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Occasionally a spaniel met with an accident in the field, and 
required medical attendance, in which case it was sent over to 
Ihiry, whore the doctor took charge of it until cured. An accident 
of some kind seems to have happened in Xovomber, 1572, for 
under that date wo find the entry : — 
“ To Ailkyn-s of Bury, surgon, for setting of ij dogges legs, and for the 
keeping of them vs.'’ 
“ Dog-hiscuits” being then unknown. Squire Kytson fed them 
on “ ox-livor.s,” for which he paid about a penny apiece, lie 
kept a lad to look after them, who is referred to in the accounts 
as “ the spaniel-boy, jMontagno.” This boy (piittod his .service in 
January, 1.571, and received on leaving a tloii''.enr of vjs. viijd. 
Wlionover a neighbour's keeper, like “ Mr. Cote.s man,” got liold 
of a good hawk that ho thought would suit the .S(piire at 1 [engrave, 
ho brought it up to the house and received the customar}’ “ pay- 
ment in rewarde.” Sometimes a hawk was lost, and the falconer 
had to go in search of it, as happened once when !Mr. Kytson was 
hawking at Thetford, towards the end of October or beginning of 
hTovember, 1575. AVo find an entry of payment 
“To John Cocker for liis cliarges at Tlictford to seek my m’’- his 
fawcon viijd.” 
A gentleman in the service of the Duke of Norfolk having 
found and iletained one of the hawks belonging to 1 [engrave, the 
owner makes the following report to his steward of some proceed- 
ings in the business ; — 
“ I seat yr brother yesterday witli my L. Grace his Ires to .M''- Copeldyke 
(remain* as yet witli his brother Crofts at Bardwell) who upon the 
sight of them & the inclosed articles of presumption was in such a 
melancholie (1 might better term it a fond bedlam chafe) as he not 
only charged me witli dishonestie, but also forgetting his due obedi- 
ence to his Graces Ires, sent me for answer that, rather than I should 
have the haggard Jerfivwcon, he would pull of her heade ; ‘yet,’ said 
he to my man, ‘ if y^- m''- or any man he keepeth will, or dare, mete 
me in the field w‘'> his weapon, I will set her on a mole hill, & if they 
can get her, he shall have her.” 
How this dispute ended we are not informed. 
The following letter from Sir Edmund Beilingfeld to the Earl of 
Bath appears to have been written in 15 tS, about the time of the 
passing of the Bill for shooting with “ hand-guns” and “hail-shot,” 
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