-iOH MR. J. E. HARTING OX HAWKING IN NORFOLK. 
Cannot draw the Tassel 1 ; as Thos. Morrys is very sick. “ Your old hawk 
was taken with the cramp and the quack ”' 2 and continued in the mew three 
weeks “ and then we threw her out, and she is dead.” Sir Guy’s black 
haggard [an adult wild caught falcon] is well mewed to the long feather. 
15 September 1635 Sir Edmond Moundeford, Feltwell, 
to Framlingham Gawdy, Harling. 
p. 154 Moundeford has a Lanner to spare, if Gawdy knows any 
no. 947 person who wants one as “ we have not partridges enough for 
a Jake-marlen.” 3 * 
[? December 1637] Anthony Mingay, Norwich, 
to Framlingham Gawdy, West Harling Hall. 
p. 167 Is glad Gaw r dy has his hawk again : neither that nor “ any of 
no. 1001 her fellows ” bring any partridges into town that he (Mingay) 
can see. 
The writer is evidently sarcastic, not having received any share 
of the game killed by his friend’s hawks. 
The following entries relating to wildfowl are given as being of 
interest to falconers : — 
31 Jan. 1633—4 Anthony Mingay, Norwich, 
to Framlingham Gawdy, West Harling Hall.* 
p. 145 It is reported at Norwich that the Lord Mayor hath set forth 
no. 896 a proclamation taxing the price of all manner of fowl. 
7 Feb. 1633 — 4 Same to Same [Loudon.] 
p ' 1 My Lord Mayor’s rate for all kind of fowl is very reasonable. 
1 i.e. Cannot take the tiercel from the mew yet, as Thomas Morris the 
falconer is sick. 2 The croaks. 
3 A Jack Merlin, i.e. a male Merlin, would be considered too small for 
flying at partridges unless they were quite young birds, for otherwise 
they would be too heavy to hold. What the writer doubtless intended to 
convey was that partridges were so scarce that season, that the falconers 
could not find enough to feed a Merlin, much less a larger hawk like a Lanner. 
The Lanner no doubt was imported, although allusions may be found in 
old works on Falconry — e.g. that of Simon Latham — to the supposed former 
nesting of this hawk in England. From the descriptions given by somo 
old authors, it would seem that the bird which they called ‘Lanner 5 was 
probably an immature male Peregrine, or as we should now term it in 
the jargon of falconers, a red tiercel. 
