The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on HuntingEdward, of Norwich
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The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting
Edward, of Norwich
Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Seton, 103
Setters, 120
Seven deadly sins, 4
Shakespeare, xi
Shaw, Vero, xvi
Shirley MS., 200
Snares, 257
Sounder or herd of wild swine, 53
Spain, 119
Spaniel, the, 3, 119-121, 257
Spay, to kill, 10, 174, 258
Spay, to castrate, 84, 258
Spraintes of otter, 73, 139
Springole, 23
Spurge, 48
Squire, a companion of the hart, 26
Stable-stand, 188, 258
Staggard, 29, 131
Stankes, or pools, 33, 72, 260
Stint, 19, 165, 171
"Stinking foot," 211
_Storax_, 96
Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," xvi
Sur-royal of the hart, 28
"Sweet foot," 211
Tache, 260
Tally Ho, etymology and use of, 209
Talon, 130
Taw, to make hides into leather, 63, 261
Teazer, 198
Terrier, 4
Thyme, wild, 20
Trace, footprint of deer, 9, 137, 141
Troche, 140
Tryst, 118, 263
Twety and Gifford, 201, App.
Twici, William, 201, App.
Tysane, 11
Valerian, 91
Vanchasers, 7, 10
Vauntlay, to cast off, 169, 172
Veltres, 263
Venery, beasts of, 3, 52, App.
Vixen, 64
Wagging, 139
Wall pellitory, 101
Wanlace, 204, 264
Wardrobe, 139
Wer-wolves, 59
Wild boar, 3, 23, 46-53, 264
Wild cat and its nature, 3, 70-71, 144, 265
Wilton, Lord, xvi
Wolf, 3, 54-63, 266
Woodman's craft, 176
Worming a dog, 87
Wright, xv
Wynn, xvi
Yeoman at horse, 165
Yeomen berners on foot, 165
York, Duke of, xi., xii
Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
Edinburgh & London
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FIRST EDITION OF_
THE
MASTER OF GAME
_The Oldest English Book on Hunting_
BY EDWARD, DUKE OF YORK
EDITED BY
W. A. AND F. BAILLIE-GROHMAN
WITH A FOREWORD BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
With 44 Facsimile Photogravure Plates (4 with original text) and
Frontispiece reproduced in Colours and Gold, from the Miniatures in
the famous MS. f. fr. 616 in the _Bibliothèque Nationale_, Paris.
Monotint reproductions of the drawings in the Bodleian "Master of
Game" (MS. Bodl. 546), and other reproductions, transcripts of
hitherto unpublished MSS. and Documents, Literary and Historical
Notes, a Bibliography of MSS. and Printed Books on Hunting in the
principal Languages of Europe up to the end of the sixteenth century,
and a Glossary of Ancient English Hunting Terms, with Index.
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