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times being distinguished by the prefix Ren y making 

 ren hund. 



Gradually the word dog superseded the word hound, 

 and the latter was only retained to designate a " scenting " 

 dog. Dr. Caius, writing to Dr. Gesner, remarks in his 

 book : " Thus much also understand, that as in your 

 language Hunde is the common word, so in our naturall 

 tounge dogge is the universall, but Hunde is perticular 

 and a speciall, for it signifieth such a dogge onely as 

 serveth to hunt " (Caius, p. 40). (See Appendix : 

 Raches.) Running hounds was a very literal translation 

 of the French chiens courants, and as the descriptive chapter 

 given in our text is as literal a rendering from G. de F. 

 there is no information that helps us to piece together 

 the ancestry of the modern English hound. We do not 

 know what breed were in the royal kennels in the reign 

 of Henry IV., but probably some descendants of those 

 brought to this country by the Normans, about the origin 

 of which breed nothing seems known. 



Keep of Hounds. The usual cost of the keep of a 

 hound at the time of our MS. was a halfpenny a day, of 

 a greyhound three farthings, and of a limer or bloodhound 

 one penny a day. 



However for the royal harthounds an allowance of three 

 farthings a day was made for each hound (Q. R. Ace. 

 1407), and we also find occasionally that only a halfpenny 

 a day was made for the keep of a greyhound. In Edward 

 I.'s reign a halfpenny a day was the allowance made for 

 fox- and otter-hounds (14, 15, 31, 32, 34, Edward I. 

 Ward. Ace), and sometimes three farthings and some- 

 times a halfpenny a day for a greyhound. The Master of 

 Buckhounds was allowed a halfpenny a day each for his 

 hounds and greyhounds. 



In the reign of Richard III. the Master of Harthounds 

 was allowed 3s. 3d. a day " for the mete of forty dogs 

 and twelve greyhounds and threepence a day for three 

 limers" (Rolls of Pari., vol. v. p. 16). 



The " Boke of Curtasye " (fourteenth century, Percy 



