. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. J%fpj§. cellaring, which seems to be older than portions ofthe superstructure, and which may have held theessentials for feasts, for which sportsmen of alltimes have been famous. NesLV the lodge, too, isthe Bear-Loape, or Deer Leap, a little valley throughwhich once evidently ran a considerable stream, EOYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. 37 and near which, the soil is still black, wet, andboggy. A deer leap, dear loape, or saltory, wasa pitfall—a contrivance common during the forestperiods, generally at the edge of the chace, fortaking deer, and often g
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. J%fpj§. cellaring, which seems to be older than portions ofthe superstructure, and which may have held theessentials for feasts, for which sportsmen of alltimes have been famous. NesLV the lodge, too, isthe Bear-Loape, or Deer Leap, a little valley throughwhich once evidently ran a considerable stream, EOYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. 37 and near which, the soil is still black, wet, andboggy. A deer leap, dear loape, or saltory, wasa pitfall—a contrivance common during the forestperiods, generally at the edge of the chace, fortaking deer, and often granted by charter as aprivilege—as that, for instance, on the edge ofCank, or Cannock Chace. Sometimes these pitfalls,dug for the purpose of taking game, were used bypoachers, who drove the deer into them. It is,therefore, easy to understand why the forest lodgeshould be near, as a protection. It was usually oneof the articles of inquiry at the Swainmote Courtwhether any man have any great close withinthree miles of the forest that have any saltories,
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