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him he made use of to retrieve the partridges. The setting-doggs for supper-flights for his hawkes. 

 Grayhounds for his hare warren, as good as any were in England. When they returned 

 from hawking the ladies would come out to see the hawkes at the highest flying, and then they 

 made use of their setting dogges to be sure of a flight. His Lordship had two hawkes, one a falcon 

 called Shrewsbury, which he had of the Earle of Shrewsbury, and another called the little tercel, 

 which would fly quite out of sight, that they knew not how to shew the fowler till they found the 

 head stood right. They had not little telescopes in those dayes ; those would have been of great 

 use for the discovery which way the hawke's head stood. 



TILTING. Tilting was much used at Wilton in the tunes of Henry Earle of Pembroke and Sir 

 Philip Sydney. At the solemnization of the great wedding of William, the second Earle of 

 Pembroke, to one of the co-heires of the Earle of Shrewsbury, here was an extraordinary shew ; at 

 which time a great many of the nobility and gentry exercised, and they had shields of pastboard 

 painted with their devices and emblemes, which were very pretty and ingenious. There are some of 

 them hanging in some houses at Wilton to this day but I did remember many more. Most, or all 

 of them, had relation to marriage. One, I remember, is a man standing by a river's side angling, 

 and takes up a rammes-horne : the motto Casus uliq^ valet. (Ovidde Arte Amandi.) Another hath 

 the picture of a ship at sea sinking in a storm, and a house on fire ; the motto Tertia pestis abest ; 

 meaning a wife. Another, a sliielcl covered with black velvet ; the motto Par nulla figura dolori. 

 Tlu's last is in the Arcadia, and I believe they were most of them contrived by Sir Philip Sydney. 

 Another was a liawke lett off' the hand, with her leashes hanging at her legges, which might hang 

 her where'ere she pitcht, and is an embleme of youth that is apt to be ensnared by their own too 

 plentifull estates. 



'Tis certain that the Earles of Pembroke were the most popular peers in the West of England; 

 but one might boldly say, in the whole kingdome. The revenue of his family was, till about 1652, 

 1 6,000 li. per annum; but, with his offices and all, he had thirty thousand pounds per annum, and, 

 as the revenue was great, so the greatnesse of his retinue and hospitality was answerable. One 

 hundred and twenty family uprising and down lyeing, whereof you may take out six or seven, and 

 all the rest servants and retayners. 



FOR HIS LORDSHIP'S MUSICK. Alphonso Ferrabosco, the son, was Lord Philip (the first's) 

 lutenist He sang rarely well to the theorbo lute. He had a pension and lodgings in Baynard's 

 Castle. 



