FEWTERER, the man that lets loose the greyhounds (Blome, p. 27); from _veltraria_, a dog leader or courser; originally one who led the dogs called _veltres_, _viautres_ (_see_ Veltres). In Gallo-Latin, Veltrahus. It has been asserted that the word fewterer is a corruption of _vautre_ or _viautre_, a boarhound, but although both evidently owe their origin to the same parent-word, fewterer can scarcely be derived from _vautre_, a boarhound. It was only in the Middle Ages in France that the word _vautre_, from originally meaning a powerful greyhound, was applied to a large boarhound. Fewterers in England appear invariably as attendants on greyhounds, not boarhounds. Another derivation has been also given from fewte, foot or track, a fewterer being, according to this, a huntsman who followed the track of the beast. But _venator_ was the contemporary designation for a huntsman, and as far as we can ascertain the fewterer was always merely a dog-leader. FORLONGE, forloyng, forlogne, from the Fr. _fort loin_. G. de F. says, "flies far from the hounds," _i.e._ having well distanced them ("_Fuit de fort longe aux chiens, c'est a dire que il les ait bien esloinhes_"). Hounds are said to be hunting the forlonge when the deer is some way in front of them, or when some of the hounds have got away with the deer and have outpaced the rest. As our MS. (p. 173) says, the forlogne should be blown if the stag has run out of hearing of hound and horn, but it should not be blown in a park. In old French hunting literature it is an expression one constantly comes across. Twici, writing almost a hundred years earlier than the Duke of York, says: "The hart is moved and I do not know where the hart is gone, nor the gentlefolk, and for this I blow in that manner. What chase do we call this? We call that chase The chase of the forloyng." Forloyneth: "When a hound meeteth a chase and goeth away with it far before the rest then we say he forloyneth" (Turber., ed 1611, p. 245). FOX. According to the laws of Canute the fox was neither reckoned as a beast of venery nor of the forest. In Manwood's Forest Laws he is classed as the third beast of chase (p. 161), as he is also in Twety and Gyfford, and the "Boke of St. Albans." Although early records show that the English Kings kept their foxhounds, we hear nothing of their having participated in this sport, but they seem to have sent their hounds and huntsmen about the country to kill foxes, probably as much for the value of the pelt as for relieving the inhabitants of a thievish neighbour.