THE MASTER OF GAME

Chapter 24, How a man should know a great hart by the fumes

25. How aman should know a great hart by the place where he hath frayed
his head .

26. How the ordinance should be made for the hart hunting by strength
and how the hart should be harboured

How a hunter should go in quest by the sight

How an hunter should go in quest between the plains and the wood
How a hunter should go in quest in the coppice or the young wood
How an hunter should go in quest in great coverts and strengths .
How a hunter should quest in clear spires and high wood

How a good hunter should go in quest to hear the harts bellow .
How the assembly that men call gathering should be made both

winter and summer after the guise of beyond the sea .

How the hert should be moved with the lymer and run to and slain with
strength.

How an hunter should seek and find the hare with running hounds and
slay her with strength

Of the ordinance and the manner of hunting when the King will hunt
in forests or in parks for the hart with bows and greyhounds
and stable

APPENDIX

GeneraL BiptiocrapHy or Booxs anp MSS. on Huntinc IN THE PRINCIPAL
European LancuaGes UP TO THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY

GLossaRy

InDEXx

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXXVI.

XXVIII.

XXVIII.

XXIX,

XXX,

XXXI.

LIST -@n ILLUSTRATIONS

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Gaston Phoebus (Count Gaston de Foix) surrounded by huntsmen and hounds
(produced by 78 colour-printings by W. Griggs & Sons) Frontispiece

The master instructing his huntsmen in the art of venery

The hare and her leverets .

Red deer: harts and hinds

Hunting the buck with running hounds

Hunting the roebuck with greyhounds and running hounds .

Hunting the wild boar with hounds

The “ undoing” of the wild boar and preparing the reward for the hounds

Hunting the wolf

Fox hunting “above ground” with raches or running hounds
Badger-drawing

Wild cat hunting with hounds

Otter-hunting . : : : : :

The five breeds of dogs described in the text

Treatment of sick or injured hounds .

Raches or running hounds .

The smooth and rough coated greyhounds .

The alauntes

Various kinds of spaniels : : i

The mastiffs with their spiked collars for wolf-hunting
The huntsman with his hounds .

The kennel and kennelmen

How the couples, ropes and nets for hunting were made
How the hounds were led out

The master instructing his hunters how to blow the horn
The master on horseback teaching how to quest for the hart .
How a great hart is to be known by signs of venery
Awaiting the charge of wild boars

How the hounds were led to unharbour the hart .

Hart hunting with greyhounds and raches .

How the hunter should view the hart .