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Renfrewshire. The present possessor kept hawks in India (as do 
the officers of the Guide Corps on the frontier, 3rd Sikhs, etce., 
and many of our own officers, and multitudes of the native 
princes and nobles). His father kept the Renfrewshire Sub- 
scription Hawks until his death in 1819; and his grandfather 
was acelebrated falconer. Peter Fleming, an ancestor, received 
a hawk’s hood, set with jewels, from James IV. of Scotland, for 
beating the king’s falcon with his tiercel. This interesting 
relic is carefully preserved in the family. The falconers 
employed by the Flemings have always been Scotchmen. No 
list of amateur falconers can be produced for England from the 
time of the last civil war to the close of the last century, from 
which period to the present day a very perfect list is well 
known. Notwithstanding this, the Dukes of St. Albans have 
for ages been Hereditary Grand Falconers of England. The 
last Under-Falconer of Scotland was Mr Marshall Gardener, 
who retired from his office in 1840. It is now in abeyance. 
As it is obviously impossible to do anything like justice to this 
subject within the ordinary limits of “a paper,” I shall endea- 
vour to avoid entering into details, and think it may be sufficient 
for our present purpose to consider shortly— 
1st,—The various hawks usually employed in all modern 
as in ancient (European) falconry: those used more especially 
in Eastern and North African sport being merely glanced at. 
2nd,—The way they are caught, or procured. 
3rd,—The methods of taming, training, and using them, 
and the flights, chasses, or quarries for which each species is 
most adapted and most used. 
4th,—The kind of country required for the satisfactory 
practice of these different flights. 
5th,—Some general remarks on the modern practice of the 
old sport; the very great and increasing difficulties attending 
it; and, if possible, some of the writer’s own experiences, and 
a short description of some of the flights he has seen and 
enjoyed; and he regrets his entire inability to do this in a 
better manner, or to his readers’ satisfaction, by means of the 
pen alone: the subject requiring illustration by production of 
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