Red Deer 
HINDS 
From a photograph by iGeoffrey Millais. 
In the sixteenth century King James V. seems to have done his hunting in Scotland on 
quite a respectable scale. We read that he 
made proclamation to all lords, barons, gentlemen, landwardmen, and freeholders to compear at Edinburgh 
with a month’s victual to pass with the king to danton (subdue) the thieves of Teviotdale, etc.; and also 
warned all gentlemen that had good dogs to bring them, that he might hunt in the said country. The 
Earl of Argyle, the Earl of Huntley, the Earl of Atholl, and all the rest of the Highlands, did, and brought 
their hounds with them to hunt with the king. His Majesty therefore passed out of Edinburgh with 
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deire, maney woods, and fair games of hunting.” Of Skye, Scalpay, Raasay, and Harris also, 
other quaint notices of similar character are to be found in his works. 
From this period onwards till the commencement of the present century the deer forests 
of Scotland are everywhere mentioned ; and it is interesting to note that many of the most 
extensive forests of the present time, such as Athole, Mar, Gaich, Glenfeshie, Black Mount, 
Jura, and Harris, are precisely those of which special mention is made by ancient authorities. 
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