. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . hn Gay, 1713. lordship lived in the middle of the sixteenthcentury, and was therefore a contemporaryof Dr. Caius, who may possibly have beenindebted to the Earl for information when,in his work on English Dogges, he wroteof the Setter under the name of the Index : Another sort of Dogges be there, ser-viceable for fowling, making no noise eitherwith foote or with tounge, whiles theyfollow the game. These attend dil
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . hn Gay, 1713. lordship lived in the middle of the sixteenthcentury, and was therefore a contemporaryof Dr. Caius, who may possibly have beenindebted to the Earl for information when,in his work on English Dogges, he wroteof the Setter under the name of the Index : Another sort of Dogges be there, ser-viceable for fowling, making no noise eitherwith foote or with tounge, whiles theyfollow the game. These attend diligentlyupon their Master and frame their conditionsto such beckes, motions, and gestures, as itshall please him to exhibite and make, eithergoing forward, drawing backe ward, inclining 244 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. to the right hand, or yealding toward theleft (in making mencion of fowles my mean-ing is of the Partridge and the Quaile),when he hath founde the byrde, he keepethsure and fast silence, he stayeth his steppesand wil proceede no further, and with a closecouert watching eye, layeth his belly tothe grounde and so creepeth forward likea worme. When he approacheth neere. CH. MALLWYD SARAH BY RUMNEY RACKET PRINCESS EVELYN. BRED BY MR. T. STEADMAN to the place where the birde is, he lays himdowne, and with a marcke of his pawes,betrayeth the place of the byrdes last abode,whereby it is supposed that this kinde ofdogge is called Index, Setter, being in deedea name most consonant and agreeable to hisquality- This extract, although not throwing muchlight upon the appearance of the Setter inthe reign of Queen Elizabeth, neverthelessis a proof of the existence of this separatebreed and of the uses to which it wastrained, and the fact that Dr. Caius, in hisclassification, placed it with the Spanielis evidence of its relationship with the latterbreed at the period in which the learnedDoctor wrote. Though Setters are divided into threedistinct varieties, there can be no doubtthat a
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