and amazement. 
^ The parish of Kingsley lies between, and divides Wolmer Forest 
from Ayles Holt Forest.— See Letter IX. to Mr. Pennant.— G. W. 
The church at Kingsley is a very humble structure, with a tower not 
unlike a dovecot. Indeed the whole edifice strikingly bears out the 
assertion of Gilbert White, that some of the Hampshire places of worship 
make little better appearances than dovecots. — Ed. 
2 " Item, paid at the lodge at AVolmer, when the king was stag-hunting 
there, to Morris Ken, of the kitchen, because he rode before the king 
and often fell from his horse, at which the king laughed exceedingly — a 
gift, by command, of twenty shillings." — A MS. in possession of Thomas 
Astle, Esq., containing the private expenses of Edward II. — G. W. 
