FALCONRY IN BERWICKSHIRE. 15 



A trained Falcon was of great value, and was a fitting 

 present for a prince to give or receive. On the 21st of 

 September 1488 James iv. gave £180 to the "Erie of 

 Angus for a Halk ; " ^ and large sums were paid for the 

 expenses of falconers going in the beginning of May to 

 " the Northland for Halkis." " 



In a royal inspeximus granted by the same king at Edin- 

 burgh, on the 24th of February 1490, of a charter in favour 

 of the Prioress of the Cistercian Abbey of Coldstream, of a 

 ploughgate of land in the town of Lanele, in the sheriffdom 

 of Berwick, granted at " Caldstreme," on the 24th of June 

 1489, by John Liddell of "Lanele," the reddendo is fixed 

 at a pair of hawking gloves, or twelve pennies.^ In tliis 

 charter hawkings, huntings, and fishings are specially con- 

 veyed,* as was usual in deeds of the kind at that period. 



About this time it seems to have been the habit of 

 gentlemen to carry their Hawks constantly with them, and 

 even to take them to church. Alexander Barclay, who 

 lived in the time of James v., thus alludes to this unseemly 

 custom : — 



Into the church then comes another sotte, 



Without devotion, jetting up and dowuc 

 Or to be scene, and to showe his gardcd cote ; 



Another on liis fistc a Sparhawke or Fawcone. 



One time the Hawkes bells janglcth hye, 



Another time they flutter with tlieir winges ; 



And now the houndes barking strikes the skye, 



Now sounde their feete, and now the chanyes ringes, 

 They clap with their handes : by suche maner thinges 



They make of the church for their Hawkes a mewe, 



And canel for their doges, which they shall after rewe.' 



Mary Queen of Scots, like her ancestors, was fond of 



1 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. i., 1-173-98, p. 95. 

 ■■i Ihld. pp. 177, 200, 275. 



3 C'hartulary of the Cisterciati Abbey of Coldstream, by the Rev. Charles 

 Rodgers, 1879, Preface, p. xix. 

 ■i Ibid. p. 51. 

 5 Sibbald, Chrou. Scot. Poet., vol. ii. pp. 437, 438. 



