22O A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



was that of an ox of a pound value. He 

 had in winter an ox's hide, to make 

 Jeaflies; and in fummer a cow's, to cut 

 into fpatterdafhes. 



The King had liberty to hunt where- 

 ever he pleafed ; but, if a bead was 

 killed on any gentleman's eftate, and 

 not followed and claimed by the huntf- 

 man that night, the owner of the land 

 might convert it to his own ufe; but he 

 was to take gopd care of the dogs, and 

 preferve the (kin. 



The penalty for killing one of the 

 King's tame flags was a pound, and a 

 certain fine ; if a wild one was killed, 

 betwixt a certain day in November and 

 the feaft of St. John, it's value was fixty 

 pence ; but the fine for killing it, a hun- 

 dred and eighty. A flag was reckoned 

 equal in value to an ox; a hind to a 

 well-grown cow, a roe to a goat, and 

 wild low to a tame fow. A badger had 



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