xii CONTENTS. 



PACiE 



CHAPTER VI. 



Of Hunting a Stag. 



Laying on the Pack — Necessity of Giving Law, Ex- 

 aggerated Instances — Deer That Only Just Keep 

 Away from Hounds Always Strong — Problems 

 Encountered by the Huntsman — A Deer in the Water 

 — Hunting the Water — Cunning of Deer, Instances ... 79 



CHAPTER yil. 



Of the Taking of the Stag. 



Effect of Wind and Storms on Run of Deer — Fog on 

 the Moor — To Recognise a Beaten Deer — The Stag at 

 Bay — A Stag on the Beach, a Stag at Sea ... ... 94 



CHAPTER VHL 



The Chase of a Hind. 



How it Differs from Hunting a Stag — Protecting the 

 Calves and Young Male Deer — Instances of Runs 

 Illustrating Peculiarities ... ... ... ... 109 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Forest of Exmoor. 



The Boundaries — What is Exmoor, What is not — The 

 Four Perambulations, Showing How it was Cut Down to 

 Present Size — The Purlieus — Rights in the Purlieus — 

 Landacre, Oare, Simonsbath — No Part of Exmoor ever 

 in Devon... ... ... ... ... ... ... 128 



CHAPTER X. 

 Early History. 



Saxon Possessions — The Conquest — The Forestership 

 in Fee Down to the Sale to the Mortimers — Forest 

 Officers — Their Tyranny — Offences Against Vert and 

 Venison — Instances from Pleas of the Forest... ... t=;o 



