Excerpt from Old English Sports The oldest sport in the world - Ancient British hunting dogs - The Chase under Saxons, Danes, and Normans. The severe Forest Laws - A royal forest, a baronial chase, and an enclosed park - Free warren - Forest terms - Vert and covert - Restrictions within forest precincts. Red, fallow, and roe deer - The wolf - Technical names for the young deer - And for the antlers of the stag - Other technical terms used in woodcraft. The Forest Courts - Woodmote, Swanimote, and the Court of Justice-seat - Forest officers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.