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That divers artificers, labourers, servants, and grooms, keep greyhounds and other dogs, and on the holidays, when good
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could not be claimed as property, even if the freeholder held title to the soil over which the warren extended, unless that individual also possessed the royal warrant of them, or unless it had escaped from a
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