ENGLISH. 23 



Authority. Printed at London by R. I., and are to 



be sold by J. Collins in Little Brittaine. 1651. i2mo. 



[Second edition.] 



It is in this book that the statement is first made (pp. 104, 

 105 ; 2nd ed., pp. 96, 97) concerning the price paid for a cast 

 of falcons by Sir Thomas Monson, Master Falconer to James I. 

 — a statement almost invariably misquoted and misunderstood 

 by subsequent writers. (See No. 79, p. 80.) In the first edition 

 the hawks are there called " Gos-Faulcons," in the second edi- 

 tion, " Ger-Faulcons." For the sequel to the story told by Sir 

 A. Weldon, of the lost hawk belonging to the king, see Harting, 

 "Notes on Hawking as formerly practised in Norfolk," Trans, 

 Norf. Nat. Soc, vol. iii. p. 87. 



28. WALTON (Izaak). The Complete Angler ; or 

 the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a dis- 

 course, etc. London. Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. 

 Harriot in S. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 

 1653. i2mo. 



The second edition, enlarged, 1655; the third, 1661 ; the 

 fourth, 1668; the fifth, 1676. 



The second and subsequent editions contain remarks on 

 Hawks and Hawking by a Falconer, " Auceps," with "a list of 

 the Long-winged and short-winged hawks that be chiefly in use 

 amongst us in this nation." 



The fifth edition was the last revised by Walton himself, and 

 to this was added for the first time Charles Cotton's treatise. 



29. AUBREY (John, F.R.S.). The Natural His- 

 tory OF Wiltshire. Written between 1656 and 1691. 

 Edited and elucidated by notes by John Britton, F.S.A. 

 Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. 

 London. 1847. 4to. 



In Part H., chapter xiv. is entided " Of Hawks and Hawking." 

 Sir Thomas Browne's Miscellanies, 1684, are quoted, and the 

 following curious anecdote related : — *' From Sir James Long of 



