82 SUNDRIES. 
Skevingtons in rewarde for bringing 
hawkes out of Irlande . a. : xl 8. 
Itm the x daye paied to Garard the 
fawconer in rewarde for taking of a 
fawcon and a tarsell 5 : : lvj Ss. 
Itm the xj daye of Marche paied to 
Garrat and Richard the fawconers 
in rewarde for finding the Herons . x §. 
The interest which attaches to these curious extracts 
must excuse us with the reader for their length. 
We cannot peruse them without being carried back, in 
spirit, to an age in which, for all that concerns sport, we 
would fain have lived to bear a part. Alas! that so 
delightful a pastime as hawking should have declined, and 
that we should live to see our noble falcons ‘gibbeted, like 
thieves, upon “ the keeper’s tree.” 
