348 FALCONRY 



Jan Daams, born at Valkenswaard in 1744, entered the 

 service of Lord Orford about the year 1772.' After Lord 

 Orford's death he was engaged by Colonel Wilson, at Didlington 

 in Norfolk, and in 1808, while waiting at Cuxhaven for a 

 passage to England after one of his annual voyages to Holland 

 to procure hawks, was arrested by Louis Bonaparte, then king 

 of that country, and was made to re-organise the mews at Het 

 Loo, which had been abandoned since the departure of the 

 Statholder William V. in 1795. There he stayed until King 

 Louis's abdication in 1810, when he was summoned by Napoleon 

 to take charge of the hawking establishment at Versailles. 

 This was suppressed in 1813, when Daams returned to Valken- 

 swaard, and died in 1829. 



Frank van der Heuvell was born at Valkenswaard in 

 1766, and when very young was apprenticed to Frank Daams, 

 nephew of Jan Daams. In 1780 he entered the service of the 

 Elector of Hesse, where he remained till in 1785 he was engaged 

 at Versailles under M. de Forgfes, Lieutenant de Chasses to 

 Louis XVI. In 1792 the royal establishment was suppressed, 

 and he returned to Valkenswaard. Two years later he joined 

 Colonel Thornton, with whom he stayed till 1799, when he 

 was hired by Lord Middleton, and in 1804 entered the service 

 of Sir Robert Lawley. Subsequently he engaged with Colonel 

 Wilson from 1820 to 1828, when he went back to Valkenswaard. 

 In 1840 he was taken on by the recently formed Loo Hawking 

 Club, and he died in 1845. 



Jan Peels, a pupil of Jan Daams, and with him at the 

 time of his detention at Cuxhaven, was also a native of 

 Valkenswaard. After making several voyages between Holland 

 and England, he returned to the latter country in 1808 (when 

 his master was carried off), and was engaged by Sir John 

 Sebright and others. About 1814 he entered Colonel Wilson's 

 service, and was sent for heron hawks to Holland. He returned 

 to England in 1815 with Jan Lambert Daankers (who had 



' See also " Hawking in Norfolk,' Appendix to Mr. Southwell's edition of 

 Lubbock's Fauna in Norfolk. 



