 Foxes were gradually hunted less as vermin and more as Beasts of the Chase, to the point that by the late 1200s, Edward I had a royal pack of foxhounds and a specialised fox huntsman.In this period, foxes were increasingly hunted above ground with hounds, rather than underground with terriers.Edward, Second Duke of York assisted the climb of foxes as more prestigious quarries in his "The Master of Game".