CHAPTER I.

I. Hunting more ancient than Hawking--II. State of Hunting among the Britons--III. The Saxons expert in Hunting--IV. The Danes also--V. The Saxons subsequently and the Normans--VI. Their tyrannical Proceedings--VII. Hunting and Hawking after the Conquest--VIII. Laws relating to Hunting--IX. Hunting and Hawking followed by the Clergy--X. The manner in which the dignified Clergy in the Middle Ages pursued these Pastimes--XI. The English Ladies fond of these Sports--XII. Privileges of the Citizens of London to hunt;--private Privileges for Hunting--XIII. Two Treatises on Hunting considered--XIV. Names of Beasts to be hunted--XV. Wolves not all destroyed in Edgar's Time--XVI. Dogs for Hunting--XVII. Various Methods of Hunting--XVIII. Terms used in Hunting;--Times when to hunt 1