VALUE OF HAWKS. 
77 
certain “ Household Books” and “ Privy Purse Accounts ” 
of noble owners, which the invaluable labours of anti- 
quaries have placed within reach of the curious. 
We have been at some pains to collect and arrange the 
following entries, believing that the information which 
they supply will be far more interesting to the reader if 
allowed to remain in the form in which we have found 
ae PRICES OF HAWKS. 
Itm the viij daye paied to Walshe for 
so moche money by him layed out 
for one goshawke and ij fawcons 
Itm the xv daye paied for v fawcons 
and a tarsell 
Itm the iij daye paied in rewarde to 
St Richard Sandes s’vfit for the 
bringing of a saker to the king at 
hampton courte 
Itm the same daye paied for fyve ffawcons 
Itm the iij daye paied to a stranger 
called Jasper, fawconer, for vj sakers 
and v sakeretts at viij corons a pece 
which amot® to 3} vii] corons 
Itm the viij daye paied to maister 
Walshe for so much money by him 
paied for goshawks the which the 
king’s grace bought upon the cage. 
iif li 
_ viij li. 
vij li 
. xx Ii 
iij li. 
x Ss. 
3. viij d. 
viij d. 
