The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein those ... exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged ... Also the method of breeding and managing a hunting-horse: unto which is now annex'd an appendix of choice [with] receipts for the cure of several maladies. Whereto is added [an abridgment of Manwood's Forest laws, and of all the acts ... made since; which relate to hunting, etc.] A perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular act of Parliament since Magna charta ... to which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures proper to each recreation, / [Nicholas Cox].

  • Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1721.
Date:
1721
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein those ... exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged ... Also the method of breeding and managing a hunting-horse: unto which is now annex'd an appendix of choice [with] receipts for the cure of several maladies. Whereto is added [an abridgment of Manwood's Forest laws, and of all the acts ... made since; which relate to hunting, etc.] A perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular act of Parliament since Magna charta ... to which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures proper to each recreation, / [Nicholas Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    over his Ears down to the Body, till you come to the atk. | Pr oper Terms for the Noifes of “Hounds, When Hounds are caft off, and find fome Game or Chafe, we fay, They Challenge, If they are too bufie before they find the Scent good, we fay, They Bawl. If they be to bufie after they find good Scent, we fay, They Babble. Ifthey run it End-ways orderly, making it good, and then hold in together merrily, we fay, They are in full Cry. When Spaniels open in the String (or a Grey-Hound in his Courfe) we fay, They Lapfe. When Hounds hang behind, and beat too much upon the Scent or Place, we fay, They Plod. And when they have either earthed a.Vermine, or brought a Deer, Boar, or fuch-like to turn Head againit them, then we fay, They Bay. | ages wate Se, 3 Different Terms for Hounds and Grey- Hounds. Of Grey-Hounds, two make a Brace; of Hounds, a Couple; of Grey-Hounds, three make a Leafe; and of Hounds, a Couple and Half. ) | We let flip a Grey-Hound, and caft of a Hound, The String wherewith we lead a Grey-Hound, is called a Leafe ; and for a Hound, a Lyome, The Grey-Hound hath his Collar, and the Hound hath his Couples. We fay, a Kennel of Hounds, and a Pack of Beagle’s. Some other differences there are; but thefe are the mot ufual. 3 aa Where we find Deer have lately paffed into Thickets, exc. by which we guefs their greatnefs, and then put . the Hound or Beagles thereto for the View, we ace count fuch Places Entries. The Impreffion where any Deer hath repofed or har- boured, we call a Layr. . When the Hounds or Beagles hit the Scent of their Chafe contrary, as to hit it up the Wind when they fhould hit down, we then fay, they Draw amifs. When the Hounds or Beagles take frefh Scent, hunt- ing