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certain " Household Books " and " Privy Purse Accounts " 

 of noble owners, which the invaluable labours of anti- 

 quaries have placed within reach of the curious. 



We have been at some pains to collect and arrange the 

 following entries, believing that the information which 

 they supply will be far more interesting to the reader if 

 allowed to remain in the form in which we have found 



it: 



PRICES OF HAWKS. 



Itm the viij daye paied to Walshe for 



so moche money by him layed out 



for one goshawke and ij fawcons . iij li. 

 Itm the xv daye paied for v fawcons 



and a tarsell ..... viij li. 

 Itm the iij daye paied in rewarde to 



S r Richard Sandes s'vnt for the 



bringing of a saker to the king at 



hampton courte .... vs. 



I tm the same daye paied for fy ve ffa wcons vij li. vj s. viij d. 

 Itm the iij daye paied to a stranger 



called Jasper, fawconer, for vj sakers 



and v sakeretts at viij corons a pece 



which arnot 3 to jjy viij corons . . xx li. x s. viij d. 

 Itm the viij daye paied to maister 



Walshe for so much money by him 



paied for goshawks the which the 



king's grace bought upon the cage . iij li. 



