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Draycot. Memorandum. Between the years 1630 and 1634 

 Henry Poole of Cirencester Esquire (since Sir Henry Poole, 

 Baronet) lost a falcon flying at brook in the spring of the year 

 about three o'clock in the afternoon : and he had a falconer in 

 Norway at that time to take hawks for him, who discovered this 

 falcon upon the stand from whence he was took at first, the next 

 day in the evening. This flight must be 600 miles at least" 

 (p. 116). 



Describing the grandeur of the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke, 

 at Wilton House, Wiltshire, under the heading " of his lordship's 

 Hounds, Greyhounds and Hawkes " (p. 87), he writes : — " When 

 they returned from hawking the ladies would come out to see 

 the hawkes at the highest flying, and then they made use of 

 their setting-dogges to be sure of a flight. His lordship had 

 two hawkes (one a falcon called ' Shrewsbury,' which he had of 

 the Earle of Shrewsbury, and another called * the little tercel ') 

 which would fly quite out of sight that they knew not how to 

 shew the fowles till they found the head stood right. They had 

 not little telescopes in those dayes ; these would have been of 

 great use for the discovery which way the hawke's head stood." 



30. AUBREY (John, F.R.S.). Miscellanies col- 

 lected BY J. Aubrey Esq. London. Printed for 

 Edward Castle, next Scotland Yard Gate by 

 Whitehall. 1696. 8vo. 



Other editions, 1714, 1721, 1723, 1731. A new edition, to 

 which is prefixed Some Account of his Life, 8vo, 1784, is 

 accounted the best. At p. 56 (ist ed. p. 37) will be found a 

 curious anecdote of Charles I. partridge-hawking in Scotland 

 related by the king in the hearing of the author ; and another 

 (p. 59) of a sparrow-hawk of Charles H., which got away with its 

 leash on, and becoming entangled in an iron crown on the 

 White Tower, died there. 



31. PHILLIPS (Edward). A New World of 

 Words, with explication of all the terms used in 

 Fishing, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, etc. By Edw. 

 Phillips, gent London, 1658. folio. 



