The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

BOOK I.

RURAL EXERCISES PRACTISED BY PERSONS OF RANK.

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;--The Normans.--VI. Their tyrannical Proceedings.--VII. Hunting and Hawking after the Conquest.--VIII. Laws relating to Hunting.--IX. Hunti...