CONTENTS. xiii 



PAGE 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Face of the Country. 



Population, How Distributed — Agriculture, Enclosures, 

 Leland's Description, The Black Death — Roads and 

 Tracks — Pack Horses — Pack Horse Bridges — First 

 Cart at Withypool ... ... ... ... ... 167 



CHAPTER Xn. 



The Forest of Exmoor under the Plantagenets 



and tudors. 



The Mortimers — Dukes of York, their subordinates — 

 Instances of Hunting — The Parks at Porlock — Lord 

 Daubeny, Master of Hart Hounds and Forester — 

 Luttrells had Hounds — Exrnoor settled on Queens — 

 Terms of lease — Hugh Pollard Master — Riotous 

 proceedings ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Royal Hounds. 



Robert d'Auberville on Exmoor — The Origin of 

 Buckhounds — The Hart Hounds — ^Providing Venison 

 for Royal Larder — Staghunting at Force in Fourteenth 

 Century — Hound Language — Sounding the Horn — 

 King Edmund on Mendip ... ... ... ... 211 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 The Pack. 



British Hounds — French Hounds, Various Breeds — 

 Saint Hubert's — Greftiers, Vend^ens Probably Origin of 

 Old Pack on F^xmoor ... ... ... ... ... 242 



CHAPTER XV. 



The Pack [continued). 



The old Staghounds not so fast as Modern Pack — 



Instances of Runs — The IModern Pack — Rabies — 



Present Condition ... ... ... ... ...258 



