Note 196b — NOTES ON PARISHES ROUND HORNCASTLE. (continued 5)
Reading edition
The Harleian MS., in the British Museum, shows buxom dames shooting stags and boars with the bow, mounted astride on horseback. Italian and Dutch artists shew the same. Lady Superiors were wont thus to relieve the montony of conventual life. It is related of Queen Elizabeth, that when 60 years old, she shot four deer before breakfast. “Standard,” ‘leader,’ Oct. 12th, 1898.