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ver^ large or long, and traith^ a step or course, vertragus 

 being the name by which according to Arian, the Gauls 

 designated a swift hound (Blanc, 52). 



WANLACE. Winding in the chase (Halliwell). In 

 the sentence in which this word is used in the chapter 

 on the Mastiff (p. 122) we are told that some of these dogs 

 " fallen to be berslettis and also to bring well and fast a 

 wanlace about." Which probably means that some of 

 these dogs become shooting dogs, and could hunt up the 

 game to the shooter well and fast by ranging or circling. 

 Wanlasour is an obsolete name for one who drives game 

 (Strat.). 



In Brit. Mus. MS. Lansdowne 285 there is an interest- 

 ing reference to setting the forest " with archers or with 

 Greyhounds or with Wanlassours." 



WILD BOAR. These animals were denizens of 

 the British forests from the most remote ages, and pro- 

 bably were still numerous there at the time our MS. was 

 penned. For although the Duke of York has only trans- 

 lated one of the eleven chapters relating to the natural 

 history, chase, or capture by traps of the wild boar, and 

 does not give us any original remarks upon the hunting 

 of them, as he has of the stag and the hare, still it was 

 most likely because he considered these two the royal 

 sport par excellence^ and not because there were none to 

 hunt in England in his day. If the latter had been the 

 case, he would in all probability have omitted even the 

 chapter he does give us, as he has done with those written 

 by Gaston de Foix on the deer, the reindeer, and the ibex 

 and chamois (p. 160). 



In some doggerel verses which are prefixed to " Le 

 venery de Twety and GyfFord " (in Vesp. B. XIL), the 

 wild boar is classed as a beast of venery. In the ** Boke 

 of St. Albans " the wild boar is also mentioned as a beast 

 of venery. 



When Fitzstephen wrote his description of London in 



