198 THE MASTER OF GAME 



and make merry. Ana of the fees it is to he known 

 that the man whoever he he., who has smitten a deer 

 zvhile -posted at his tree with a death-stroke so that 

 the deer he got hefore the sun goes down, he shall 

 have the skin. And if he he 7iot posted or has gone 

 from his tree, or has done otherwise than is said, he 

 shall have ?ione. Aiid as of the fewterers, if they 

 he posted, the first teaser and receiver ^ that draweth 

 the deer down shall divide the skinr Nevertheless 

 in other lord's hunting whoso pincheth first and 

 goeth therewith to the death he shall have the 

 skin. And all the deer'' s necks are the hunters, and 

 one shoulder and the chine is his that undoeth the 

 deer, and the other shoulder is the forester'' s or the 

 parker^s fee that keepeth the hailie that is hunted. 

 And all the skins of harts slain with strength of the 

 hart-hoimds, helong to the master of the hart-hounds 

 as his fee, that is to say he that hath the wages of 

 twelve pence a day for the office. It is to he known 

 that when the king hunteth in the park or in the 

 forest with hows and greyhomids, and it happens 

 that any hart he slain with strength of hart-hounds, 

 all the hart hunters after the King or the Master of 

 his Game have hlown a mote and stroked, all day 

 they should stroke the assise that helongeth to the 



' Shirley MS. has " resteynour." 



^ Thia means that the men in whose charge the teasers and 

 receivers were placed were given the skin or fee. 



