Given the above derivation, it may be fairly accepted that _bercelet_ was a dog fitted to accompany a hunter who was going to shoot his game--a shooting dog. The "Master of Game's" allusion also points to this. He says some mastiffs (_see_ Mastiff) become "_berslettis_, and also to bring well and fast a wanlace about." We might translate this sentence: "There are nevertheless some (mastiffs) that become shooting dogs, and retrieve well and put up the game quickly" (_see_ Appendix: Wanlace). Jesse conceives _bracelettas_ and _bercelettus_ to come from _brache_, but that can scarcely be so, as we see the two words used together, as the following quotations will show: "Parler m'orez d'un buen brachet. Qens ne rois n'ont tel berseret." T. M. i. 14404. When the fair Ysolt is parting from her lover Tristan she asks him to leave her this same brachet, and says that no huntsman's shooting dog will be kept with more honour: "Husdent me lesse, ton brachet. Ainz berseret à vénéor N'ert gardeé à tel honor Comme cist sera." _Ibid._ i. 2660. Jesse quotes Blount's "Antient Tenures": "In the 6th of John, Joan, late wife of John King, held a serjeantry in Stanhow, in the county of Norfolk, by the service of keeping 'Bracelettum deymerettum of our Lord the King,'" and Jesse thinks these might have been a bitch pack of deerhounds, overlooking the fact that it was only in later days that the words _brache_ and _rache_ were used for bitch hounds. As _deymerettum_ meant fallow deer, the _bracelettum_ or _bercelettum deymerettum_ may be taken, I think, to mean those hounds that were used for buck-shooting (Jesse, ii. 21). BERNER, bernar; O. Fr. _bernier_, _brenier_, a man who has the charge of hounds, a huntsman, or, perhaps, would be more accurately described as a kennelman. The word seems to have been derived from the French _brenier_ or _bernier_, one who paid his dues to his feudal lord in bran of which bread was made for the lord's hounds. _Brenage_, _brennage_, or _bernage_ was the tenure on which land was held by the payment of bran, and the refuse of all grains, for the feeding of hounds. Berner in its first sense meant finder of bran, then feeder of hounds. This word seems to have remained in use in England long after it had disappeared from the language of French venery. Gaston no longer uses the word _berner_, but has _valet de chiens_. BISSHUNTERS, furhunters. Our MS. (p. 74) declares that no one would hunt conies unless they were bisshunters, that is to say rabbits would not be hunted for the sake of sport, but only for the sake of their skins. Bisse, bys, byse was a fur much in vogue at the period of our MS., as its frequent mention in contemporaneous records testifies. BLENCHES, trick, deceit; O. N. _blekkja_ (Strat.). Blanch, or blench, to head back the deer in its flight. Blancher or blencher, a person or thing placed to turn the deer in a particular direction.