King Edward VIIas a sportsman . y Royalty in days of yore, it is to be noted that,in the time of Henry IV., one duty of the sheriffof a county was to furnish stabling for the Kingshorses and carts to take away the deer; anotherwas to erect temporary buildings for the Royal familyand the hounds when hunting parties were organisedwithin the district over which the sheriff had juris-diction—the buildings, it is specially stated, havingto be covered with green boughs for the doublepurpose of shading the company and the houndsfrom the heat of the sun, and to protect them fromany inconvenience in ca
King Edward VIIas a sportsman . y Royalty in days of yore, it is to be noted that,in the time of Henry IV., one duty of the sheriffof a county was to furnish stabling for the Kingshorses and carts to take away the deer; anotherwas to erect temporary buildings for the Royal familyand the hounds when hunting parties were organisedwithin the district over which the sheriff had juris-diction—the buildings, it is specially stated, havingto be covered with green boughs for the doublepurpose of shading the company and the houndsfrom the heat of the sun, and to protect them fromany inconvenience in case of foul weather. Fromthis it may be gathered that hunting was carried onwhen leaves were green and the sun was hot. Inthe counties of Devon and Somerset, at the presenttime, stags are pursued from early in August through-out the following month, and it seems that the samemust have been the custom in Windsor Forest. Detailsconfirming this are indeed given by the ancientchroniclers. It appears that the fox might be hunted 60. Windsor from the Nativity to the Annunciation of Our Lady,roebuck from Easter to Michaelmas, the roe fromMichaelmas to Candlemas, the hare from Michaelmasto Midsummer—which seems remorselessly to includethe breeding season—the boar from the Nativity tothe Purification, and the wolf when it was lawful tochase, the fox. It is difficult to ascertain whether there were anywolves in Windsor Forest during the reign of theConqueror. They were certainly numerous in theNorth of England, and I find that in the tenth yearof William, Robert of Umframville held the lord-ship of Ribblesdale, in the county of Northumber-land, in return for the services of defending thatpart of the country from enemies and 350 years later, in the eleventh of Henry VI.,Sir Robert Plumpton held a bovate of land in thecounty of Nottingham, called Wolf Hunt Land, byservice of winding a horn and chasing or frightingthe wolves in the forest of Shirewood. It is curiousto wande
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