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of 50 or thereabouts,” which were no doubt rcijuired for entering 
and training the heron-liawks. 
Sir Thomas Browne, writing in (Charles the Second’s time, has 
left us amongst “ Certain Miscellany Tracts,” which were first 
published in 1G84, after his death, by Archbishop Tenison, a 
tract entitled “ Of Hawks and Falconry, Ancient and !Modern.” 
But strange to say, although living at a time when hawking was 
much in vogue, and in a county where one might suppose ho 
must have seen something of tlie pastime, he has supplied no 
materials for a history of falconry in his own day. The tract in 
(piestion contains but a single brief allusion to hawking in Norfolk, 
which runs as follows : — 
“ William Duke of Cleve had an Hawk which, in one day, made a 
flight out of Westphalia into Frussia. And, upon good account, 
an Hawk in this country of Norfolk made a flight at a Woodcock 
near thirty miles in one hour.” — (P. 116.) 
He adds : — 
“ How far the Hawks, iHerlins and Avild Fowl which come unto us Avith 
a North-Avest Avind in the Autumn, flic in a day, there is no clear 
account ; but coming over Sea their flight hath been long, or very 
speedy. For I have knoAvn tliem to light so Aveary on the coast [of 
Norfolk] that many have been taken Avith Dogs, and some knock’d 
doAvn Avith staves and stones.” — (P. 117.) 
Although Sir Thomas BroAvne Avas not himself a falconer, he 
kept an eagle, to Avhich ho has thus briefly alluded in the above- 
mentioned tract : — 
“As for Avhat aftirmeth that IlaAvks and Birds of prey drink 
not ; although you knoAv that it will not strictly hold, yet I kept 
an Eagle tAvo years, Avhich fed upon Kats, Kittlings, Whelps and 
Batts, without one drop of Water.” 
I’ossibly this may have been an eagle captured on the coast 
of Norfolk. 
“ There Avas a prettie book ” says Sir Thomas BroAAme,* “ Avritt 
1G12, by IMichael Drayton, a learned poet, in smooth verse, 
called Pohjolhion ; and IMr. Selden Avritt a learned comment 
upon it, though AAUthout his name. It describeth many rivers 
* In a letter to his son Edward, AA’hich will be found in the first volume 
of his Avorks edited by Simon Wilkin (p. 316). 
