whole discourse of this abridgement. The number
importeth the Page.

Alphabetization is unchanged. The body text consistently spells “Master”; the Index uses “Maister”.

A.
Abridgement of Dogges.[1]
Abstinence from lost goods.[27]
Aelianus his opinion of bloodhoundes.[6]
Aelianus and Aelius, opinion of the beauer.[19]
Alfredus maintained iustice.[27]

An example of rebellion, and the reward of the same.

[26]
An example of loue in a dogge.[31]
Arcadian dogge.[36]
B.
Bandogges bayte the Beare and the Bull.[25]
Blondus opinion of a dogge.[30]
Blooddy and butcherlye curres.[32]
Beauer called a water dogge.[19]
Beauer wherein hee is lyke a dogge.[19]
Beasts preuented of succor.[5]
Bloodhoundes howe they are knowne.[5]
Bloodhounds conditions in hũting.[ibidem]
Bloodhounds whence they borrowe their names.[ibid.]
Bloodhoundes pursue without wearinesse.[6]
Bloodhoundes discerne theeues from true men.[6]
Bloodhoundes hunte by water and by land.[ibid.]
Bloodhoundes when they cease from hunting.[ibidem]

Bloodhoundes why they are kept close in the daye, and let lose inthe night.

[ibide.]

Bloodhounds haue not lybertye alwayes to raunge at wyll.

[7]
Bloodhoundes are their maisters guides.[ibid.]
Borders of England pestred with pylferers.[ibidem]

Bloodhounds why they are vsed in England and Scotland.

[ibi.]
Bloodhoundes take not the water naturally.[ibidem]
Bloodhoundes called Brache in Scottishe.[ibidem]
Bloodhounds when they barck.[8]
Butchers dogge.[28]
Butchers dogge why so called.[ibide.]
C.
Caius booke of dogges twyse written.[1]
Conny is not hunted.[4]
Connye caught with the ferryt.[ibidem]
Conny taken with the net.[ibi.]
Continuaunce of tyme breedeth cunning.[8]
Castle of Flint.[10]
Cunnies preuented of succor.[11]
Callimachus.[20]
Cõforter called Meliteus.[ibid.]
Comforters proportion described.[ibide.]
Comforters condicions declared.[ibidem]
Comforters to what ende they serue.[ibidem]
Comforters the pretier, the pleasaunter.[21]
Comforters, companions of ydle dames.[ibidem]

Comforters why they are so much estemed among gentlefolkes.

[ibidem]
Comforters, what vertue is in them.[ibide.]
Conditions natural, som secrete, some manifest.[ibide.]
Comforters called by sundrye names.[ibide.]
Cicero pro S. Ross.[26]
Countrey cotages annoyed with theeues.[ibidem]
Capitolium kept dogges at the common charge.[ibide.]
Carrier why he is so called.[28]
Carriers seruice and properties.[ibidem]
Comeparcke, a perillous place.[30]
Cõmendation of the mastiue.[32]
D.
Dogges for hunting two kindes generally.[2]
Diuerse dogges diuerse vses.[4]
Deceipt is th’ instrument of the Tumbler.[12]

Dogges for the faulcon, the phesaunt, and the partridge.

[15]
Dogs are houshold seruants.[16]
Ducks deceaue both dogge and maister.[17]
Ducks subtyle of nature.[ibi.]
Ducks dissẽble weaknesse.[ibi.]
Ducks prudent and prouident.[ibidem]
Ducks regarde them selues and their broode.[ibid.]
Dogges of a course kind.[ibi.]
Dissembling theeues.[27]
Dissembling dogges.[30]

Defending dogges stick to their maisters to the death.

[ibide.]
Defending dogges greedy of reuengement.[ibidem]
Diuersitie of mastiues.[32]
Daungerous dogges.[ibid.]
Daunsers qualities.[35]
Daunsers begge for their meate.[ibidem]
Daunsers vsed for lucre and gaine.[ibid.]
Dogges wonderfullye ingendred.[ibidem]
E.
England is not without Scottish dogges.[2]
Election in a gase hound.[8]
England and VVales are cleare from wolues.[24]
Edgar what tyme King of England.[ibidem]
Epirus a countrey in Græcia.[28]
F.
Foxe hunted by the gasehound.[8]
Flight preuenteth peryl.[9]
Froisart historiographer.[10]
Flint Castle.[ibide.]
Fiench dogges howe their skins be speckled.[15]
Fisher dogge none in Englande.[18]
Fisher dogge, doubtfull if there be any such.[ibidem]
Faulcon and an Eagle fight.[26]
Faulcon kylled for fighting with an Eagle.[ibid.]
Fire betraied by a dogge.[30]
Fire raked vp by a dogge.[31]
Farmars keepe dogges.[ibid.]
Feareful dogges barke sorest.[32]
Foxes kept for sundrye causes.[36]
Foxes holsome in houses.[ibid.]
G.
Gesner desirous of knowledge.[1]
Gesner earnest in experimentes.[ibi.]
Gasehounde whence he hath his name.[9]
Gasehoundes vsed in the North.[ibidem]
Gasehound somtimes loseth his waye.[ibidem]
Grehound light footed.[ibid.]
Grehounds special seruice.[ibi.]
Grehoundes strong and swifte.[ibidem]
Grehounds game.[10]
Grehounds spare of body.[ibi.]
Grehounds nature wonderfull.[ibid.]
Grehounde of King Richarde.[ibid.]
Gentle dogge.[14]
Gratius Poet his opinion.[37]
Getulian dogge.[38]
H.
Hunting wherin it consisteth.[2]
Hunting and fowleing doo differ.[3]
Hunting dogges, fiue speciall kinds.[ibid.]
Harryer excelleth in smelling.[ibidem]
Harryer how he is known.[ibi.]
Hare hunted by the gasehound.[8]
Henry Duke of Lancaster.[10]
Hole of the Conny, their hauen of health.[11]
Hare daunsing in measure. [16]
Hare beating and thumping a dogge.[ibidem]

Heare a hinderaunce to the water Spaniell in swymming.

[17]
Heare an vnprofitable burthen.[ibi.]
Hector Boethus.[18]
Henry the seuenth.[26]
Henries commaundement to hang all bandogges.[ibid.]
Henries Faulconer, and his Faulcon.[ibi.]
Hippocrates.[38]
I.
Justice mayntained by Alfred.[27]
Ingulphus Croyladensis historiographer.[28]
Ianus watching.[31]
Indian dogges.[37]
Iseland curres, rough and rugged.[ibid.]
Iselande curres mutch sette by.[ibidem]
K.
King Richarde of England.[10]
King Edgars trybute out of VVales.[23]
King Henrie the seuenth.[26]
King of all beasts, the Lyon.[ibi.]
King of all Birds, the Eagle.[ibi.]
Keepers seruice.[28]

Kingston, or Kingstoune verye famous in olde time.

[30]

Kinges crowned at Kingstoune, to the number of eyght, theyr namesare these. Edward the first, Athelstan, Edmunde, Aldred, Edwin, Edgar,Edeldred, Edwarde, syrnamed Yron rybbes.

[ibid.]
L.
Leuiner quicke of smelling, and swyft of running.[10]
Leuiner, why so called.[ibi.]
Leuiner foloweth the game eagerly.[ibi.]
Leuiner taketh his pray speedilie.[ibid.]
Lyon King of all beasts.[26]
Lust of the flesh reconcileth enemies.[36]
M.
Maisters becke a direction to the gasehound.[9]
Melita or Malta.[20]
Mastiues proportiõ described.[20]
Mastiue, why he is called Villaticus.[ibi.]
Mastiues vse and seruice.[ibi.]
Mastiues are mankind.[ibi.]
Mastiues of great might.[16]
Molossia.[28]
Mooner, why so termed.[29]
Mooner watchfull.[ibi.]
Mungrellesl.[34]
Maisterles men carrie Apes about.[35]
Man in the moone.[37]
N.
Nature hath made some dogges for hunting.[4]
Naturall properties of the water spaniel.[16]
No VVolues in Englande nor VVales.[24]
No place free from theeues.[27]
Nothing escapeth the spoiler.[18]
Nonius bau wau.[19]
Names of the mastiue.[33]
Names of the spaniel gentle.[22]
Names of Dogges whence they were deriued.[39],[40], [41],[42], &c.
O.
One Dogge hunteth diuerse beastes.[4]
Owners of bloudhoundes howe they vse them.[6]
Order of the Tumbler in hunting.[11]
Of the Cumaneasse.[37]
Of brasen shanckt Thales.[ibi.]
Otter.[7]
P.
Properties of a bloudhound issuing from desire.[7]
Proportion and making of the water spaniel.[17]
Pupine a byrd and a fyshe.[18]
Princes pallace pestered with theeues.[16]
Paris in Fraunce.[30]
R.
Rome maintained dogges.[28]
Rare toyes meete for Englishemen.[37]
S.
Smelling is not incident to the gasehound.[8]
Spaniels of a gentle kinde.[14]
Spaniels two sortes.[ibide.]
Spaniel of the lande what properties.[ibidem]
Spaniel for the hauke and the nette.[ibide.]
Spaniels some haue speciall names.[ibide.]
Spaniel a name vniuersall.[15]
Spaniels the colour of their skinnes.[ibidem]

Setters make no noyse, or very litle, in their game.

[ibidem]
Setters giue attendaunce.[ibide.]
Setters behauiour.[ibide.]
Setter whence he hath his name.[16]
Sea calfe not numbred amonge Englishe dogges.[19]
Sea calfe called a dogge fishe.[ibi.]
Seele or sea veale.[ibidem]
Spaniell gentle or the comforter.[20]
Shepherdes dogge.[23].
The necessity of their seruice.[ibi.]
The proportion of them.[ibidem]

Shepherdes what benefite they reape by their dogges.

[24]

Sheepherdes in what countryes they go before theirsheepe.

[ibidem]

Sheepe howe they flocke at the sheepherds whistle.

[ibid.]
Sheepherds Dogge choose and take.[ibid.]
Salacones vaineglorious.[37]
T.
Terrars hunt the badger and the Foxe.[4]
Terrars hunt as ferryts hunt.[ibi.]
Terrars conditions.[ibid.]
Terrars holde fast with theyr teeth.[5]
Tumblers crafty and fraudulent.[11]
Tumblers why so named.[ibid.]
their trade in hũting.[ibi.]
their dissembling of friendship.[ibi.]
they hunt against the wind.[12]
Theeuish dogges.[ibidem]
Theeuish Dogge, a night curre.[ibidem]
Theeues feare no law. [27].
Some steale for neede.[ibid.]
Some to maintaine brauery.[ibi.]
Tynckers curres beare burthens. [29].
their conditions.[ibi.]
they loue their masters.[ibid.]
Two suiters to one woman.[30]
Turnespet painefull in the kytchen.[34]
Thales with the brasen feete.[37]
V.
Vertue of the comforter.[21]
Valentines law for vagabundes.[27]
Virgils vearse.[31]
W.
VVatchwordes make Dogges perfect in game.[8]
VVonder of a Hare or Leuerit.[16]
VVater spaniell called the finder.[ibidem]
VVater spaniels what properties.[ibidem.]
VVater spaniels their proportion.[17].
howe they be described by D. Caius.[ibidem]
VVhy so called.[ibidem]
VVhere their game lyeth and what it is.[ibidem]
VVhy they are called fynders.[ibidem]
VVanton women, wanton puppies.[20]
VVolues bloudsucking beastes. [23].
none England nor wales. [ibidem].
three hundred payde yearely to Prince Edgar.[ibid.]
VVarner what seruice he doth.[34]
VVappes vnprofitable dogges.[ibidem]
Y.
Young dogges barcke much.[8]
Yolping and yelling in a bandogge.[31]
Yll kinde whelpes not regarded.[33]
The ende of the Index.

¶ Faultes escaped
thus to b’amended.

In the last page of the EpistleDedicatory, Quæ for Qui
Page. 3.Grecians for Græcians,
Page. 28.Canis Cultos for Canis Custos,
Page. 38.Britanica for Britannica.

Other faultes we referre to the correction of the Reader.

There bee also certaine Accents wanting in the Greeke words which, because we had them not, are pretermitted: so haue wee byn fayne to let the Greeke words run their full length, for lacke of Abbreuiations.

Studio & industriæ,

Abrahami

Flemingi.