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noz heard what it is termed of a Molke or a Beare : nepther is it greatly materiall.

The termes of the time that these chaces
seeke eche other to engender.

Russe.

VVhen a Harte or Bucke seeketh to engender with Hynde or Doe, we say they go to the Rue: as also the Gote doth. A Rowe Deare is layde to go in his Tourne. A Boze goeth to the Brime: An Hare and Conie to the Bucke: a Fore goeth on clicketing: a Badgerd as the Boze: A Molke seeketh his Make or Matche: And an Otter hunteth for his Kinde.

The voyces and noyfes that euery of them
maketh at such times.

Noyce or
Sownde.

A Harte belloweth: a Bucke groyneth: a Rowe belleth: a Gote ratteleth: a Boze kreameth: a Hare & a conie beateth or kappeth: a For barketh: a Badgerd chiketh: an Otter whineth: & a Molke howleth, when they seeke or hunte after their makes.

The seaſons of all Chaces.

Seasen.

The Harte & Bucke (with the Gote) is in season from Midsummer until Holyrode day: The Rowe is in season betwene Easter & Mighelmas. The Boze from Christmas till Shrouetide: The Hare from Mighelmas till Midsummer: The Fox and the Molke from Holy rode day till the Annunciation: & the Otter from Shrouetide until Midsummer. Conies are al wayes in season, either yong or old: but theirkinses are in best season from Alballontide unto Shrouetide. The Hynde, Doc, Rosdoe, Geate, & Swine, beestneth when the Male of euery one of the ceasleth, and lasteth as long as they be fatte or in good plight.

The Fatte of euery one of thele beaſts.

Fatte.

The katte of all kinde of Deare is called Sowet: and it may be also very well sayd, This Deare was an high Deare of Greece, or so forth. But the Katte (of it selfe) is called Sowet, vsupra.
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The katte of a Boze, Fore, and Badgerd, is called properly Greace. An Hare (by old Tryslrams opinion) beareth both Greace and Tallowe, and the Rowe deares kat (only of all Deare) is termed Beauie Greace.

The flaying, striping, and casing of
all maner Chaces.

The Harte and all manner of Deare are flayne: and yet Huntelemen vse more commonly to say, take off that Deareskinne. The Hare is cutted, and (as Tryslram layeth) the Boze allo: the Fore, Badgerd and all other verminine are caſed, that is to say, you muſt beginne at the knowte or nole of the beaſt, and so turne his kinne ouer his eares all alongst the bodie, untill you come at the tayle: and that hangeth out to them what beaſt it was, this is called casing: and put a Badgerd's kinne is to be stretched with ſoure ticks on twolde, to make it drie: the better, because it is great and fatte.

Flaying,
Striping,
&c.

Termes vſed when you bring any Chace to
his resting place, or rayle him from it.

VVene Herboz and Unherboz a Harte, & he lieth in his laye: we lodge & rowle a Bucke, & he lieth also in his laye: we seeke and finde the Rowe and he beddeth: we kome and llarte a Hare: we burrowe and bolt a Conie, and both the Hare and Conie do lit and squat. We couch & reare a Boze: we kenntell and unkenell a For: we earth and digge a Badgerd: we tree and bape both Martern and wild catte: we watch and vent an Otter. And we trayne and rayle the Molke, when we bring them to their reſlying place and put them from the fame to be hunted. Of the Rayne deare, Gote, or Beare, I haue neither read nor heard the termes in this repreſſ.

Resting
place.

The ſundrie noyſes of houndes, and the
termes proper for the fame.

As you heare hounds make ſundry different noyſes, so do we Termes of terme them by ſundry terms: for hounds do cal on, bawle, Cries and bable, Noyſes.

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Bable, crie, yearne, lapylse, plodde, baye, and such lyke other noy-
ses. First when hounds are firſte call off and finde of some game
or chace, we ſay, They call on. If they be to buſe before they finde
the Sent good, we ſay They Bable. If they be to buſe after they
finde good Sent, we ſay They Bable. If they run it enduayes or-
derly and make it good, then when they holde in togethers me-
tily, we ſay They are in crie. When they are earneſt cyther in the
chace or in the earth, we ſay They yearne. When they open in the
ſtring (or a Greyproude in his courte) we ſay They lapylse. When
they hang behinde and beate two muche on one Sent or place, we
ſay They plodde. And when they haue cyther earthed a vermine,
or brought a Deare, Boze, or suche lyke, to turne head agaynſt
them, then we ſay They Baye.

The difference between hounds and
Greyhounds for termes.

Difference.

WV The finde some difference of termes betweene hounds, and
Greyhounds. As of Greyhounds two make a Braſſ,
and of hounds a Couple. Of Greyhounds three make a Leaſſ,
and of hounds a Couple and a halfe. We let slippe a Greyprouſ,
and we take off a Hounde. The string wherewith wee leade a
Greyprounde is called a Leaſſ, and for a Hounde a Lyame. The
Greyprounde hath his Coller, and the Hounde hath his Couples.
Many other differences there be, but these are most bluall.

The different names of chaces, vvhen they
be yong in the neaſt, or fucking
the Damme.

Yong.

A Pong red Deare is called a Cale : a yong fallow Deare, a
kawne : a yong Rowe or Gote, a Kidde : a yong Boze, a
Pigge : a yong Bare a Leueret : a yong Conie, a Rabet : a
yong Fore is called a Cubbe : a yong Badgerd as the Bozes
yong : a yong Cattel, a Kittling : a yong Hartern, a Harterne-
cubbe : a yong Oiter, a whelpe. And likewise of Deare and
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Wolke as farre as euer I read.

The termes for the tayles of all chafes.

The tayle of Harte, Bucke, Rowe, or any other Deare,
is to be called the Syngle. The Tayle of a Goaſt, is plain-
ly called his Tayle. The tayle of a Boze, is to be termed
his wreath. The tayle of an Hare and Conney, is called their
skust. The tayle of a Fore is called his Bush, or some vſe to
lay his hollywater Sprinkle. The tayle of a Wolke is to be called
his stearne. Of the rest I haue not read.

Termes to be vſed, when any chace goeth
to the water by force.

VVhen an Hart or any Deare is forced to the water, we
ſay he goeth to the Soyle. But yet therein also there is
difference. For when a Hart firſt taketh the water, we laye he
Poffereth. When he goeth quite through a ryuer or water, we
ſay he breaketh Soyle. And the Slot or viewe which is founde
of such a Deare, on that other side of the water, is to be termed,
as of a Drare defoulant the Soyle. The Hart, Bucke, Gote,
and Boze, do almo take Soyle oftentimes without enfozing. All
other beaſtes are none otherwife termed, but playnely to take
the water, lauing onely the Oiter, and he is layde to beate the
Streame.

Other generall termes of the Hart
and his properties.

A Hart when he is paff his ſixth yeare, is generally to be called an Hart of tenne, and afterwards according to the increase of his Heade, whether it be Croched, Palmed or Crowned. When he breaketh hearde and draweth to the thickets, he is layde to take his holde. When a huntesman draweth after him with his hounde, if he goe into any grove or wood, he

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Covreth, and if he come out againe, he Discreveth him selke.
When he feedeth in fieldes, closes, or come, he feedeth: otherwise
he Brosgifch. In the heate of the dape he withdaweth him selke
for the flyes, and then we lay, he goeth to the steppe. His heade
when it commeth first out, hath a ruffet pyll upon it, the which
is called Velvet, and his heade is called then a velvete heade, the
toppes thereof (as long as they are in bloude) are good meate,
and are called Tenderlings. When his heade is growne out to
the full bygnette, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called
fraying of his heade. And afterwards he Burniseth the same,
and then his heade is layde to be full sommed. His stones are
called his doulcets, and the caule about his paunche is called his
Kell. When he layeth to looke at any thing, then he standerth at
gaze. When he bouneth by upon all foure, then he tryppeth, and
when he turneth verie fast, then he freyneth. When he fine lieth
or venteth any thing, then we laye he hath (this or that) in the
winde. When he is hunted and doth first leave the bearde, we
lay that he is Syngled or emprymed. When he is koany at the
mouth, we laye that he is embosst. And when he holdeth out his
necke, we laye he is spent or done. And when he is deade, we
laye that he is downe. The rewarde to the houndses, is called a
Rewarde or quarrey.

Termes generall of the hunteman, in
hunting of any chafe.

When huntefmen doe beate any Couerte with kennell
hounds for any chafe, it is called drawing of the Couert.
When they cast about a groome or wood with their Liamhound,
then they make a rpyng. When they finde where a Deare hath
passed, and breake or plashe any boughe downe wardes for a
marke, then we laye, they blemishe, or make blemishes. When
they hang vppe any paper, clouf, or other marke, then it is to be
called sewelling or letting of sewels. When they set hounds in
a readynette whereas they thinke a chafe will pase, and cast them
off before the rest of the kennell come in, it is called a vaunt laye.
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When they farrie till the rest of the kennell come in, and then
cast off, it is called an A llay. But when they hold out till the ken-
nell be past them, then it is called a Relay. When a hounde mee-
keth a chafe, and goeth away with it farre before the rest, then we
lay he forel.yneth. When a hounde hunteth backwards the fame
way that the chafe is come, then we lay he hunteth Counter. Ar
if he hunt any other chafe than that which he first undertoke, we
lay he hunteth change. When eþher bare or Deare, or any o-
ther chafe left subtleties to deceyue the hounds, we laye they
croft or double. The rewarde at death of any beak of Wenerie,
is called the quarry or rewarde. But of all other chakes, it is to be
called the hallowe. And this is as much as I can presently call to
remembraunce, eþher by reading or experience, touching the
termes of Wenerie. Wherein I desire all such as are skilfull,
to beare with my boldnette: promising that if any thing
be amپle, it shall (God willing) be amended
at the nexte impression, if I
lyue so long.

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Q.ij.

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A short obfervation set dovne by the
Translatour, concerning courfing
with Greyhounds.

Bicaufe I finde nothing in myne Autho: particu-
cularly written of courfing with Greyhounds,
it leemeth unto me, that they haue not that kynd
of Tenerie so much in effimation in France, as
we do hold it here in England. But that they
vse their Greyhounds only to let backlets, or re-
ceptes for Deare, Wolke, Fore, or luch like. Wheras we here in
England do make great account of luch palme as is to be feen
in courfing with Greyhounds at Deare, Hare, Fore, or luche
like, even of them selues, when there are nepther hounds
bunting, no other meane to help them. So that I haue thought
it correspondent unto this myne entepyle, to let downe some
hrieke rules which I my selke haue leene obferued in courfing
with Greyhounds. You shall understand then, that we vse thre
maner of courses with Greyhounds here in England, that is at
the Deare, at the Hare, and at Fore or other vermine. Firſt for
the course at the Deare (especially if it be a red Deare) you may
duende your Greyhounds into threē lundzy parts. viz. Teafers,
Sidelayes, and Backlets, or Receptes. By this wozde Teafers
is ment, the firſt Greyhounde, or hraſe, or leale of Greyhounds,
which is let flip either at the whole hearde, to bring a Deare fin-
gle to your course, or els at a lowe deare, to make him streine before
he come at the Sidelayes or backlets. For a deare is of this nature,
that when he once hath let his head forewarde any way, he will
holde on the same waye, and neuer turneth and wencheth as a
Hare will do before the Greyhounds. Therefore a Greyhounde
or a hraſe being let flip to teafe as before layd, will make a deare
ſtreyne in his course before he come at the Sidelayes or backlets,
and then they (being fresh) that the better be able to take him. It is
comely bled also in courſing of deare (especially red deare, or su.)
to lay a hraſe of greyhounds or more by the midway, as theore are
called Sidelays, bicaufe they are to be let flip at your midway of a
Deare.

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Deare. And ſo last ſoft of greyhounds towards your latter end of your course is called receit or backlet: Thele last greyhounds are commonly let flip full in the face of the Deare, to the end they may the more amaze him: And so they with the help of the other teafers and Sidelayes may the better take holde on him all at once and pull him downe, whereas the Sidelayes are to be let flippe at your side of a Deare or after him, for keare leaſt they make him warue from the backlettes: A redde Deare will beare sometimes koure or five hraſe of Greyhounds before they can pull him downe: Such wonderfull force he is of, and can so easily make off a Greyhounde when he pincheth him. The best obſervation that is to be taken in making the course at a Deare, is that the Teafers do stand close and upon a cleare winde: For a Deare will quickly finde them els: but beping paſſ the Teafers how often the rest lie, he will not lightly turne heade. In courſing at a Deare if one Greyhounde go endwapes by another, it is accourpted a Cote, to that he whiche doth so go by his fellow do reach the Deare and pinche: and in courſing of a redde Deare that Greyhounde whiche doth firſt pinche, shall winne the wager: but in courſing of a fallow deare, your Greyhounde must pinche and holde, or els he winne nothing the wager. It is also to be obſerved that when you lay to course a Deare, you market the place of Country where you be. For in a padocke (which is a close course in a parke) pale or rapled in) it is easie to fee whiche way the course is to be made: since the Deare is held in with pales or raples and cannot kwarue: but in a plaine heath or country, you must market which way it is most likely that he will bend, as there lay your Greyhounds behind some bulche or tree: that the Deare finde not faulte at them to breake backe. This in effect is as much as it is needefull to be considered in the course at a Deare. But neuer let slippe a pong Greyhound at a Deare without the copanie of some olde fleest dog: for every dog will not byte a Deare at the firſt course. And surelſe he that hath a good Haregreyhounde, that do very enill to course a Deare with him, for it will both hraſe him and make him lyther: and the course at the Hare is much your nobler palme. To course your Hare you must find either Harefinders before you to find some Hare sitting, or els your self with your copanie may range and beate ouer the fields until you either find a Hare litteng, or starte hye. If you have marked the harefinders in they seeking of a Hare.

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a Hare in Northamptonshire, and they will neuer beate but one end of a furlong; and that shall be the end which is downe the windes of fro the windes: for they hold opinion, that a Hare will not (by his wil) fit with his head into the winde. He that will seeke a Hare mulfie go uerthwart the landes. And every lande that he palfeth oner, let hym beginne with his eye at his fowe, and so looke downe the lande to the furlongs end. First on the one side, as then on the other; and so he shall find a Hare sitting in his foyne: as some as he chetheth his hev; he must crye Sa How. Then they whiche leade the Grephoundes may come neare: and you may appoynt which Grephoundes shall course. Then let him which founde the Hare go towards his and lay, up pufle up, until the ryle out of his foyne. Some Hare will not ryle out of his foyne until he be touched: and some will adyde to be lifted out by the cares, the whiche is a token of a Hare that will holde out and make a fayre course. If the Hare be neare unto any close or covert, and have his head towards the same with a fayre field be behind him, you may ryde with himuch compante as you have be twene his, and the course before he be put vp, and then peraduenture when he ryeth, he will take towards the champaine; but lightly a Hare will make his course: the same way that his head stades when he sitteth in his foyne. When a Hare is put vp, you mulfie giue his grounde (whiche is called lawe)rij. koye yeardes or more, according to the grounde or countrie where he sitteth: and then let slippe your Grephoundes. It is a gallant sport to see how the Hare will turne and winde to laue his selfe out of the dogges mouth. So that sometimes even when you thinke that your Grephounde doth (as it were) gape to take his, he will turne and call the a good way behind his: so to faueth his selfe by turnyng, wenching, or winding, until he reach some covert or so faue his life. In courting at the Hare it is not material which dogges killeth his (which hunters call bearyng of an Hare) but he that gieth most Cotes, or most turones, winneth the wager. A Cote is whé a Grephounde goeth endways by his fellow or gieth the Hare a turne (which is called fetting a Hare aboute) but if he coast and so come by his fellowe, that is no Cote. Like wife if one Grephounde do go by another, and then he not able to reach the Hare himselfe and turne his, this is but strippying and no Cote. If there be no Cotes gyuen betweene a brake of Grephounds, but

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but the one of them ferueth the other at turnyng, then he whiche gyueth the Hare most turnes shall winne the wager: and if the one do gyue as many turnes as the other, then he whiche beareth the Hare shall winne the wager. A Cote ferueth for two turnes, and two strippings or Jerkinnes (as some call them) stande for a Cote: also many times a Hare doth but wencheth and not turne: for it is not called a turne unless the Hare be set aboute, and do turne (as it were) rounde aboute: two such wenches stande for a turne. Also sometimes a Hare that is commonly courted will know the country: and by cause the counteth the yard beaten wayes, the will (of his self) swarue at such a way, and that is neuer to be accomplished a turne nor a wench: but if neuer of your Grephoundes be able to turne the Hare until the end of the course, then he which went foremost throughout the course must winne the wager. And for the better deciding of all these questions, if it be at a solempne assembly, they be to appoynt Judges whiche are expert in courting, and shall stande on the hilles sides whether they perceive the Hare will bende, to marke whiche dogge doeth best, and to give iudgement thereof accordingly: some be when they? Grephoundes be both of a colour to binde a handkerchief aboute one of their neckes for a difference. But if he were my Dogge he should not weare the handkerchief, for I could neuer yet see any dogge win the course whiche ware the handketch: And if standeth to good reason, that he which weareth the handkerchief should be combed therewith, both by cause it gathereth winde, and also by cause it doth parteial slope a Dogges breath: if the Grephoundes be but young or slowe, you may course with a leale at one Hare, but that is seldomе seene, and a brake of Dogges is now for such a powre break. When you go to course either Hare or Deare, or to hunte any chace, it is a koyt aperture (amongst vs here in Englande) to name cyther Deare, Ape, Monkie, or Hedgehogge: and he whiche nameth any of these should be payde with a slippe vpon the buttockes in the field before he go any furder. To course at a Fore requirement none other Arke than to stande close and vpon a cleare wind, on the outside of the couert by some bottome or place where it is likely that he will come out: and to gyue him head enough, for else he will turne backe agayne, and there

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there is no danger in giuing of him head where there is plain ground,
for the Howelt dogge heuer ranne wil ouertake a for if he haue field
rome. Some vse to watch a for when he goeth out to his feede, to
skid in þ most likely places in a mone thine night to course him:
but that is but vicentayne villesse it be in clicketting time, when they
go prowde: then you shall heare the barke to howle one after another.
But otherwize the surest courting is when you hunte with hounds, to
set your grephounds underneath the winde very close in some bottom
or little playne, there to course the for when he commeth out. This
course is chort, but it is dangerous, for oftentimes a good grephound
is marred with a for: therefor few men will course a for villesse it
be with old grephounds which are brused dogs, and which they make
small account of: and you shall see an old bitten dogge when he ouer-
taketh a for, thust his fozelegges backwards to fall upon him with
his cheft: to haue his legges fro blyving when he taketh the for: and
agayne as some as euer he layeth hold on him, he will take him about
his eares continually, until he haue broken his backe or killed him:
for by that meanes he giueth the for no leane no time to blyte hym.
There is another kinde of courting whiche I haue more vled than any
of these: and that is at a Deare in the night: wherein there is more arre
to be vled than in any course els. But because I haue promised my bet-
ters to be a friend to al Parkes, Fozeells, and Chaces, therfore I will
not here expresse the experience which hath bene dearer unto me, parti-
cularly, than it is meete to be published generally. But thus much I
haue thought meete of my self to adde concernyng courting to Grep-
hounds, the which is doublelle a noble palline, and as meete for Po-
bilitie and Gentlemen, as any of the other kyndes of Tenerie before
declared: Especially the course at the hare whiche is a parte conti-
nually in light, and made without any great tranuayle: so that recrea-
tion is therein to be founde without unmeasutable toyle and payne:
Whereas in hunting with hounds, although the pallyme be great,
yet many tymes the toyle to payne is also exceeding great: And then
it may well be called, eyther a paynefull pallyme, or a pleasant payne.

FINIS.

Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for
Christopher Barker.

The measures of blowing let downe in the notes
for the more ease and ready help of such as are defi-
rous to learne the fame: and they are let downe

according to the order which is obferued at thefe
dayes in this Realme of Englande
as followeth.

The Call for the Companie in the morning.

All to be blown with one winde.

The Strake to the Field. To be blown with two winds.

The vincoupling of the Courte lide. To be blown with three winds.

The Seeke, with two winds.

t.

Widen

The measures of blovving.

When the Hounds do hunte a Game or Chale unknowne.

All with one winde.

The Rechate. With three windes.

The Straking from Couert to Couert. With two windes.

When the Game doth brake Couert. With four windes.

The Earthing of a Fore, the be coverable. With three windes.

The measures of blovving.

When the Foxe is not coverable, to call away.

The death of a Foxe, either in field or couert. With three windes.

And the Rechate upon it.

Koure fundrie calls for a Keeper, in Parke, Chale, or Fourrel.

The death of a Deare with Bowe, or Greyhounds.

The death of a Bucke with hounds. With two windes.

t.if.

The