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find fecurity for his good behaviour for feven years, 
or lie in prifon till he did. Such was the enviable 
ftate of the times of o/d England: during the whole 
day our gentry were given to the fowls of the air, 
and the beafts of the field: in the evening they ce- 
lebrated their exploits with the moft abandoned and 
brutifh fottifhnefs: at the fame time the inferi- 
or rank of people, by the moft unjuft, and arbitrary 
laws, were liable to capital punifhments, to fines, 
and lofs of liberty, for deftroying the moft noxious 
of the feathered tribe. 
_ According to Olearius, the diverfion of falconry 
is more followed by the artars and Perfians, than 
ever it was in any part of Europe. Il n’y avoit 
point de butte qui w euft fon aigle ou fon faucon*: 
Our anceftors made ufe of feveral kinds of na- 
tive hawks; though that penetrating and faithful 
naturalift Mr. Ray, has left us only the bare name 
of a falcon in his lift of the Enghjb ye without 
mentioning the {pecies. 
The falcons or hawks that were in ae in thele 
kingdoms, are now found to breed in Wales, and 
in North-Britain, and its ifles. The peregrine fal- 
con inhabits the rocks of Caernarvonfhire. The 
fame fpecies, with the gyrfalcon, the geniil, and the 
gofbawk are found in Scotland, and the Janner in 
Lreland. 
We may here take notice that the Norwegian 
breed was, in old times, in high efteem with our coun- 
5 LomiN.' 247, 328. 
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