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 of whom we are to treat, was grandſon, and heir both of his virtues and valour.

The noble Earl of Northumberland taking his progreſs, gallantly attended with fifteen hundred ſtout archers, paſſed on to the marches of Scotland, of which by commiſſion from the King, he was to have been Lord-lieutenant; and wiſhing for ſome veniſon at dinner, he was informed, that in a large foreſt beyond the Tweed, called Chevychaſe, belonging to Earl Douglas, a Scotch nobleman, there was ſuch ſtore of it, that the like was in no part of the kingdom. Proviſions being ſcarce on the Engliſh ſide in thoſe borders, this report made his men ſo forward, that they deſired they might go out in parties, and bring as much as they could get away undiſcovered; but he, deſpiſing ſuch a way that looked too much like deer-ſtealing, told them, if their courage was ſufficient to venture for it fairly, he would venture with them; and ſo hunting it down as a fair game, it ſhould be brought of with honour, as a lawful prize, taken in an enemy's country: For then K. Henry II. of England, in whoſe reign it happened, was at war with the Scots, tho' there had been, for a while, an interval, or ceſſation of arms. To this motion of the noble Earl's, they gave their unanimous