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not know the origin of the setter, in which respect he 

 differed to an important degree from some other writ- 

 ers, who make greater pretensions without possessing 

 any greater knowledge. He continues : "But in after 

 years, as we shall see, dogs were required to point," in 

 proof of which he quotes in part as follows, from the 

 writings of Richard Surflet, who wrote in 1600: 

 "There is another sort of Land Spannyels which are 

 called Setters, and they differ nothing from the former 

 (the springer) but in instruction and obedience, for 

 these must neither hunt, range, nor retain, more or less, 

 than as the master appointeth, taking the whole limit 

 of whatsoever they do from the eie or hand of their 

 instructor. They must never quest at any time, what 

 occasion soever may happen, but as being dogs with- 

 out voices, so they must hunt close and mute. And 

 when they come upon the haunt of that they hunt, they 

 shall sodainely stop and fall down upon their bellies, 

 and -so leisurely creep by degrees to the game till they 

 come within two or three yards thereof, or so neare 

 that they cannot press nearer without danger of re- 

 trieving. Then shall your setter stick, and by no per- 

 suasion go further till yourself come in and use your 

 pleasure. Now the dogs which are to be made for 

 this pleasure should be the most principall, best, and 

 lustiest Spannyels you can get, both of good scent and 

 good courage, yet young, and as little as may be made 

 acquainted with hunting." The late Rawdon B. Lee, 

 a much better authority than Stonehenge, writing 

 about the origin of the setter, states : "However, other 



