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found In a wood or coppice : "■ And then 

 should the horsemen hold him out aside, 

 and somedele to fore with long rods In their 

 hands to meet with him, and blow a moot 

 and rechase, and halloo and set the hounds 

 in the rights, if they see her. Also for to 

 keep that no hounds follow to sheep, nor 

 to other beasts ; and if they do, to ascry him 

 sore and light, and take him up and lash 

 him well, saying, Ware, ha, ha, ware, ware, 

 and lash him forth to his fellows." 



It is well understood, when hounds were 

 first kept at Belvoir, that the stag was their 

 game; indeed, there is evidence of this in 

 an ancient picture representing the chase 

 of that animal ; and taking the date from 

 the kennel book, of which I have been 

 favoured with perusals, as already men- 

 tioned, the first entry of young hounds was 

 made in the year 1756. Under the im- 

 pression that they had been rendered 

 steady to fox a few years previously, I be- 



