In Edward's I.'s Wardrobe Accounts, 1299-1300, appear some interesting items of payments made to the huntsman for his wages and the keep of the hounds and his _one horse_ for carrying the nets. These allusions to nets throw an interesting light on the fox-hunting of those days. William de Blatherwyke, or, as he is also called, _William de Foxhunte_, and _William Fox-dog-keeper_, had besides their wages an allowance made to them for clothes and winter and summer shoes (_see_ Appendix: Hunt Officials). As only one horse was provided, and that to carry the nets, the huntsman, we must presume, had to hunt on foot, not such an arduous undertaking when we remember that the country was so much more thickly wooded than at present, and that every possible precaution was taken to prevent Reynard's breaking covert. We see by our text (p. 65) that it was usual to course foxes with greyhounds, and although the passages referring to this are translated from G. de F. we know from many old records that this fox-coursing was as usual in England at this time as in France. In the earlier days hounds used for the chase of the fox one day, probably hunted hare, or even buck or stag, on another--such as the harriers, which, if we can believe Dr. Caius, were entered to any animal from stag to stoat (_see_ Appendix: Harriers). The first real pack of foxhounds is said to be the one established by Thomas Fownes, Esq., of Stepleton, in Dorsetshire (1730). They were purchased at an immense price by Mr. Bowes, of Yorkshire. A very amusing description is given in "Cranbourne Chase" of the first day's hunting with them in their new country. There must have been several packs entered to fox only about the end of the eighteenth century, for an erstwhile Master of the Cheshire Foxhounds had in his possession a horn with the following inscription: "Thomas Boothby Esqre. Tooley Park Leicester. With this horn he hunted the first pack of foxhounds then in England 5 years: born in 1677 died 1752." This pack, which was purchased by "the great Mr. Meynell" in 1782, had been hunted both in Hampshire and in Wiltshire previously by the ancestors of Lord Arundel (Bad. Lib., "Hunting," p. 29). FRAYING-POST, the tree a stag has rubbed his antlers or frayed against. By the fraying-post the huntsman used to be able to judge if the stag he wished to harbour was a warrantable stag or not. The greater the _fraying-post_ the larger the deer (Stuart, vol. ii. p. 551). FUES, "not find his fues," not to find his line of flight, his scent; Gaston says: "Ne puissent deffaire ses esteurses": literally, "cannot unravel his turnings." _Fues_, flight, fuite, track. Gaston calls these sometimes _voyes_. _Voyes_ was written later _Foyes_ (Fouilloux). FUE. "Se mettre a la fue" (var. _fuie_), (to take flight) (Borman, p. 89). GLADNESS, glade. The original sense is a smooth, bare place, or perhaps a bright, clear place in a wood.