Of the race and Antiquitie of 



Hownds, and who firft brought 



them into Frauncc 



Chapt. I 



IHaue thought good diligently to looke (afwell in the workes 

 of antiquitie, as alfo in thofe of our tymc) from whence the 

 firfte Race of hownds did come into Fraunce, and I neuer found 

 Chronicle nor Hiftorie that feemeth to fpeake of greater con- 

 tinuaunce, than one whiche 1 fawe in Bryttaine, wrytten by one 

 whofe name was lohn of Monmouth an englilh man, the which 

 doth treate, how after y« piteous and dreadefuU dcftrudion of 

 Troy, Aeneas arriued in Italie with his fonne Afcanius^ (which 

 was afterwards king of the Latines) and begatte a fonne named 

 Siluius^ of whome Brutus defcended, whiche loued hunting ex- 

 ceedingly. 



Nowe it came to pafTe, that Stluius and Brutus beyng one 

 daye in a Forrcft hunting a Harte, they were ouertaken with 

 night, and feeing the Harte pafle before them almofle fpente 

 by the Howndes, they went towardes him to kill him. But 

 fortune was fuche to Brutus^ (as God woulde) that whileft he 

 meant to kill the Harte, by glauncing of his arrowe he killed 

 his father Stluius, Whiche thing caufed the people to bee moued, 

 and to mutine agaynft him, thinking that he had done it of 

 malice and defire to reygne, and to haue the gouernement 

 of the Realme. In fuche forte, that to auoyde their great furie 

 and indignation, Brutus was conftrayned to go out of the 

 countrie, and vndertooke a voyage into Greece, to delyuer 

 certayne Troyans, his companions and allyes, whiche were 

 yet there deteyned in captiuitie fince the deft ruction of Troye. 

 Whiche voyage he accompliflied by force of armes, and when 

 he had deliucred them, hce aflembled a greate number of the 

 fame Troyans, whome he caufed to take an othe, that afwell 



for 



