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the trophy returned to the Orford family, by whose representa- 

 tativein 1781 it had been, as above shown, presented. 



An account of the other trophies sold at the same time, some 

 of them of great interest, will be found in The Zoologist for 

 1884, p. 275. 



There is a scarce engraving, from a picture by Sawrey Gilpin, 

 of Heron-hawking, in which Colonel Thornton is represented as 

 just dismounted, and taking up a hawk from a heron in front of 

 a thatched cottage, from the door of which an old woman is 

 looking out in wonderment. This picture is inscribed : " To the 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Falconers' Club, this plate is 

 humbly inscribed by their most obedient and devoted servant, T. 

 Morris, 1780" — the year before the silver-gilt urn was presented. 



X. Edward Clough Newcome, of Hockwold, in 

 the county of Norfolk, born 18 10, died 187 1. 



Norfolk has long been the seat of Falconry in England. 

 Indeed, it may be said that the falconers of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk have done more than those of any other county, ex- 

 cept perhaps Yorkshire under the regime of Colonel Thornton, 

 to encourage and maintain the practice of this ancient sport. 

 From the time of John Paston, of Norwich, who, in September 

 1472, wTOte to his brother in London to send him "a mewyd 

 gosshawke," to the present day, when Mr. Francis D'A. New- 

 come enthusiastically follows in his father's footsteps. Hawking 

 has never ceased to be practised, and the names of such masters 

 of the craft as Lord Orford, Colonel Wilson of Didlington (after- 

 wards Lord Berners), Sir John Sebright, John Dawson Downes 

 of Gunton, John Hall of Weston, and Edward Clough New- 

 come of Hockwold are " household words " in the mouths of 

 their modern disciples. To be convinced of this we have 

 only to turn to the account of the sport given by the Rev. 

 Richard Lubbock in his " Fauna of Norfolk," and the valuable 

 Appendix to his remarks contributed by Professor Newton to the 

 second edition of that work, printed in 1879. (See No. 65.) 

 From this source of information, supplied by friends who knew 

 him, as well as from Sir John Sebright's " Observations " (No. 61), 

 the following brief notice of Edward Clough Newcome will serve 

 to explain the reason for presenting the reader with his portrait. 



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