FALCONRY. 221 



This date might be 1641. It is torn away in my copy ; but I think 1611 is 

 intended. 



One cannot help remarking on the way the human body was changed 

 for the worse by the dress. In the reign of a female Sovereign this formed 

 the subject of regulation ; for " under Mary, to make the English more like 

 human beings," as James Anthony Froude states (' History of England,' 

 vol. V. p. 120, note), a regulation appears thus " (MS. Domestic, Mary, State 

 Paper Office) : — 



" Provided also for these monstrous breeches commonly used, none 

 under the degree of a Lord or a Baron shall wear any under pain of three 

 pounds a day ; none, to have any stuffing of haire, wool flocks, towe, or other 

 ways ; and no man of little stature to have a bowe more than a yard and a 

 half in the outer side, and the bigger men and the guards two yards, upon 

 pain of twenty shillings a day the wearer, and forty shillings the maker of 

 the hose." 



Quaint old Tuberville mentions "the names of those authors, from 

 whome this collection of Falconrie is borrowed and made, both Italians and 

 French. 



" Italians. — M. Francesco Sforzino da Carcano, Vicentino. 

 M. Frederigo Giorgj. 

 French. — Tardisse. Mychelyn. 



Martin. Ame Cassyan. 



Malopin. Artelowche." 



It appears to be rather a scarce, and is a costly work. 



Falconers were very clever in former times in the practice of " imping " 

 or, in other words, mending the feathers of their birds. This was done by 

 means of the imping-needle (an instrument figured in Francis Henry Salvin 

 and William Brodrick's work on this sport, plate xxvi.), which was secured 



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