IX. 
SOME XOl’ES OX IIAWiaXG, AS FORMElfLY 
riiAUTISEI) IX XORFOLK. 
Ey J. E. II Aim .VO, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
Read 2J^th February, 1880. 
A I'KRus.vL of the interesting chapter upon Hawking in Xorfolk, 
contiibutcil by 1 rofossor Isowton to the recently published second 
edition of Lubbock’s ‘ Fauna of Xorfolk,’ has induced mo to offer 
the following notes by way of supplement to what ho has advanced, 
in the belief that any additional information, however fragmentary, 
concerning the practice of this ancient pastime in the county 
lofcried to, will be acceptable to the members of this Society. 
Amongst the materials for history, private letters have always 
been deemed of the utmost value, and the utility of ‘ Household 
Books, as aflording us an insight into the manners, customs, and 
e.vponses of the periods at which they wore written, must be too 
generally admitted to require argument. It is chiefly from sources 
such as these that I have collected, in the course of my reading, 
the few notes which I have now to offer. 
iowards the close of the si.vteenth century there resided at 
Hengrave, in the county of Suffol’k', a gentleman by name Kytson, 
whose ‘Household Book,’ commenced in October, L572, and 
diligently kept by his steward, has, fortunately for our present 
purpose, been preserved to us.* 
* E.xtracts from tliis ‘ Household Book’ are printel in Gage’s ‘ History 
ami Antiipiitics of Hengrave,’ fto, 1S2-2, to wliich work I am indebted for 
tlie items here quoted. 
