(From MS. f. fr. 616, Bib. Nat., Paris)

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hart slain with strength, but not with eight long motes, but with four short and four long motes, as is in the aforesaid chapter plainly devised. And all the other hunters should stroke the common stroking as is above described and said.

[239] Men and hounds stationed at different places, usually on the boundaries of the district in which the game was to be roused and hunted, or at convenient passes from whence the hounds could be slipped at the game.

[240] Teasers, a small hound to tease forth or put up the game.

[241] A difficult sentence to unravel. In the Shirley MS. it runs: "and yif hit have eseyne nought to ye stagge, but yif he were avaunced."

[242] "Within the set" means within that quarter of the forest or park around which are set or stationed the men and hounds, called the stable.

[243] To tie the couples of hounds together.

[244] Made the smaller deer clear out of the forest.