In England the name Mastiff was not in general use till a much later date, even as late as the end of the eighteenth century, Osbaldiston in his Dictionary ignoring the term mastiff, and using, like a true Saxon, the old term bandog (Wynn, p. 72). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the terms were generally synonymous, and it seems quite possible that the mastiff of the ancient forest laws was not our bandog, but denoted, as in France, any large house-dog capable of defending his master and his master's goods, watching his cattle, and, as frequently necessary, powerful enough to attack the depredatory wolf or the wild boar. These would in all likelihood be a very mixed breed, and thoroughly justify the name _mestif_ or mongrel. Cotgrave in his French-English Dictionary gives the following:-- "_Mastin_, a mastiue or bandog; a great country curre; also a rude, filthie, currish or cruell fellow." We find the word _matin_ in France used as a term of opprobrium, or a name of contempt for any ugly or distorted body or a coarse person: "_C'es un matin, un vilain matin._" Many interesting facts about the mastiff have been collected by Jesse in his "History of the British Dog," but he also makes the mistake of considering that the "Master of Game" and Turbervile give us the description of the dogs then existing in England, whereas these descriptions really relate only to French breeds, although the characteristics may in many cases have tallied sufficiently; but in others a dire confusion has resulted from blindly copying from one another. MENÉE, from Latin _minare_, something which is led, a following. This word frequently occurs in the mediæval romances, and usually denoted pursuit, either in battle or in the hunting field (Borman, p. 37). There are various meanings attached to _menée_:-- 1. The line of flight the stag or other game has taken, and _Chacier la menée_ seems to have meant hunting with horn and hound by scent on the line of flight, in contradiction to the chase with the bow or crossbow, which was called _berser_ (_Le Roman des Loherains_, 106, c. 30). In G. de F. (p. 157) it is used in the same sense. The meaning in which Gaston de Foix uses the word menée is explained by him: _Et puis se metre après, et chevauchier menée: c'est à dire par où les chiens et le cerf vont_ (G. de F., pp. 43, 44, 171, 179). See also _Chace dou Cerf_ and Hard. de Font. Guer. Edit. Pichon. 2. The challenge of the hound when on the line. Page 171, we read that a hunter should know whether the hounds have retrieved their stag by the doubling of their menée, _i.e._ the hounds would make more noise as soon as they found the scent or line of flight of the stag they were chasing. _Menée_ evidently meant the sound made by the hound when actually following the scent, not when baying the game. Later the sense seems to have been widened, and a musical hound was said to have _la menée belle_ (Salnove, p. 246).