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 3°8 Hijlory of Domejlic MaiiJiei-'s a very interefting manufcript of the fourteenth century, made for the monaftery of St. Bartholomew, in Smithtield, and now preferved in the hbrary of the Britilh Mufeum (MS. Reg. lo E. iv.) ; it is part of a fccne No. 204. Roujing Game. in which ladies are hawking on a river, and a female is routing the water- fowl with a tabor. The fountain is one of thofe conventional obje6ts by which the mediaeval artift indicated a fpring, or running ftream. This No, 205. Folloivitjg the Haiuk. feems to have been a very common method of routing the game ; and it is reprefented in one of the carved feats, or mifereres (as they have been termed technically), in Gloucefter cathedral, which is copied in our cut No. 205.