The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting

by of Norwich Edward; count of Foix Gaston III Phoebus

• [Waggyng], excrements of foxes, [139]
• Waies, way, track
• Walouyng, wallowing, [146]
• Waltrer, welter
• Wanlace, put up game, [122]
• Waraunt, warrant, save, [31]
• Warderobe, werdrobe, excrement of badgers, [139]
• Ware, aware; also war, beware
• Wareyn, wareyns, warren, [66]
• Warly, warily
• Wayssh, wash
• Wedir, weather, [8]
• Wedis, weeds
• Welex, grow, [163]
• Welle, wolle, wool
• Welspedde, well sped
• Wene, know, to think
• Wered, worn
• Werkis, works, [5]
• Wervolf, werwolfe, a maneating wolf, [59]
• Wery, weary, [107]
• Wete, to wit, to know, [137]
• Wex, wax, to grow, [56], [85]
• Wexed, waxed, [128]
• Wexing, wexyn, growth, [26]
• Weytinge, waiting
• Wheder, whether
• Whitly, whiter
• Wif, wiff, wife, [75]
• Wode, wood
• Wodemannys, woodman's, [129]
• Wodmanly, woodmanly, [176]
• Wold, wish or would
• Wones, dwellings
• Wonned, wouned, wont, accustomed, [85]
• Woode, wode, mad, [61], [85]
• Woodness, madness, [85]
• Woote, know, [43]
• Worth up, on horse, mount on horseback, [175]
• Wortes, vegetables, roots, [11]
• Woxen, part of verb wax, to grow
• Wreech, wreche, wretched, [55]
• Wrethis, wreaths, [133]
• Wroot, to root, [48], [144]
• Wrooth, wrath, [49]
• Wryteng, writing, [200]
• Wurthynes, worthiness
• Wyleli, wililiche, wilily, [31]
• Wymmen, women, [200]
• Wynde, wind, scent, smell
• Wyndeth, winds, scents, [17]

• [Ybrend], burnt, dry, [134]
• Yede, went, [150], [166]
• Yeman, yeoman, [148], [165]
• Yeue, give, [110]
• Yfeted, made, well or evil shaped
• Yflanked, a species of madness in hounds, "lank madness," [88]
• Yfore, therefore
• Yfounde, found, [164]
• Ygote, begotten, bred
• Yhewe, hewn, [152]
• Ylaft, left, [178]
• Ymakyd, made
• Ynowe, ynow, enough, [1]
• Yongis, young
• Youle, howl
• Ypocras, Hippocras, [11]
• Ypoticaries, apothecary, [84], [101]
• Yrest, rested, [136]
• Ythowzt, thought of

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INDEX

• Acquillez, [201]
• Affeted, [27], [201]
• Agincourt, [xi]
• Agrimony, [100]
• Aiguilles or needles, [61]
• Alauntes, [3], [116-18], [202]
• Antlers of the hart, [26], [140-3], [203-4]
• Appollo, King of Lyonnys, [76]
• Aquitaine, [xii]
• Assembly, [7], [9], [150], [163-4]
• Auberey of Montdidier, [80]
• Aumarle, Duke of, [xi]

• [Badger,] [3], [68-9]
• Badminton Library, [xvi]
• Baillie-Grohman, [xxvi], [xxviii]
• Baiting, [118]
• Baldric, [128]
• Beaumont, [167], [182], [184]
• Bellowing time, [160], [162]
• Bercelet, [204]
• Berners, or attendants on hounds, [165-9], [172], [174], [205]
• Bisshunters, furhunters, [74], [206]
• Blaine, [xvi]
• Blenches, trick, deceit, [159], [206]
• Boar, wild—see Wild boar
• Boce, hump, [206]
• Bodleian Library, [xvii]
• Boughs, [206]
• Brache, [22]
• Broches, [45]
• Brocket, [130]
• Buck, [3], [38-40], [109]
• Burnish, [28]
• Burr, [141]
• Burrows, [68]
• Butchers' hounds, [118]

• [Caboche], [176]
• Camomile, [95]
• Canker, the cure for, [99]
• Cat, wild—see Wild cat
• Cecil's "Records of the Chase," [xvi]
• Celandine, [94]
• Chacechiens, [148]
• Change, [31], [111], [207]
• Chase, [3]
• Chase, beasts of the, [3]
• Chaucer, [2]
• Claudoneus, [76]
• Coney, [74]
• Consolida major, [98]
• Consolida minor, [98]
• Contreongle, [150]
• Cotton MS., British Mus., [xii]
• Couchers (setters), [120]
• Couples, [126]
• Curée, [7], [10], [29], [52], [173], [193], [208-209]

• [Dalziel], [xvi]
• D'Aumale, Duc, [xvii]
• Deer tithes, [195]
• Dryden, Sir Henry, [xvii], [Appendix]

• [Encorne], [174]
• Envoiced, [170]
• Ergots of the hart, [130], [169]
• Excrements—see Fumes
• [F. G. de]—see Gaston de Foix
• Farrow, giving birth to young pigs, [47], [48], [68]
• Fees of huntsmen, [198]
• Fence month, [210]
• Ferrets, [72]
• Fewte, track, [210]
• Fewterer, [129], [211]
• Finders, [7], [9], [165]
• Foils, [32]
• Foix, Gaston de—see Gaston de Foix
• Forlonge, a horn signal, [212]
• Fownes, Thomas, first pack of foxhounds established by, [213]
• Fox, the, [3], [64-67], [68], [212]
• Foxhounds, first pack of, [213]
• Fray, [135]
• Fraying-post, [214]
• Froissart, [xii]
• Fues, track, [10], [31], [111], [158], [168], [214]
• Fuite, track, [210]
• Fumes, [9], [17], [29], [39], [73], [133], [209]-[210]
• Fute, track, [210]

• [Garlic], [89]
• Gaston de Foix, [xii], [12], [20], [202], [203], and [Appendix].
• Gathering—see Assembly
• Gins, [30]
• Gladness or glade, [214]
• Grease or fat of game, [25], [30],[36], [69], [214]
• Grease time, [215]
• Greyhound, the, [3], [24], [30], [45], [59], [62], [65], [70], [110], [113]-[115], [189], [197], [216-8]
• Grinders, [50]
• Guienne, [xxi], [3]
• Guyenne loup cerviers, [70]