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self renders him service on tliree occasions : wben }ie hatli let ofl' 

 his hawk, the king shall hold his horse ; and when he alights, and 

 when he mounts, he shall hold his stirrup ; and he shall also hold 

 his horse, if none of the assistants are near. He is entitled to the 

 hearts, and the lights of the animals, that are killed in the kitchen, 

 to feed his hawks. He is entitled to a barren sheep, or four-pence 

 from the king's villains ; and once a year he is entitled to a custom 

 of provisions from the villains. He claims a third of any fine im- 

 posed on the falconers, and the commutation fee of their daughters. 

 He is to have the skin of a stag in October, and in the spring, the 

 skin of a hind, to make gloves for carrying his hawks, and to make 

 jesses. He ought to be honoiired with three presents the day his 

 hawk kills one of these three birds, a bittern, a crane, or a heron. 

 He claims the king's mantle in which he rides on the three principal 

 festivals. His protection is to the queen. Others say, that it ex- 

 tends to the furthest place he set his hawk upon a quarry. He is 

 entitled to the nestlings, and also to the nests of the falcons, and 

 sparrow-hawks in the king's demesnes. From the time that he 

 puts his hawk in a mew, until he takes it out, he is not obliged to 

 answer any one in a suit at law, except one of his brother officers. 

 The satisfaction for insulting him, is six cows, and one hundred and 

 twenty-pence, with augmentation ; his price, is one hundred and 

 twenty six cows, with augmentation." s There was also the cylch 

 hebogyddion, tlie entertaining and providing for the king's falconers. 

 Cylch signifies a yearly tribute of provisions, or other things, paid 

 to the king's officers, or servants, by those who held land under 

 him, for particular objects ; such was this cylch hebogyddion. There 

 were also the cylch dyvrgwn, and the cylch ystalon. Mr. Pennant 

 observes that lord Burleigh, in the reign of Elizabeth, sent a letter 

 of thanks to an ancestor of the Mostyns, for a present of a cast of 

 hawks from this place. 



5 See the original Welsb In thr Myi^rian Archwology, 111. 3C(i. unU Wootton's Cyv- 

 reithiau Hywel Dda. 21. 



