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340 EXPENSIS OF THE DOGES
" to caus Robein the hounter meit his Majestie in Stirling with the
" houndis."
It is recorded that on the memorable fifth of August 1600, his Majesty-
had his residence at Falkland, and was " daily at the buck-hunting (as
" his use is in that season) ;" and the cause which he had to rue the
hunting of that day, probably led to the somewhat stern ordinance indi-
cated by the entry, in September 1601, of a payment " to John Purdie
" Messinger passand with letteris to the marcat croce of Striviling and
" thair efter sound of trumpet commandit that nane suld follow his Ma-
" jestie to the Park to the hunting bot sa mony as are contenit in the
" roll under the pane qfdeid." This was shortly after another Messenger
had been sent " with letteris to charge the baillies of Sanquhar to bring
" to his Majestie the bigill and hir quhelpis that he wrait for to thame
" or ellis that thai within thrie dayis enter thair personis in waird within
" the castell of Edinburgh under the pane qfrebellioun."
For curious illustrations of the partiality of all James's family for the
pastime which he so anxiously followed, — and among others, for in-
stances of the metaphor by which the Queen termed one noble courtier
" my kind Dog," and the King addressed another as " my Littill
" Beagill," — see their very interesting letters, presented to the Maitland
Club by Sir Patrick Walker, [Edinburgh 1835] and pp. xxi to xxiii,
xliv, xlv, xlix, and liv, of the Introduction prefixed to that volume.
The mission of the deer-hounds to Denmark, of which the particulars
are given below, and which seems to have been provided for with a care