MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON FALCONRY IN NORFOLK. 
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(two volumes, quarto). Dibdin’s reference to Norfolk bears the date 
of 1801 ; but great was my surprise to find that the account referred 
to by Palmer was the same as that quoted by Professor Newton in 
an article on “ Hawking near Yarmouth,” in a former number of 
our ‘Transactions,’ as from ‘The Hive, or Weekly Entertaining 
Register,’ a magazine bearing the date of December, 1822, and 
forming part of an article on “Hawking,” the authorship of which 
is not stated, but as Professor Newton rightly suggested, the 
falconer to whom the visit was paid was undoubtedly Downes. 
This extract, which I have compared with Dibdin’s book, will be 
found in vol. iii. p. 3-1 of our ‘Transactions.’ The true authorship 
and date of the original of this article are however of interest, 
as they conclusively prove the professional falconer, then said 
to be in the employ of Lord Orlord, to have been Jan Daams, 
as originally suggested by Professor Newton ( l.c . p. 3G), and not 
Jan Peels, who it is not certain was ever in Lord Orford’s service, 
although he is known to have been in that of Mr. Downes. 
Professor Newton’s difficulty was that Daams was not in England 
after 1808, whereas the article in question appeared in 1822 ; but 
the true date of the event proves to have been 1801, and therefore 
previous to the capture of Daams at Cuxhaven by Louis Bonaparte. 
The editor of the ‘Hive’ appears to have been guilty of a “crib,” 
which, as the original authority was twenty-one years old, he seems 
to have considered of no consequence, but which in reality led to 
considerable confusion. 
Mr. Harting has recently contributed to the ‘Zoologist’ (1890, 
p. 417) some remarks on the original MS. of Sir John Sebright’s 
Observations upon Hawking, which, according to a pencil note on 
the last page in Downes’ writing, was given to him by his friend 
Sebright on the 25th September, 1828. There are a number of 
critical notes by Downes, evidently made before the book was 
printed, and most of which Sebright had adopted. One of these 
notes states that “ The late Nicholas Styleman, Esq., of Snettisham, 
in Norfolk, in reply to my enquiry of how long had the Hawks 
been known to breed in the cliffs of Hunstanton, in Norfolk, 
informed me for more than a century. . . . The last eyrie there was 
about eight years since.” This MS. was purchased by Messrs. 
Jarrold and Son, from a descendant of Downes, and kindly lent to 
me to read. Wishing to fix the date of the last Peregrine Falcon's 
