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“ Suffolk Gamekeepers’ Annual fleeting ” held at Bury on the 9th 
December of that year, a prize was given to one Sharnton as the 
most successful gamekeeper. 
He had the looking over (with two under-keepers) of 4000 acres, 
but in what parishes the manor lay is -not stated ; evidently, how- 
ever, it was in Suffolk. 
Sharnton gave in an account of vermin destroyed by him and 
his assistants in twelve months, which I think may be worthy of 
a place in the records of our Naturalists’ Society, as bearing on the 
existence of the marten in Suffolk, 6-5 years ago, — his record is as 
follows : — 
Foxes ... ... ... ... 22 
Martens (spelled Martins) ... ... ... 43 
Polecats ... ... ... ... 31 
Stoats ... ... ... ... 416 
Crows and Magpies . . ... ... 120 
Hawks of all kinds ... ... ... 167 
Field Rats ... ... ... ... 310 
Brown Owls ... ... ... ... 13 
Wildcats ... ... ... ... 7 
J. H. Gurney. 
Birds. 
Hawking Extract from an old Newspaper. 
“ Swaffham, February 5th, 1783. 
“HAWKING. 
“Earl of Orford Manager of this Year. 
“ The gentlemen of the Falconers’ Society are hereby acquainted, 
that the hawks will be in England in the first week in March, and 
will begin kite and crow hawking immediately on the arrival. 
The quarters are fixed at Bourn Bridge, Cambridgeshire, forty- 
eight miles from London, until the first April meeting, when they 
will go to Barton Mills and Brandon till the 31st of May, when 
the season will finish. 
“The hawks to be out every Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday, 
in each week at ten o’clock, provided the weather is favourable. 
“ Subscribers are desired to pay in their subscriptions, for this 
season, on or before the 20th of March, to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 
Bankers, in the Strand, London. 
“N.B. — The cage consists of thirty-two flight falcons, [pore- 
