220 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



adding others to make the text consonant with 

 EngHsh usage. This Duke of York must have 

 known all about hunting on Exmoor, seeing that he 

 was Lord of the Manor of Cutcombe, which came to 

 him in right of his wife, Philippa Mohun, one of the 

 three daughters of Joan Mohun, who sold the castle 

 and honour of Dunster to Sir Hugh Luttrell. 



It is evident, from reading the additions to 

 Gaston's work made by the Duke of York, that he 

 was a very keen staghunter, with a great contempt 

 for any kind of hunting except the proper and 

 legitimate one of hunting at force. This is some- 

 what to be wondered at, since he was a very fat, heavy 

 man. His extreme weight, coupled with his indomi- 

 table spirit, caused his death, for he insisted on 

 leading the English knights in the onslaught at 

 Agincourt ; falling, he was unable to rise owing to 

 the weight of his armour, and died of suffocation 

 under the throng of combatants. 



A beautiful edition of "The Master of Game" 

 has been edited and reduced to readable English by 

 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Baillie Grohman, and to the 

 text thus rendered accessible, for it was only in MS. 

 before, and to the learned notes the writer is indebted 

 for much information as to mediaeval hunting. 



We are told in the quaintest of terms how, when 

 the King or a great lord has determined on a day's 

 hunting, the huntsmen should come together the day 

 before, and each make his suggestions as to where 

 to meet and where to draw. The Master then makes 



