224 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



and after the hunters as they be greatest in office 

 that be at the finding and then the Hmerer." 



There seems to have been some doubt of the 

 Lord's capacity to blow a horn, but none as to the 

 others. 



A mote appears to have been a long loud 

 note. 



" And after if the lymer shall sue boldly and 

 lustily " (which after all this noisy hornblowing 

 would be rather wonderful) " the lymerer shall say 

 to him loud ' Ho moy, ho moy, hole, hole, hole, and 

 ever take good heed to his feet and look well about 

 him, and so oft as he findeth the fues, or if it be in 

 thick spires, boughs or branches broken where the 

 deer hath walked, he should say aloud ' gy va, 9y va, 

 9y va,' and always should the yeoman berner the 

 which is ordained to be the finder follow the lymer 

 and be as near him as he might with the raches that 

 he leadeth for the finding." Then follow elaborate 

 directions for recovering the line if the lymer be at 

 fault. " The lymerer is to cheer him by name, Loyer 

 or Beaumont, or whatever he is named, and when he 

 recovers the fues say " 9y va " and " rally." 



Though this style of tufting would be very effective 

 in an open forest with big trees, it would be extremely 

 difficult to run the lymer on a Ham, which was 20 ft. 

 long of tanned horse hide, through the thick oak 

 scrub in Haddon or the Barle Valley, but to follow 

 with three couple of hounds in a hardele would be 

 utterly impossible. 



