Surrey archaeological collections . dturned them down at Richmond and elsewhere, so that againin 1664 there were complaints in the Surrey Bailiwick of thedamage done by deer. It was at the end of the seventeenth century that themodern method of keeping packs of hounds seems to havebegun. Before that time hounds were the private propertyof large landowners, or perhaps smaller landowners mightget together and each contribute a few couple of hounds toform a trencher-fed pack and hunt over their land. In thosedays, and, indeed, till a good many years later, hounds huntedimpartially deer, foxes or
Surrey archaeological collections . dturned them down at Richmond and elsewhere, so that againin 1664 there were complaints in the Surrey Bailiwick of thedamage done by deer. It was at the end of the seventeenth century that themodern method of keeping packs of hounds seems to havebegun. Before that time hounds were the private propertyof large landowners, or perhaps smaller landowners mightget together and each contribute a few couple of hounds toform a trencher-fed pack and hunt over their land. In thosedays, and, indeed, till a good many years later, hounds huntedimpartially deer, foxes or hares, and I should not be sur-prised if on occasions they did not draw a badger. It doesnot seem that a modern pack of hounds existed in Surreyin those early days, and our records are still mainly derivedfrom those of the Royal Buck Hounds. William III hunted regularly at Richmond and in 1701 hebroke his collar-bone in a fall he had while hunting near 1 The last roe deer seen in Surrey was at Seale three or four yearsago. PLATE II. Q :* H &£»—* g* • § . 5 H ^ w * > ao s o ^•z age 4] HUNTING IN SURREY. 5 Kingston. His successor, Queen Anne, was very keen onhunting and rode hard until she was incapacitated by rheu-matism. After that she had a special carriage made for apair of galloping horses which was known as Her MajestysCalash. She knew the Richmond country thoroughly welland was able, driving her horses herself, to see a good dealof the run. In the days of George I the Court seems to have huntedin the Richmond country even more than at Windsor, andthere is a letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu sayingthat she had started hunting with the Court at Richmondat the age of 64 ! All through the early days of the eighteenth century thereare plenty of records of hunting with the Royal Buck Houndsin Surrey. Thus, in 1733, they met at Epsom and killed ahind at Godstow after a run of nearly fifty miles. In 1734there is a record of a run from Sunbury across
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