56 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Payments to " the Countess of Crawford's harper" also. — Haigh Muniment 

 Room. This was James IV. of fatal Flodden, where Crawford so vainly 

 expended his life in defence of that master whose impetuous folly caused the 

 streams of sorrow^ to trickle alike down the cheeks of childhood and of age, 

 " as with the maiden so with her mistress," through the length and breadth 

 of the land. 



Mr. Henry Stevenson, in his ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. p. 12, mentions 

 that the Bishop of Ely, in the reign of Edward III., excommunicated 

 certain persons for stealing his Hawk, " sitting on her perch in the cloisters 

 of Bermondsey in Southwark." But this bird yields in honour to the 

 Parrot mentioned in Part I., which, even in post-Reformation times, was 

 buried in effigy with a duchess in Westminster Abbey. 



ASTUR PALUMBARIUS, Xim. 



(Tlie Goshawk, or Goose-Hawk.) 



Sir John Oglander says, in his MS. now preserved at Nun"\vell, Isle of 

 Wight, written " with his own blude " when languishing in prison for King 

 Charles I.'s sake, bearing date 1624, " If thou delightest in hawkinge, kepe 

 raythor a Lanard or Gosehawlke ; for by them thou shalt reape as mutch 

 profite as pleasure ; and a grey hound for a hare." 



In the History of Sign-boards, by Jacob LarAvood and John Camden 

 Hotten,p.398,is an extract from 'MercuriusPublicus,'Aug. 30 to Sep. 6, 1660: — 



"Richard Fenny Esquire of Alaxton " (now called Alextonj "in 

 Leicestershire, about a fortnight since, lost a lanner (?^ from that place ; she 

 has neither Bells nor Varvels ; she is a white hawk, and her long feathers 

 and sarcels are both in the blood. If any one give tidings thereof to Mr. 

 Lambert at the Golden Key in Fleet Street, they shall have 40 shillings for 

 their pains." It is probable that by "lanner" was meant a young female 

 Goshawk. 



