HISTORICAL NOTES 79 



1537. Royal Household. 



Itm the viij daye paied to maister Walshe 

 for so moche money by him paied for 

 goshawks, the which the king's grace 

 bought upon the cage . . • iij. Li. 



Itm the xvj daye to Hans the fawconer 

 for hawk's mete ; evy hawke at one 

 peny by the daye . . . xiijs. iijd. 



Nor were legal enactments wanting to 

 safeguard the pheasants. An act of 

 Queen Elizabeth imposes a penalty of 20s. 

 or a month for every pheasant taken by 

 night, a statute of James I. fixing a close 

 time between 1st July and last of August, 

 every person hawking at or destroying a 

 pheasant during these months being made 

 liable to a fine of 40s. for every time so 

 hawking, and 20s. for every pheasant so 

 taken or destroyed, while an old Scots 

 act of 1594 threatens with dire and divers 

 penalties any enterprising individual pur- 

 suing pheasants 'either with gun, croce 

 bow, hand bow, dogges halkes or girnes 

 or be uther engine quhat-sum-ever in 

 the king's haill wooddes, Forrestes and 

 Parkes.' 



