HARNESS means in our text "paraphernalia where-with animals can be caught or taken." It is frequently used in this sense by Gaston--_Hayes et autres Harnoys_ (p. 126). In Julien's note to this same sentence occurring in _Le bon Varlet_, he says, _autres harnois, autres engins, instruments, procédés_. HARRIER, spelt in early documents with many variations--_eirere_, _heyreres_, _heyrer_, _hayrers_. A hound which is described in modern dictionaries as "resembling a foxhound but smaller, used for hare-hunting" (Murray). This explanation would not have been a correct one for our harriers of the fourteenth century, for as far as we can gather they were used to hunt all kinds of game and by no means only the hare. They were evidently a smaller kind of running hound, for as our MS. says, there are some small and some large running hounds, "and the small are called Kenettis (or small dogs--_see_ Kenet), and these hounds run well to all manner of game and they that serve for all game men call them heirers" (p. III). And in chapter 36 we see that _heyrers_ were used to hunt up the deer in the forest, the herthounds and greyhounds meanwhile being held in leash till a warrantable deer was on foot, or till "the heyrer have well run and well made the rascal void" (made the smaller deer clear out of that part of the forest) (p. 191). Then the herthounds were to be uncoupled where the most likely "ligging is for an hert, and seek." The herthounds then put up the wary old stag and hunted him till he came to the tryst where the King would be with his long bow or cross-bow, or till the hert was pulled down by them or the greyhounds which had been slipped at him. In the chapter on hare-hunting in our MS. the word harrier does not occur; only hounds, greyhounds, and raches are mentioned. So when Henry IV. paid for "_La garde de nos chiens appelez hayrers_" (Privy Seal, 20 Aug. 9th Henry, 1408, No. 5874), or Henry V. for the "_Custodiam Canum nostrum vocatorum hayreres_" (Rot. Pat. I Henry V. 1413), it was not because they were especially addicted to hare-hunting, but because they kept these useful hounds to "harry" game. In 1407 we find one Hugh Malgrave "_servienti venatori' vocat' hayters p' c'vo (cervo)_," which we may accept as another proof that their office was to hunt the stag. The Duke of York also repeatedly says that "_heirers_" run at all game (see pp. III, 196, 197). In 1423 Hugh Malgrave still held the "office of the hayrers" by grant from Henry IV. In the curious legal Latin of the thirteenth century, we find the word _canes heirettes_, and _heyrettor_ (Wardrobe Accounts, 34 Ed. I.). There are a great number of early records which show us that these hounds were used then for hunting red and fallow deer, sometimes in conjunction with greyhounds and sometimes without their aid.