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it is, the better it will be for the Houndes, bicaufe they fliall haue 

 the greater pleafure to play themfelues, and to f kommer, through 

 the middeft of it, were meete and good to haue a little chanell of 

 good fountayne water, neare vnto the whiche you fliall lay a 

 great trough of ftone to receyue the courfe of the fayde water, 

 the whiche trough flialbe a foote and a halfe high, to the end the 

 houndes may drinke thereat the more eafily, and that trough 

 mufte be pearced at the one ende, to let out the water, and to 

 make it cleane when you would. In the higheft place of the 

 Courte it flialbe good to buylde the kennell or lodging for the 

 Houndes, in the whiche you mull: haue two chambers, whereof 

 the one (lialbe larger than the other, and in the fame fliould be a 

 chimney, great and large, to make a fire when neede fliall require. 

 The gates and windowes of the chamber, muft be fet and fituate 

 agaynft the rifmg of the Sunne and the South : the chamber 

 fliould be rayfed three foote higher than the leuell of the ground, 

 and in the floore you flioulde make two gutters and holes to 

 the ende the filthinelle and vryne of the Houndes may thereby 

 auoyde, the walles ought to be well whited, and the plankes 

 well mortifed and ioyned, and fo fliall fpyders, fleas, punayfes 

 and fuch like, the lefTe breede and remaine therein. You mufl al- 

 wayes leaue them fome little dore or wicket to go out into the 

 courte when they would fkommer or eafe themfelues, then mull: 

 you haue in the cham.ber little bedfteades which flialbe rayfed a 

 good foote from the ground, and therwithal let euery bedfteade 

 haue vnder it a roller to remoue it where you will when you would 

 make the place cleane : and againe that when they come from the 

 chace, and that it were needefuU to warme them, you may rolle 

 them as neare y® fire as you wil : alfo thofe bedfteads muft be coue- 

 red w* hurdels or plankes pearced, to the end y* when the hounds 

 do pifFe, the vrine may drayne to the ground. You muft alfo haue 

 anotherchamberwherintheHunte may withdraw himfelf and keepe 

 his homes, cowples, and other things neceflarie. 1 thought not 

 needefull to fpeake of fumptuous chambres y® which Princes caufe 

 tobemadefor their hounds, wherin there beclofets,ftoues,andother 

 magnificences, for afmuch as y' hath feemed vnto me, to be more 



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