Related article: Elizabeth, who not content with hunting in Epping Forest and at Windsor, made at least a couple of expeditions to Exmoor, when Mr. Hugh Pollard, her ranger, was master of the pack, and he is the earliest master of whom mention is made, though there is every reason to believe that the hunt had existed for several cen- turies previous. No country, of course, could be more suited to staghunting than the Devon and Somerset, for the coverts are so extensive and the moor is so wide that, except as above mentioned when they stray a little beyond the boundaries, Purchase Cyclosporine the deer never leave the precincts of the moor. Some j-ears ago it Cheap Cyclosporine was suggested that the red deer might be left out to roam at pleasure in Swinley Forest and that they should be hunted as in Devon- shire ; but the area would not be sufficiently extensive, and the deer would probably have wan- dered all over the county of Berks and into Hampshire till they might have Cyclosporine Buy eventually reached the New Forest, where, by-the-bye, the royal pack used once upon a time to go for hunting once or twice a year. In Lyme Park, in Cheshire, which in the last century was famous for the flavour of its veni- son, there was a curious custom of driving the deer round about the park once a year. They were driven through a piece of water and rounded up in front of the house. T. Smith, the artist, painted a spirited picture showing the proceedings. In connection with this old custom, a tablet re- cords the fact that the art of driving deer like a herd of cattle was first perfected by Joseph Watson, Buy Cyclosporine who died in the year 1753 at the age of 104, after hav- ing been park-keeper at Lyme for sixty- five years. This custom^ I90O.] STAGHUNTING HISTORY. 279 however, of rounding up deer does not appear to have been peculiar to Lyme ; a very similar proceed- ing is mentioned in Whitaker's account of Towneley. As long ago as the time of Henry VIII. we can find reference to organised staghunting, and that welter-weight monarch is said to have once tired out no fewer than eight horses in the course of a single day's sport, though whether the scene of his exploits was St. Leonards Forest in Sussex, in Quomdon Chase, or in Essex, is not quite Buy Cyclosporine Eye Drops For Dogs clear; but at any rate it is certain that Lord Sefton, who was as heavy as the eighth Henry, did not invent the use of second horses ; and that is not the only datum we have. In addi- tion to Queen Elizabeth, Queen Anne was an ardent staghunter, and to her we owe the cutting of sundry rides in Swinley Forest in order that she might the more easily follow her hounds when gout keeping her from the saddle compelled her to hunt on wheels ; and it is said that in a light one- horse chaise she would drive furi- ously up and down the rides. Referring for a moment to Queen Elizabeth's hunting in Epping Forest, a certain " Peter the Barber Buy Cheap Cyclosporine " appears to have been a regular follower of the Epping Hounds, and on one occasion he was in a road as the stag crossed right in his line. The deer re- fused to be blanched by him, however, so took a flying leap at the barber and his steed, but not thinking it worth while to jump too high, caught the unlucky barber, non sine lasionc capitis^ as the account tells us, and Peter was knocked off his horse. A former king of Prussia, who never hunted, was much given to the study and practice of music, and played most Cyclosporine Online assiduously on the German flute. A German meeting a Frenchman after the war asked, *' si son maitre chas- sait toujours ? " ** Qui, oui,** was the reply, " il ne joue jamais de la flfite." One of the most curious allusions to staghunting, however, is to be found in one of the old numbers of the Sporting Magazine. A certain Baron Hacke, a Belgian, hunted, or at least supervised, a pack of staghounds belonging to a foreign prince. The establishment was well kept up, and the Baron appears to have been quite master of his business, but the calling of a huntsman or manager Generic Cyclosporine of a pack of staghounds seems to have been quite repugnant to the no- tions of propriety entertained by the family of a Mr. Hack, at whose instructions a Arm of soli- citors wrote : " We are instructed by the friends of Mr. Hack, the pork butcher, a most respectable tradesman, to say that his family are not in any way connected with the huntsman above mentioned (Baron Hacke), or with any other menial servant in or out of livery." The friends of Mr. Hack, how- ever, were before their time in the matter Buy Cyclosporine Online of law, as many years Buy Cyclosporine Eye Drops afterwards it was Order Cyclosporine decided that a huntsman was a menial servant in the eyes of the law, and that a tax must be paid for him. In connection with old hunting customs it is curious to notice that quite in the early portion of the last century, when hunting a cap- tive deer was quite Order Cyclosporine Online in its infancy, objection was taken to certain formalities observed at the cap- ture of a stag. In The Guardian of May 2ist, 1713, appears an article advocating the kindly treatment of animals, and in it mention is made, among " the barbarous customs existing in England," of one which is given in detail. '* I must animadvert," says the writer, " upon a custom 28o BAILY S MAGAZINE. [OCTOBKR yet in use with us, and barbarous enough Purchase Cyclosporine Online to be derived from the Goths or even the Scythians ; I mean the savage compliment our huntsmen pass upon ladies of quality who are present at the death of a stag when they put the knife in their hands to cut the throat of the deer." In Robert Browning's " Flight of the Duch- ess/' the poet makes mention of the dame of the castle attending her lord with a ** clean ewer and fair towelling '* to preside at the disembowelling of the stag, and to wash the hands of her husband who has killed the deer ; while in the ** Bride of Lammermoor " it will be remembered that Bruck- law hands the knife to Lucy Ashton, and is surprised at her declining to officiate on the occasion.