252 NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



VII. English Falconers of the Seventeenth 

 Century. Pheasant-hawking with the Goshawk. 

 By Francis Barlow, engraved by W. Hollar, 1671. 



The print of which this is a copy is one of a scarce series of 

 twelve, published without text, in oblong quarto, 167 1, with the 

 title, " Severall Wayes of Hunting, Hawking, and Fishing, 

 according to the English Manner " (see 33, and note thereon). 

 Beneath each plate is a descriptive quatrain, that on Pheasant- 

 hawking being as follows : — 



"The feasant cock the woods doth most frequent, 

 Where spanniells spring and pearch him by the scent, 

 , And when in flight the hawke with quicken'd speede 



With's beake and savage talons makes him bleede." 



Francis Barlow, the English painter, was born in 1646, in the 

 county of Lincoln, where, amongst the waterfowl of the fens, he 

 had probably good opportunities of studying such scenes as 

 those described a few years earlier by Michael Drayton in his 

 "Polyolbion" (No. 23). He especially painted birds, and was 

 a good draughtsman, though no colourist. He studied under 

 W. Sheppart, the portrait painter, and furnished a great number 

 of the subjects engraved by Hollar. 



The plate here reproduced affords a good illustration of the 

 mode in which pheasant-hawking was pursued with the aid of 

 spaniels, as described by Edmund Bert in 161 6, in his 

 "Approved Treatise of Hawkes" (No. 22). 



VIII. Colonel Thomas Thornton, of Thornville 



Royal, in Yorkshire, born 1757, died 1823. From 



a portrait in the possession of the Earl of Rosebery, at 



The Durdans, Epsom. 



Colonel Thornton, one of the most remarkable figures in the 

 English annals of Falconry, came of a distinguished family. His 

 grandfather. Sir William Thornton, was knighted by Queen Anne. 

 His father, Colonel William Thornton, with a troop of yeomanry 

 and tenantry, one hundred in number, raised and fed at his own 

 cost, served with great distinction under the Duke of Cumber- 

 land in the Scottish rebellion, and was present at the battles of 



