Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . Duke of Norfolk, K. G. Premier Peer of Qreat Britain and Earl Marslial of the United Kingdom. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 59 Robert Huish that for at least four centuries wild staofs andhinds were hunted by English monarchs. Every one who isan habitue of the meets of the buck-hounds at UxbridgeCommon or Ruislip Town End, or a dozen other trysts, musthave heard of the famous run of Charles IIs reign fromAscot after a warrantable stag, which was not caught untilnig
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . Duke of Norfolk, K. G. Premier Peer of Qreat Britain and Earl Marslial of the United Kingdom. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 59 Robert Huish that for at least four centuries wild staofs andhinds were hunted by English monarchs. Every one who isan habitue of the meets of the buck-hounds at UxbridgeCommon or Ruislip Town End, or a dozen other trysts, musthave heard of the famous run of Charles IIs reign fromAscot after a warrantable stag, which was not caught untilnight had fallen, the eager hounds, with their bristles erect,. A FOX-HUNT—THE START. running into their prey at a remote point in Essex, more thanseventy-five miles distant from the spot where they foundhim. It has long been customary in autumn for the huntsmen ofthe Royal Buck-hounds, assisted by Her Majestys chief game-keeper, and many other employees, to select from the herd inWindsor Great Park the red deer intended to be uncarted inthe ensuing winter before four or five-and-twenty couples ot 6o WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. the best fox-hounds that Belvoir, Badminton, and other famousprivate kennels can supply. The usual place of deer captureis a grassy paddock below Cranbourne town—a shelteredspot, belted with primeval oaks and colossal beeches. Thedriving of these selected quarries—all of which have namesbestowed upon them, with a view to their becoming as popu-lar as Harkaway, or Lord Charles, or Savernake, or
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