 | Bernard Burke - Anecdotes - 1851 - 348 pages
...troops of horse from Dorchester, atid other places, came into this island, intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, their business being suddenly...order for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to k eep them shut against all comers. The troopers having missed their prey on the hills (the gentlemen... | |
 | George Bankes - Corfe Castle (England) - 1853 - 372 pages
...some troops of horse from Dorchester and other places came into the island, intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, their business being suddenly...coming dispersed the hunters and spoiled the sport of that day, and made the Lady Bankes to give order for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1853 - 770 pages
...forearmed. The news of their eomingdispersed the hunters, spoiled the sport, and Lady Bankes gave orders for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to keep them shut. The troopers having missed their game on the hills, came, some of them, to the castleunder a pretence... | |
 | John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 598 pages
...some troops of horse from Dorchester, and other places, came into this island, intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, their business being suddenly...troopers having missed their prey on the hills (the gentlemen having withdrawn themselves), some of them came to the castle under a pretence to see it,... | |
 | Charles Bruce - Great Britain - 1875 - 636 pages
...some troops of horse from Dorchester and other places came into this island, intending to find other game than to hunt the stag ; their business being...troopers having missed their prey on the hills (the gentlemen having withdrawn themselves), some of them came to the castle under a pretence to see it... | |
 | Florence Molesworth Hawtrey - Genealogy - 1903 - 560 pages
...that purpose every May Day." The Mercurius Rusticus tells us the troops came "intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, their business being suddenly...coming dispersed the hunters, and spoiled the sport of that day, and made Lady Bankes to give order for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to keep... | |
 | Florence Molesworth Hawtrey - Genealogy - 1903 - 562 pages
...purpose every May Day." The Mercurius Rusticus tells us the troops ; came " intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, their business being suddenly...coming dispersed the hunters, and spoiled the sport of that day, and made Lady Bankes to give order for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to keep... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 350 pages
...troops of horse from ' Dorchester and other places came into the island, ' intending to find other game than to hunt the stag, ' their business being...coming dispersed the hunters and spoiled the sport of ' that day, and made the Lady Bankes to give order for ' the safe custody of the castle gates, and... | |
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Banks to give order for the safe custody of the castle gates, and to keep them shut against all comers. The troopers having missed their prey on the hills (the gentlemen having withdrawn themselves), some of them came to the castle under a pretence to... 