A powerful 14th century satire

from well before the Br'er Rabbit tales, and indeed the French Revolution:

Low-born (infantry) archer-hares take Justice into their own hands at spring-time
by shooting, tying, trying and hanging a noble hound -
whose grave is 'desecrated'  in the autumn by...another noble hound digging up the bones.

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Marginalia from the Decretals of Gregory IX
with gloss of Bernard of Parma (The Smithfield Decretals). 
British Library.  Re-blogged from Dogs Depicted.