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of vautre or viautre, a boarhound, but although both 

 evidently owe their origin to the same parent-word, 

 fewterer can scarcely be derived from vautre, a boar- 

 hound. It was only in the Middle Ages in France that 

 the word vautre, from originally meaning a powerful 

 greyhound, was applied to a large boarhound. Fewterers 

 in England appear invariably as attendants on grey- 

 hounds, not boarhounds. Another derivation has been 

 also given from fewte, foot or track, a fewterer being, 

 according to this, a huntsman who followed the track of 

 the beast. But venator was the contemporary designa- 

 tion for a huntsman, and as far as we can ascertain the 

 fewterer was always merely a dog-leader. 



' FORLONGE, forloyng, forlogne, from the Fr. fort 

 loin. G. de F. says, " flies far from the hounds," i.e, 

 having well distanced them (" Fuît de fort longe aux chiens ^ 

 c'est a dire que il les ait bien esloinhes "). Hounds are said 

 to be hunting the forlonge when the deer is some way 

 in front of them, or when some of the hounds have got 

 away with the deer and have outpaced the rest. As our 

 MS. (p. 173) says, the forlogne should be blown if the 

 stag has run out of hearing of hound and horn, but it 

 should not be blown in a park. In old French hunt- 

 ing literature it is an expression one constantly comes 

 across. 



Twici, writing almost a hundred years earlier than 

 the Duke of York, says : " The hart is moved and I do 

 not know where the hart is gone, nor the gentlefolk, and 

 for this I blow in that manner. What chase do we call 

 this ? We call that chase The chase of the forloyng." 



Forloyneth : " When a hound meeteth a chase and 

 goeth away with it far before the rest then we say he 

 forloyneth" (Turber., ed 161 1, p. 245). 



FOX. According to the laws of Canute the fox was 

 neither reckoned as a beast of venery nor of the forest. 

 In Manwood's Forest Laws he is classed as the tliird 



