An Alphabeticall Index, declaring the whole discourse of this abridgement. The number importeth the Page.
| A. | ||
| A | Bridgement of Doggs. | 1 |
| Abstinence from lost goods | 27 | |
| Aelianus his opinion of bloodhoundes. | 6 | |
| Aelianus and Aelius opinion of the beauer. | 19 | |
| Alfredus maintained iustice. | 27 | |
| An example of rebellion, and the reward of the same. | 26 | |
| An example of loue in a dogge. | 31 | |
| Arcadian dogge. | 36 | |
| B. | ||
| Bandogges bayte the beare and the bull. | 25 | |
| Blondus opinion of a dogge. | 30 | |
| Blooddy and butcherlye curres. | 32 | |
| Beauer called a water dogge. | 19 | |
| Beauer wherein hee is like a dogge. | 19 | |
| Beasts preuented of succor. | 5 | |
| Bloodhoundes howe they are knowne. | 5 | |
| Bloodhoundes conditions in hūting. | ibidem | |
| Bloodhounds whence they borrowe their names. | ibid. | |
| Bloodhoundes pursue without wearinesse. | 6 | |
| Bloodhoundes discerne theeues from true men. | 6 | |
| Bloodhoundes hunte by water and by land. | ibid. | |
| Bloodhoundes whue they cease from hunting. | ibidem | |
| Bloodhoundes why they are kept close in the day, and let lose in the night. | ibide. | |
| Bloodhoundes haue not libertye always in raunge at wyll. | 7 | |
| Bloodhoundes are their maisters guides. | ibid. | |
| Borders of England pestred with pylferers. | ibidem | |
| Bloodhoundes why they are vsed in England and Scotland. | ibi. | |
| Bloodhoundes take not the water naturally. | ibidem | |
| Bloodhoundes called Brache in Scottishe. | ibidem | |
| Bloodhoundes whue they barck. | 8 | |
| Butchers dogge. | 26 | |
| Butchers dogge why so called. | ibide. | |
| C. | ||
| Caius booke of dogges twyse written. | 1 | |
| Conny is not hunted. | 4 | |
| Connye caught with the ferryt. | ibidem | |
| Conny taken with the net. | ibi. | |
| Cotinuaunce of tyme breedeth cunning. | 8 | |
| Castle of Flint. | 10 | |
| Cunnies preuented of succor. | 11 | |
| Callunachus. | 20 | |
| Comforters called Meliteus. | ibid. | |
| Cōforters proportion described. | ibide. | |
| Comforters condicions declared. | ibidem | |
| Comforters to what ende they serue. | ibidem | |
| Comforters the pretier, the pleasaunter. | 21 | |
| Comforters companions of ydle dames. | ibidem | |
| Comforters why they are so much estemed among gentlefolkes. | ibidem | |
| Comforters, what vertue is in them. | ibide. | |
| Conditions natural, som secrete, some manifest. | ibide. | |
| Comforters called by sundrye names. | ibide. | |
| Cicero pro S. Ross. | 26 | |
| Countrey cotages annoyed with theeues. | ibidem | |
| Capitolium kept dogges at the common charge. | ibide. | |
| Carrier why he is so called. | 18 | |
| Carrier seruice and properties. | ibidem | |
| Comesparcke, a perillous place. | 30 | |
| Cōmendation of the mastiue. | 32 | |
| D. | ||
| Dogges for hunting two kindes generally. | 2 | |
| Diuerse dogges diuerse vses. | 4 | |
| Deceipt is the instrument of the Tumbler. | 12 | |
| Dogges for the faulcon, the phesaunt and the partridge. | 15 | |
| Dogs are household seruants. | 16 | |
| Ducks deceaue both dogge and maister. | 17 | |
| Ducks subtyle of nature. | ibi. | |
| Ducks dissēble weaknesse. | ibi. | |
| Ducks prudent and prouident. | ibidem | |
| Ducks regarde them selues and their broode. | ibid. | |
| Dogges of a course kind. | ibi. | |
| Dissembling theeues. | 27 | |
| Dissembling dogges. | 30 | |
| Defending dogges stick to their maisters to the death. | ibide. | |
| Defending dogges greedy of reuengement. | ibidem | |
| Diuersitie of mastiues. | 32 | |
| Daungerous dogges. | ibid. | |
| Daunsers qualities. | 35 | |
| Daunsers begge for their meate. | ibidem | |
| Daunsers vsed for lucre and gaine. | ibid. | |
| Dogges wonderfullye ingendred. | ibidem. | |
| E. | ||
| England is not without Scottish dogges. | 2 | |
| Election in a gase hound. | 8 | |
| England and VVales are cleare from wolues. | 24 | |
| Edgar what tyme King of England. | ibidem | |
| Epirus a countrey in Græcia. | 28 | |
| F. | ||
| Foxe hunted by the gasehound. | 8 | |
| Flight preuenteth peryl. | 9 | |
| Froisart historiographer. | 10 | |
| Flint Castle. | ibide. | |
| French dogges how their skins be speckled. | 15 | |
| Fisher dogge none in Englande. | 18 | |
| Fisher dogge, doubtfull if there be any such. | ibidem | |
| Faulcon and an Eagle fight. | 26 | |
| Faulcon killed for fighting with an Eagle. | ibid. | |
| Fire betraied by a dogge. | 30 | |
| Fire raked vp by a dogge. | 31 | |
| Farmers keepe dogges. | ibid. | |
| Fearful dogges barcke sorest. | 32 | |
| Foxes kept for sundrye causes. | 30 | |
| Foxes holsome in houses. | ibid. | |
| G. | ||
| Gesner desirous of knowledge. | 1 | |
| Gesner eanest in experimentes. | ibi. | |
| Gasehound whence he hath his name. | 9 | |
| Gasehoundes vsed in the North. | ibidem | |
| Gasehound sometimes loseth his ways. | ibidem | |
| Grehound light footed. | ibid. | |
| Grehounds special seruice. | ibi. | |
| Greyhoundes strong and swifte. | ibidem | |
| Grehounds game. | 10 | |
| Grehounds spare of body. | ibi. | |
| Grehounds nature wonderfull. | ibid. | |
| Grehounds of King Richarde. | ibid. | |
| Gentle dogge. | 14 | |
| Gratius Poet his opinion. | 37 | |
| Getulian dogge. | 38 | |
| H. | ||
| Hunting wherein it consisteth. | 2 | |
| Hunting and fowleing doo differ. | 3 | |
| Hunting dogges, fiue speciall kinds. | ibid. | |
| Harryer excelleth in smelling. | ibidem | |
| Harryer how he is known. | ibi. | |
| Hare hunted by the gasehound. | 8 | |
| Henry Duke of Lancaster. | 10 | |
| Hole of the Conny their hauen of health. | 11 | |
| Hare daunsing in measure. | 16 | |
| Hare beating and thumping a dogge. | ibidem | |
| Heare a hinderaunce to the water Spaniell in swymming. | 17 | |
| Heare an unprofitable burthen. | ibid. | |
| Hector Bœthus. | 18 | |
| Henry the seuenth. | 26 | |
| Henries commaundment to hang all bandogges. | ibid. | |
| Henries faulconer, and his Faulcon. | ibi. | |
| Hippocrates. | 38 | |
| I. | ||
| Iustice maintained by Alfred. | 27 | |
| Ingulphus Croyladensis historiographer. | 28 | |
| Ianus watching. | 31 | |
| Indian dogges. | 27 | |
| Iseland curres, rough and rugged. | ibid. | |
| Iseland curres much sette by. | ibidem | |
| K. | ||
| King Richard of England. | 10 | |
| King Edgars trybute out of VVales. | 23 | |
| King Henrie the seuenth. | 26 | |
| King of all beasts, the Lyon. | ibi. | |
| King of all Birds, the Eagle. | ibi. | |
| Keepers seruice. | 38 | |
| Kingston, or Kingstoune verye famous in olde time. | 26 | |
| Kinges crowned at Kingstoune, to the number of eyght, theyr names are these, Edward the first, Athelstan, Edmunde, Aldred, Edwin, Edgar, Edelred, Edwarde, syrnamed Yron rykkes. | ibid. | |
| L. | ||
| Leuiner quicke of smelling, and swyfte of running. | 10 | |
| Leuiner, why so called. | ibi. | |
| Leuiner foloweth the game eagerly. | ibi. | |
| Leuiner taketh his pray speedilie. | ibid. | |
| Lyon King of all beasts. | 26 | |
| Lust of the flesh reconcileth enemies. | 38 | |
| M. | ||
| Maisters becke a direction to the gasehound. | 9 | |
| Melita or Malta. | 20 | |
| Mastiues proportiō described. | 38 | |
| Mastiue, why he is called Villaticus. | ibi. | |
| Mastiues vse and seruice. | ibi. | |
| Mastiues are mankind. | ibi. | |
| Mastiues of great mighte. | 26 | |
| Molossia. | 38 | |
| Mooner, why so termed. | 20 | |
| Mooner watchfull. | ibi. | |
| Mungrellesi. | 24 | |
| Maiterless men carrie Apes about. | 35 | |
| Man in the moone. | 37 | |
| N. | ||
| Nature hath made some dogges for hunting. | 4 | |
| Naturall properties of the water spaniel. | 16 | |
| No VVolues in Englande nor VVales. | 24 | |
| No place free from theeues. | 27 | |
| Nothing escapeth the spoiler. | 28 | |
| Nonius bau wau. | 28 | |
| Names of the mastiue. | 33 | |
| Names of the spaniell gentle. | 22 | |
| Names of Dogges whence they were deriued. | 39, 40, 41, 42, &c. | |
| O. | ||
| One dogge hunteth diuerse beastes. | 33 | |
| Owners fo bloudhoundes howe they vse them. | 33 | |
| Order of the Tumbler in hunting. | 33 | |
| Of the Cumaneasse. | 33 | |
| Of brasen shanckt Thales. | 33 | |
| Otter. | 33 | |
| P. | ||
| Properties of a bloudhound issuing from desire. | 7 | |
| Proportion and making of the water spaniel. | 17 | |
| Pupine a byrd and a fyshe. | 19 | |
| Princes pallace pestered with theeues. | 16 | |
| Paris in Fraunce. | 30 | |
| R. | ||
| Rome maintained dogges. | 28 | |
| Rare toyes meete for Englishemen. | 37 | |
| S. | ||
| Smelling is not incident to the gasehound. | 8 | |
| Spaniels of a gentle kinde. | 14 | |
| Spaniels two sortes. | ibide. | |
| Spaniel of the lande what properties. | ibidem | |
| Spaniel for the hauke and the nette. | ibide. | |
| Spaniels some haue speciall names. | ibide. | |
| Spaniel a name vniuersall. | 15 | |
| Spaniels the colour of their skinnes. | ibidem | |
| Setters make no noyse, or very litle, in their game. | ibidem | |
| Setters giue attendaunce. | ibide. | |
| Setters behauior. | ibide. | |
| Setter whence he hath his name. | 16 | |
| Seacalfe not numbred amonge Englishe dogges. | 19 | |
| Sea calfe called a dogge fish. | ibi. | |
| Seele or sea veale. | ibidem | |
| Spaniell gentle or the comforter. | 39 | |
| Shepherdes dogge, 23. The necessity of their seruice, ibi. The proportion of them. | ibidem | |
| Shepherdes what benefitte they reape by their dogges. | 24 | |
| Sheepherdes in what countryes they go before their sheepe. | ibidem | |
| Sheepe howe they flocke at the sheepherds whistle. | ibid. | |
| Sheepherds Dogge choose and take. | ibid. | |
| Salacones vaineglorious. | 27 | |
| T. | ||
| Terrars hunt the badger and the Foxe. | 4 | |
| Terrars hunt as ferryts hunt,. | ibi. | |
| Terrars conditions. | ibid | |
| Terrars holde fast with theyr teeth. | 5 | |
| Tumblers crafty and fraudulent. | 11 | |
| Tumblers why so named, ibid. their trade in hūting, ibi, their dissembling of friendship, ibi, they hunt against the wind | 12 | |
| Theeuish dogges. | ibidem | |
| Theeuish Dogge, a night curre, | ibidem | |
| Theeues feare no law, 27. Some steale for neede, ibid. Some to maintaine brauery. | ibi. | |
| Tynckers curres beare burthens, 29, their conditions, ibi, they loue their masters. | ibid. | |
| Two suiters to one woman, | 30 | |
| Turnespet painefull in the kytchen. | 24 | |
| Thales with the brasen feete. | 37 | |
| V. | ||
| Vertue of the comforter. | 21 | |
| Valentines law for vagabundes. | 37 | |
| Virgils vearse. | 31 | |
| W. | ||
| VVatchwordes make Dogges perfect in game | 8 | |
| VVonder of a Hare or Leuerit, | 16 | |
| VVater spaniell called the finder, | ibidem | |
| VVater spaniels what properties. | ibidem | |
| VVater spaniels their proportion, 17, howe they be described by D. Caius. | ibidem | |
| VVhy so called. | ibidem | |
| VVhere their game lyeth and what it is. | ibidem | |
| VVhy they are called finders, | ibidem | |
| VVanton women wanton puppies. | 20 | |
| VVolues bloudsucking beastes, 23, none England nor wales, ibidem, three hundred payde yearely to Prince Edgar. | ibid. | |
| VVarner what seruice he doth. | 34 | |
| VVappes vnprofitable dogges. | ibidem | |
| Y. | ||
| Young dogges barcke much. | 8 | |
| Yolping and yelling in a bandogge. | 31 | |
| Yll kinde whelpes not regarded. | 32 | |
The ende of the Index.