 | William Humphrey Marshall - 1808 - 602 pages
...the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed upon a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came in great numbers, both horse and foot : the horsemen rode off the bull from the rest of the herd until... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1809 - 666 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given, that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls, or... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1830 - 706 pages
...the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed upon a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came in great numbers, both horse and foot ; the horsemen rode off the bull from the rest of the herd until... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 382 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull was to be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. sometimes to the number of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls, or... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed ou a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed witlKguns, &c. sometimes to the amount of axhundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood... | |
 | William Jardine - 1836 - 392 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls,... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1837 - 554 pages
...of the grandeur of ancient hunting : — On notice being given that a Wild Bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, &c. sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls, or... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, etc., sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls,... | |
 | 1840 - 694 pages
...the only remains of ancient hunting : — on notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c., sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls, or... | |
 | 1852 - 618 pages
...modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c., sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls or... | |
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... the Bull from the rest of the herd, until he stood at bay ; when a marksman dismounted and shot. At some of these huntings twenty or thirty... 
