Aio A Summary of Falconry. 



Iris a fpecial point in a Falconer to take good time at the firft making of his Hawk, 

 and not poft her to another thing till (he be perfecf in one. 



Before you fpring her up any Doves, it is meet you let her kill half a dozen at your 

 Lure, clofe by your foot, having a pair of fhort Creances at your Lure : For it may 

 be at the firft feeing of the Dove to ftir and flutter, (he may come royftingly to twitch 

 or take it away, fo far as {he is able : Which if fhelhould do, you have a remedy by 

 reftraining her gently with your Creance, fo that there (hall be no offence commit- 

 ted-: Then ought you to get gently into her, and as beforefaid with bits of meat clean- 

 ly dreft and beftowed on her you (hall pleafe her at the full, and take her to the Fift 

 again. 



The Heron and the ftately flight and mountee thereto is the thing for which thefe 

 Hawks are moft defired and accounted of: For which purpofe your intermew'd 

 Hawks are fitteft and moft efteemed. N B. Remember to be favourable to them the 

 firft year of their making, j^andnotto put them to any toil, but to train them gently 

 with fuch Herons as you are fure cannot go from them, nor caufe them to labour much 

 before they mafter them, ] and ever after at the drawing : And take good time with 

 them in the infeaming : For thefe times as yet have ever fhortned their lives and de- 

 jftroyedthem. No man ( he faith ) can make one of thefe Hawkf from the Mew rea- 

 dy to be lured under fix weeks at the leaft, but he (hall hazard her life if (he take any 

 heat at all. They are prepared for the Mew, and mew'd in like manner as the Height 

 Falcon. Let her have in the Mew Sods or Turfs to ftand on, and thofe often fhifted, 

 that they grow not too hard and dry : For ihe is a very heavy Hawk, and very fubje£r. 

 to infirmity on the bottom of her feet. He dilallows mewing of them at theftock, 

 and approves of mewing them loofe. She ought alfo to have very often given to her 

 Plumage, bones, and ftones, to purge and cleanfe her. 



Turbervile faith, they covet to keep their caftings long through floth ; and there- 

 fore advifes not to give them cafting of Cotton, but of Tow, Hazel or hard 

 things. 



When (he is mew'd, Latham faith, that you ought at the leaft three weeks before you 

 take her to your Fift,to infeamher with waiht meat and "ftones: For then is the danger 

 of fhortning her life, whereas by good ordering they are as hardy as the Lanner, and 

 will laft as long : He faith, he hath known one hold out and continue her goodnefs 

 twenty years. 



Chap. VIII. 

 Of the Lanner. 



v He Lanner is not over-dainty of her feeding, but can better brook grofsor 

 coarfe diet than any other Falcon. 



Lanner s of all Hawks are fitteftfor young Falconers, becaufe they will 

 hardly take forfeit, and feldom be over-flown, or melt their greafe. 



Mew'd Lanners £ and Sacres ] are hardly known from the Soar-hawks, becaufe they 

 do not change their plume. 



r Turbervile faith, that with this Hawk you may fly the River. Latham faith, he 

 hath not known any Lanner made for the River, yet prefcribes a way to make 

 them. 



They are veryflothful and hard-metled, fothatunlefs you keep a hard hand over 

 them they will do Ijttlegood. 



You (hall not lightly fee a Lanner lie upon the Wing, after (he hath flown to mark, 

 but after one ftooping (fie maketha point, and then waits for the Fowl after theman- 

 ner of the Gojl-awk, fhe is fo flothful and dull ; and therefore doth commonly ufe . 

 uponthequeftingorcallof the Spaniels to attend very diligently, and fo to prey at 

 her pleafure. As theEyafs of this kind exceeds other Hawks in gentlenefs and love 

 to her Keeper, fo the Haggard pafles all others in wildnefs, and is very hard to be 

 reclaimed. She muft be managed and ordered in all refpecfs like the ^Laggard Height 

 Falcon. 



The Ranzage Ldnnerh alfo a coy Hawk, and muft be ordered as the Haggard Fal- 

 con ; only her diet muft be with hard-wafhed meat and ftones more or lefs as youfhall 

 find her natural inclination. 



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