CHAPTER XXXIII 



HOW THE ASSEMBLY THAT MEN CALL GATHER- 

 ING SHOULD BE MADE BOTH WINTER AND 

 SUMMER AFTER THE GUISE OF BEYOND 

 THE SEA 



The assembly that men call gathering should be 

 made in this manner : the night before that the 

 Lord or the Master of the Game will go to the 

 wood, he must cause to come before him all the 

 hunters and the helps, the grooms and the pages, 

 and shall assign to each one of them their quests 

 in a certain place, and separate the one from the 

 other, and the one should not come into the quest 

 of the other, nor do him annoyance or hinder 

 him. And every one should quest in his best 

 wise, in the manner that I have said ; and should 

 assign them the place where the gathering shall 

 be made, at most ease for them all, and the 

 nearest to their quests. And the place where the 

 gathering shall be made should be in a fair mead 

 well green, where fair trees grow all about, the 

 one far from the other, and a clear well or beside 

 some running brook. And it is called gathering 

 because all the men and the hounds for hunting 



