Note 17 — Chapter I · STATE OF SCOTLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
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The greyhounds, “leporarii,” of Scotland were considered so superior, that the Duke of Berry, in France, thought it worth while to send his valet, and three other men, to procure some of them, and to obtain letters of safe-conduct from the King of England, to enable them to travel through his dominions on that business.—Fœdera, vol. vii. page 831.