. Some account of English deer parks, with notes on the management of deer. Deer; Deer hunting. i6 DEER AND DEER PARKS. Ch. r. hunting deer with bloodhounds and with greyhounds, the huntsmen being represented both on foot' and on horseback; also the various modes of approaching deer with the bow; sometimes in ambush, ' where one ought. to be dressed the same colour as the wood.' It is to be observed that the common long-bow, and not the cross-bow, which was afterwards used in shooting deer in parks, is represented in these ancient illuminations. The following translation of an agreement betwee
. Some account of English deer parks, with notes on the management of deer. Deer; Deer hunting. i6 DEER AND DEER PARKS. Ch. r. hunting deer with bloodhounds and with greyhounds, the huntsmen being represented both on foot' and on horseback; also the various modes of approaching deer with the bow; sometimes in ambush, ' where one ought. to be dressed the same colour as the wood.' It is to be observed that the common long-bow, and not the cross-bow, which was afterwards used in shooting deer in parks, is represented in these ancient illuminations. The following translation of an agreement between Roger de Qijiincy, Earl of Winchester, and Roger de Somery, Baron of Dudley, defining their mutual rights of hunting in Charnwood Forest and Bradgate Park, Leices- tershire, affords an illustration of another kind as to the ' noble science,' and is an evidence at the same time of the importance which was attached to it :— ' This is the Agreement made at Leicester, on the day of St. Vincent the Martyr (22nd of January), in the 3 ist year of the reign of King Henry, the son of King John (anno 1247). Before Sir Roger de Turkilby, ' King Henry V. is said, in Harrison's De- scription of Britain (p. io8), to have dis- dained to follow any fallow-deer with hounds or greyhounds, but ' to have tired them by his own travails on foot, and so killed them- with his hands.' See the Ist ed. of Holinshed's Chro- nicles (1577).'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812-1882. London, J. Murray
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