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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
In regard to your question concerning the hunting of the ancient inhabitants of the Island of Great Britain, the Britons and Saxons, the genuine and authentic notices which have come down to us relative to the customs and manners of those two nations, are indeed but very few, so that much cannot reasonably be expected to have reached us on the subject proposed. However, for the amusement of yourself and friend, I shall endeavour to bring together such passages as have occurred to me in authors concerning this matter, with some necessary remarks and observations, premising and noting here, once for all, that the writers alluded to deal so much in generals, that they afford us not many particulars, respecting the modes of proceeding of our ancestors in those early times in the great and important business, as I may call it, of the chase.
page 157 note [a] Northern Antiq. translated by the Bishop of Dromore.
page 157 note [b] Xenophon Cyrop. p. 13, 567, ed. Hutchinson, et de Venatione, p. 160. 171. Edit. Wells. See also Cæsar de B. G. VI. c. 21, where hunting and studium rei militaris are joined as relatives.
page 157 note [c] Poetæ Latini Minores. Edit. Burman, 2 vol. 4to.
page 157 note [d] Xenophon, Cyropædia, p, 157. Ed. Hutch.
page 158 note [e] Cæsar de B. G. Lib. V. c. 14.
page 158 note [f] Macpherson en Ossian. l. p. 22. Edit. 1765.
page 158 note [g] Dissert. on the Ceritani, annexed to Essay on Coins of Cunobelin, p. 123.
page 159 note [h] Gent Mag. 1790, p. 789.
page 159 note [i] Xenophon, Cyrop. p, 567. Ed. Hutch.
page 159 note [k] Strabo, IV. p. 192. Ed. Almeloveen.
page 159 note [l] Essay on Coins of Cunob. Class IV. N° 5. See p. 75. there.
page 159 note [m] Thoresby, p. 338.
page 159 note [n] Camden, Brit. col. 139.
page 160 note [o] Meaning Italy, or the Continent, Britain being sometimes termed Alter Orbis.
page 160 note [p] See Camden, III. 470. 484. Pennant's Brit. Zool. I. 54, 4to.
page 160 note [q] Xenophon, Cyrop. II. p. 157, 158. Ed. Hutch.
page 161 note [r] Cæsar, de B. G. VI. c. 28.
page 162 note [s] Camden, Brit. col. 1227. Dissertation annexed to the Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, p. 126.
page 162 note [t] P. 349.
page 162 note [u] P. 23. 53. 91.
page 162 note [x] P. 298.
page 162 note [y] Vol. I. p. 63.
page 162 note [z] Plate II. Class IV. p. 98.
page 162 note [a] De Canibus Brit. p. 499. Ed. Burman.
page 162 note [b] Zoology, Vol. I. p. 61.
page 163 note [c] Verstegan, p. 89.
page 163 note [d] Fitz-Stephen, Description of London, p. 16. Ed. 1772, 4°.
page 163 note [e] B. G. Lib. VI. c. 28.
page 163 note [f] Vol. III. p. 7. seq.
page 164 note [g] I remember seeing above 60 years ago three or four very large pictures, of cat-hunting hanging in the hall of the Oaks, a seat of the Gills in the parish of Norton, co. Derby.
page 164 note [h] Ibid. p. 46.
page 164 note [i] We had then no fallow-deer. Pennant, Zool. I. p. 37.
page 164 note [k] B. G. Lib. V. c. 12.
page 165 note [l] Gunton, Hist. of Peterborough, p. 2.
page 165 note [m] Asser. Menev. de rebus Ælfredi, p. 16, Ed. Wise
page 165 note [n] Gul. Malmesb. p. 59.
page 165 note [o] Wilkins, Legg. Sax. p. 146.
page 166 note [p] Pennant's Zoology, Vol. I. p. 37.
page 166 note [q] Ossian, p. 24.