12 FALCONRY IN BERWICKSHIRE. 



Lord Clerk Eegister, edited by the Eev. Joseph Stevenson ; ^ 

 and as the same Hawks which were used at Dunbar, the 

 principal seat of the earl, would doubtless be taken to 

 Earlston in the hawking season, the following entries have 

 a certain local reference. 



First of all, the earl visits the king in England, and on 

 that occasion presents him with a Goshawk (Astur) on 

 departing, and leaves behind him his falconer, whom the 

 king afterwards allows to return home with a Falcon that 

 the king had borrowed when staying in the castle of 

 Dunbar, or, at least, had used when resident there : — 



"Earl Patrick." 

 1298-7. £ s. d. 



To the Lord Patrick, Earl of March, on return- 

 ing to his own parts, of the gift of the king, as his 

 personal expenses of his journey home, by the king's 

 own hands at Ipswich, on the first day of January . xx — — 



"A Certain Falconer of Earl Patrick." 



To Elias Spot, falconer of Earl Patrick of Dunbar, 

 who remained with the king in attendance on John 

 de Bickenore, with a certain Goshawk which the 

 same earl had presented to the king during the 

 season of Goshawks, licenced by the king to return 

 to his said lord with a certain Falcon which the said 

 king had in the Castle of Dunbar, in the foresaid 

 year, of the gift of the said king, by his own hands, 

 at Plumpton, the last day of April . . . . i — — 



To the same, of the gift of the same king, to defray 

 his expenses in returning as foresaid is, to Earl 

 Patrick, vizt : — From Plumpton into Scotland, for 

 xiiij days, and for feeding and liming [luring?] his 

 said Falcon, for the same time, by his own hands, in 

 the same place, in the same day . ... — xvj iiij 



To the same, for his expenses for vij days, coming 

 from London to the king, at the mandate of the 

 king himself, on the xxiij day of April for the last 

 reckoning, receiving by the day xijd, and for the 

 expenses of two horses and a boy of his staying for 

 vij days at the court before his departure towards 

 Scottish parts as foresaid is, the last day of April for 



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