i8 BOOKS ON FAL CONR V. 



by T. S. for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his 

 shop in S. Dunstan's Church-yard. 1619. sm. 4to. 



This book, a small quarto (pp. i.-xiv., 1-109), is dedicated 

 " to the Rt. Hon. Henry Earl of Oxenford, Viscount Bulbeck, 

 Lord Sanford and Scales, and Lord Great Chamberlaine of 

 England." The author, who lived at Collier Row, near Romford, 

 Essex, details his method of training the Goshawk, in which 

 he was very successful. He used to ride out of Essex into 

 Sussex to hawk over the downs, where, he says, " I have killed 

 for the most part of a moneth together with an intermewed 

 goshawke eight, nine, or tenne Partridges in a day. The day of 

 my going thither and the day of my returne to London was just 

 five weeks, and it was a fortnight or more in Michaelmas terme 

 when I came backe. I killed in that time with that one hawke 

 foure score and odd Partridges, five Pheasants, seven Rayles, and 

 four Hares against my will." 



He had " for a Goshawke and Tarsell a hundred marks both 

 solde to one man within sixteen months " (Preface). For another 

 Goshawk he was offered " fortie pounds " (p. 1 05), and ulti- 

 mately sold her for thirty. In 1795, a silver " varvel," engraved 

 with the name "Oxenforde," was found near Headingham 

 Castle, the ancient seat of this family in Essex. It is figured 

 and described in the Archceologia, vol. xii. pi. 51, p. 410, and 

 may well have belonged to the nobleman to whom this book is 

 dedicated. 



Note. — A reprint of this scarce treatise, with an Introduction 

 by the present writer, has lately been published by Mr. Quaritch. 

 100 copies only. 



23. DRAYTON (Michael). Polyolbion: A Choro- 

 graphicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, 

 Mountains, Forests, and other parts of this renowned 

 Isle of Great Britain .... Digested into a Poem. 

 By Michael Drayton, Esq. With a Table, etc. 

 London. Printed for John Marriott, John Grinnaud 

 and Thomas Dewe. 1622. sm. folio. 



This author particularly mentions the junction of the Little 



