And because I reckon it the most necessary part of the _Hunter_ to understand the _Names_, _Degrees_, _Ages_, and _Seasons_ of the aforesaid different Beasts of _Forest_ or _Venery_, _Chace_, and _Warren_; I shall therefore, in the next place, present him with these following
The _Hart_, the first Year is called a _Hinde-Calf_, 2 A _Knobber_, 3 A _Brock_, 4 A _Staggard_, 5 A _Stagg_, 6 A _Hart_.
The _Hinde_, the first Year a _Calf_, 2 A _Hearse_, 3 A _Hinde_.
The _Hare_, the first Year a _Leveret_, 2 A _Hare_, 3 A _Great Hare_.
The _Wild-Boar_ and _Woolf_, being no _English_ Chace, I omit.
The _Buck_, the first Year is called a _Fawn_, 2 A _Pricket_, 3 A _Sorrel_, 4 A _Sore_, 5 A _Buck of the first Head_, 6 A _Great Buck_.
The _Doe_, the first Year a _Fawn_, 2 A _Teg_, 3 A _Doe_.
The _Fox_, the first Year a _Cub_, 2 A _Fox_.
The _Martern_, the first Year a _Cub_, 2 A _Martern_.
The _Roe_, the first Year a _Kid_, 2 A _Gyrl_, 3 a _Hemuse_, 4 A _Roe-Buck of the first Head_, 5 A _Fair Roe-Buck_.
As for the _Beasts of Warren_, the _Hare_ being spoken of before, little or nothing is to be said. The _Coney_ is first a _Rabbet_, and then an _Old Coney_.
Thus much for their Names, Degrees, and Ages: Now let us next observe their _proper Seasons_ for Hunting.
The _Hart_ or _Buck_, beginneth _fifteen_ Days after _Mid-Summer-Day_, and lasteth till _Holy-Rood-Day_.
The _Fox_, from _Christmass_, and lasteth till the _Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary_.
The _Hinde_, or _Doe_, from _Holy-Rood-Day_, till _Candlemas_.
The _Roe-Buck_, from _Easter_, till _Michaelmas_.
The _Roe_, from _Michaelmas_, till _Candlemas_.
The _Hare_, from _Michaelmas_, to the end of _February_.
Thus much I thought fit to speak briefly of the proper _Names_, _Degrees_, _Ages_, & _Seasons_ of the several Chaces which we Hunt: But having almost forgot some, I shall insert here, as intending to speak somewhat of them, and they are the _Badger_, _Otter_, and _Wild-Goat_; the last being a _Welch_-Game: Many more there are which I might here enumerate, but being _Forreign_ Chaces, I omit, as directing my Discourse to the _English-Man_.
As for the _Terms of Art_ appropriated to Hunting, as the Huntsmans _Dialect_, they are so many and various, that should I go about to note them here, it would swell my Treatise to too big a Volume; and therefore I refer you to the _Dictionaries_ which speak of them. And now I bring you to the second thing I proposed, _viz._ The _Rules And Measures_ we are to learn and observe in the aforementioned Sports or Chaces; and in this we must begin with the _Pursuers or Conquerors_ of these Chaces, namely;