APPENDIX 211 



In " BoKE OF St. In Harl. MS. 2340, 



Albans." fol. 50b. 



Beasts of'-'- Swete fewte,^^ 



The Buck, the Doo, the The Buke, the Doo, the 



Beere, the Reynd, the Ber, the Reyne der, the 



Elke, the Spycard, the Elke, the Spycard. 

 Otre, and the Martwn. 



Beasts of the " Stinking fewte.^^ 



The Roobucke, the Roo, ..... 

 the Fulmard, the Fyches, The Fulmard,the Fechewe, 

 the Bauw, the Gray, the Catt, the Gray, the 

 the Fox, the Squirrel, Fox, the Wesyll, the 

 the Whitecat, the Otyr, Marteron, the Squirrel, 



the Stot, the Pulcatt. the Whyterache, the 



Otyr, the Stote, the 



Polcatte. 



In Roy Modus the beasts are also divided into testes 

 doulces and hestes puans. The reasons for doing so are 

 also given (fol. Ixii.) : " Les bestes doulces sont : le cerf la 

 biche, le dain, le chevreul et le lièvre. Et sont appelées 

 doulces pour trois causes : La première si est que d"* elles ne 

 vient nulle mauvais senteur ; la seconde, elles ont poil de 

 couleur aimable, lequel est blond ou fauve ; la tierce cause, ce 

 ne sont mie bestes mordans comme les autres cincq, car elles 

 nont nulz dens dessus ; et pour ces raisons puent bien estre 

 nommées bestes doulces.''^ Under the bestes puans are classed 

 the wild boar, the wild sow, the wolf, the fox, and 

 the otter. 



FEWTERER, the man that lets loose the grey- 

 hounds (Blome, p. 27) ; from veltraria, a dog leader or 

 courser ; originally one who led the dogs called veltres, 

 viautres {see Veltres). In Gallo-Latin, Veltrahus. It 

 has been asserted that the word fewterer is a corruption 



