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" Cranbourne Chase " of the first day's hunting with 

 them in their new country. There must have been 

 several packs entered to fox only about the end of the 

 eighteenth century,for an erstwhile Master of the Cheshire 

 Foxhounds had in his possession a horn with the follow- 

 ing inscription : "Thomas Boothby Esqre. Tooley Park 

 Leicester. With this horn he hunted the first pack of 

 foxhounds then in England 5 years: born in 1677 died 

 1752." This pack, which was purchased by " the great 

 Mr. Meynell " in 1782, had been hunted both in Hamp- 

 shire and in Wiltshire previously by the ancestors of Lord 

 Arundel (Bad. Lib., " Hunting," p. 29). 



FRAYING-POST, the tree a stag has rubbed his 

 antlers or frayed against. 



By the fraying-post the huntsman used to be able to 

 judge if the stag he wished to harbour was a warrantable 

 stag or not. The greater the fraying-post the larger the 

 deer (Stuart, vol. ii. p. 551). 



FUES, "not find his fues," not to find his line of 

 flight, his scent ; Gaston says : " Ne puissent defFaire ses 

 esteurses" : literally, "cannot unravel his turnings." 



Fues, flight, fuite, track. Gaston calls these sometimes 

 voyes. Voyes was written later Foyes (Fouilloux). 



FuE. ** Se mettre a la fue " {y2iX, fuie\ (to take flight) 

 (Bormin, p. 89). 



GLADNESS, glade. The original sense is a smooth, 

 bare place, or perhaps a bright, clear place in a wood. 



GREASE. One of the important technical terms of 

 venery, related to the fat of game ; for in the Middle Ages, 

 when game was hunted to replenish the larder as much as 

 for sport, it entered largely into the economy of even the 

 highest households. The fat of the red deer and fallow 

 deer was called stiet, occasionally tallow. That of the roe- 

 buck was bevy-grease. Between that of the hare, boar, 



