246 NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



county during the reign of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, some of 

 which have been quoted in Stevenson's "Birds of Norfolk" 

 (vol. i. p. 1 6). In these accounts occur entries of "fesants 

 kyllyd wt the goshawk," " ptriches kyllyd with the sper-hawke," 

 and " larks kyllyd with the hobbye." 



III. An Elizabethan Falconer's Bag. Mounted 

 on an enamelled frame of silver gilt, and embroidered 

 in silk with representations of the blackberry and 

 mistletoe, emblematical of autumn, the hawking season. 



The original is in the possession of Lady North, of Wroxton 

 Abbey, Banbury, Oxfordshire, who has also a falconer's glove 

 and a lure of the same period, similarly embroidered. 



We may take it that such accoutrements were intended only 

 for state occasions, or for the use, perhaps, of royal personages. 

 The ordinary glove, lure, and bag for every-day wear would be 

 of plain leather, with little or no ornament beyond perhaps a 

 tassel, or fringe. 



The lure used by Elizabethan falconers was in the shape of 

 a horse-shoe covered with cloth or leather, on which a piece of 

 raw meat was tied, and weighted, to prevent its being carried by 

 the hawk. An older form of lure, used at the end of the 

 fifteenth century, is figured by Viollet-le-Duc in his Didionnaire 

 JRaisonn'e du Mobilier Eran<^ais (vol. ii., art. Chasse, p. 440, 

 fig. 21). Such a falconer's bag as that here figured may well 

 have been used by Sir Walter Hungerford, of Heytesbury, 

 Wilts, who was a noted falconer in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and 

 whose position and means would have warranted the use of 

 such costly articles. He was a contemporary of Sir Ralph 

 Sadler, already noticed (p. 242), and was doubtless well 

 acquainted with Mr. Henry Sadler, of Everley, with whom 

 probably he often hawked over the Wiltshire downs. The son 

 of Walter Lord Hungerford, who unfortunately lost his head 

 for treason in 1540, he was commonly called "Sir Walter of 

 Farley," since he inherited Farley, Farlegh, or Farleigh Castle 

 (as it is variously spelled), and resided there. There are two 

 portraits of him in the possession of Sir R. Hungerford Pollen, 

 of Rodbourne, near Malmesbury, both of which are engraved 



