conynger

— A statute of 13 Rich. II. sets forth that "divers artificers, labourers, servants, and grooms, keep greyhounds and other dogs, and on the feast days, when good Christians are at church hearing Divine Service, go hunting in parks, warrens, and conyngers (rabbit warrens) of lords and others, to the very great destruction of the game, and at times (a la foitz), under such colour, make their assemblies, conferences, and conspiracies to rise and disobey their allegiance;"

— If ony man being unlettred, wold bable and strive agaynst suche a philosopher, as was Aristotele or Pythagoras, or if there have ben ony other conynger than either of them both, whan he did dispute de materia prima, of the principles and causes of thinges, de infinito, or of the largenes, the movynge: and the vertue of the hevenly fperes, and wolde dowte of every thyng, that hymfelfe could not by his one witte attayne unto, and perceyve : shold he not be called an arrogante and madde foole?