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to whom the Lordship of the Orkneys and Shetlands was 

 granted by Charles I, should pay .235. 13*. 4 rf. Scots a year 

 to his Majesty's falconers "for thair chairgis in vplifting his 

 Majesties haulks thair yeirlie"; and even in the beginning 

 of the eighteenth century, Brand records that 



Fig. 46. Peregrine Falcon formerly protected for hawking. \ nat. size. 



the King's Falconer used to go every" year to the Isles [Orkney and 

 Shetland], taking the young Hawks and Falcons to breed, and every 

 House in the Country is obliged to give him a Hen or a Dog, except such 

 as are exempted, 



these perquisites being originally designed for the main- 

 tenance of the King's hawks. Still later, in 1/07, the Scots 

 Parliament in making a grant of the lands of Orkney and 

 Zetland, reserved the hawks and the falconers' salaries as 

 pertaining to the crown. 



The greatness of the effort made in Scotland to preserve 



