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MR. J. K HARTtNG ON HAWKING IN NORFOLK. 
III. 
SOME FURTHER NOTES ON HAWKING IN NORFOLK. 
By J. E. Harting, FL.S., F.Z.S. 
Read 29tli September , 1896. 
The notes on this subject already printed by Professor Newton 
(Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ 2nd. ed., pp. 224 — 239), by 
myself in these ‘Transactions’ (vol. iii. pp. 79 — 94), and by 
Mr. Southwell (vol. v. pp. 183—186), serve to illustrate, so 
far as they go, the history of Falconry in a part of England 
where it is evident that the sport was once much in vogue ; 
and the extracts therein quoted from the Household Books of 
families resident in this county, and from other sources, give 
a curious insight into the daily pursuits and' occupations of 
country gentlemen in Norfolk, at a time when the absence of 
railways and the unchanged conditions of the haunts of game and 
wildfowl afforded unlimited opportunities for indulgence in this 
ancient field sport. The late Mr. J. H. Gurney, too (whose name 
will for ever dwell in the memory of Norfolk naturalists), was not 
unmindful of the value of such excerpts as those referred to, and 
has printed (vol. iv. p. 393) some entries from a Book of 
Disbursements for John Windham of Felhrigge, 1653 — 56, 
which form a useful addition to what may he termed the 
Collectanea Accipitraria for Norfolk. 
The supplementary remarks which I have now to offer are 
based on entries which occur in the MS. papers of the 
family of Gawdy, formerly of Norfolk, edited for the Historical 
Manuscript Commission in 1885, by our indefatigable antiquary 
Mr. Walter Rye, and on entries which I have noted in the more 
recently published (1895) ‘Calendar of Correspondence and 
Documents relating to the Family of Oliver Le Neve, of 
Witchingham, Norfolk,’ edited by the same industrious writer. 
