And if he be not posted or has gone from his tree, or has done otherwise than is said, he shall have none. And as of the fewterers, if they be posted, the first teaser and receiver[247] that draweth the deer down shall divide the skin.[248] Nevertheless in other lord's hunting whoso pincheth first and goeth therewith to the death he shall have the skin. And all the deer's necks are the hunters, and one shoulder and the chine is his that undoeth the deer, and the other shoulder is the forester's or the parker's fee that keepeth the bailie that is hunted. And all the skins of harts slain with strength of the hart-hounds, belong to the master of the hart-hounds as his fee, that is to say he that hath the wages of twelve pence a day for the office. It is to be known that when the king hunteth in the park or in the forest with bows and greyhounds, and it happens that any hart be slain with strength of hart-hounds, all the hart hunters after the King or the Master of his Game have blown a mote and stroked, all day they should stroke the assise that belongeth to the 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. [245] The beginning of this sentence relating to the "server of the hall" is not in our MS. but in the Shirley MS. [246] Shirley MS., "harthounds." [247] Shirley MS. has "resteynour." [248] This means that the men in whose charge the teasers and receivers were placed were given the skin or fee. [Illustration: THE "UNDOING" OR GRALLOCHING OF THE HART THE MASTER INSTRUCTING HIS HUNTERS HOW IT IS DONE (From MS. f. fr. 616, _Bib. Nat._, Paris)] [Illustration: HART-HUNTING WITH GREYHOUNDS AND RACHES (From MS. f. fr. 616, _Bib. Nat._, Paris)] [Illustration: THE "CUREE" OR REWARDING OF THE HOUNDS (From MS. f. fr. 616, _Bib. Nat._, Paris)] END OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM MS. VESPASIAN B. XII. THE FOLLOWING IS THE CONCLUDING PASSAGE OF THE SHIRLEY MANUSCRIPT (Add. MS. 16, 165) IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM:--