216 FALCONRY. 



In Ray's 'Willughby' (1G78), p. 52, it is stated, by the 34 Ed. III. 

 22, " A hawk taken up shall be delivered to the sheriff, who, after 

 proclamation made in several towns, (if challenged) shall deliver her to the 

 right owner. If the hawk were taken up by a mean man, and be not 

 challenged in four months, the sheriff to have her, satisfying the party for 

 taking her ; but if by a man of estate, who may conveniently keep a hawk, 

 the sheriff shall restore her to him again, he paying for the charge of keeping." 



I am not aware that a sheriff adds much to his collection in these days by 

 such means, however fond he may be of feathered Raptores, or effective as 

 regards others ; no lovely Greenland Falcon arrives, but a simple " bill of 

 cravings." 



" In 1265, Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, as appears from his household 

 roll, paid his falconer 3^. 4d. half yearly ; while his butler had 2s. 6d." — Mark 

 Lemon's London Streets, p. 48. 



In the privy-purse expenses of King Henry VIII., from November 1529 

 to December 1532, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq., I read that " the wages 

 of a falconer were generally a groat a day ; and he was allowed one penny a 

 day for the food of each hawk intrusted to his care. But those of Nicolas 

 Clampe, one of the principal falconers, were £10 per annum." 



The board w^ages of the said Nicolas I find to be 4d. per day. 



It appears from the following entry that all the falconers were paid alike 

 for their dress, 25^. : — " On April viij 1530 paid to Hewe Elys, Richard 

 Elys, Phillip Clampe, Nicholas Clampe, Old Hew, Young Hew, Thomas 

 London, John Evans, Walter fawc5n, and Humfrey Raynzford, for their 

 liverays evy of them. xxv. s." From this it appears that this king employed 

 ten falconers at least. How many suits of livery he gave to each during the 

 year is not apparent. His mother, Elizabeth of York, paid rather less, as 

 we find in her privy-purse expenses, by the same author, p. 94 : — "• Itiii to 

 Oliver Aulferton, keeper of the Queues goshauke, for his diettes out of the 

 Courte, and for mete for his hauke and spanyelles for the yere last passed. 



