174 THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
tacon, arid Credit of the Contrey where such Conveyance is made, 
that the Teno"" of thies o^ Lres may be by them AccompHshed in 
P^orme as is before p^'scribed unto yo" for the said Isle, Whereof we 
pray yo" not to faile, Thus fare yo" hartly well. 
From Rychmonde the 6th of June, 1564. 
To or Loving Friends Rychard Worsley, Esq., 
Captn of the Isle of Wight, & al." 
("History of the Isle of Wight," by Sir Richard Worsley, 1781. 
Appendix, No. LXXXV., p. clvii.) 
Though this document does not state in which cliff the 
eyrie was, Worsley in another part of the same work 
says : — " The northern side of Bembridge is low land ; but 
adjoining to Yaverland is a steep chalk cliff, called Culver 
Cliff — (Culver, from the Saxon ' culppe,' a pigeon ; and the 
number of these birds that harbour there well entitle it to 
the name of Pigeon Cliff) — formerly famous for a breed 
of hawks. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth an order was 
issued to search for some of them which had been stolen." 
Cornish says (" The New Forest and Isle of Wight," 
1895) that the same eyrie supplied falcons to the gentry 
in the island in the days of James I., for Mr. George 
Oglander " had a lanorett that was bred in ye White Cliff 
on Bembridge which was ye best hawk with ye worst 
lookinge to, that wase in England ; for they never took 
care of her, but gave her meat in ye foote, scarce evor 
tyed her, but let her scratch for bones with ye dogges ; 
and when they came afield they cast her off, and she 
would follow ye dogges and kill whatsoever did rise 
partriche, phesant, bitteron, hearon, hare or coney." 
Yor Loving Friends, 
W. NORTHT. 
R. DUDDLEY. 
C. NOYE. 
Pembroke. 
W. Howard. 
W. Cecill. 
