PEREGRINE FALCON 133 
Manchester Guardian of 28th August 1902 concerning this 
occasion. ‘Amongst the feudal services the two Falcons 
from the Isle of Man were conspicuous, Seated on the 
wrist of his Grace’s hawking gauntlet, the beautiful 
Peregrine Falcons appeared with their usual ornaments. 
The birds sat perfectly tame on the arm of his Grace, 
completely hooded and furnished with bells. The King 
descended from his chair of state, and the ladies of the 
Court pressed round to caress and examine the noble birds.’ 
In 1422 the Deemsters and ‘Twenty-four’ ‘gave the 
law’ to Sir John Stanley, thus (Clause 6): ‘ Alsoe if any 
Hawke or Hyron, Hart or Hind be by any manner of 
Person taken within your land of Man, he forfeiteth for 
every time IIJ£ to your Lopp. Among ‘Certain old 
Customes’ given for Law, and now (13th July 1577) put in 
writing by the Deemsters, we find (No. 35 and last): ‘ Also 
we give for Law that whosoever goeth to the Hough where 
the Hawkes do breed or Hyrons likewise, he forfeiteth for 
every of them, that is to say, if he take any of the old or 
young Ones, or Eggs, III£ a piece for soe many as he or 
they may be proved to have in the Court’ (Statutes of the 
Isle of Man, vol. i.). 
Chaloner (1656) says: ‘Here are some Ayries of mettled 
Falcons, that breed in the Rocks’; and Wilson, early in the 
following century: ‘At least two (airies) of hawks of a 
mettled kind,’ 
Train mentions Maughold Head and the Calf of Man as 
breeding places.’ 
These sites were doubtless much more numerous than 
the old writers supposed, and probably the same through 
immemorial ages, to, in most cases, the present day. There 
are, in fact, some ten or eleven nesting places which are now 
1 Cf. Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed, chap. xxiii. 
