CHAPTER XXVI 



HOW THE ORDINANCE SHOULD BE MADE FOR 

 THE HART HUNTING BY STRENGTH AND 

 HOW THE HART SHOULD BE HARBOURED 



WHEN the king or my lord the Prince or any of 

 their blood will hunt for the hart by strength, the 

 Master of the Game must forewarn on the previous 

 evening the sergeant of the office, and the yeomen 

 berners at horse, and also the lymerer. 1 And then 

 he must ordain which of them three shall go for to 

 harbour the hart, and with them the lymerer for the 

 morrow, and charge the foresters, or if it be in a 

 'park, the farkers to attend to him busily. And all 

 the four must accord where the meeting shall be on 

 the morrow, and he must charge the sergeant and 

 one of the two yeomen, if the sergeant be not there, 

 to warn all the yeomen and grooms of the office to be 

 at the meeting at sunrise. And that the yeomen 

 berners on foot and the grooms that are called 

 Ch ace chiens bring with them the hart hounds and 

 this done ask for the wine, and let them go after. 

 And he that is charged to harbour the hart must 



1 The man who leads the hound in leash when harbouring 



the hart. 



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