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brache, but that can scarcely be so, as we see the two 

 words used together, as the following quotations will 

 show : 



" Parler m'orez d'un buen brachet. 

 Qens ne rois n'ont tel berseret." 



T. M. i. 14404. 



When the fair Ysolt is parting from her lover Tristan 

 she asks him to leave her this same brachet, and says that 

 no huntsman's shooting dog will be kept with more 

 honour : 



" Husdent me lesse, ton brachet. 

 Ainz berseret à vénéor 

 N'ert gardée à tel honor 

 Comme cist sera." 



Ibid. i. 2660. 



Jesse quotes Blount's "Antient Tenures": "In the 

 6th of John, Joan, late wife of John King, held a ser- 

 jeantry in Stanhow, in the county of Norfolk, by the 

 service of keeping 'Bracelettum deymerettum of our 

 Lord the King,' " and Jesse thinks these might have been 

 a bitch pack of deerhounds, overlooking the fact that it 

 was only in later days that the words brache and rache 

 were used for bitch hounds. As deymerettum meant 

 fallow deer, the bracelettum or bercelettum deymerettum may 

 be taken, I think, to mean those hounds that were used 

 for buck-shooting (Jesse, ii. 21). 



BERNER, bernar ; O. Fr. bernier, brenier, a man 

 who has the charge of hounds, a huntsman, or, perhaps, 

 would be more accurately described as a kennelman. 

 The word seems to have been derived from the French 

 brenler or bernier^ one who paid his dues to his feudal 

 lord in bran of which bread was made for the lord's 

 hounds. Brenage^ brennage, or bernage was the tenure on 

 which land was held by the payment of bran, and the 

 refuse of all grains, for the feeding of hounds. Berner 

 in its first sense meant finder of bran, then feeder of 



