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twelue, at fixe, twelue, fourtene, or fixtene: and at their feuenth 

 yeare, they beare their heades beamed, branched, and fomed 

 with as muche as euer they will beare, and do neuer multiplye 

 therein but onely in greatneflfe, and according to the feede and 

 relt that they (hall haue. After they haue once accompliflied their 

 feuenth yeare, they will beare markes on their heades, fometimes 

 more, and fometimes lefle, although men ftiall alwayes knowe 

 the olde Hartes by thefe tokens which follow. 



1 Firft when the compafTe of the Burre is large and greate, 

 well pearled, and neare vnto the moyfture of the head. 



2 Secondly, when the beame is great, burnilhed, and well 

 pearled, being ftreight and not made crooked by the Antlyers. 



5 Thirdly, when the gutters therein are great and deepe. 



4. Alfo if the firfte Antlier (which Vhosbm calleth andtermeth 

 Antoiller) is great, long, and neare to the Burre, the Surant- 

 lier neare vnto the Antlier the which ought a little to enlarge it 

 felfe fome what more from the beame than the firfte, and yet it 

 fhould not be to long, and they ought to be both well pearled, 

 all thefe thinges betoken an olde Harte. 



5 Alfo the reft of the branches or homes which are higher, be- 

 ing well ordered and fet, and wel growne according to the big- 

 nefte and proportion of the head, and the croches, palme, or crown 

 being great and large according to the bygneile of the beame, 

 are tokens of an olde Hart : and if the croches which are fomed 

 aloft, do double together in the crowne or palme, it is a figne of 

 a great olde Hart. 



6 Alfo when Harts haue their heads large and open, it figni- 

 fieth that they are olde, rather than when they are crooked and 

 clofe bowed. And bycaufe many men can not vnderftande the 

 names and diuerfities of heades according to the termcs of hun- 

 ting, I haue thought good heere to caufe them to be portrayed 

 and fet forth with little explycations, to fpecifie the name of 

 euerie branch or part, as here vnder is declared. 



The thing that beareth the Antliers, Royals, and toppes, 

 ought to be called the beame, and the Httle clyffes or ftreakes 

 therein are called gutters. 



That 



