“Floats, where of old the hunter’s stirring horn.”—page [21].
[7]. Fair-Mead Lodge, the residence of Wm. Sotheby, Esq., preserves the memory of a spot from whence Queen Elizabeth and her ladies, when hunting in the forest, were wont to station themselves, to witness the chase. The Queen’s Lodge, farther in the forest, occupies a high ground amongst some fine trees. A dilapidated farmhouse is now the only relic of the royal mansion, and the scene where Leicester “drew his ’broidered rein” beside the palfrey of that Queen he would fain have governed, is now a lonely rabbit-warren. The outlines of the garden parterres and a fish-pond are still to be traced.
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