Islington.
_Liveries, Red and Scarlet._--In a Provincial paper, I noticed a paragraph
dating the origin of wearing red coats in fox-hunting from a mandate of
Henry II., who it appears made fox-hunting a royal sport, and gave to all
distributors of foxes the scarlet uniform of the royal household: this also
would involve another question as regards the origin of scarlet being the
colour of the royal livery. Can any of your sporting or antiquarian
correspondents give me any authority for the former, and any information
about the latter?