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A Kennell ought to be placed in some orientall parte of a house, where there may be a large courte wel playned, being fourescore paces square, according to the commoditie and abili∣tie of the Lorde whiche oweth it, but the greater and larger that
it is, the better it will be for the Houndes, bicause they shall haue the greater pleasure to play themselues, and to skōmer, through the middest of it, were meete and good to haue a little chanell of good fountayne water, neare vnto the whiche you shall lay a great trough of stone to receyue the course of the sayde water, the whiche trough shalbe a foote and a halfe high, to the end the houndes may drinke thereat the more easily, and that trough musfe be pearced at the one ende, to let out the water, and to make it cleane when you would. In the highest place of the Courte it shalbe good to buylde the kennell or lodging for the Houndes, in the whiche you must haue two chambers, whereof the one shalbe larger than the other, and in the same should be a chimney, great & large, to make a fire when neede shall require. The gates and windowes of the chāber, must be set and situate agaynst the rising of the Sunne and the South: the chamber should be raysed three foote higher than the leuell of the ground, and in the floore you shoulde make two gutters and holes to the ende the filthinesse and vryne of the Houndes may thereby auoyde, the walles ought to be well whited, and the plankes well mortised and ioyned, and so shall spyders, fleas, punayses and such like, the lesse breede and remaine therein. You must al∣wayes leaue them some little dore or wicket to go out into the courte when they would skommer or ease themselues, then must you haue in the chamber little bodsteades which shalbe raysed a good foote frō the groūd, and therwithal let euery bedsteade haue vnder it a roller to remoue it where you will when you would make the place cleane: and againe that when they come frō the chace, and that it were needefull to warme them, you may rolle thē as neare ye fire as you wil: also those bedsteads must be coue∣red wt hurdels or plankes pearced, to the end yt when the hounds do pisse, the vrine may drayne to the groūd. You must also haue another chāber wherin the Hūte may withdraw himself & keepe his hornes, cowples, and other things necessarie. I thought not needefull to speake of sumptuous chābres yt which Princes cause to be made for their hoūds, wherin there be closets, stoues, & other magnificences, for asmuch as yt hath seemed vnto me, to be more
anoyance than profitable for the houndes, for when they are ac∣customed to such heates, beyng so tenderly and delicately hand∣led, and after shalbe brought to some place where they shalbe euill lodged, or if they hunte in the raynie weather, then should they be readie to marfounder thēselues, and so to become maun∣gie: wherefore I haue alwayes bene of opinion, that when they come from the fielde, and that they be moyled, it is sufficient if they be well chaffed and layed drie, without accustoming them to suche magnificence. And bicause sometimes men haue not cō∣moditie to haue fountaynes or brookes in euery place, it is re∣quisite to make little tubbes of woodde or some troughes to put their water in. You must take heede that you giue thē no drinke in a vessell of copper or brasse, for those two kindes of mettals are venomous of their nature, and cause the water whiche com∣meth in them to turne and to stinke, whiche woulde greatly anoy the houndes. You muste also haue prety little binges or baskettes of woodde to put theyr breade in, the whiche muste be broken and cut by small gobbets in the same, bycause some Dogges are sometimes sicke and of euill appetite. Also there are certayne howres and times that houndes will not feede, and therefore the baskets should not be emptie at any time, as we haue set in portray∣ture before.