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Germany, and some of our mountains of Wales are not without 
them. 9 It is to be regretted that Dr. Muffett did not particularize 
the localities in Wales where he supposed the Doe- deer to exist, 
for a contemporary of his expresses a very different opinion. 
George Owen, of Henllys, writing of the wild animals of 
Pembrokeshire in his time (1595), informs us that ‘ for Poes, 
the countrey yeeldeth not any, neither did I ever heare of any 
by reporte of the auncient men, to have been usual in this 
countrey. ’ * 
One of the most interesting records which we have met 
with in the course of our researches on this subject, is that 
which relates to the transport of some Poe- deer from Cumber- 
land to Surrey in the reign of Charles I. The king had ex- 
pressed a wish to have some turned out at Wimbledon in one of 
the royal parks, and application was made to Lord William 
Howard of Haworth Castle, Cumberland (where we may pre- 
sume Poe- deer were then common), to have some caught and 
sent up. Directions for this purpose were accordingly given, 
and what followed may be gathered from the following entries, 
in the Household Book of the owner of Haworth : — 
* 1633, June 29. — To severall persons for takeinge 31 Poe- 
kidds, as appeareth by bill . . vijli xijs vjd/ 
They were, no doubt, taken in a 4 haie * with nets, according 
to the ancient practice ; and after being kept in an enclosure 
for a fortnight until they had got more tame and accustomed 
to confinement, they were ready to be moved to London. This 
was accomplished by means of three carts, as we learn from the 
next entry : — 
' 1633, July 16. — To Wm. Lancaster the Smith, for bind- 
ing 3 payre of wheeles with iron which carried Poes to 
London ....... vli xvjd.’ 
And subsequently on the return of these carts : — 
'For repairinge 3 cartes sent with Poes to London to Hinge 
Charles thether and home again . . xvs. xd.’ 
How these animals fared in their new home in Surrey we 
are not accurately informed ; but it may be surmised that they 
throve and did well, for a few years later, viz., on January 17,. 
1639, a warrant was issued to Sir Henry Hungate for 'the 
preservation of His Majesty’s game of Poe-deer broken out of 
Ilalf-Moon Park, Wimbledon, and now lying in the woods 
adjoining thereto, and to take care that no person hunt, course,, 
or use any net or gun, within four miles of the said park.’f 
When the Poe-deer became extinct in England is not quite 
* For some notice of this writer and his MSS., see Fenton’s Historical 
Tour through Pembrokeshire, 4to, 1811, pp. 524, 562, 563 note, and Appendix, , 
p. 54. 
t S. P. Dorn. Charles I. ccccix. 105, Docquet. 
