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at the crane with two falcons brought from Barbary and given 

 to Charles V. by Bertrand du GuescUn, Conn^table de France. 

 After binding to the crane, they brought it to the ground, 

 where it was dispatched in sight of the king with the aid of 

 greyhounds {levriers\ trained for the purpose after the fashion 

 of Eastern falconers. At this time, according to Gace de la 

 Eigne, the falconers of Charles V. had charge of thirty hawks. 



144. CRETIN (Guillaume). Le Debat de deux 

 \J Dames sur le passe-temps de la Chasse des 



chiens et oyseaulx : faict et compose par feu 

 Guillaume Cretin, Tresorier de la Chapelle du Bois de 

 Vinceniies. Paris, Anthoine Couteau. 1526. 8vo. 



This work, which is comparable to the Jugement des Chiens et 

 des Oyseaulx in the " Livre du Roy Modus," is in black letter, 

 and has on the verso of the last leaf '* Cy fine le Debat dentre 

 deux Dames sur le passe-temps des chiens et oyseaulx, nouvelle- 

 ment imprime k Paris le premier jour d'avril mil cinq cens xxvi 

 par Anthoine Couteau, pour Jean Longis, libraire." 



Another edition, " imprime k Paris par maistre Guichard 

 Soquand," 1528, and a subsequent one without date, or printer's 

 name. The author, who, in addition to the office above men- 

 tioned, was also " Royal Historiographer," lived under Charles 

 VIII., Louis XII., and Francis I., and in this somewhat dull 

 poem revives a discussion which at that period was so fashion- 

 able between the respective votaries of Hunting and Hawking. 



See Goujot (Bibl. Frang. x. 23) and Lallemant (pp. 153-156). 

 Schlegel, who refers to this composition, does not give the title 

 of it, nor the date of its publication. It was reprinted in Paris in 

 1882, with notes by M. Ernest Jullien. 



145. FRANCHIERES (Jean de). Le Livre de 

 l'Art de Faulconnerie : lequel Frere Jehan de 

 Francieres, chevalier de I'ordre de Saint Jean de 

 Hierusalem, Commandeur de Choisy en France, a 

 extrait et assemble, c'est assavoir des Livres des trois 



A maistres Faulconniers cy-apres nommes, lesquels en 



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