BERT'S TREATISE OF HAWKS AND HAWKING 

 For the First Time Reprinted from the Original of 1619 



THE SECCDND TREATISE 



Wherein the Austrlnger is taught to reclaime 

 his Hawke from any ill-condition. 



CHAP. 1. 

 How to make a Hmwk hood well, that will not abide the 

 sight of the hood, hut bite at it, and with her feet 

 steike at thy hand and hood, bait, shreik, hang bjt the 

 heels, and will not stand upon the fist; and this shall 

 be done within fortie eight hours, with less than forty 

 baits. 



The greatest motive that set my thoughts a-work to find out 

 a secret, whereby a hawke should be brought to like of that which 

 she did most detestably hate, was that in my hearing, it hath been 

 often and many tomes said, by many Gentlemen, of which, some would 

 say they would give forty shillings, some would give five pounds, 

 and some other would give ten poinds that their hawk would hood 

 well. 



Many experiments i tryed, wherewith I eould could have hooded 

 suehaa hawk well, which I will not publish, because they brought 

 as much ill to the hawk in some other kind, as the well-hooding 

 should profit them. At length I «'hought of feeding a hawk through 

 the hood, cutting the hole for her beak very wide, it is but the 

 marring of a hood, i would have the hole so wide, as when I did 

 hold it by the tassell, She should very easily (when it was laid 

 upon the meat) feed through it. I:"would continue feeding her so 

 three or four days, never offering in all that time to put it on. 

 But now that shee was grown familiar with the hood, all fear there- 

 of forgotten, which she would show by her by her bold feeding 

 therein, and that she should make no show of disliking my putting 

 it over the meat, and my takong it back. 



When I found her thus securely feeding, and her head in the 

 hood, X would then gently and lightly raise my right hand, a very 

 small motion will serve, and so leave the hood upon her head; Take 

 heed you give her no dislike by the sudden putting it on, and by 

 the too high raising your hand in this your beginning with her; as 

 have as great care that she be throughly emboldened with the hood, 

 before you offer to put it on: with thos practice, putting on her 

 hood & pulling it off, oftentimes in her feeding, you shall effect 

 her taking the hood to your desire; firovlded always your practice 

 be with patience and liesure: for if you ahall pop it on suddenly, 

 and with haste, you may thereby put her in mind that thereby she 

 took her first offence: You cannot wrong her by any other meane; 

 remember also to leave her with the hood upon her head when she 

 is feeding. 



This I did privately deliver to some of my friends, by word 

 of mouth, abo^e twenty yours since, and some did carefully follow 

 my directions, and did not fail, but broftght their hawks to such 

 perfection, as when she was most discontented, with a stump of a 



