It was the duty of certain tenants to attend the King's hunts and act as part of the stable. In Hereford one person went from each house to the stand or station in the wood at the time of the survey (Gen. Introduction Domesday, Ellis, i. 195). From Shrewsbury the principal burgesses who had horses attended the King when he went hunting, and the sheriff sent thirty-six men on foot to the deer-stand while the King remained there. _Stable-stand_ was the place where these _stables_ were posted or "set," and the word was also used to denote the place where archers were posted to shoot at driven game. Such stands were raised platforms in some drive or on some boundary of the forest, sometimes erected between the branches of a tree, so that the sportsman could be well hidden. A good woodcut of what was probably intended to represent a "stand" is in the first edition of Turbervile's "Arte of Venerie," representing Queen Elizabeth receiving her huntsman's report. There is no mention made of raised stands in our text, but with or without such erections the position taken up by the shooters to await the game was called his _standing_ or _tryste_, and a bower of branches was made, to shelter the occupant from sun and rain, as well as to hide him from the game. Such arbours were called _Berceau_ or _Berceil_ in Old French, from the word _berser_, to shoot with a bow and arrow; they were also called _ramiers_ and _folies_, from rames or branches, and folia, leaves, with which they were made or disguised (Noir., iii. p. 354). Manwood tells us that _Stable-stand_ was one of four "manners in which if a man were found, in the forest, he could be arrested as a poacher or trespasser," and says: "Stable-stand is where one is found at his standing ready to shoot at any Deer, or standing close by a tree with Greyhounds in his leash ready to let slip" (Man., p. 193). STANKES, or layes; tanks or pools, large meers. Gaston says: _Estancs et autres mares ou marrhés_ (G. de F., p. 21). Stank house was a moated house. A ditch or moat filled with water was called a tank. TACHE, or tecche, Mid. Eng. for a habit, especially a bad habit, vice, freak, caprice, behaviour, from the O. F. _tache_, a spot, a stain, or blemish; also a disgrace, a blot on a man's good name. In the older use it was applied both to good as well as bad qualities, as in our text. TAW, to makes hides into leather; tawer, the maker of white leather. In the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, in the days of the strict guilds, a sharp line was drawn between tawers and tanners, and a tawer was not allowed to tan nor a tanner to taw (Wylie, vol. iii. p. 195). No tawers were allowed to live in the Forest according to the ancient forest laws. "If any white Tawer live in a Forest, he shall be removed and pay a Fine, for they are the common dressers of skins of stolen deer" (Itin. Lanc. fol. 7, quoted by Manwood, p. 161).