St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-27
OLD ENGLISH SPORT.
Some Interesting "Reminiscences OF
the Field and Noted Persons
Connected Herewith.

In the History of Hertfordsh1re"
Mr.. Doubleday gives very full ac-
count of Hertfordshire sport, both an
Gent and modern. James the First's
hunting establishment at Royston is
well known; and, to judge from the
following, his visits must have been
somewhat burdensome to the neigh
borhood, says the London Standard.
"There was one of the kings special
hounds. called Jowler, missing one
day. The next day, when they were
on the field, Jowler came in among the
rest of the hounds. The king was told
of him, and was very glad; and, look
ing on him, he spied paper about
his neck, and in the paper was writ
ten: Good Mr.. Jowler, we pray you
speak to the king (for he hears you
every day, and so doth he not us), that
it will please his majesty to 60 back
to London, for else the country will be
undone; all our provision is spent al
ready, and we are not able to enter
tain him longer
In 1917, by the kings express com
mand, notice was given to the occu-
pants of arabic land that they were
not to pillow their land in narrow
ridges, or allow their pigs to go loose
without being ringed, SO that they
should not make holes in the ground,
which endangered his majesty and the
prince in hawking and hunting. Also
they were to lower the fences which
''hinder his majesty's ready passage. ;"
The first public pack of foxhounds
was established in 1925, and was
known as the Hertfordshire hounds.
When Lady Salisbury became mistress
in 1898 they were called the Hatfield
hounds-'Lady Salisbury's fame as
mistress of foxhounds and as dar-
ing rider and sportswoman is very re-
markable. She enjoyed the distinction
of being one of the first English Ia
dies who gained such a reputation.
Many are the tales told of her daring
exploits and of her hairbreath escapes
in the hunting-feld. It was usual for
Lady Salisbury to drive to the meets
in carriage drawn by four black
horses, with an outrider, her hunters
being led by groom who acted as her
pilot"
"A note in the Sporting Magazine
for January, 1900, states that Lady
Salisbury, one of the boldest female
riders in the kingdom, relaxes little
with her own foxhounds. Some few
years ago she invariably went over
the gate; she now waits with more
prudence until the gate is opened.
1t was not until Lady Salisbury was
70 years of age that she gave>up the
hounds and ceased following the fox
hounds, and even then she said she
thought she was good enough to hunt
with the barriers" The fine old lady
was burned to death at Hatfield house
in November, 1886, at the age of Sc.
1t is surprising to find it asserted
in this history of Hertfordshire that
shooting at flying game was not prac-
ticed till the end of the eighteenth
century," 1t was the practice in the
reign of Queen Anne, when Pope
wrote windsor Forest" Sir Roger
de Coverley tells Mr.. Spectator that
the yeoman who overtakes them on
the road is worthy man and shoots
flying. In 1877 poem on the art of
shooting flying, called "Pteryplegia,"
was published by fellow of St. Johns
college, Oxford. In 1890 we find a
graphic description of it in Thomson's
"Autumn."