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Pirate VI. The leading horseman wears a green coat with a blue hood and scarlet hose, the
next one a green coat and scarlet hood, and the third man a green coat with a blue cap. The
two chace-chiens wear green coats and blue hoods.

Prats VII. Both the horsemen wear coats of the orthodox colour, grey, and purple under-
garments. The men on foot are also clad in grey upper garments, with mauve or purple hoods
and purple hose. The trappings on the leading horse are scarlet, and on the other bright
green.

Pirate VIII. The man warming his back at the fire has a pinkish mauve coat, the two men
warming their hands wear scarlet coats, and of the two men with the hounds, the one in the fore-
ground has also a scarlet coat, the other a green one. The man peeling potatoes or cutting bread
sports a blue coat and scarlet hood, and the man holding the sack is decked out in a coat of a pink
mauve with green hose. The man brittling the wild boar has a coat of a similar hue.

Pratt IX. The leading man on horseback has a blue coat with gold embroidery and scarlet
cap and hose, the other being dressed in a pink coat with green hood and leggings and a blue
cap. The leading chace-chien wears a pink jacket, blue hood, and on one leg he sports blue and
on the other white hose. The man in the middle has a scarlet coat, mauve hose anda green
hood, while the third man is clad in a blue upper garment and pink hose.
on the leading horse are scarlet, and on the other a bright emerald green.

Prate X., representing a fox hunt. This picture has special interest for us, for it is, so far as
I know, the oldest representation of fox hunting “above ground” that gives us such minute details,

The leading huntsman, whose high rank is betokened by the fact that he is wearing gold spurs,
the bit and ornaments of the horse being of the same precious metal, has a scarlet cap on his head,
and wears a pink surcoat with blue sleeves and blue hose to match them. The saddle and
saddle cloth are a bright green, the other trappings of his steed scarlet.

The somewhat extraordinary looking individual riding behind him is clad in a sack-like over-
coat of scarlet, cut low at the neck, with purple sleeves, the saddle being of the same colour. The
absence of any hood shows that sometimes sportsmen did without this protective garment. The
leading chace-chien is clad in a purple coat, with green hood and hose of the same tint. The man
in the middle wears a scarlet coat, and the last man a blue coat with pink hood and pink hose on
both legs. Strung over his left arm we notice four coupling ropes with gold-tipped fastenings.
The riders carry estortoirs in their hands; these were rods of wood, two or three feet in length,

with which, when riding through thickets, boughs and tree-branches were pushed aside.
(See page 214.)

The saddle and trappings

The chace-chiens were armed with spears, in case wolves or wild cats were encountered.

Prats XI. The men in this miniature are clad in garments of blue, green, pink, scarlet and
purple tints, quite as extraordinary in their way as is the employment of fleet greyhounds for the
chase of the slow badger.

Pirate XII. The leading sportsman in this picture seems to have been meant for ‘Gaston
Phoebus” himself, for his scarlet overcoat is emblazoned with designs in gold embroidery, repre-
senting suns and peacock feathers. The hood is of a brown tint, and probably was of leather to
afford extra protection against the formidable claws of wild cat or lynx, whose chase in the thickets
which they inhabited was by no means a riskless one. The trappings of his horse are a bright
pink, and the saddle and cloth are emerald green. The horseman behind him wears a mauve
surcoat, his horse’s trappings being scarlet. The men on foot are clad in pink and blue surcoats
and pink and brown hose, the hood of the hindermost man being green.

Prate XIII. The men on the near side of the stream wear green and pink coats, with mauve
and green hoods and pink and blue hose. Those on the far side wear pink and blue coats, with
green and scarlet hose. Concerning the spears used by them see Appendix: Arms.

Prats XIV. The collars of the greyhounds are scarlet, and the muzzles and collars of the
alaunts are scarlet.

Prats XV. The garments of the nine men in this picture are of kaleidoscopic hues ; three

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in this picture are either scarlet

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hue, as are also the horses

trappings.

ATE YOU, All Six varlets have pink coats, two of them showing a green lining. Their

d hoods are blue. og ae
— XXIII. Curiously enough, all the men employed in making nets wear green ¢'
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Prats XXV. The houppelande, which is embroidered with the arms of the maste ;
imson, and the hood is mauve. The two men standing nearest him have ee
of . . .
ith ate and crimson hose; the man behind them, with large silver spurs nee _ eet, = ao
e i i ith red hose ; and the two Jas
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coat and high black boots ; the man oe
“The chair on which the master is seated is gold, and the great hound at h

green and mauve coats

garments.

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Prats XXVI. The mounted master veneur's coat 1s green with pink sleeves, and he

grey cap; the limerer’s coat a eo green, and he has brown leggings. The trappings of
‘ ight scarlet with gold bosses. ’
7 city The Aes horseman’s coat is purple with red sleeves and ee ee
while the boy who is holding the stag’s fumets _ = hand has a ee nae purple hood.
: i < with white borders, and the other trappings ar i
se cette The predominating colours in this picture are grey and mauve, the coats :
the three men at the back of the leader being of the former ae and the hoods pink, green, an
; leader’s coat is mauve, and the hood and hose scarlet.
TE eee The leading limerer’s coat is pink, he has a grey hood and scarlet hose ; the
man in the centre has a blue gown and cap, scarlet hood and white and scarlet hose ; while the last
man’s coat is scarlet, his hood mauve and his cap blue.

Prats XXX. The leading horseman’s coat is green, his hose scarlet ; the gown of the ao
behind him is green, and that of the chace-chzen green with a pink hood. The saddle of the white
horse is blue and the trappings scarlet. :

Prats XXXI. The red coat of the man watching the deer can hardly have been a suitable
one for such purpose. ;

Prats XXXII. The green colour of hood and gown with green and pink hose sported by this
limerer is decidedly more in keeping with his duties than are the scarlets and blues to be seen
in so many of our pictures. a

Prare XXXIII. Far less suitably clad is the limerer in this miniature, for his coat is pink,
his hood blue, and his hose mauve, and the baldrick a bright scarlet.

Prats XXXIV. This highly interesting picture of a fifteenth-century meet and al fresco
hunt breakfast is again a very kaleiodoscope of the brightest colours to be found on the painter’s
pallet. The green and gold gown richly trimmed with brown fur of the centre figure at the