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and shews pretty clearly with what disfavour the introduction of 
game and wildfowl shooting was regarded by falconers : — 
“ My good Loi'de, I beseech you to take knowledge to move as you shall 
think good for a redresse to be had for such persons as dayly do 
shoote in hande-gonnes, and beat at the fowles in ryvers and pittes, 
so as ther is no fowle that do remayne in the countrye ; a man dis- 
posed to have a flight w‘ hawks may seeke tenn myles ere he fynde 
one coople of fowls to fly at, wlieare in all yeres past there shulde 
have been founde in the same places v“ coople of fowls. I have 
spoken to the clarke of the peace within Norfolk, who asserteyned 
me by his book not to be above the number of iij jsersons entered 
into his booke for to shoote in gonnes, but surelie I think ther be 
w‘ in this shyre that daylie doth exercyse and practyse sliooting at 
fowl w* there gonnes not so fewe as three score of which number I 
cannot heare of any that may spend of lands being their owne above 
iiij =" lb. by yere. 
“ If this be not reamyded, you w*- all the rest of the nobilitie may put 
fourth your hawkes to breede and to keep no more. And thus I 
beseeche God to have yo*- Lordshippe and my good Lady your wyffe 
in moche honor. to comaunde 
EDMUNDE BEDINGFELD. 
“ To the Right Honourable & my singular 
good Lorde, my Lord Bathe.” 
Members of the Bedingfeld family seem to have supported the 
cause of falconry in many generations. It was to an ancestor of 
this Sir Edmund Bedingfeld that Edward IV. granted the badge of 
a falcon and fetterlock — a falcon displayed argent within a closed 
fetterlock o?-— which may be seen on the brass gates of Henry 
the Seventh’s Chapel at Westminster. In Edwrnrd the Sixth’s 
time, as vve have seen, the representative of this ancient family 
was a stout champion in the cause of “Hawking v. Shooting,” 
while in 1832, or thereabouts, wo find the name of Sir Henry 
Bedingfeld appearing in a list of the subscribers to an English 
Hawking Club set on foot by Colonel Wilson, afterwards Lord 
Berners, and supported chiefly by noblemen and gentlemen residing 
in the county of Norfolk. 
Professor Newton has referred {op. cit. p. 22C) to the visit of 
James I. to the neiglibourhood of Thetford for the purpose of 
hawking, and has briefly noticed the record which exists of his 
having taken dotterel there in the month of May with the aid of 
