Sentence:  The <WSD>battues</WSD> have nothing whatever to do with the poaching, and once sufficiently grand <WSD>battue</WSD> would put an end to poaching altogether, by destroying all the game. The evil of which the chancellor should have spoken, is the excessive game preserving which allows of <WSD>battues</WSD>, or great massacres. The game is preserved till it swarms, and then it is slaughtered in swarms; but it is clearly not the massacre which provokes the poaching, but the temptation of the extraordinary abundance of game. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A hunt performed in this manner.