370 The Dog Book 
accepted as nothing but an old English word for mongrel, and not in any 
way indicative of size, bulk or confined to the large dog we now call mastiff. 
This group included everything outside of spaniels, hounds, toys, and to 
some extent terriers. With regard to the latter, if this definition of mastiff 
is kept in mind it will help readers of old books to understand how some 
authors came to describe terriers as part mastiffs. With this kept in mind, 
we will take our first quotation from Caius’s “Treatise of English Dogges,” 
1570. Dividing. English: dogs into five sections, he puts the shepherd’s 
dog in the fourth section, and after having described all varieties of dogs 
at some length he condenses the information in what he calls a “Supplement 
or addition, containing a demonstration of Dogges names how they had 
their Original.” In this condensed fourth section he writes: ‘Of dogs 
under the coarser kind we will deale first with the shepherde’s dogge, whom 
some call the Bandogge, the. Tydogge, or the Mastyne, the first. name is 
imputed to him for service, Quoniam pastori famulator, because he is at 
the shepherds his masters commandment. The seconde a Ligamento 
of the band or chain wherewith he is tyed. The third a Sagina of the 
fatnesse of his body.” 
Following closely upon Caius we have the “‘Foure Bookes of Husband- 
rie,” 1586, to this effect: “The shepherd’s Masty, that is for the folde 
must neither be so gaunt nor so swifte as the greyhound, nor so fatte nor 
so heavy as the Masty of the house; but verie strong, and able to fighte and 
follow the chase, that he may beat away the woolfe or other beasts, and to 
follow the theefe, and to recover the prey. And therfor his body should 
be rather long than short and thick; in all other points he must agree with 
the ban-dog.” We will now take a jump of two hundred years, for we 
know of nothing more until we come to Bewick’s “History of Quadrupeds,” 
and from that we give his illustrations of the “‘Cur-dog” and the “ Ban-dog.” 
It is no stretch of the imagination for any person, if shown the bandog 
illustration, and without knowledge of what it is, to state that it is a smooth 
collie, as it is called nowadays; and that this bandog was a cattle dog is 
proved by Bewick’s description, which is as follows: 
“The Ban-dog is a variety of this fierce tribe [the bulldog and mastiff], 
not often to be seen at present. It is lighter, smaller, more active and 
vigilant than the mastiff, but not so powerful; its nose is smaller [narrower] 
and possesses, in some degree, the scent of the hound. Its hair is rougher 
and generally of a yellowish grey, streaked with shades of a black or brown 
