248 NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



V. James I. after his Accession to the Throne of 

 England, 1603-1625. From a Portrait by Vandyck. 



Through his love of hawking and hunting, to which he was 

 passionately addicted ; by his royal invitations to foreign princes 

 and noblemen well skilled in these pursuits, to instruct his own 

 people ; and by his frequent importation and purchase of hawks, 

 horses, and hounds, James I. did more to encourage and pro- 

 mote the exercise of these field-sports in England than any 

 English monarch before or since his time. See (i) a letter from 

 Sir George Chaworth to the Earl of Shrewsbury, dated from 

 Newmarket, 29th November 1607, printed in Lodge's "Illustra- 

 tions," vol. iii. p. T,2fi \ (2) a letter from the King to the Duke 

 of Buckingham, Harl. MS. 6987, vol. loi, p. 184; and (3) the 

 MS. diary of Hans Jacob Wurmser von Vendenheym, who 

 accompanied Lewis Frederick, Duke of Wurtemburg, on his 

 diplomatic mission to England in 1610, and found the King at 

 Thetford in May of that year; Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 20,001. 



See also No. 27 of this Catalogue (pp. 104-105, 2nd ed. pp. 

 96, 97); No. 65, Appendix, pp. 226-227 ; No. 79, pp. 79-82; 

 and Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc, vol. iii. pp. 87, 88. 



The expenses of the royal falconers in the time of James I. 

 were : — 



Wages, at ;^3o per month ;^36o 



Hawks' meat, at 10^. per day . . . . . 182 



Four falconers for crow hawks, at j£,$o per annum . 200 



For hawks of all kinds 600 



Total £izA2 



In the autumn of 1623, while the King was at Newmarket, 

 the Clerk of the Kitchen, William Lamplough, received in two 

 payments an advance of ;^5oo " for providing divers French 

 gentlemen, lately sent unto his Majesty with a present of hawks 

 from the French King, with all necessaries in a journey along 

 with his Majesty to Theobalds, Royston, and Newmarket, they 

 being to reside there for a season to exercise the game of hawking 

 for his Majesty's disport and recreation." (Devon, " Issues of 

 the Exchequer," temp. James I., p. 279.) 



In January 1624, the King went again to Newmarket, against 



