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went hunting, and the sheriff sent thirty-six men on foot 

 to the deer-stand while the King remained there. 



Stable-stand was the place where these stables were 

 posted or " set," and the word was also used to denote 

 the place where archers were posted to shoot at driven 

 game. Such stands were raised platforms in some drive 

 or on some boundary of the forest, sometimes erected 

 between the branches of a tree, so that the sportsman 

 could be well hidden. A good woodcut of what was 

 probably intended to represent a "stand" is in the first 

 edition of Turbervile's " Arte of Vénerie," representing 

 Queen Elizabeth receiving her huntsman's report. 



There is no mention made of raised stands in our text, 

 but with or without such erections the position taken up 

 by the shooters to await the game was called his standing 

 or tryste, and a bower of branches was made, to shelter 

 the occupant from sun and rain, as well as to hide him 

 from the game. Such arbours were called Berceau or 

 Berceil in Old French, from the word berser, to shoot with 

 a bow and arrow ; they were also called ramiers and folies, 

 from rames or branches, and folia, leaves, with which 

 they were made or disguised (Noir., iii. p. 354). 



Manwood tells us that Stable-stand was one of four 

 " manners in which if a man were found, in the forest, 

 he could be arrested as a poacher or trespasser," and says : 

 " Stable-stand is where one is found at his standing ready 

 to shoot at any Deer, or standing close by a tree with 

 Greyhounds in his leash ready to let slip " (Man., p. 193). 



STANKES, or layes ; tanks or pools, large meers. 

 Gaston says : Estancs et autres mares ou marrhès (G. de F., 

 p. 21). Stank house was a moated house. A ditch or 

 moat filled with water was called a tank. 



TACHE, or tecche, Mid. Eng. for a habit, especially 

 a bad habit, vice, freak, caprice, behaviour, from the 

 O. F. tache, a spot, a stain, or blemish ; also a disgrace, a 

 blot on a man's good name. In the older use it was 



