Excerpt from Transactions of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society, 1909, Vol. 3: Part I. (Issued to Subscribers for 1908) In the year 1556-7 Anne, Countess of Oxford, lodged a complaint against Sir Giles Alington, Knight, and his men for poaching. The case goes to swell the trials in the Court of the Star Chamber, and is interest ing from the contradictory nature of the evidence but, perhaps, the chief interest centres in the illustrious na'mes'of the plaintiff and defendant, who are recorded as disputing over stolen deer on their adjoining Cambridgeshire estates Where they respectively resided, Sir Giles Alington at Horseheath hall, i and Anne, Countess of Oxford at the Castle,2 Camps, situated barely three miles south of the Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.