EVEN-TOED TTNGTTLATl^^S (ARTrODACTYLA) 201 



cliiction of a mannscriptal painting of the ninth 

 century in the Cotton Library, which represents a 

 Saxon chieftain with his huntsman hunting wild 

 boars with spears and a couple of dogs, and also a 

 copy of a drawing, dating back to the beginiiing of 

 the fourteenth century, depicting a man spearing a 

 boar^ in which the boar would appear to ran con- 

 veniently on to the spear. 



Strntf^ tells us of the earliest treatises on hunting ; 

 the oldest of them known to him was originally 

 written in French by William Twici, or Twety, 

 grand huntsman to King Jl^dward II. This work 

 was called ^ Art de Venerie lequel Maistre Guillame 

 Twici venour le Roy dangleterre fist en son temps 

 per aprendre Autres." The English version of this 

 tract is said to be b}^ Twety and John Gyiford, 

 '^ maisters of the game to King Edward.'^ A second 

 early work on hunting, called ^ The Maister of the 

 Game,^ was written by the master of the game to 

 Henry IV for the use of Prince Henry, his son. It 

 is but an enlargement of Twici\s work. ^ The Book 

 of St. Albans,^ so called because it was printed there 

 about 1481, is the first printed work on hunting. 

 It is comj^iled from the two manuscripts above 

 mentioned, and is said to have been the work of 

 Juliana Barnes, or Berners, the sister of Lord 

 Berners, prioress of the nunnery of Sopewell. 



Twici, in a poetical prologue,t gives the names of 

 the animals suitable for sport, and divides them into 

 three classes : 



* Loc. cit., p. 17. 



t See Warton's 'Hist. Eng. Poetry/ vol. ii, p. 221. 



