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(1679), cites many instances of the granting of lordships and 
manors for the rent of a Hawk, to be rendered yearly. 
See Section XI., entitled “‘ Of Petit Serjeanties performed by 
keeping for and delivering Hawks etc. to the King.” 
Thus we hear of a mewed Sparhawk to be delivered to 
the King’s Exchequer, of a Sore (7.e., young) Sparhawk to be 
rendered at Lammas (August Ist), and of the mewing and 
keeping of a Goshawk or a “ Girefalcon ” for “ our Lord the 
King.” This was Henry III., and probably none of the grants 
are later than the thirteenth century. One Petit Serjeanty 
was held in Cumberland by keeping the King’s aeries of 
Goshawks (aerias austurcorum). A manor in Bucks was held 
by the service of being Marshal of the King’s Falcons and 
other Hawks. 
A manor in Notts was held by the service of carrying one 
Gyr Falcon from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel 
until Lent. Another manor in Bucks was held by the service 
of keeping one Falcon until it could fly, and for the keeping 
of it, when he took it to the King, Reginald de Grey was to 
have the King’s horse, etc. 
Lands were held in Northampton by the service 
of finding dogs for the destruction of wolves, martens, 
cats and other vermin. John de Bellovent was to have 
fifty-six shillings and seven pence for maintaining seven 
greyhounds, three Falcons, and a Lever [Lanner ?] hawk, 
and for the wages of a huntsman. For the lordship of 
Sheffield two white hares were to be rendered. Some 
further information on this subject will be found in an 
article by Mr. Harting, entitled “Of Hawks and Hounds 
in Essex in the Olden Time.’’* 
Falconry in Europe.—‘ On looking into the history 
of Falconry in Europe,” writes Mr. Harting, “one figure 
of a great falconer in the Middle Ages stands out 
prominently—namely, the Emperor Frederick II. of Germany, 
who died in 1250. He had seen something of Hawking in 
the East, and in 1239, on his return from a Crusade which 
he had undertaken the year before, when he was crowned 
King of Jerusalem and Sicily, he brought with him 
* “ The Essex Naturalist,’ 1889, Vol. III., p. 189 
