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and is exceeding ambitions to seem delighted in the 

 sport, and to have his fist gloved with jesses." The re- 

 strictive character of hawking in olden times is well 

 exemplified in the list which j^rescribes the hawks that 

 in the reign of Henry VII. were allowed to be nsed by- 

 each person according to his rank. That presented to 

 us in the book of St Alban's is as follows : 



" The eagle, the niltiire, and the merlin for an emperor ; 

 The ger falcon and the tercel of the ger falcon for a king ; 

 The falcon gentle and the tercel gentle for a prince ; 

 The felcon of the rock for a duke ; 

 The falcon peregrine for an earl ; 

 The bustard for a baron ; 

 The sacre and sacrel for a knight ; 

 The lanare and laneret for an esqnii-e ; 

 The marlyon for a lady ; 

 The hobby for a young man ; 

 A goshawk for a yeoman ; 

 The tercel for a poor man ; 

 The sparrow-hawk for a priest ; 

 The musket for a holj'-water clerk ; 

 The kestrel for a laiave or serTitor." 



In Scotland, also, as the legends bear testimony, fal- 

 conry had its votaries, and that for the encouragement 

 and protection of the practice it was enacted in the 

 fifteenth century *, " that nane destroy Heronise wis for 

 three yeris. Item, it is statute and ordanit that quahair 

 ony heronise biggis on his nestis eggis or birdis, endur- 

 ing the three yeris, with certifications that it sal be a 

 punct of dictay ; and they that beis convict thairof salt 



* It was enacted in the loth centmy by a statute that for three 

 years any person destropng the nest, eggs, or yoimg of the heron 

 should be iined ten pounds Scots, that is two hxmdred pence, and that 

 the preseiTors of the same shoidd be equally rewarded by the king. 



