174 O S P R E Y. Class II. 



trymen : they were thought bribes worthy a king. 

 Jeoffrey Fitzpierre gave two good Norway hawks 

 to king John^ to obtain for his friend the liberty 

 of exporting loo weight of cheefe : and Nicholas 

 the Dane was to give the king a hawk every time 

 he came into England^ that he might have free li- 

 berty to traffick throughout the king's dominions*. 

 They were alfo made the tenures that fome of our 

 nobility held their eftates by, from the crown. 

 Thus Sir John Stanley had a grant of the IJle of 

 Man from Henry XSf . to be held of the king, his heirs 

 and fucceflbrs, by homage and the fervice of two 

 falcons, payable on the day of his or their corona- 

 tion f. And Philipp de Haftang^ held his manour 

 of Comber toun, in Camhridgejhire^ by the fervice of 

 keeping the king's falcons J. 



46. OspREY. Une Orfraye. Belon. an). 96. Bald Buzzard, or fea eagle. 



Fifch-adler, MalTwy, Aquila Rati fyn. a^v. 16. 



anataria, Clanga, Planga, Fifhing hawk. Catejby^s Carol, 



Percnos, Morphnos. Gef- I. Tab. 2. 



ner. a'u. 196. Falco cyanopus. Klein Stem, 



Haliaetus, feu aquila marina. Tab. 8. 



Gejher anj. 804. Falco Haliaetus. Lin.fyji. 129. 



Balbulhardus. Turneri. Blafot, Fiflc-orn. Faun. Suec. 



Auguifta piumbina, Aquilaf- Jp. 63. 



tro, Hali?Etus, feu Mor- Aigle de mer. BriJ/on av. I. 



phnos. ^Idr. anj. I. 105. 440. Tab. 34. Hiji. d'Oys. 



114. I. 103. 



Haliaetus. Caii opufc. 85. The Ofprey.^r. Zocl. 63. Tab, 



Bald Buzzard. Wil. om. 69, A, i. PL Enl. 414. 



Fifk-oern. Bninnich, p. 5. 



M 



R. Ray places this bird among the hawks, 

 in (lead of the eagles, on a fuppofition that 



* Madox antiq. exchequer. I. 469, 470. 

 t Blunt^s antient tenures. 20. 

 X Madox I. 652. 



Mr. 



