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for liisj Majesty’s disport and recreation, whose charge and 
entertainment his Majesty is pleased to defray.” 
It was at Itoyston that the King witnessed the kite-liawking 
described by Sir Antony Weldon in his ‘ Court and Character 
of King James’ (p. 104), and quoted by Professor Kewton (Joe. 
at.), and here may remark that the hawks employed for the 
purpose, which Sir Antony AVeldon calls “ Gos-Falcons,” must 
have been Gcr-falcons. They could not have been Gos-hawks, 
for this bird, from its inability to mount and stoop like a falcon, 
would have shown no sport with a kite, and except under 
I)ec'.iliarly favourable circumstances would have been unable to 
take one. IMoroover, wo know from other sources that the 
Ger-falcon was the bird employed for this kind of llight. Thus 
AVooley, in his ‘Present State of Trance,’ 1G87, describing this 
sport says: — “ Ihe llight at the kite was performed with ger-falcons, 
tiercolcts or tassels, and sometimes sakers ; and there was always 
a decoy to draw the kite to a reasonable height to give him to 
the hawks.” Sir Antony Weldon states that in the llight which 
the King witnessed at Poyston both kite and folcon went fairly 
out ol sight, and were never seen again. A writer in the 
‘Gentleman’s ^lagazino ’ for 1793 (p. 101), under the signature 
“T. S.,” professing to <pioto from Sir Antony Weldon, adds that 
“inquiry was made, not only all over England, but in all the 
loreign princes’ courts of Europe, the hawk having the king’s 
jesses, and marks sulhcient whereby it might bo known ; but all 
their inquiries proved ineffectual.” This addition to the story 
I do not find in Sir A. M eldou’s book. But this perhaps is not 
very material. It may reasonably be inferred that inquiries were 
made at the time in all directions. “ T. S.,” however, makes the 
following remarkable statement: — “ In the beginning of September 
last [1792] a paragraph appeared in several newspapers, mentioning 
that a hawk had been found at the Cape of Good Hope and 
brought from thence by one of the India ships, having on its 
neck [*’<c] a gold collar, on which were engraven the following 
words : — 
‘‘ This goodlie hawk doth belong to his Most Excellent Majestic, James 
Kinge of England. A.D. 1(510.” 
The writer in qiiestion infers the authenticity of the inscription 
from Sir Antony Weldon’s anecdote, believes it to be “ the lost 
