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MISCELLANEA. 
Diversions of the Anglo Saxons. 
One of their chief diversions is hunting. A king is exhibited 
by Bede, standing at the fire with his attendants, and warming 
himself after hunting. Alfred is praised by his friend Asser for 
his incomparable skill and assiduity in the arts of the chace:— 
He is stated to have gone as far as Cornwall to enjoy it.” The 
hunt of Edmund, the grandson of Alfred, at Ceoddri, is thus de¬ 
scribed by a cotemporary : “ When they reached the woods they 
took various directions among the leafy avenues, and so, from the 
varied noise of the.horns and the barking of the dogs, many stags 
began to fly about. From these the king with his pack of hounds 
selected one for his own hunting, and pursued it long through devious 
ways, with great agility, on his horse, and with the dogs following. 
In the vicinity of Ceoddri are several abrupt and lofty precipices, 
lianging over steep declivities. To one of these the stag came in 
his flight, and dashed himself down the immense depth with head¬ 
long ruin, all the dogs following and perishing with him. The 
king, pursuing the animal and the hounds with equal energy, was 
rushing onwards to the precipice ; he saw his danger, and strug¬ 
gled violently to stop his courser; the horse disobeyed awhile his 
rein: he gave up the hope of life, he recommended himself to God 
and his saint, and was carried to the very brink of destruction be¬ 
fore the speed of the animal could be checked. The horse’s feet 
were trembling on the last turf of the precipice when he was 
stopped.” 
Life of Dunstan, Coti. MSS. Chop. B. 13. 
Gentlemen who have obtained their Diplomas at the 
Royal Veterinary College, London. 
June 18th, 1840. 
Mr. Samuel Evison, Hemingby, Lincoln. 
— James Murch, London. 
— Daniel Gresswell, Great Steeping, Lincoln. 
— W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch, Shropshire. 
— W. Bentley, Margate. 
June 25th. 
— S. Ramsden, Bedale, Yorkshire. 
— J. W. Hoey, London. 
— W. Fauld(5r, Brigham, Cumberland. 
— W. Dunn, Delamere Forest, Cheshire. 
