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Society, iv. p. 26), gives us information which quite 

 agrees with the payments entered in the Wardrobe and 

 other accounts of the King's hunting establishment. 

 And under the head of De Pistore we find the baker is 

 told to make loaves for the hounds : 



" Manchet and chet to make brom bred hard 

 ffor chaundeler and grehoundes and huntes reward." 



Chet, a word not in use since the seventeenth century, 

 meant wheaten bread of the second quality, made of flour 

 more coarsely sifted than that used for manchet, which 

 was the finest quality. 



Brom bread was oaten bread, and probably was very 

 much the same as a modern dog biscuit. 



One of the ancient feudal rights was that of obtaining 

 bran from the vassals for the hounds' bread, known as 

 the right of brennage, from bren, bran. 



Although bread was the staple food given to hounds, 

 yet they were also provided with meat. At the end of 

 a day's hunting they received a portion of the game 

 killed {see Curée), and if this was not sufficient or it was 

 not the hunting season game was expressly killed for 

 them. In a decree from King John to William Pratell 

 and the Bailiffs of Falke de Breaut of the Isle of Ely, 

 the latter are commanded to find bread and paste for the 

 hounds as they may require, "and to let them hunt some- 

 times in the Bishops chase for the flesh upon which they 

 are fed " (Close Roll, 17 John). In an extract from the 

 Wardrobe Accounts of 6 Edward I. we find a payment 

 was made of 40s. by the King to one Bernard King for 

 his quarry for two years past on which the King's dogs 

 had been fed (MS. Phillipps, 8676). 



We find also that " Pantryes, Chippinges and broken 

 bread " were given to the hounds, Chippings being fre- 

 quently mentioned in the royal accounts as well as meat 

 for the hounds (Liber Niger Domus Ed. IV. ; Collection 

 of Ordinances of the Royal Households ; Jesse, ii. 125 ; 

 Privy Purse Expenses Henry VIII. 1 529-1532). 



