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Dm E ER Crass Ty 
Buck. Doe. Fawn. 
Brit. Hydd : Hyddes Elain 
Fren. Le Dain La Daine Faon . 
Jtal. Daino Cerbiatto ~ 
Spax. Gamo, Corza Venadito- 
Port. Corza Veado 
Germ. Damhirfch ; 
Swed. Dof, Dof hiort 
Daa. Daae Dir 
T firft, the-beafts of chace had this whole 
v1 \ ifland for their range; they knew no other 
limits than that of the ocean; nor confeffed any 
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A) aie 
particular mafter. When the Saxons had efta- 
blifhed themfelves in the Heptarchy, they were refer- 
ved by each fovereign for his own particular diver- 
fion: hunting and war in thofe uncivilized ages 
were the only employ of the creat; their active, 
but uncultivated minds, being fufceptible of no 
pleafures but thofe of a violent kind, fuch as gave 
exercife to their bodies, and prevented the pain 
of thinking. 
But as the Saxon kings only appropriated thofe 
lands to the ufe of forefts which were unoccupied ; 
fo no individuals received any injury: but when 
the conqueft had fettled the Normaz line on the 
throne, this paffion for the chace was carried to 
an excefs, which involved every civil right in a ge- 
neralruin: it fuperfeded the confideration of religion 
even in a fuperftitious age: the village commu- 
nities, nay, even the moft facred edifices were turn- 
ed into one vaft wafte, to make room for animals, 
the objects of a lawlefs tyrant’s pleafure, The 
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