CHAPTER XXXIV 



HOW THE HART SHOULD BE MOVED WITH THE 

 LYMER AND RUN TO AND SLAIN WITH 

 STRENGTH 



WHEN the hart is harboured as before is said and 

 they before named come to the meeting that some 

 men call the assembly^ and also the scantilon^ and 

 the fumes well liked by the Lord and Master of the 

 Game, then shall the Master of the Game choose oj 

 the sergeants or of the yeoman at horse, which of 

 them shall be at the finding, or all, or some. Never- 

 theless, if the deer be likely to fall among danger 

 it were good to assign some of the horsemen among 

 the relays to helf more readily the hounds, if they 

 fall upon the stint,^ and when the hunters on horse- 

 back be assigned then he must assign which of the 

 yeomen berners on foot shall be finders, and which 

 hounds he shall have with him to the finding, and 

 the ly merer and the pages to go with him. And 

 after that to assign the relays by advice of them 

 that know the country and the flight of the deer, 



^ Measure of the deer's footprint. In old English, a measure 

 (Stratmann). 



^ Wrong scent, or check. 



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