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That hunting was practised here in these days is evident, for Thomas Randall, of Cambridge, writes in the same volume: "Such royal pastimes Cotteswold mountains fill, When gentle swains visit Anglonicus hill, When with such packs of hounds they hunting go As Cyrus never woon'd his bugle to." Fozbrooke tells us that the Whitsuntide sports are the floralia of the Romans.
The "Annalia Dubrensia" contain many verses about these sports by the hand of Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, and others. "On Cotteswold Hills there meets A greater troop of gallants than Rome's streets E'er saw in Pompey's triumphs: beauties, too, More than Diana's beavie of nymphs could show On their great hunting days."
It is now a venerable castle, and has been taken by an antiquary for one of King Arthur's." The kennels of the V.W.H. hounds are in the park. Here the lover of hounds can spend hours discussing the merits of "Songster" and "Rosebud," or the latest and most promising additions to the families of "Brocklesby Acrobat" or "Cotteswold Flier." In this house are some very interesting portraits.
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