6 PREFACE. 



hound in question, it may be said that we do not possess in 

 Bookof St. Al- pj,jj^t aj^y full description of '' the propritees of a good Gre- 

 hounde" Ix twv ttoSwv I5 t^v xefaA^v, from the time of the 

 learned Courser of Nicomedia, till that of the sporting prioress 

 of Sopewell. 



Not that I am ignorant of the curious early treatise of 



Gaston Phcebus, the celebrated Comte de Foix, written in the 



middle of the fourteenth century, entitled " Des Deduitz de la 



Ms. Cotton. Chasse de Bestes Sauvaiges et des Oyseaux de Proye ; " nor 



Vesp. B. XII. 



Brit. Mus. of a more rare work in manuscript, CJje ,|Etap^ter Of OBame, 

 Henry VI. pt. composed by Edmund Duke of York, ** Edmund Langley, 



II. act II. 



Edward the Third's fifth son," in the latter part of the four- 

 teenth century ; and therefore, in point of date, claiming a 

 priority to the book of St. Albans, as do, of course, the lucu- 

 brations of the Second Edward's attendants before mentioned. 

 But these enchiridia of field sports preceded the Sopewell col- 

 lection only a few years ; and in the Count de Foix's manual, 

 as given by Fouilloux under the title of " La Chasse du Roy 

 Phebus," there is nothing on our subject worth noticing. 



Ms. ut supra. In ^\)Z Ccaf te of ](^ontpng ^ by Gyfford and Twety, the grey- 



hound is mentioned only once ; and hare-coursing is not re- 

 corded at all. 



Hardyng's The unpublished labours of the Duke of York, - " Ed- 



Chronicle. 



monde, hyght of Langley," contain much original and valuable 



1. The CTraftC of IHjOntgng is supposed to be a version by Gyfford from a more 



ancient work by Twety or Twici — " Le art de Venerie le quel Maistre Guillaiue Twici 



Venour le Roy d'Angleterre fist en son temps per aprandre autres." The greyhound 



^jj. , P J is mentioned fol. 4. of hlototnj. " Whaii aman hath setuparcherysand greylioundes, 



Poeirv V. II. and the beesl be founde and passe out the boundys, and myne houndes aftir," &c. 



221. 2. These instructions were written for Henry Prince of Wales, afterwards Henry V. 



