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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    29 \ ME Doge. which they change in the fourth Month of their Age ; and_by them4s their Age difcerned: For while they arg white and fharp, it difcovers the Youth ofa Dog; bat when they grow blackifh or dufky, broken and torn, they demonitrate the elder Age. 3 The Breaft ofa Dog is narrow, fois his Ventricle: for which Caufe he is alwaysin Pain inthe difcharging his Excrements. After they have run a Courfe, they relieve themfelves by tumbling and rowling to and fro. When they lie down, they turn round in a Circle two or three Times together 5; which they do for noother Caufe, but that theymay the more commodioufly lie round, and from the Wind. | In their Sleep they often dream, as may appear by their Barking. Here obferve, that they who love to keep Dogs, mult have a {pecial care that they let them _ mot fleep too much, efpecially after their Meat, when they are young: For as they are very hot, foin their fleep doth their Heat draw much Pain into their Sto- mach and Ventricle.. The time of their Copulation is for the moft Partata Year old 5 yet the Females will luft after ir fooner ; but they fhould be reftrained from it, becaufe it debilitates their Body, and dulls their Generofity. After the expiration of a Year, they may be Permitted to copulate 5 it matters not whether m Winter or Summer; but it is beft in the beginning of the Spring: but with this caution, that Whelps of a Litter, or of one and the fame Bitch, be never fuffered to couple ; for Nature delights in - variety. ia antient Time, for the more enobling of their Race of Dogs, they would not permit them to ingender till the Male was four Year old, andthe Female three, for by that means the Whelps would prove more ftrong and lively. By Hunting, Labour, and Travel, the Males are made more fit for Generation, and they prove belt which have their Sires of equal Age. When ~ they grow Proud, give them Leaven mingled with Milk and Salt, and they will not {tray and ramble A- q road. It