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pelled to stand, was stabilitio" Malmesbury, Scriptores, 

 post Bedam, edit. 1596, p. 44, speaking of the mildness 

 of Edward the Confessor's temper, says, " Dum quadam 

 vice venatum isset, et agrestis quidam Stabulata ilia, quibus 

 in casses cervi urgentur, confudisset, tile sua nobili percitus ira, 

 per Deum y inquit, et matrem ejus ta n tun d em tibi nocebo, si 

 potero" (Ellis, i. 112). 



We see, however, at a later date from Twici and 

 the " Master of Game " that the watchers or stables they 

 allude to were stationary — and did not drive the game as 

 described in above. 



These stations of huntsmen and hounds were placed 

 at intervals round the quarter of the forest to be driven 

 or hunted in with hounds to move the game, so that the 

 hounds could be slipped at any game escaping ; some- 

 times they were to make a noise, and thus blench or 

 head the game back. In French such a chase was called 

 a Chasse à titre (Lav. xxviii.), the word titre meaning net 

 or tape, but in this case used figuratively. Our " Master 

 of Game " evidently placed these stations to keep the 

 game within the boundaries so as to force it to pass the 

 stand of the King. Twici describes these stations of 

 huntsmen, using the word establie. "The bounds are 

 those which are set up of archers, and of greyhounds 

 (lefrers et de establie) and watchers, and on that account I 

 have blown one moot and recheated on the hounds. 

 You hunter, do you wish to follow the chase ? Yes, if 

 that beast should be one that is hunted up {enquillee), or 

 chased I will follow it. If so it should happen that the 

 hounds should be gone out of bounds then I wish to 

 blow a moot and stroke after my hounds to have them 

 back " (Twici, p. 6). 



It was the duty of certain tenantsto attend the King's 

 hunts and act as part of the stable. In Hereford one 

 person went from each house to the stand or station in 

 the wood at the time of the survey (Gen. Introduction 

 Domesday, Ellis, i. 195). From Shrewsbury the principal 

 burgesses who had horses attended the King when he 



