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the gentil, and the goshawk, are found in Scot- 

 land, and the lanner in Ireland. 



We may here take notice that the Norwegian 

 breed were, in old times, in high esteem with our 

 countrymen : they were thought bribes worthy 

 a king. Geoffrey Fitzpierre gave two good Nor- 

 way hawks to king John to obtain for his friend 

 the liberty of exporting 100 weight of cheese : 

 and Nicholas the Dane was to give the king a 

 hawk every time he came into England, that he 

 might have free liberty to traffick throughout 

 the king's dominions.* They were also made 

 the tenures by which some of our nobility held 

 their estates from the crown. Thus Sir John 

 Stanley had a grant of the Isle of Man from 

 Henry IV. to be held of the king, his heirs and 

 successors, by homage and the service of two 

 falcons, payable on the day of his or their coro- 

 nation :f and Philippe de Hastang held his 

 manor of Combertoun, in Cambridgeshire, by 

 the service of keeping the king's falcons. \ 



* Madox antiq. exchequer, i. 46g, 470. 



■f Blunfs antient tenures. 20. % Madox. j. 652. 



