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the season of the stag began two weeks after Midsummer 



(July 8). 



Red deer hind y Holyrood Day (Sept. 14) to Candlemas 

 (Feb. 2) (Twici, p. 24; Man., p. 181). According to 

 others the hind and the doe season ends on Twelfth-day 

 or Epiphany (Jan. 6). 



Fallow deer buck. According to the Forest Laws the 

 season began at the Nativity of St. John (June 24) and 

 ended on Holyrood Day (Sept. 14). Dryden adds a 

 second date, i.e. two weeks after Midsummer, to the 

 former, but does not quote the source. 



Fallow doe was hunted from Holyrood Day (Sept. 14) 

 to Candlemas (Feb. 2). 



Roe deer buck was hunted from Easter to Michaelmas 

 (Sept. 29). 



Roe doe y Michaelmas to Candlemas. 



Hare. According to the Forest Laws (Man., 176) the 

 season commenced Michaelmas (Sept. 29) and ended at 

 Midsummer (June 24) ; Dryden in his notes in Twici 

 states that it commenced at Michaelmas and ended at 

 Candlemas (Feb. 2), while the "Boke of St. Albans " gives 

 the same date as the first-named in Manwood. Accord- 

 ing to the " Master of Game " the hare seems to have 

 enjoyed no close season, as G. de F.'s assertion that the 

 hunting of the hare " lasteth all the year " is also trans- 

 lated without comment (p. 14) : Et le peut chassier toute 

 F année, en quelque temps que ce soit quar touzjours sa sayson 

 dure (G de F., p. 204). 



In Twety and Gyfford we also find that " The hare 

 is alway in season to be chasyd." 



In the sixteenth century in France the hare-hunting 

 season was from the middle of September till the middle 

 of April (Du Fouilloux, p. 51 ; De Noir., ii. p. 476). 

 In England the same season seems to have been observed 

 (Blome, p. 91). 



Wild boar. According to the Forest Laws (Manwood 

 and Twici), the boar was hunted from Christmas Day 

 to Candlemas (Feb. 2), but we have evidence that boar- 



