310 SHOOTING. 



of September. The doe comes in season when the 

 buck goes out, and goes out at Twelfth-tide.* 



The roe was called the first year a kid, the second 

 a girle, the third a hemuse, the fourth a roe-buck 

 of the first head, and the fifth a fair roe-buck. 



The male red deer was called the first year a 

 calf, the second a brocket, the third a spayed (or 

 spire), the fourth a staggart, the fifth a stag, the 

 sixth a hart. The female red deer was called the 

 first year a calf, the second a brocketVsister, and 

 the third a hind. If a hart was hunted by the 

 king, and escaped alive, he was called a, Hart-Royal; 

 and if in hunting he was driven out of the forest 

 so far that he was not likely to return of himself, 

 and the king gave over hunting him, then, because 

 he had made such sport, he caused a proclamation 

 to be made in all the towns and villages near the 

 place to which he was pursued and hunted, that 

 no person should kill, hurt, or hunt him, and ap- 

 pointed certain foresters to look after him till he 

 returned to the forest, and afterwards he was called 

 a Hart- Royal- Proclaimed.^ 



As our sovereigns have ceased to pursue deer, 

 all harts having brow, bay, and tray antlers, and 

 crowned with three or more points on the extremity 

 of eacli horn, are now termed Harts-Royal. 



* Tlw Compleat Sportsman. London, 1762. 

 f 1 Mamvood's Forest Laics. 



