. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ill ^^, THE DEATH OF THE RED KING. FIRST MEETING OF THE CLUB. 29 attention to field-sports and to hunting. He had sixty-eight royalforests, full of stags and deer; but he permitted no one but himself andthe people of his court to hunt in them. At Winchester, he thought it would be a fine tiling to have a greathunting-park near his residence. There was a tract of country in thecounty of Hampshire, very picturesque and beautiful, that he determinedto use for this purpose. But there were churches scattered among thehills ; and thou
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ill ^^, THE DEATH OF THE RED KING. FIRST MEETING OF THE CLUB. 29 attention to field-sports and to hunting. He had sixty-eight royalforests, full of stags and deer; but he permitted no one but himself andthe people of his court to hunt in them. At Winchester, he thought it would be a fine tiling to have a greathunting-park near his residence. There was a tract of country in thecounty of Hampshire, very picturesque and beautiful, that he determinedto use for this purpose. But there were churches scattered among thehills ; and thousands of peasants dwelt here, who had rude but happyhomes. William cared little for the churches and less for the homes of thepeasants ; so he sent soldiers to burn the former, and to drive the peopleaway from the latter. Nothing was done by the ruthless king to supply the wants of thepeople, or to relieve their misery. They left their native hills withwailing and weeping and wringing of hands, uttering imprecations onthe head of the Conqueror and upon his race
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