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14 RECORDS OF THE CHASE 



" The master of the game should be accorded with 

 the master or parker, whither that it be where the king 

 should hunt such a day. And if the seat be wide the 

 foresaid forester or parker should warn the sheriff of 

 the shire that the hunting should be in, for to ordain 

 stables* sufficient, and carts eke for to bring the deer 

 that should be slain to the place where the quarries t 

 at hunting hath been accustomed. And then he should 

 warn the hunters, and the feuterers J whether they 

 have men ready to meet with them, that they should 

 come. And the foresters should go no further nor 

 straggle not about, for dread lest they fray the game 

 ere the king come. And if the king's hunting shall be 

 in a park, all men should abide at the park gate, save 

 the stables, which ought to be set ere the king comes, 

 and they should be set by the foresters or parkers. 

 And at the morn early the maister of the game should 

 be at the wood to see that all be ready, and he or his 

 lieutenant or which of the hunters 1 that him lust, ought 

 to set the greyhounds, and whoso be teasers to the 

 king, or to the queen, or to their lesses.^l As oft as 

 any hart cometh out, he should when he is past blow a 

 mote and rechase, and let run after to tease it forth, 

 and if it be a stag he should let pass, as is said, and rally 

 for to make the feuterers advised what cometh thereout. 

 And to lasse* deer he should not let run. And then 

 the master forester or parker ought to shew him the 

 king's standing, if the king will stand with his bow, 

 and where all the remainder of bows shall stand. And 

 the yeomen of the king's bows ought for to be there to 

 keep or make the king's standing, and abide there 

 without noise till the king conies'. And the grooms that 

 keep the king's dogs and that chastith t the grey- 



* Men and hounds stationed at different places to slip the hounds 

 at the quarry. 



tSee note on page 8. 



$Men who lead greyhounds. 



f Small hounds that ' tease ' forth the game in coverts. 



5j Attendants. 



* Less, smaller. 

 t Breaketh in. 



