5'! The hoohe of Hunting 



Of the heades and braunches of Harts, and 

 of their diueriities. Chap. 2 1 



HArts beare their heads in diuers forts and maners, fomewell 

 growne, fome other yll growne and worfle fpred, fome other 

 againe counterfet, and al this according to the age^countrey^feede 

 and reft that they haue, and you muft note, that they beare not 

 their firft head which we call broches (in a fallowe Deare pricks) 

 vntil they enter the fecond yere of their age. In the third yereof 

 their age, they ought to beare foure, fixe, or eight fmall braunches, 

 at their fourth yeare they beare eight or tenne, at fiue, tenne or 



twelue. 



