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that he might challenge his fee, and have it at the 

 curée, hut let him beware that he marks no lord's 

 mark nor (other) fewterers nor hunters, or he will 

 lose his fee. And also it is to he known that the 

 fees of all follies belong to the master of the harriers, 

 if so he that he or his deputy he at the hunting, and 

 blow three motes and else not, in which case the 

 Master of the Game can give it to whom he wishes 

 save what the King slayeth with his bow or the 

 Queen or my lord the prince, or that which they 

 bid with their own mouth to let run to. And all 

 shall be judged folly of red deer which is beneath 

 the hart, and of fallow deer which is beneath the 

 buck, nevertheless if the harrier would challenge 

 the deer for folly, and it is not folly, if there be a 

 strife with him who asketh the fee, the Master of 

 the Game shall judge it, and right so shall he do 

 of all these strifes for fees between bow and bow, 

 and fewterer and fewterer, and of all other strifes 

 and discords that belong to hunting. And when all 

 the deer be delivered, and the hunters and the 

 fewterers of the kennel be assigned to undo the deer 

 that be delivered for the king's larder, then should 

 the grooms chacechiens of the hart-hounds gather 

 the paunches and small guts together and do with 

 them as is advised in the chapter of the hart hunting 

 with strength, and get them a skin to lie thereover, 

 and do as in the same chapter described with the 



