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QUAD 
R U P E D S. 
[ Clafs I. 
names 
■ f BUCK 
DOE 
FAWN 
Britijh , Hydd 
Hyddes 
Elain 
French , Dain 
Daine 
Faon 
Italian , Daino 
Cerbiatto 
Spanijh , Gamo, corza 
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Venadito 
Portug. Corza 
Veado 
German , Damhirfch 
Dutch, Deyn 
f 
Swedijh, Dof, Dofhiort 
A T firft, thefe two animals had this 
whole illand for their range ; they 
, J^ncw no other limits th<in thst of 
the ocean ; nor confelfed any particular maf- 
ter. When the Saxons had eftabliihed them- 
felves in the Heptarchy , they were referved 
by each fovereign for his own particular di- 
verfion: Hunting and war in thofe uncivilized 
ages were the only employ of the great ; their 
a&ive, but uncultivated minds being fufeep- 
tible 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 5 fo no individuals received any 
injury 5 but when the conqueft had fettled the 
Norman line on the throne, this paffion for 
the chace was carried to an excefs, which in¬ 
volved every civil right in a general rum ; it 
even fuperfeded the confideration of religion 
in a fuperftitious age: the village communities, 
nay, even the moll facred edifices were turned 
into one vaft wafte, to make room for animals : 
the objects of a lawlefs tyrant’s pleafure. 
The new foreft in Hampshire is too trite an 
inftance to be dwelt on 2 fanguinary laws 
were enaaed to preferve the game 5 and in 
*he reigns of William Rufus , and Henry the 
firft, it was lefs criminal to deftroy one of the 
human fpecies than a beaft of chace. Thus 
it continued while the Norman line filled the 
throne m , but when the Saxon line was re- 
ftored under Henry the fecond, the rigor of 
the foreft laws was immediately foftened. 
When our Barons begun to form a power, 
they clamed a vaft, but more limited traa for 
a diverfion that the Englijh were always 
fond of: They were very jealous of any en¬ 
croachments on their refpeaive bounds, which 
were often the caufe of deadly feuds ; fuch a 
one gave caufe to the fatal day of Chevy - 
chace , a fad tho’recorded only in a ballad, is 
not the lefs authentic. 
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When property became happily more di¬ 
vided by the relaxation of the feodal tenures, 
thefe e irt e«frv>e hunting grounds became lefs 
extenfive ; and as tillage and hufbandry in- 
creafed, the beafts of chace were obliged to 
give way to others more ufeful to the com¬ 
munity. Thofe vaft tracks of land, before 
dedicated to hunting, were then contra&ed; 
and in proportion as the ufeful arts gained 
ground, either loft their original deftination, 
or gave rife to the invention of Parks . Liberty 
and the arts feem coeval, for when once the 
latter got footing, the former prote&ed the 
labors of the induftrious from being ruined 
by 
