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greatest and best head (antlers) that they can find 

 in all the curce. Save the blowing of the 'prise and 

 the stroking and the menee^ the bay should wait till 

 the curées be done^ and the fiesh taken away^ and 

 there should the Master of the Game be^ and the 

 sergeant and all the yeomen and grooms of the 

 ofice. And if the greyhounds ^ shall be rewarded 

 it should be done right as is devised in the aforesaid 

 chapter^ except that the blowings above described 

 shall be left out. And also whosoever slew the 

 deer the yeomen of the office should have the skin 

 that lyeth upon the deer when the hounds are re- 

 warded. And also it is to know that the harriers 

 when they have run shall be rewarded with the 

 paunches and guts,, but there is no need to make a 

 long bay with the hart^s head to them,, for they are 

 made to run and chase all game that one wishes^ and 

 that is the cause why the master of them has the fees 

 of all deer save the hart and the buck,, unless it be 

 in the certain case before mentioned. And when 

 the curce is done,, and the bay made,, then is the 

 time for every man to draw homeward to his supper 

 and to make himself as merry as he can. And when 

 the yeomen berners and grooms have led home the 

 hounds and set them well up and supplied them 

 with water and straw according to what they need,, 

 then should they go to their supper and drink well 



1 Shirley MS-, "harthounds." 



