FALCONRY IN BERWICKSHIRE. 13 



129G-7. £ s. d. 



the latest reckoiiing, receiving by the day vij.(), by 

 his own hands, in tlie same phice, the first day of 

 May, of the gift of the king ' — xj iiijd0 



From an ancient Kental of Coldingham, drawn up after 

 the battle of Falkirk, which took place on the 22nd of 

 July 1298, we find that there were at Coldingham at that 

 period two eyries of Falcons which were not saleable.^ On 

 the 25th of October of that year Edward i. of England 

 granted to Walter de Money all the eyries of " Falcons 

 gentilz " in his demesne lands of Scotland, for his life, for 

 the yearly payment of " deux piers bien affaitez." ^ In 

 1329, shortly before the death of King Kobert the Bruce, 

 there appear in the Eolls payments for repairing and sur- 

 rounding with a fence the house for his Hawks at his 

 manor of Cardross.* Later in the same century Falcons 

 were brought to David II. from John of the Isles.^ 

 James iii. seems to have been devoted to falconry, for 

 in his reign falconers were specially sent to Orkney for 

 Hawks ; ^ and in his seventh Parliament, which was 

 " halden at Edinburgh, the ninth dale of May, the zeire 

 of God, ane thousand, foure hundreth, seventie foure 

 zeires," he statutes and ordains — " That in time cumming 

 na manner of persons take ane uther man's hounds nor 

 haulkes, maid or wilde, out of nestes, nor eggs out of 

 nestes, within ane uther mannis ground, but licence of the 

 Lord, under paine of ten poundes. And in likewise that 

 na egges be tane out of the Pertrickes nor Wilde-duik-nests, 



1 I am indebted to Mr. Ilardy for the above interesting extracts about Earl 

 Patrick. 



- The CorresjMiuience, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the 

 Priory of Coldinglutm : Surtees Society, 1841. 



3 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. ii., 1272-1307, p. 261. 



^ Accounts of the Lord High Treasxurer of Scotland, vol. i., 1473-98, Prefaco, 

 pp. ccxlviii., ccxlix. 



5 Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. i., 1264-1379, p. 511. 



6 Ibid. vol. viii. p. 276. 



