484 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
writers, and perhaps more reliable ones, including 
Delabere Blane (1840), say that Robert, Duke of 
Northumberland, as early as 1555, is said to have 
trained a setter to the net; and that other authorities 
of antecedent dates notice the sitter, or setter, as a 
dog used for sporting purposes.” 
Stonehenge, referring to the foregoing, states: 
“Soon afterward the Setter was produced, either by 
selection, or by crossing the Talbot Hound with the 
Spaniel.” The inconsistency of Stonehenge—that is, 
asserting in one relation that the setter is of spaniel 
origin, and in another relation that its origin may be 
in a cross of hound and spaniel—is apparent. 
Lee quotes quite extensively from Dr. Johannes 
Caius, a Doctor of Physic of the University of Cam- 
bridge, who wrote about the year 1570, the following 
being directly to the point: ‘The dog called the Set- 
ter, in Latin Imdex.—Another sort of dog there be 
serviceable for fowling, making no noise with foot or 
tongue whilst they follow the game. These attend 
diligently upon their masters, and frame their condi- 
tions to such becks, motions and gestures as it shall 
please him to exhibit and make, either going forward, 
drawing backward, inclining right hand or yielding 
to the left. In making mention of fowl, my meaning 
here is of partridge and quail. When he hath found 
the bird he keepeth sure and fast silence, and stayeth 
his steps and will proceed no further, and with close, 
covert, watching eye, layeth his belly to the ground and 
so creepeth forward like a worm. When he approach- 
