Anecdote of the Civil Wars

In looking through your "Notes and Queries," to which I heartily wish continued success, I find, in No. 6. p. 93, a question which appears to be as yet unanswered. The story to which your questioner alludes as an "anecdote of the Civil Wars," is a very beautiful one, and deserves authentication. I have a note of it from Dr. Thomas's additions to Dugdale's *Warwickshire*, which dates the occurrence as having taken place Oct. 22, 1642, the day previous to the battle of Edgehill, and identifies the merry sportsman as Richard Schuckburgh, of Upper Shuckburgh; who, however, on his presentation to t…