82 SUNDRIES. 



Skevingtons in rewarde for bringing 



hawkes out of Irlande ... xl s. 



Itm the x daye paied to Garard the 

 fawconer in rewarde for taking of a 

 fawcon and a tarsell . . . Ivj s. 



Itm the xj daye of Marche paied to 

 Garrat and Richard the fawconers 

 in rewarde for rinding the Herons . x s. 



The interest which attaches to these curious extracts 

 must excuse us with the reader for their length. 



We cannot peruse them without being carried back, in 

 spirit, to an age in which, for all that concerns sport, we 

 would fain have lived to bear a part. Alas ! that so 

 delightful a pastime as hawking should have declined, and 

 that we should live to see our noble falcons gibbeted, like 

 thieves, upon " the keeper's tree." 



