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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 
