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Expcnsis of the diet of Mons. Bonavons, a Falkoner at 

 Royston and Newmarket in the months of Jany and Feb. 

 viz, at Waltham Cross ^^34. 17. 8, Royston £/^\. ys. yd, 

 Newmarket £21$. 11. 6, Royston ^43 10. 2, Waltham 

 Cross ^49. 8. 9, and London ^^354. 11. 9, 35 days in the 

 said months amounting altogether to the sum of ;^739. 7. 4. 



Expensis of a feast provided for Mons. Bonavons at New- 

 market in the month of February ^10. 3. 2. — Exchequer, 

 L.T.R., Wardrobe Aces., Cofferer, Series III., box E., Rot. 45, 

 M.S., P.R.O. 



What this instruction was, or what sport ensued, 

 has not transpired. However, on the 29th, Secretary 

 Conway wrote from Newmarket to Mr. Draper in 

 London to send some one for a hawk of the king's, 

 which had been taken up in Kent. His Majesty him- 

 self wrote to the authorities of Jesus College, Cam- 

 bridge, to elect John Hume to the next vacant 

 fellowship, notwithstanding their statutes excluding the 

 " beggarly Scotch " of participating in the honours and 

 emoluments of that university, which was an old 

 grievance, dating back to the arrival of the king and 

 his Caledonian followers in the " Land of Promise." 

 On the 30th, Secretary Conway intimated to the Earl 

 of Middlesex, the Lord Treasurer, that the king, 

 wishing to be " disburdened of the noble falconers," 

 desired expedition of the presents designed for them 

 on their departure. The king's present to the Grand 

 Falkner of France was his picture in a case garnished 

 with diamonds, with a chain set in diamonds, to the 

 value of ^800 or ^1000. The Prince of Wales returned 

 to London on the following day ; and on February 3 

 " the king was so drousey that he could only keep him- 



