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up of all such Hawkes as was omitted or left unmen- 

 tioned in his printed Booke of the Haggard Faulcon 

 and Gerfaulcon, namely the Goshawke and Tassell 

 with the Sparhawke, the Lanner and Lanneret, as 

 they are divided in their generation : the Hobby and 

 Marlyn in their kindes : Teaching approved medicines 

 for all such infirmities and diseases as are incident to 

 them. Published for the delight of noble mindes, and 

 instruction of young Faulconers in all things pertaining 

 to this Art. [Woodcut.] At London, printed by J. B. 

 for Roger Jackson, and are to bee sold at his shop neere 

 Fleet Conduit. 1618. sm. 4to. 



This second Book (148 pp., usually bound up with the first) 

 is dedicated to Sir Patrick Hume, Knight, " Master Falconer 

 to the King's Most Excellent Majestic," who in 16 18 had suc- 

 ceeded Sir Thomas Monson, and was in turn succeeded in his 

 office by Sir Allen Apsley, afterwards Earl of Burford. 



Under the two last named Masters, as one of the Assistant 

 Falconers, and subsequently as Sergeant of the Hawks (1627), 

 served Lewis Latham^ of Elstow, in the Co. Bedford, gent. He 

 lived to the extreme old age of 100 (b. 1555, d. 1655), and was 

 doubtless a relative of Symon Latham ; perhaps an uncle, for he 

 was 60 years of age when Symon, in 1615, published the first 

 edition of his book. He was not his father, for the only sons of 

 Lewis were Henry and John. But this par ^arenthese. 



Following the " Epistle to the Reader," in this second book 

 of Symon's, is an acknowledgment to his " first and loving 

 master Henry Sadler of Everley, from whom he had his art," 

 and "who taught him the way to live." This was the third 

 son of Sir Ralph Sadler or Sadleir, of Standon in the Co. of 

 Herts, Chief Secretary of State to Henry VIH. and Grand 

 Falconer to Queen Elizabeth, who granted him the manor, 

 park, and warren of Everley, Wilts, on the attainder of the 

 previous owner, the Duke of Somerset. He had charge of 

 Mary Queen of Scots when imprisoned in the castle of Tutbury 

 (1584-85), and got into trouble for taking her out hawking and 



