July 4, 2025
Did Cornelius Vermuyden meet Prince Henry at a hunt on Thorne Mere?
Did Cornelius Vermuyden meet Prince Henry at a deer hunt on Thorne Mere? Abraham de la Pryme, a 17th-century antiquarian, recounted a story that Prince Henry, the eldest son of King James I, visited the North of England in 1609 and took part in a grand hunt on Thorne Mere—a vast, marshy area on the edge of Hatfield Chase. During...