16 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



In the L'Estrange " Household Book" are many 

 curious entries with reference to the purchase, keep,, 

 training,, and other expenses of the various hawks used 

 at that time (1519 to 1578), at Hunstanton Hall, in- 

 cluding peregrines, goshawks, hobbies, and sparrow- 

 hawks, for whose care and training a falconer was kept, 

 who probably occupied the same position on the estate as 

 a head gamekeeper at the present time. In the eleventh 

 and following years of the reign of King Henry the 

 YHIth we find 



s. d. 



Itm pd to John Maston for mewyng and kepyng of 

 ye goshawks from Chrostyde (the feast of the 

 exaltation of the Holy Cross) unto ye xvth daye of 



JSTovembre x 



Itm pd at Lynne whan ye went on hawkyng to Wool- 



ferton wood for fyer and dryncke viij 



Itm pd yr ye sam tym for horsmete xiij 



Itm delyvyd to hym the sam daye for a byll alowyd 



to Edward for hanks mett vij xj 



Itm in reward same day to Saunder the fawken 

 for the tyme that he was wt me, or he entred 



into wage xvj 



For yor goshawk. Itm delyved to yow the xxij day 

 of August by the hands of David to bye yor 



goshawk xl 



Itm delyved you the xxij day of January, when yow 



went a hawking wt my uncle Koger Woodhous ... vij vi 



The following entries also indicate the kinds of game 

 at which the different species of hawks were flown : 



Itm a fesant kyllyd wt ye goshawke. 



Itm vj rabetts of store and ij ptriches kylled wt ye sperhawke. 



Itm xiiij larks kyllyd wt the hobbye. 



Itm xij larks kyllyd with the hobbye. 



Itm ij ptrychys kyllyd wythe the hauks. 



Itm ij fesands and ij ptrychys kyllyd wt the hauks. 



Particular mention is made of the crossbow through- 

 out the earlier portion of these records, and the birds 



