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Holland, was celebrated for the excellent heron-hawking which 

 the wide open country' there afforded to lovers of the sport; but its 

 renown was emphasised when, in that year, under the presidency 

 of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, a few English, French, 

 and Dutch falconers, headed by Mr. Edward Clough Newcome, 

 Mr. Stuart Wortley, the Duke of Leeds, the Baron d'Offemont 

 and Baron Sloet (treasurer and secretary), formed an inter- 

 national association, with the object of heron-hawking annually 

 in the best country in the world for that purpose, during the 

 months of May, June, and July. 



This club flourished for about twelve years, and included 

 amongst its members the leading falconers of several nation- 

 alities. The following names appear in a Liste des Membres 

 drawn up in 1847 : — 



1839. — Mr. E. C. Newcome,* C. Stuart Wortley, Baron 

 d'Offemont, and Baron Sloet * (Hon. Sec). 1 840.— H.R.H. the 

 Prince of Orange, Princes Alexander,* Frederick, and Henry * 

 of the Netherlands, Baron de Nyvenheim, Baron van Zuylen 

 van Nievelt, Baron de Constant Rebecque,* Baron van Brienen 

 van der Groote Lindt, Sir Edward Disbrowe, the Hon. W. S. 

 Jerningham, the Duke of Leeds,* Baron Tindall, Mr. William 

 Newcome. 1842. — Lord C. Hamilton,* Mr. Knight,* Mr. 

 Edward Green, Mr. J. Balfour, Lord Suffield. 1843. — M. 

 Dubois, Baron van Westreenen, Baron van Verschuer,* Mr. 

 Milbank. 1844. — Mr. Stirling Crawford, Count Westerholt, 

 Mr, John Melville. 1845. — Baron van den Bogaerde, Baron 

 MoUerus, Lord Alvanley, Baron Hardenbroek, the Earl of 

 Chesterfield, Count Alfred von Hatzfeld, Baron van Tuyll van 

 Serooskerken,* M. van Lennep, M. Crommelin. 1846. — 

 General Hare Clarges, Mr. Thornhill, M. le Comte de Breteuil. 

 1847. — M. Gudin, Major Mountjoy Martin, Lord ViUiers, Mr. 

 F. Milbank,* the Earl of Strathmore,* M. Charles Martyn, and 

 the Hon. C. Maynard. 



The professional falconers were the veteran Franz van der 

 Heuvel,* who had been falconer to Louis XVL from 1785 to 

 1792, Jan Pells,* P. Bekkers,* Jan van den Boom,* J. Bots,* 

 and Adrian Mollen* (falconer to the King of Holland) and his 

 brother Paul Mollen, both of whom are still Hving. 



Portraits of those to whose name an asterisk (*) is affixed will 

 be found in the folio plates of Schlegel,* whose own portrait and 



