HOUNDS AND HUNTING 49 



Straknr was the name of a kind of dog in favourite use 

 among Cumberland deer-poachers, according to an eyre roll 

 of 15 Edward I. But it was not merely a North-country 

 word, for we have met with it twice in Wiltshire forest pro- 

 ceedings. 



Velters (valtri, veltri, or vautrarii) were running hounds akin 

 to but separate from the old greyhound. Blount says that it 

 was a mongrel hound used for the chase of the wild boar. 



In addition to the rough division of dogs of the forest into 

 those that hunted by sight and those that hunted by scent, 

 terms are commonly found, in the forest proceedings, for dogs 

 that hunted different kinds of game. Thus those that were 

 used for hunting the red deer were termed cervericii canes, or 

 hart hounds. They were a breed of running hounds, and were 

 not used exclusively for hart hunting. In the fifteenth century 

 the king had a master of hart hounds. 



Damericii canes were the buckhounds for hunting the fallow 

 deer. Small packs of these buckhounds are frequently men- 

 tioned as accompanying the royal huntsman of Henry III. and 

 Edward I. 



The roe deer were occasionally hunted, and canes cheverolerez 

 are mentioned several times as being sent to forests by King 

 John. On one occasion Adam, his huntsman, was accompanied 

 by a pack of seventeen roehounds, and on another by one of 

 twenty-four. 



Porcerecii canes is obviously the name of hounds used for 

 hunting wild boars. We have met with the term in several 

 rolls of John, Henry III., and Edward I., among dogs 

 dispatched to the royal forests. 



Lutericii canes is the equivalent for otterhounds. Mr. Turner 

 cites their occurrence in a wardrobe account of 18 Edward I. 

 They are also mentioned in the same reign in the Peak Forest, 

 and occur in connection with Clarendon forest in the fifteenth 

 century. 



Haericii canes denoted a particular kind of running hound, 

 and is usually rendered " harriers." There is said, however, to 

 be no real philological connection between the term and hares, 

 and they were certainly used in hunting deer, as is abundantly 

 proved by Mr. Turner. 



Dogs are frequently distinguished by their colour in cases 



