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Hawks and Hawking

For the First Time Reprinted from the
Original of 1619

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

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INTRODUCTION.

?F the three treatises by our old Eng-

^ lish masters of falconry, Turbervile,

b Latham, and Bert, that of Bert at the

^ present time is unquestionably the

^ scarcest. In the course of twenty

5 years' book-collecting, I have heard

of but two copies for sale; while in

regard to the others, hardly a year elapses in which a

few examples do not come into the book-market, although,

it must be confessed, at sufficiently high prices, if in

good condition.

Of Turbervile's work two editions appeared ; ' of
Latham's, four."

The " Treatise " by Bert, first published in 1619, has
until now never been reprinted — a circumstance, no doubt,
which in some measure accounts for its greater rarity.
From certain statements of the author, it would seem

> The Booke of Fanlconiie oi Hawking ; for the oaelj dcUfht uid plcainie of all
noblemen and gentlemen. Collected, &c , . . Bj Geoi^e Turbervile, geDtleman,
1575. Second edition, 1611. For the full titles of both editinu, with critical notes,
see Hartinei BiblielhKa Accipiiraria, pp. u, 13.

' Falconry, or the Faulcon's Lure and Care: in two Booki, 1615. New and
second Booke of Faulconry, j6i8. Second edition of both, 1633. Thiid, 1653.
Fourth, 1658. For the full titles see Hariin^, op. rit., pp. tS-i^-

iv Introduction.

to have been printed chiefly to oblige his friends, and
was not intended for general circulation.

** I did never purpose (he says) to publish in common
these my labours, but to have given them privately to
whom they are dedicated, and to whom I stand devoted ;
but being discovered to some of my friends, and by them
made knowne to many of the rest, their importunities and
earnest persuasions have made mee put it to the presse."

Farther on he remarks (p. 8), ** It hath long laine by
me, and that I have not beene forward to publish this
but in a manuscript, is very well knowne to many of my
friends." From this it may be inferred that only a limited
number of copies were originally printed.

But whatever cause or causes may have conduced to
its scarcity, the fact remdns that at the present time the
work is practically unprocurable ; and this is the more to
be regretted, because having been composed by an Eng-
lish falconer of great experience, it is still of utility and
value to those who at the present day would keep hawks
and fly them at game.

Under these circumstances, ! have undertaken the
present reprint, in the belief that there are others who
will be glad to possess a copy, if, like myself, they have
tried in vain to procure the original

The text has been set up with great care by Messrs.
Ballantyne & Hanson, at the Ballantyne Press, Edin-
burgh, from an original copy in the possession of the
Hon. Gerald Lascelles, to whom I am indebted for the
loan of it ; and it will be found on examination that not
only is this a verbatim et literatim reprint, but that in
regard to type, headlines, initials, and other ornaments,

Introduction. v

it is as nearly a facsimile as it is possible to make it
without the aid of photography.

One hundred copies only have been printed*
Of the author, Edmund Bert, little is known beyond
what he himself has told us in his " Treatise." He lived
at Collier Row, near Romford, Essex, and was somewhat
advanced in years and in failing health when he was per-
suaded to publish the results of his experience as a fal-
coner. Some of his recipes, it appears, he had used for
sixteen or seventeen years (p. 103), and his method of
hooding a shy hawk, he says, he '* did privately deliver
to some of my friends by wofd of mouth above twenty
yeares since (1599), and some did carefully follow my
direction, and did not faile." But it was after he had
been ill for some time that he began seriously to think
of publication. " By gentlemen that have come to visite
and comfort me (he says) in the time of my sicknes, which
hath continued with me for the most part these three
yeares, I have been over-powred (desiring that my know-
ledge might not be buried with mee) to thrust out my
labours to publike view " (p. 8).

Amongst his friends and acquaintances a few are
mentioned by name. He alludes to Sir Edward
Saliard, a knight of high estimation in this art (p.
40). Old Sir Robert Wroth, who had an excellent
goshawk, and Master Raineford, who had a hawke, are
referred to (p. 68), and to the worthy Baron whom he
on one occasion met "in the Strand,'* he "did deliver
a very sound hawke, and had for her thirty pounds"
(p. 106). Mention is also made of " Master Batcheler, that
was Master of all the Faulconers by Povvles" (p. 95).

vi Introduction.

But, as a rule, his friends and neighbours are referred
to as *'a worthy knight to whom I stood bound for many
former kind guifts " (p. 88),. or " two knights, both of them
very judicious austringers, and two gentlemen of the same
family though dwelling tenne miles asunder *' (p. 88), or
" an ancient and skilful ausferinger " * (p. 96), and so forth.

He used to ride out of Essex into Sussex to hawk
over the downs, where (he says) " I have killed for the
most part of a moneth together with an intermewed gos-
hawke eight, nine, or tenne partridges, in a day. The
day of my going thither and the day of my returne to
London was just five weeks, and it was a fortnight or
more in Michaelmas terme when I came backe. I killed
in that time wkh that one hawke foure score and odd
partridges, five pheasants, seven rayles, and foure hares
against my will '" (p. 29).

Elsewhere (p. 99) he alludes to flying at the brooke
(that is, at waterfowl) in Leicestershire. He was very
successful in training and flying the goshawk, to which
species, indeed, his instructions chiefly relate. He had
for one goshawk and a tarsell a hundred marks, both
sold to one man within sixteen months. For another
he was offered forty pounds (p. 105), and ultimately sold
her for thirty.

He particularly delighted in pheasant^hawking with
a goshawk and spaniels, and at the time of writing his
remarks on the subject, had had seven years' experi-
ence in this branch of the sport (p. 317). The hints and
advice which he gives in relation to it are accordingly
most practical and useful.

* One who kept a goshawk, astury Fr. auiew\

Introduction. vii

The following passage, which occurs on p. 36, explains
how pheasant-hawking was pursued : — " If I spring a
phesant, I cannot in the covert have my dogs at that
command that I have them in the field. Let me make
all the hast I can after my hawke, I might misse of the
quick finding her, if by my dogs questing I were not
drawne where she is : it is ten to one she will not hunt
for it upon the ground ; if she should, it will teach her wit ;
but it is more likely that she will, if the covert with
broome or furzes be not thicke in the bottome, but that
she may see it, she will, as it runneth, tend it, flying ouer
it from tree to tree, and when the dogs doe spring it, she
is so over it, as that it will never rise to goe to a high
pearch ; if it should, the hawke would have it before it
come there,"

His method of making a shy hawk to the hood (p. 44)
has been already referred to. His contrivance for pre-
venting a goshawk from perching (p. 69) is equally
ingenious, and, it is believed, original.

Apropos of the Dedication to the Right Honourable
Henry Earl of Oxenford, it may be noted that in 1795
a silver " varvel," engraved with the name " Oxenforde,"
was found near Headingham Castle, the ancient seat of
this family in Essex. It is figured and described in the
Archaologia^ vol. xii. pi. 51, p. 410, and may well have
belonged to the nobleman to whom this book is dedicated.

J. E. HARTING.

Burlington House,
Christmas i8go.

AN

APPROVED

TREATISE OF

Hawkes and Hawking.

Diuided into three Bookes~
The firft teacheth, How to make a fliort-win- "

ged Hawke good, with good conditions.
The fecond, How to reclaime a Hawke from

any ill condition.
The third, teacheth Cures for all knowne

griefes and difeafes.

By Edmvnd Bert, Gentleman.

LONDON:

Printed by T, S. for Richard Moore, and are to be
fold at his fhop in S. Tiunftans Church-yard.

TO THE RIGHT
HONOVRABLE

HENRY, Earle of Oxen-
ford, ViicoMntBulbecke, Lord
Sanford and Scabs, and Lewd
Great-Chamberlaine of
England.

Y Honourable Lord, I

netter affe6ied flattery,

if I had I fltould no-w

kaue beene much difap-

pointed ; for your noble

worth exceeds what I

canfay. To particularize your honourable

Titles, or here to blazon your excellencies

were needlejfe, and fhall rather be Printed

on myfaithfullheartjhenpublifl^dbymy

ruderpen, efpedally vpon thededication of

fo flight afubie£l. Sir^ I have long waited

« 2 for

The Epistle

for opportunity, & this great while whiptoc-
cafion on.whereby I might tender fome open
tejlimonie of my hue, before I dye, which
may remaine as a perpetual memoriall of
my euer-deuotedferuice. To that end {my
Lord) Ihaue runne backe into my younger
yeares, tofummon the delights of my able
youth, together with the fruits of my more
experienced age, {comprifed within a few
leaues) to attend your Lordships leafure,
and humbly t'O crave your Honours patron-
age. To arrogate to myfelfe by an immo-
derate commendation <fthe IVorke, were
poore: toderogateioomuchfrom it through
modefly, were asjilly. Therefore {not to be
excef/ive in the one^ nor too liberall in the
other) I would {with your honourable fa-
uour) doe you thus much to vnderjiand:
As for thefubie6l it is not waighty {being
but a Treatife offporf) and to attend and
to giue place to your Lord/hips honourable
affaires, andmoreferi&us imployments; but
as for the handling of the Subie6l {I dare,
and will boldly fay and auerre) it is good:
Nay, Iwillfubmdtmyfelfe to partiall cen-

furers

Dedicatory.

furers vponduetrially and hazard my repu^
tation vpon true iudgement. My Lord, I
frame not my wauering/urmizes vpon pro-
babilities o/fic dicunt; but I ground my
conjiant opinion vpon certainty ^proba-
tum eft : Nor can I quote any Author but
myfelfe, and out of my owne indujirious
experiments I {firjl) extracted my owne
conclujions : I reape no mans haruejl, but
plough with my owne Heifer. In fine, I
here dedicate to your Lordfhip the delights
of my Childe-hood, the pleafures of my
youthy the experiments of my age, my faith-
full {though painefull) labours ^ my fruit-
full {though flight) indeauours, myfelfe,
my continuall feruice and obseruance to
your truely-noble Selfe, humbly requefling
your Honour not to be afhamed to Patro-
nize that which your feruant is not afraid
toprefent: And thatfhall crowne mypoore
indeauours, and giue my labours an eter-
nail fufficit ; and make me etier rejl

Your Lordfhips humbly deuoted,

EdmvndBert.

To the friendly Reader,

Riendly Reader, I did ne-
uer purpofe to publifli in
common thefe my labours,
but to baue giuen them
priuately ta whom they
are dedicated,and to whom
I ftand deuoted : but being
difcouered to ibme of my friends, and by them
made knowne to many of the reft, their im-
portunities and earneft perfwafions haue made
mee put it to the preffe, whereby I ftial be
fenfured of fuch as haue left ludgement, but
let it anfwere for it felfe ; I haue not fet down
any thing fo erronious, but being well exami-
ned, it will proue iudictous: and although this
fubiet^ hath already beene dealt withall, and
well handled by a Gentleman of good experi-
ence, whofe good and probable difcourfe might
be a meanes to hinder my proceeding herewith,
yet a great manygentlemen to whom the good-
nefle of my hawkes haue beene knowne to be
fuch as that they could not be bettered, doe
ftrongly

To the friendly Reader.

ftrongly inforce it, that my Skill, Art, & know-
ledge muft be in the fame degree : I n truth I haue
not kept any hawke aboue three yeeres, but I
haue put them off for much money, befides ma-
ny thanks, and much loue. I had for a Goftiawke
and a Tarfell a hundred Marks, both folde to
one man within fixteen moneths. I know there
are many of good experience will ouerlooke this
my booke, and fome that are young profeffors,
and fome that would learne to profeffe, but
whatfoeuer he be thatvndertaketh thisprofeffi-
on, I will wifh him an able body, a quicke fpirit,
and moil of all, an earned loue and delight
thereunto ; to fuch a man a hawke will quickly
teach knowledge, but of him that wanteth wit
fhee will make a foole, and of a dull-fpirit a
true pack-horfe : If thefe good properties fhall
be wanting in a man, he is hardly to be made a
good Auftringer, and it will be hard for him to
make a good hawke. I would I were able to de-
liuer plainely what I vnderfland, I willfetdowne
as familiarly as I can, the beil inftrudlions I am
able, but knowledge and vnderilanding, louing
praftitioner muft be gotten by thy diligent and
careful! obferuing thy hawke, in her fundry
paffions and fudden toyes, fuch vigelance, fuch
diligence, and fuch carefulneffe will worke fuch
an apprehenfion in thee, as in a little time thy
knowledge and underftanding will bring forth
fuch effeft, as that thou wilt be able to preuent

all

To the friendly Reader.

all her ill intendments. I cannot fet downe what
thy experience will teach thee ; but I reft to giue
thee fuller fatisfa6lion, by conference, then I
haue herein or can poffibly publilh : Farewell.

From my hoafe at Collier'Row^
neere RutnfarcL

Thine to his power.

Edmvnd Bert.

THE

THE CONTENTS OF

the feuerall Chapters of this

B O K E.

The firft part, teacheth how to make a fkort-
winged Hawke good, &c.

Chap. I.

'ie AtUhours opinion of the Gof-
hawke and Tarfell, and of their
difference ; which hee writeth to
them that are of fmall prailice,
%nd %oould haue their labours put
to the befi profit.

IK
Wherein the Tarfel differeth from the Gof-
hawke.

HI.

Ofthefeuerallkindes of the Goflia\^es andTz r-
fels, viz. the Haggart, the Rammifti, and the
Eyes Hawke \ (/ will difiinguijk no further)
S J A and

The Contents.

and of their differing difpqfitions : Andfirjl
of the Haggart.

IV

The defcription of the Rammifh Hawke.

V.

The defcription of the Eyas, vpon whom I can
faflen no affe^ion.for the multitude of their
follies and faults.

VI.

A pre-admonition to the Reader.

VII.

The Tnanner howlhaue vfed the Rammifhy&ri^-
Gofliawke, after I haue taken her from the
Cage vnto my fifty vntillfhee hath beene fly-
ing.

The

The Contents.

The Contents of the fecond

Booke.

Wherein is Jet down, how to reclaime a
Hawke from any ill condition.

Chap. I.

iOw to make a Hawke hoode well
that will not abide the fight there-
of , and {how diforderly foeuerjhee
be) it Jhall be effeiled in forty eight
houres, with leffe then forty bates.

II.
How to bring a Hawke that will royle, andfeeke
for Poultrey at a houfe, to good perfehion :
And how to winne her loite, in whom an ill
keeper hath wrought fuch carelefneffe.

III.
How to reclaime a Hawke that will carry, and
notfuffer her keeper to come vnto her.

IV.

To reclaime a Hawke that will carry a Part-
ridge into a Tree.

A 2 How

The Contents.

V.

How to vfe that Hawke^ that ajfoone as Jhe
hath a Partridge will breake it, and gorge
herjelfe vpon it.

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VI.

How to vfeaHawke that will carry a Partridge
into a Tree, and will not be driuen to the
ground, but will there ajfuredly eate it : And
{it may be) not betaken vp untillthe next night.

VII.

How to reclaime a Hawke that will neither
abide hor/e-men^Jirangers, Carts, or Women,
or/tuh like.

VIII.

How to vfe a Hawke that will Jit vpon the
ground at marke, and by mijjing many flights,
beate out her felfe from her true flying.

IX.

That the Tarfell is moreproane to thefe ill con-
ditions then the Hawke, and how to reclaime
him that will feeke for a Doue-houfe.

The

The Contents.

The Contents of the Third

Booke.

IVherein isfet down, Cures for all
known difeafes.

Chap. I.
^t:/l, for the beake, mouthy ^es, head
andthroat, and of the feuerall grief es
and difeafes therebreeding,andoffen-

ding.

II.

A medicine for a wet Canker in the mouth or
beake, which will eate into her eyes and
braine ; and {vnlejfe it be killed) will kill
her; and this is more common with the long-
winged then fkort-winged Hawke.

HI.

A medicine for the Frounce, whereunto the
long-winged Hawke is much more fubieSl
then thefhort.

IV.
A remedy for the kimels, wltereunto the long-
winged Hawke is not fubieSl, but it much
followeth the fhort-winged Hawke.

A 3 There

The Contents.

V.

There is a difeafe in the head^ of fame called
Vertego, a/wimming of the braine, and the
cure followeth.

VI.

ThePinneinthethroctt, ofallotherthemojlde/pe-
rate and vncurable difeafe: Ihaue not knowne
a long'winged Hawke troubled thercTmth, but
to afhortwinged Hawke it brings death.

VII.
A n excellent medicine for a blowe orlq/h in the eye.

VIII.

An excellent water for a hot rhume that run-
neth out of the eye^ the heaie whereof fcaldeth
all the feathers from that part vnder the
eye^ and maketk it bare.

IX.

For a Snurty or colde in the head of the
Hawke ^ or the Rye.

X.

For the Mytes^ wherewith I have knowne many
Hawkesthathauenotonelybeenetroubledabout

the

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The Contents.

the beake, but the very leukes haue beene left
without feathers^ and eaten the veryjkin off.

XI.

A receipt beyonde all other y to take out Lyme
from the feathers of a Hawke.

XII.

A powder to begiuen to a Hawke that bloweth^
and is fhort-winded.

XIII.

A medicine for the Wormes, wherewith all
Hawkes are troubled^ and other creatures alfo.

XIV.

A receipt for a Hawke that hath lo/l her
courage, and ioyeth not.

XV.

To di/iill a water wherewith to flrengthen a
weake Hawke.

XVI.

To di/lilla water, whofe property is to kill any
vnnatural heate in the mouth or body ; a
great cleanfer and increafer of the breath ;

and

The Contents.

and the 60 that euer was for the Liuer
that is het, and nothing better for a field-
hawke thatflyeth in Somer.

XVII.

An excellent approued medicine for a dangerous
bruife, to be giuen prefently after the hurt.

XVIII.

A medicine for a Hawke that hath receiued a
wound byfome ill accident.

XIX.

A medicine for the Cray.

XX.

A receipt for ajireine or bruife in thefoote.

FINIS.

AN

AN APPROVED
TREATISE OF

Hawkes and Hawking.

Chap. I.

The Authors opinion of the GofiiawkeandTarfell,
and of ihetr difference; all which hee writeth'
vnto them that are offmallpraSlife, and to them
thatwQuldhauetheirlaboursputtothebefl profit.

He Gojhawke is mofl able to
indure much, and is more
profitable then the Tarfell,
not onely with bringing
home many quarries, but
with bringing diueriity and
variety of quarries : Her
difpofition is meeke and
gentle, if fhe be mildely delt with, and not fo apt
to ill conditions as is the Tarfell, flie is fubiei5l
to feeke for poultry, into which fault fhe will
neuer fall, except it be through want of know-
ledge in her keeper; which fault to preuent,
B as

Bert's Treatife of

as alfo how to reclaime a Hawke from that euill
condition, or any other, I will hereafter giue moft
plaine and true inilru6lion in his proper place.

Chap. II.

Wherein />4^Tarfell differethfram the Gofhawke*

"C^ Xcept it be for his pra<5life, I would not aduife
'^^him that cannot rightly effect all things in a
Gojhawke^ to meddle with the Tar/ell^ for hee is apt
to ill conditions, which euery good Auftringer (if
he will) is able to preuent : He will take diflike at
many things, or at any thing ; he is apt to roy le, and
fometimes may finde poultry that is fit for his
turne; and if he once take a liking, and fland well
affefted that way, ^there is none vnfit for him :
Hee will quickely knowe a Doue-houfe, and too
foone learne to finde the way into it, and then he
hath wit enough to plestfe himfelfe ; but thefe
faults and many more follow fuch Hawkes as are
not well handled, but are harfhly and vnkindely
delt with in their firft manning; He is light-headed
and nimble winged, the quicke handling of them
in his flying pleafeth more then the Gojhawke, and
therein the Spar-hawke exceedeth the Tar/ell, and
the Marlin therein exceedeth both Gojhawke,
Tar/ell, & Spar^kawke. Tbey may fitly be com*
pared vnto a large Gelding, and a fmaller, the
firil hauing a large and long (Iroke goeth fafler
then he feemeth, the other that gathereth (hort
and thick feemeth to goe much fafter then he

doth ;

A compart-
/on.

In either
kinde this
holdeth not
generally.

Hawkes and Hawking.

doth ; the larger (hall inforce the lefier to ilrike
thrife for the ground that he will almoft at twice
performe ; my opinion is, hee that riddeth mod
ground, with moft eafe, fhall longeft endure,
ludge your felfe the difference betweene the
Gq/hawke^ Tar/ell, and Spar-hawke.

Chap. III.

^Gofhawkes there are three/euerall kindes^and
fo (T/'Tarfels, the Haggart Hawke, the Ramifh,
and the Eyas, much differing from the re/i.

T Onely write now the differing difpofitions of
^thefe Hawkes, of their feuerall properties, and
the inconueniences that followeth them in parti-
cular: and firfl of the. Haggart in generall. She
hath lined long at liberty, having many things at
her command, and fhe is therefore the harder to be
brought to fubie<5lion and obedience : In her firfl
manning fhe is apt to take euery accidentall occa-
liort that giueth offence to come from her keeper; A compan-
As a yong horfe in his firfl riding, if he fhall bogge*^'^*
or be afraid of fomething, if his rider fhall then
fpurre him vpon it, the horfe may thus thinke that
the thing whereon nowinfeareall his thoughts are
placed, is the true moouer of the fpurres that tor-
ment him ; fo ^^ Haggart tyed to her Maftersfifl,
that bateth, and then findeth her reftraint, the ob-
ie6l taken away, fhe will flare her keeper in the face,
and thinke all the offence came from him, to whofe
fiflfhe was tyed, otherwife fhe had beene at liberty,

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A caueat and fo could haue freed her felfe from whatfoeuer
feared her. But let mee fpeake this now more
than I purpofed, left hereafter in his proper place
I may forget to give that caueat, if thy Haggart be
fo angry as ^hat ihe ftare thee in the face vpon any
fuch accidental! occafion, or fodaine thought of
her prefent bondage, owne it not, fee it not, and
by all means poffible carry thine eye from looking
vpon her, for that will worke her more diflike to-
wards thee 1 which if you obferue, you Ihall the
A great in- fooner finde her pacified. She feldome meweth
conuenience, timely or orderly; and although fome can fay that
they haue had a Haggard Gojhawke mewed well
and faire, fit to draw at Bartholomew; I anfwere
one Swallow maketh not a Summer.
When the H^ggartx^Aymg^ nature is altered, and
therefore I muft not here fpeake of her good or bad
properties at that time, for they are wrought in her
through the good or bad diicretion of her keeper,
when ihe was in making, or after flie was made, as
her keeper thoght. I will leaue thofe to their
proper place, onely I fay ^ fo conclude, that your
Haggart is very louing and kinde to her keepw,
after that he hath brought her, by his fweet and
kinde familiarity, to vnderftand him ; but if ihee
fall into any vice, Ihee is moft hardiy reclaimed
from it, and brought to good perfection again ;
if it fhall be hoped for, it fhall fooneft be gotten
and performed, by exchanging her keeper, if bis
skill may equall her former keeper.

Chap.

Hawkes and Hawking.

Chap. IV.

The defcription of the Rammifh Hawke.

nr^Here is fmall difference betweene the Hag-
^ gart and the Rammijhy onely the RammiJJt
Hawke hath hadleffetime(by preyingforherfelfe
then the other) to know her owne ftrength and
worth, but in manning and making her I will fet
downe my whole praftife, with my friendly aduife
to others that will enter into the fame courfe,for in
1^^ Rammifh Hawke is my efpeciall delight, for in
them my labours haue proued moft fucceffefull.

Chap* V.

Of the Eyas Hawke ^ vpon whom Icanfcflen no affe-
Sliofiyfor the multittide of her follies and faults.

T Feele it moft burthenfome to fpend my time
^idlely ; I thinke the difference little, either to be
idle, or fpend the time to no purpofe,or be long of
doing a little, and fuch effe6l his trauell will giue
him for reward that medleth with an jE]y^^, except
a long expe6lation of good will giue himfatisfa<5li-
on ; For they are fo foolifh as the firft yeare they
will hardly be taught to take a bough well, and if
that cannot be effected, there can no profperous
fucceffe be expelled. I haue knowne ibme that
haue not prooued very excellent the fecond yeare
in taking a bough, and then itisafoulefault, to doe

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I will not
affirm that
all will
prooue thus*

Neither is
this gene-
rally to be
vnderjlood,

Youjhal
finde here-
after a
remedy for
this.

Eqfie to be
amended.

nothing the firft yeare, and not very much the fe-
cond ; for I haue feene divers entermewers hang
with their head downward, holding a bough faft in
her foote or feete. I haue knowne fome of them
likewife that would fooner catch a dogge in the
field then a Partridge^ and although ihe had flown
a Partridge very well to marke, and fat well, yet fo
£oone as a dog had but come in to the retroue, (he
would haue had him by the face. One other as ill
a fault as this, if Ihe flye well, yet it is oddes you
(hall finde her fitting vpon the ground at marke,
when although you keepe your dogs quietly be-
hinde you, and though you vfe fome courfe to ter-
rifie her, or take her betweene your hands and
throwe her vp, you may perhaps finde her folly
giue her leaue to fall again vpon the ground with-
in twelue or twenty yards of you ; feare the worft,
the beftwiU heipe it felfe,it may be ihe will not gee
to a tree at all, (this is grieuous.) Neither will
moft of them like the hoode well, and many of
them will cry as loud to ypu,as you will fpeake to
them. Neither can I hope to buy a found Hawke
of them from the Cage, who knoweth not that
they are hot and fcratching vpon the quarry : Art
will f afily amend that fault, which I will not faile
to deliuer in his place. But this I fay, if a man haue
the patience to endure their impatience, and at-
tend a long time for their good procrfe, if at the laft
flie fhall prooue well, (he may be ranked among
the beft in the bigheft degree : Shewilleuer mcwe
orderly and timely, and except fome euill accident

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Hawkes and Hawking.

(horten her dayes, ihe will liue longer then any of
the reft, ihe is not apt to be ficke^or furfeit fofoone
as the other, yet if a iickneffe fhould befall her, (he
will out-grow it with leffe danger then the other. I a
thisdifcourfe I hauealtogetherfpokenofthe^^Oiy-
Hawke, but the Tar/ell \s not fo vnapt to take a
bough, neither is hee apt to catch dogges^ if hee
prooue well : there can no attribute be giuen lo
the Rammijh Tarfell (but all qualities examined)
he (hall owne as good, or better. And thus much
as concerning my opinion of the Eyas Hawke.

Chap. VI.
To the friendly Reader.

T^Riendly Reader, before I beginne to treate of
^ thtRammiJh Hawke,andtofetdownethecour-
fes whereby I haue made fo many and fo extraor-
dinary good Hawkes, as they could not be bettered
both for flying and good conditions, I muft tell
you, and fo farre explaine my felfe, that I doe not
therein fo much arrogate to my felf, as to thinke
my courfes are not to be equalled, but they maybe
bettered, even by men that liue in obfcurity, but
for what I write, is my opinion ; from which (al-
though it (hall mooue others but little) I cannot be
drawne, becaufe I haue had thereby fo good, fo
profperous, and fo profitable fucceflfe : Some may
contrary my opinion, who can for themfelues fay
but as I doe, that their opinion is fuch ; if I cannot

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fet downe fufficient reafons for my proceedings,
my Hawkes Ihall teftifie for me, it hath long laine
by me, and that I haue not beene forward to pub-
lifli this but in a Manu-fcript, is very well knowne
to many of my friends. Gentlemen that haue come
to vifite and comfort me in the time of my ficknes
(which hath continued with me for the moft part
thefe three year^ in all which time I haue made but
onely one Hawke, but diuers haue beene brought
vnto me to be cured of diuers difeafes,andfome to
be recfaymed from ill conditions) and by thefe
Gentlemen I haue been ouer-powred(defiring that
my knowledge might not be buried with mee) to
thruft out my labours to publike view. And al-
though my memory hath efcaped fome fecret, yet
I am affured the skilfuUeft fhall finde fomething
herein fet downe, that neither he nor any man hath
made vfe of, either in making his Hawke of good
and faire condition, or in reclayming her, or any
other of their kinde, from any ill condition. And
thus followeth my direft courfe for the reclay-
ming,. manning, and making of my fhort- winged
Hawke.

Chap. VII.

The manner how I haue vfed the Rammifh3^r^-
Gofhawke, after I haue taken her from the
Cage vnto my fift^ vntill fhe hath beene flying.

T Muft fpeak fomething of the time wherein vfu-
^ally I make choyfeto hiay my Bammz/h Hawke,

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Hawkes and Hawking.

about the latter end of Michaelmas terme ; or if I
can learne that there are more Hawkes comming
before Chrt/imas^ I will tarry their comming, for
thofe Hawkes doe not fhew themfelues out of
the great couerts vntill after Saint lames: And to
buy one of them in the beginning oi Michaelmas
terme that hath beene fo long taken, and done fo
little for her felfe, I like not, but I will hope for a
more late taken Hawke, which when I haue, I fol- Bow I begin
low in this manner. I continue her vpon my fift ^^^ ^y
tenne dayes orafortnight, (vnleffeinalhortertime ^'''^^''
I finde her a found Hawke) which I fhall the foo-
nervnderftand, becaufe I fee howfhe putteth ouer Thismnjlbe
her meate, how (he doth indue it;, and if there be f^^^ ^^
any doubt of her well-doings there fliall hardly a
mute efcape my fight whofoeuer doth carry her
for me, for fhe fhall be well afTured to find no
other perch then the fift, from that time I rife vn- Thus you
till I goe to bed, when {he fhall goe with me ; and if ^""^^^/^^^^
in this time I finde it fit, fhe doth not faile to haue fji^t info
cafting. I finde no time loft in this courfe,^ for in long a
this time I will raife my Hawke and giue her-^^^^^"^^
flrength, and fhe will be the leffe time after fhe is
vnhooded before fhee doth flye ; my cafltings that My manner
I giue, are Thrums, gotten of the Weauer, I get ofcaftmgstn
them wafhed, but not with Sope, I cut the threads ^(^^g^
an inch long or leffe, and I fize them out for a f mall
cafting, and giue them lofe with her meate ; or o-
therwife,. I tye vpon the thrids two or foure fmall
knots, leauing fome thrids open at the end of ei-
ther knot ; otherwife I giue plumage and fome fmall

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bones, if the fowle like me, the bones of that part
of the wing that is vfually broken from the Par-
tridge. Flannell I could neuer approue of, neither
TheFeathers did I euer vfe the iukes and feathers of a houfe-
oftheHoufe- Doue, for they (by reafon of their owne dung
good, they fit in) are hot and ftrong in fauour. I am care-

full not to make my caifting too great; I thinke
there is no man but hath that care if hee but vnder-
take torfeed a Hawke. When I find my Hawke in
ftrength of body and ftomacke bettered, I proceed
-. to peppering, (for I will let nothing efcape me vn-

ring, fet downe im the whole praftife of my Hawke, vn-

till I haue made her flying) and although peppe-
ring be as common with euery man as feeding, yet
becaufe I haue knowne and heard of many Hawks
that haue dyedvpon peppering^ when I hadyoun*
ger experience, I grew very carefuU thereof, and
I tooke this courfe : Firft, I made my water feeth,
and then I put thereto a quantity of pepper, and a
leffe quantity of Stauef-racre pounded fmall ; I put
in the leffe of both,'becaufe I feeth them in the wa-
ter, which maketh the water ftrong: When the wa-
ter had fod a while, I did ftreine it through a fine
linnen cloth, which Ihould fuffer neither Pepper
nor Stauef-acre to goe through, and therein I
would then wafh my Haw4ce. My reafon why I

why thus ^^^ ^^^ ^'^^ ^^' ^^^ "^^^ ^^ common courfe of
peppering, is this; The water notftrained through

a cloth, the Pepper hangeth in the Hawkes fea-
thers, and when fhe falleth to pruning of her felfe,
fhee oftentimes getteth it into her beake, and fo it

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Hawkes and Hawking. 1 1

hangeth either vpon the tongue or in the mouth
of the Hawke, and fetteth it on fire, the heate and
diflike whereof maketh many Hawkes to z^^ Especially
their gorge, and fo their fickneffe encreafing, ^'^y^^f.^^sii
dye. Befides, I haue come many times to fome found,
places foure or fine daies, or a weeke after that
they haue peppered their Hawkes : And I haue
feene the backe part of their wings red fo long af-
ter their peppering : There may thereupon grow
(although not fodainely) an incurable blifter,
which will lame his Hawke, and her Mailer fhall
neuer know how it commeth ; but with the rough- ^n office ill
neffe of the Pepper, and with the ill handling of^^^^''^'^'^-
them that haue executed that office, I haue many
timesfeen the skin in that place rubbed off. If any
man will follow my courfe he may, if not, let this
warne him of the inconueniences that follow the Auoyde
other, many Hawkes hauing dyed vpon peppe- ^^^^^ ^''^^^'
ring, my reafon can finde no other caufe than ^'''''''''•
what is aforefaid, or eife a great fault in her kee-
per, that would put his Hawke to fuch a hazard, A fault in
before he had made her body able and fit for it. ^^^'^ k^^per.
My place of peppering (hould be in a very
warme room, although the fire were not very
great I cared not, my time fliould be in the eue-
ning, and for my company I cared not how ma-
ny both men and dogs, the more the better, for The eamefi-
then the Hawke feeing fo many things, that any f^''^^ ^^<^'
one of them might give offence alone, there is thin<rs, the "
now fo much change, men, dogges, fire-light, and leffefhe will
candle-light, that Ihe looketh at all, and knoweth^^'^''^ ^^y-

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not which to be afraid of. Befides, ihe hath a de-
fire to dry her felfe, and fo let her continue vntill
(he be^lty, and hath picked her felfe, by that time
I would thinke it time to giue her fome meate»
& that Ihould be but a little : (he had none aboue
Let her ham one houre before I beganne to pepper her ; my
no meate a- hoode is layd afway with no purpofe to handle it
wum^r t>efore foure and twenty houres were fpent, that
her night Ihe .neuer went from my fill, but when I

entreated my friend to eafe me. But note, I fel-
Sit not Jim dome diddfit ftill with her, but I would walke, and
in manjiing when I walked, or whether I fat ftill, I would en-
your awke. ^^^^^^ ^y Hawke not to be idle, but in this man-
A £ood ^^^ ^^ walke and trauell with me, very often tur-
meanes to ning my hand gently, forward and backeward,
man your whereby my Hawke fliould be made, leifurely, to
remooue her feete one after another, forward and
backeward. I had rather Ihe fliould gently re-
mooue a foote, then with anger ftrike a wing, and
the often remoouing her foote will faue her ma-
ny a bate. It may be your Hawke (good friend)
fhall want that attendance that mine hath had
for a fortnight before, if you faile in the begin-
Obferueihis. ning, looke for no fuccesfuU ending, it is very like
you fliall finde it at this time, when fhee will di-
ftemper and ouer-heate her felfe with bating,
which my former courfes taken with my Hawke,
affureth me that I neede feare no fuch thing. To
proceede, I with my Hawke vpon my fill walke,
and I entreate her to doe fo likewife, by the gen-
tle remoouing her feete, which Ihe Ihould praftife

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Hawkes and Hawking. 15

matter to watch her this night, but it will be al-
moil vnpoffible to keepe her waking. I haue heard
of fome that haue watched their Hawkes feauen
nights and as many dayes^ and ilill (he would be
wilde, Rammijh, & diforderly. Know (good Rea-
der) that a little fleepe will fuffice nature in ^ any
creature, and when a Hawke is vpon the fift, the
man fpending his time with fitting flill, talking, or
at Tables, hee may be vertuoufly fpending his
time in reading the Scripture ; in this time his
Hawke fits ilill, ihe hath no exerctfe, and there is
little difference in this, either to be vpon a pearch
or his fiil : hee may fay, if I ihould fet her vpon
a pearch, whenfoeuer it were in her fight ihee
would bate to goe to it ; I aske what is the diffe-
rence betweene bating to goe to the pearch, or / doe not ai-
bating to flye from all things elTe } And thus you ^^J/^lf^^
(hal neuer haue her awell-manned Hawke. Whaty^/ ^^pon a
are the difcommodities that follow a Hawke ^\xs pearch,
manned ? She will endure nothing, becaufe (hee
hath not beene made acquainted with any thing;
for when her Mailer or keeper ihould fee her to
take offence or diilike, hee will auoyde that be-
caufe ihe ihall not bate : Another- while he cry- All which I
eth out, come not in the taileuof my Hawke; but '^^^^^^^
whofoeuer (hall vndertake the courfe that I haue vfid vnto.
vfed, he (hall finde his Hawke feldome apt to take
any offence at all. In a mans much fitting dill in
the time of manning his Hawke, an eafie appre-
henfion will finde a great errour, for when the TofitJHlian
man fitteth dill, the Hawke fitteth.diU, and if (he <^'^'J^^'

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hath been truely watched, although (he doth not
winke or (hut her eyes, yet her heart may be faft
keeping ; or if it be in the day, fo long as her kee-
per iitteth ftill, fhe will be quiet, but let him but
ftirre and walke, fhe liketh not that, fhe hath fit-
ten quietly vpon his fift, and fhe is very loath to
haue that cuftome broken. Euery Auflringer of
any experience knoweth, that a Hawke thus vfed
will thus bate. Why is it fo ? Not becaufe her
eyes meete with that which fitting flill fhee faw
not, but becaufe now fhe meeteth labour, fhee is
angry and difcontent, becaufe fhee is not as fhee
was fitting at eafe. A Hawke before fhe is truely
manned (that hath been fet & vfed vnto a pearch)
Be is in an will perpetually bate to be there. I hold it a great
^nTthd^^^ error to fet her hooded, becaufe fhe fhould not fee
his Hawke whereon fhe fitteth ; for fure I am this fafhion will
koodedbefore breed more than a little inconuenience, and yet
Jhe be well j^^f^by there is no loue gained from his Hawke.

manned, ^ ^ ,

I haue obferued that it is much walking with

my Hawke that hath wrought fuch good effeft

The Authors vfx her; for in my walking and turning, her eye

objeruation. ^^ ftjn behold change of obiefts, and the ftir-

ring of her feete doth worke as much or more

good in her, for that maketh her defirous to fit

ftill, and defirous of eafe, which bating doth not

giue, and in the fir& making faueth her many a

bate. As at my firft beginning I labor to acquaint

her with whatfoeuer a Hawke may diflike; fo my

The meanes manner of working this, is by that meanes, which

/> w^/? «^<rc/^ otherwife fhe would diflike, and that is carriage,

•^'^- and

Hawkes and Hawking. 1 7

and in this beginning to make my fift her pearch,
vntill ihe be fuch as I would haue her» which this
night and the next day (hall make her, for this
night is but the fecond night ; and now my chie-
feft praftife is the vfing her to the hoode, which
ihe will as familiarly take as the Faulcon. I will
ftiew you my manner therein : I Ihew her the
hoode, put it to and ouer her head many times,
I finde her fo truely manned, as that ihee will no
more diflike the (Iroaking therwith, then the bare
hand, I put it on gently and very leifurely, and
I could neuer meet with any diflike hereof in my
Hawke ; I would either put it on with my full
hand, or elfe holding it by the taffell, whereby Obferuethis.
you may know that it was lefurely & gently done,
which wil be a means that (he ihal neuer hereafter
be coy of it : But if my fine Auftringer will fhew^
his dexterity and niniblenefie of the hand, and
with his finger in her necke thruft h^r head into
the hoode, if he mifle die right doing it, the next
time he commeth in £uch a manner, he may per-
adventure finde her difl:ike, this is the next way
to make her thinke her head fhall be pulled off ;
for the putting it on in fuch a quicke manner, or
thrufting her heade into. the hoode with the finger Auoyde all
behinde, will make the Hawke vnderftand that xxJ"*'^. ^«^''«'^-
is no kindneffe, but violence and churlifli vfage, *
which mufl neuer be oflTered a Hawke, and then
you fhall perhaps finde her diflike your hand and
hoode comming to her, and fo being a little coy
or angry, neuer be content to carry her beake

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right, but tume it in the hoode ; and fo my fine
quicke hand bobbeth his Hawke, and maketh her
vtterly diilike the hoode.
Beware of There is no way but gentlenefle to redeeme a
hafif hoih Hawke fo bobbed, and therefore I aduife thee
not to tnaft to the quickneffe of the hand, but ra-
ther to hold the hoode by the taffell to her head,
& then to put it on leiforely, with a light carriage.
•You may fay (he will not fuffer this ; fo thinke I al-
fo, after (he hath once taken a diflike thereof; but
I fpake in the beginning how to vfe your hoode,
fo as (he ftiall neuer with fuch vfage take diflike
thereof: vfe her as I haue vfed mine, and you (hall
finde yours as I finde mine ; Admit your Hawke
(hall tume her head away from the hoode, I
I could neuer \iXio\f (he will not bate from it, perhaps (he will
dijiempe7 l^^ewife turne her body by the remoouing one or
both of her feete ; vpon the putting her head a*
fide, I would (lill holde my hoode within an inch
of her head, vntil '(he (houl J twrne her head, and
then to put it on leifurely; but if (he ftirre her
body and remooue her feete, then pull backe
your hand, and by turning your body and your
fift whereon (he fitteth, fet her right and fit, and
then holde the hoode gently to her nofe, which
(he will be willing to put her head into, rather
then (lirre any more, for (he knoweth there is no
She will hurt enfueth. I could with ordering of my hawke
finde no hurt {^^ I haue already fet downe) neuer finde any
^hooding! ^ Hawke at a worfe paflfe then fo. Well, (he is now
wel made acquainted with the hood, the morning

commeth

Hawkes and Hawking. 19

commeth, which I haue faid before, reuiueth all Morning
her fpirhs, which before were heauie and dull, at ^^ ^emng
the breake of day getting company and dogges /^ ^,^^ ^
with mee, or in the Towne, or rather where I hawkewell
fhould meete moft paffengers, there would I be ^^«^'^'^«^^-
walking, hooding my Hawke, and fometimes let
her feede after her hooding : After one or two
houres being abroad I would into the houfe a-*
gaine, where my Hawke ihould fhew her felfe as
fociable and familiar as a Lanner. I vfe alto-
gether a lowe pearch, which fet in the middeft,
or in fuch place of the roome wherein I was> as
that both men, women, children & dogs fhould
goe by her, I did not feare although they did ThHrdejire
wipe their Gownes againft her, I euer found ^-^ ^^f^ ^^^^
them fo glad of their eafe. endure all

Thefecond day, I know my hawke is aswelman* things, and
ned as I can defire, it may be I will fet her downe ^^^JoM-
vpon fuch a lowe pearch, and in fuch a place as I them with
haue forefaide, and I know there fliee would fit, all things.
not fearing any thing, and not making one bate
in two or three houres, (if I would let her fit fo
long, which as yet I muft not) vnleffe hunger
fhould enforce her to flirre* I make no doubt but HaueSome-
fhe would be very gentle to take vp, if fhe doe ^^j^S *^
not iumpe to the fifl. Now I follow her with-^^y^^^^^^
caflingSi and I keepe her vpon my fifl vntill I goe
to bed, and now I am able to gouerne her, not
needing any more helpe, and yet I pray thinke, A Hawke
that I know if fhee be not held and kept in this ^^fi ^^ ^P!
good perfeftion, fhe will fall againe : But all ^^^^ perfeBion

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I am able to doe, onely with late fitting vp and
early rifing. I feede her fo as that I know fhe fhall
call betimes, which I will carefully looke for one
houre before day ; and when I take her vp I will
furely pleafe her with fomething, then I fall to my
olde Trade againe, walking abroad as I did be-
fore, vfing her hoode as I finde canfe. I neuer
call her aboue eight or tenne yards, vntill I finde
that fhee is bolde enough and not fearefuU, and
that (he be farre in loue with my voyce, which I
neuer faile to giue her, euen from the beginning
of her feeding, vntill fhee is flying, and that is
lowde enough, as if I were to call her thirty or
forty fcore, although I call her but ten yardes.
Well, when I begpinne to call her in cranes, al-
though it be for fofmall a diftance, it (hall be done
from the hoode, and from the fift of another man,
in manner as your long-winged Hawke is lewred :
and when I call her twice or thrice at a time, be-
tweene euery calling I put on her hoode, and fo
ftill I haue her let in from the hood : Who know-
eth not that a Hawke fet down vpon a ftile,
blocke, or any other conuenient thing, when fhe
ftiall with the often feeing the Cranes drawne
After Jhe is at length, and her keepers accuftomed manner in
once called calling her, foone learne to know that now fhee
ZfmjhT fl^all be fed, & will be ready to follow him before
will not let he Can get twenty yards from her ? But all this is
him goe fine nottothetruepurpofe. Ihavefeena//iflg^<:rr/^^
^^^ ^' foure dayes calling, not fufFer the going from her

fiue yards, but (he would haue been at his elbow,

after

Hawkes and Hawking. 2i

after (he had beene once fet downe, and yet fhe
was far enough from the perfe^ion of comming ;
for it is the voyce that muft not onely in this, but The voyce is
in greater matters^ worke a good effe6l in my '^^^^'^
Hawke. As I am thus calling my hawke in cranes, to your
it is very certaine (he will foone come to that vn- Hawke,
derftanding as that (he will bate vpon hearing my
voyce, before (he be vnhooded, I then (lay my
voyce vntill (he be quiet ; then I call againe, and
then (lay my voyce vntill (he be vnhooded : and
againe, I giue my voyce, not holding out my (id,
vnleffe I fee her comming : My experience hath
taught mee to (lay her, and not to let her come
vntill (he be quieted, becaufe I haue feene long A reafon.
winged hawkes, (with which profe(rion I haue
made an end thirty yeares (ince) let into the lewer
in the time of their bating, when they haue had
their eye prefently fetled vpon fome other farre
remote from the lewer, whether they haue pre-
fently gone, and then not come to the know-
ledge, could not finde the lewer, and lb haue
beene lod. I fpend two, three, and often foure
times of the day thus in calling tny Hawke, then I call my
for the day, for the mod part my fid is her pearch, ^^'^^
and if I fet her downe, it (hall be euer vpon a lowe
pearch, where all forts of people and dogs (hall How I he-
trauell by her, and where. (he (hall fee the fire dir-A«'^ f*^
red and blowen, and wood brought thereto, and ^^
diuers other fuch like obte6ls : She will not for
any, or all of thefe make a bate. In this manner
I haue trained my hawke, that when (hee hath

D 3 beene

22 Bert's Treatife of

__.!_ I ■[[■■■■II.. ■■__■_ , ' -

beene a flyer. I duril fet her downe vpon a Vel-
uet ftoole, in a cleanely kept dyning-Chamber
or Parlour, as the place was whereunto I went,
for I would haue my Hawke as much in my
eye as could be ; perhaps I fhould fee the Lady
or Miftreffe of the houfe looke difcontentedly
hereat, fo well haue I beene acquainted with my
Hawkes good difpofition, that I haue promifed
Anger and if my Hawke fhould make a mute in the roome,
vnqmetnes ts \ would licke it vp with my tongue ; for well I
many mutes, ^new no angry mute flaould come from her,
otherwife flie would not mute; And I knew
well (vnleffe I were negligent, which I would
neuer be) that fhe would not ftirre vntill hunger
did prouoke it : This for the day.

In the euening when I had called andfupped
her, then I would no more let her part from my
fifl, but continue her vntill I fed my felfe, it may
be if I had fuch meanes fhe fhould be vpon the
fifl for that feafon alfo, and fo vntill I went to
bed, (which the loue to my Hawke would not
haue me haflen.) In the morning before day I
would affuredly haue her vpon my fifl, and fol-
low her in fuch manner as I haue formerly done.
There cannot \k{\v^\vi^ that I could neuer be too freqijent with
be too much ^^y hawke, nor fhe with me. My inducements to
betweene the cst^^y her thus in the euening, and nighty would
man and make her loue me as her perch, and by my taking
Hawke, j^gj. ^p £^ early in the morning, I would perfwade

her that there had beene her pearch all night : But
whether my hawke will haue this lowing appre-

henfion.

Hawkes and Hawking. 23

henfion, or no, I know not, yet I am aiTured it
worketh this benefit, that fhe will indure as much
or more than any other hawke not fo delt with ;
And it is this that maketh her fo willing to fit ftill
and take her eafe, and not take offence, although
there fliould fly about the houfe fire, diflies, tren-
chers, and any thing elfe that would mad other
hawkes, they fliall not mooue her. Me thinkes I
heare fome man fay, I haue taken a very painefuU
courfe in making my hawke. I aske who will not
fall one day to be affured that hee fhall feel no A gueftion.
want fo long as hee liueth ? Worke but out your
taske in this fafhion, and you ihall during your
hawkes life finde none but playing-dayes. Let Afweet
me not omit any thing in my proceedings; As iorJaHsfaSiion.
the hoode, I neuer in the houfe let her fit hooded
at all, and when fhe is a flying hawke, neuer
vnhooded in the field. Bee not negligent to-
wards your Hawke at no time, but efpecially
whileft fhe is in manning, if you be, fhee will .
pay you for it in her flying. I am afraid to
be tedious, and I cannot more briefly deliuer
my praftife and my experience, I would glad-
ly walke plainly, and giue unto euery man full
fatisfadlion.

I fhould have forgotten one fpeciall benefit By tkefe
that is gained by your three nights painefuU fol- ^V^^l^^^
lowing your Hawke, that is, fhe fhall not at all km from the
weaken her felfe with many bates; alfo her.fami- Cage^Jhe
liarity will be fuch, as that you may thereby bet- j:'^^^^^^^
ter her dyet in her calling, and of a poore Hawke twenty dayes.

from

24 Bert's Treatife of

from the cage, make her ftrong and full of flefh,

the contrary no doubt followeth thofe Hawkes

that are by fits dealt withal ; one while carefully

watched and manned, and to another time neg-

Thefrtdtsof\t,6i^y and then their dyet Ihortned to make

negligence. ^^^Ci Conformable at a keeper without forme.

Hence proceed the marring of many hawkes, that

when they Ihould be entered and flye, they are

fo weake, as they are not able to fhew what they

would doe if they had ftrength. If this be not

motiue enough to make you haue a care of your

hawkes decaying ftrength, and her falling of

If you will flefh, then know that pouerty is the mother and

h^e your ^urfe of all difeafes : I haue followed aduifing

well, let her too long, and left the deliuering of my praAife.

be full of Now to proceede therewith, my hawke is to be

'^^' called lofe, fhe fliall not be weakened or hanged

with draging her cranes about eight or nine

fcore, and my manner is to call her thirty and

. forty fcore before I put her into a tree, and I vfe

to call her at all houres in the day, I feare not her

comming home vnto me; but admit what I haue

not met with, that fhe falleth off and goeth to a

tree, it muft be want of a ftomacke that maketh

her doe fo, or want of weathering, or bathing,

which I will be fure fhe fhall not want, neither do

I thinke fhe fhould want a ftomacke, which if fhe

Patience is fhould want, that want will make her fit quietly,

an excellent ^^^ j j^^^^ rather attend her pleafure with pati-

vertuetnan . i_ t • r t mi h

Auftnnger. ence now, then when I am m Iport. I will tell you
fomething touching, this point: when I am

trauelling

Hawkes and Hawking. 25

s,

trauelled with my flying hawke, that is as louing
as fociable & conformable to my will in all compa-
nies and times as I can defire ; yet, I do beare her
bare-fac'd for the moft part all my iourney, and
when I perceiue Ihe groweth hungry, then I put
on her hoode, and if there be no prefent hope of a
flight, I fet her vpon the fill of one that knoweth
what doth thereunto belong, then I pray him to
ride hind-moft of the company, and I put my
felfe formoft ; then I call my hawke, when her / call my
hoode being pulled ofi", ftie commeth by all the ^^'^^^ ^j-
company merrily to the fift ; Vfe maketh perfeft- /^^, ^ ^
neffe, thus I vfe my hawke, and flie neuer receiues
meate from me, but I call her. It may be you will
be aduifed hereby to doe the like, if you once
finde the benefite thereof, you will hold the grea-
teft paine in effecting it, fweet contentment and Faifie is re-
pleafure : But to my hawke which doth not fo, '^^YdedwHh
(but granted flie ftiould do fo) make me waite her
pleafure ; I am not hafly to call her vntill fliee
hath taken her pleafure : which with my obferua-
tion, I will foone difceme, and then when I call
her, I know flie will foone pleafe me, and fo con-
clude, we are both pleafed : but if fuch an accident
ftiould befall me three or foure nights before I
went to flye her, I would now not faile but fliew
her a Partridge the next night, if I could get a Youjliall
hand Partridge it would pleafe me, if not, I would >w^ ^ fy«>''
not be at all ferry; but fuch a chance hath ^^'^r^here
dome befallen me, & therfore to hold on with my
true proceeding : when I haue my hawke perfeftly

E comming.

26 Bert's Treatife of

comming, ftrong and in all points £t to flye, the

night before I (hew her a Partridge, at Sunne-fet,

I fet her downe vpon fome ftile, gate, or raile, and

walkefrom her; I would chufe a place where there

fhould be many high trees, I would not giue her

my voyce vntiU (he went to a tree, but I would

keepe my felfe with my company twenty-fcore

from her, vnleffe I fhould haue one, whofe eye

fhould attend her remoue, left fhee fhould goe

from me another way, whereby I fhould know the

better what i had to doe : when fhe doth remoue

and iet vp and downe, then I giue her my voyce,

which fhee is glad to heare ; hauing taken her

downe, I fup her, not putting her vp any more,

This my rea- my reafon for this oouife, fo taken, is this ; when

Jon for my my hawke is in a tree, that hath beene long kept

'^^^ and man'd by me, and a longer time bene kept in

bondage before fhe came to me, now flie begin-

neth to know her felfe, and thinke of what fhee

hath formerly done for her felfe, fhe would get her

A Hawke fupper, and it is fo late that fhee feeth nothing

may befotted whereon to prey, and therefore when fhe fhall fee

ling c^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ight, what is in her power to command ;

drawing af- you fhall not need to bid her goe, but fhee will

ter a man. gjy^ yQy caufe of ioy, to fee with what metall and

fpiritihe flieth. No Partridge in the world can flie

from a good fhort-winged hawke, and the Pur

When you in her fpringing will make any hawke file therto,

enter your jf (j^^ haue been rightly ordered, and in flrength.

Bawkelooke xi-i- i_i- i^iiT^i.

Jhe hath all * aduife you once more, be lure your hawke hath
her rights, all her rights, let her not haue any fmacke of

wildneffe

Hawkes and Hawking. 27

wildneffe, nor want either weather or waten It is
to be vnderilood, that I haue ihewed my hawke
water within two or three dayes after (he hath
beene peppered,, but it (hould be at a brooke, or
fome other grauelly place, fit for that purpofe,
holding my fift to the water, and the end of my
lines in my right hand, if ihe did not bathe at my
firft or fecond day Ihewing her water, but refu-
fed, it fhould be that (he had no defire to bathe,
and that when fhe refufed fo to doe, wildneffe or
Rammifhneffe fhouki not be the caufe thereof : Let her not
if ftie did iumpe to the water, I would haue fome- ^^^^ toflye
thing in my fift ready to fbew her, when fhe made*^^-^/^.'
Ihew of comming from the water ; which fhould though you
make her euer after, when fheie had done^ looke ^^^^^^"S
for the fift, where flie fhould dry, prune, and oy^^jhl will doe.
her felfe, and as yet fhe neuer had other pearch to
weather vpon then myfifl, neither fhal ihe vntil fhe
be a true flying hawke. Now for the place where
I would firft ftiew her a Partridge, it fliould be in
a champion, where Partridges will affuredly flye iTu place to
to a hedge j then my hawke muft needs take ftand ^^^^^^^
vpon a bufh in the hedge, for it is great oddes champion,
that fhe fhall not haue it in the foote, & although
fhe be farre behinde it, yet fhe will affuredly goe Hereof lean-
to the place, becaufe the loue of the Partridge in- notniakeany
viteth it, & it is ods, that neerer then that fhe ^^r^j ;)^.
fhall haue no place fit to goe vnto ; Well at the uer knew it
retroue, there is no doubt but fhee will haue it ; '"^^^S^-
but lay that my hawke eitlier hath it in the foote,
or otberwife^ that fhe was fo neere it that fhe hath

E 2 with

28 Bert's Treatife of

withflriking at it, in thefallbeateitcleane through

the hedge, and there my Hawke fitteth vpon the

ground, it can prooue no worfe; if fhe haue it in

the foote we are all well pleafed. If fhe fit vpon

the ground I ftay both men and dogs, for it may

be it is not flicked. A Hawke that hath thus Ihew-

A Hawke ed her mettle will not fit long fo, but vp unto a

*^h^ ^*^i ^^^^ ' ^^^^ ^ "^^ ^^ quietly, if the Partridge be

is not Co dull ^^ere, it is very lucky, if not, I hold it no ill lucke

as to Jli long to haue fofeopeffuU a young Hawke; but I goe

vpon the prefently about to pleafe her, hauing a browne

Chicken in my bagge, the necke I pull in funder,

but breake no skinne, and tyed to my Lewers or

Cranes, holding the end in my hand, I throw it

out fluttering, and 4:hereupon pleafe her as well

Apreuention as if flie had killed a Partridge : I doe not tye it

^^'^' ' to my Lewers, as fearing her dragging, or offring

to carry it, out of a wilde, Rammifti, or any other

VJe the fame iU difpofition ; for I haue before this tyed a dead

courje, Foule to my Cranes, and throwne it out vnto her,

amongft men, dogs, and Horfes, walking about

her, and thereon I let her take all her pleafure,

but by little bits of warme meate I fup her from

my hand, letting her wholly fee all that I doe,

vntill I fee her ready to forfake the quarrie to

catch my hand, then I deliuer vp more couertly,

vntill I haue her iumpe to my fifl:, where with

plumage or tyring I end her fupper. You ftiall

ExpeSi a bet-\^tx^ltx fiude a better benefit to many purpo-

ter benefit, fgs by your dealing with your Hawke thus. Thus

I reward my H awke vpon her Partridge, and the

commodities

Hawkes and Hawking. 29

commodities thereof exceed their vnderilanding
that haue not made vfe thereof.

As I haue tolde you that I would choofe a
champion-Countrey wherein to enter my hawke,
yet it fhould be fo as that there fhould be fome
fmall hedges : And I haue alwayes this confide-
ration that I will well know, that whither I ride
there (hould haue beene no ftore of hawking and
then I know they can flye no better then a hand
Partridge, and they will flye worfe at that feafon Choofe fuck
then fome Partridges doe that haue beene well ^^^^^p^
flowne too, three weekes before Michaelmas. I flyers.
haue ridden out of Effex into Sujfex, vnto the
Eaft part of the Downes there, to enter my
Hawkes ; Where I haue not failed to doe it, to
the great woonder of the worthy Knights and
Gentlemen in thofe parts, and fome (right Wor-
fhipfull) in the Weft parts of thofe Downes can
witneiTe, that in their company I haue killed for
the moft part of a moneth together with an enter-
mured Gojkawke^ eight, nine, and tenne Partridges
in a day. The day of my going thither, and the
day of my returne to London^ was iuft fine weeks,
and it was a fortnight or more in Michaelmas
terme when I came backe. I killed in that time
with that one Hawke foure-fcore and odde Par- A note of a
tridges, fine Pheafants, feauen Rayles, and foure ^^^S^^^^^^-
Hares againft my will. This is not vntrue, for I
will prefent that much honoured Knight with
one of my Bookes, who faw all this done : And
euery man may know that we loft fome time with

E 3 fogges

30 Bert's Treatife of

fogges and raigne, and my going and comming
fpent foure dayes,

I haue in the Eaft part Ihowne fuch Hawkes,
as there was neuer feene the like there, and all
of . them made in this manner, as I haue deliue-
red. If they had fallen in Fearne, or among
fome fmall fhrubbed Furzes, I would when I
came in but hold vp my hand, and ihe would
prefently be there ; or if any man elfe got in be-
fore me,, if he did not hold out his fift, fhe would
A fweet hght vpon his head. Is not this a £weet comfort,
comfort f^j. f^ jj^^i^ p^jj^^g p j^ y^yj. Hawke be followed

with flying as I vfe mine, you fhall haue no caufe
to complaine of the ftiort- winged Hawke, that if
they fit ftill but one houre they are prefently
wilde, and caret not for their keeper ; you ihall ra-
ther haue a care to-giue her eafe, fetting her ftill
(as I haue vfed mine) vpon a low pearch, and in
the greateft affembly, neuer hooded in the houfe ;
and fo when flie is to weather abroad vnhooded,
vpon a lowe pearch, neuer putting her in a cor-
ner to take weather and eafe in, for neither all nor
none of my Hawks will be difeafed, except of pur-
pofe foule play be offered, which I hope I fhall ne-
uer meet with. If it hath rayned,then you fhall be
The vjing <2/*enforced to fet her high, for if fhe bate to come to
her to a little y^^ either when yow come to take her vp or o-

fuecite us /he

doth Jit vpon therwife, fhe fhall wet her wings> fb as fhe fhall
the pearch haue more neede to weather, then when fhe was

Tomi^iXd ^"^ ^^^- ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^ remember I will omit
lookefor it nothing of my praftife. The manner of giuing

my

Hawkes and Hawking. 31

my cafting ivas ouer-hand without any meate My manner
when I went to bed, although fhe had much meate ^f^^^^s
aboue, it did not hurt : Calling thus giuen could
not hinder the putting ouer her meate, nor ihould
lye in her pannell with her meate, but after the
meate is gone then commeth the calling that ma-
keth cleane, and carryeth away what is left ; Thus
I doe before Ihe is flying, but after Ihe is flying
flie will vpon euery flight take fome plumage, and Sheproui-
therefore with the bones and feathers of a Par- ^^^^^^ff
tridge winge I conclude her fuppen I neuer faile
giuing her callings, for I can finde the perfeft or
imperfeft ellate of my Hawke no better then by
the knowledge of her callings : And I thinke it
will giue the bell inllru6lions to a young begin- a helpefor
ner, euen to know the times of feeding his hawke, ^ yf^^S ^^'
and fo by his diligent obferuation come to better^ '^'''^^'^'
vnderllanding ; I thinke callings are as naturall
as meate : For mine owne part, from the begin-
ning of Hawking, vntill aSter MuAae/ptas, i haue
giuen two callings, and reoeiued two euery day
from my Hawke, and fometimes three.

I mull explaine my felfe thus ; When I haue An explana-
early in the morning: killed a Partridge, and giuen *^^ ^^//

o ' o nuzy not be

my Hawke the head in her foote, which I fudden* mif-under-
ly get againe, for if I Ihould giue herieaue to ed^Jiood.
all the heads, I muH not flye fo often as I doe,
but fo foone as Ihe hath the head, I quickly pull
out the heart, and breake off the winge, and then
holding the heart to her, and bruilingit betweene
my finger and thumbe, flie receiueth it at three or

foure

32 Bert s Treatife of

foure bits, I continuing my hand ilill in his place,
and then cunningly I take vp the head, letting
her iumpe to my fift, where fhe fhall plume vpon
the wing, vntill I haue bitten the skull from the
braines, that fhe may haue them without bones.
But it hath thus fallen out, when I haue fo early
flowne my hawke, that ihe hath eaten the head,
which I haue beene willing to let her doe, and I
haue giuen the heart withall, becaufe there were
An obferuor other hawkes to flye, and no great ftore of Par-
tton. tridges ; by which meanes it would be long be-

fore my turne would be to flye againe, and it
hath fo prooued that I haue not flowne at all ; but
ryding homeward, for fuch is my manner, euer
to call my hawke, I fet her loofe vpon a pair of
barres, going from her, preparing meate for her
dinner, when I had walked about fifty or three-
About tenne fcore paces, I gaue her my voyce, flie made no re-
ofthe docke fpeft of it, that vfually vpon my firfl: call, would
Hawke, '^"^ ^^ ^^ ^y Glb<>we ; I ftayed and maruelled, and be-
caufe the day was glorious, and the time dange-
rous to tempt a hawke to play the wanton, I went
backe (I mull confefle) in fome feare, giuing the
fairefl: words I could to flay her, lefl; fliee fliould
remooue ; good hawke flie had no fuch thought,
but when I came neere her, fhe gaue mee a fmall
cafting that flie had taken in the morning, and
then I gaue her another, which fliee repayde at
three of the clocke in the afternoone.

I haue many times (and lately) feene olde and
fuch as went for moft expert Auftringers,. when

we

Hawkes and Hawking. 33

we haue had a hawking loumey, beene afraide to This hath

haue any thing ftirre in their Chamber, for hin- ^^ '? *^

dring their hawkes from cafting, and to keepe the hiking,

curtaines drawne before the windowe, not fuffe-

ring the leaft light to appeare fo neere as they

can, for that would be another hindrance to their Fall not into

caftin&f, all this while they lye in bed and ffiue ^^^y^^'

aime, and when they are vp they are driuen to

feeke darke corners, wherein to fet their hawkes

vntill they call, when it were more fit they were

in the field to flye.

I dare not reprooue, I know they know their
owne errours. I was neuer yet inforced to flay
for my hawkes cailing^ neither doe you make any
doubt, if you will follow your hawke with that
familiarity as I have followed mine, either inithe
field, or in the houfe, carryed bare-faced in either ifJhebewUd
places, (he will call, or in any of them, to pull off ^^•^ff''^"
her hoode when flie offereth to caft. Not long af- p^ake her
ter my hawke hath caft I vfually giue her a little /»^ it <^*^r
meate ; There is nothing but fickneffe, (a barre ^^^*^^*
againft all good perfeftions) or wildenes, or ram-
miftines which maketh her ftare and looke about
her, which makes her afraid to performe thofe du-
ties, which otherwife fhe would do : The hawks no
better manned then fo, are many other ways more
defeiftiue and diforderly then fo- Thus much for
ordering my hawke with caftings for her dyet

I haue flowne a hawke all one feafon, and ne- My manner
uer fed but vpon the beft meate I could, Ihe neuer of feeding,
tafted Beefe, neither was her feathered meate (but what ifeede.

F very

34 Bert's Treatife of

very fddome colde ; and to helpe her better, a
night did hardly efcape me but I thrufl out the
marrow of the wings of either Ducke, Pheafant,
Partridge, Doue, Rooke, or fuch like, breaking
the bone off at either end, and fo with a feather
the end cut off, driue it whole without breaking
into a difh of faire water, fetting my hawke loofe
This will vpon the Table, I would giue it her betweene
keepeyour my thumbe and finger, which fhe would much
^^^^^^''"^defire, & very much ioy in, & would expedl fuch
kindneffe at my hands. The better the meate is the
leffe will ferue ; your praftife will foone tell you
The diffe- that there is difference betweene the wing of an
renceofmeat oJde Doue, and the wing of a young Pigeon, and
fpeBed, ^^ ^^ much is the difference betweene the wings of a
Doue flying abroad for his foode, and the Doue
long kept in a mewe for prouifiion ; although you
fhall finde the one leane, yet you fhall finde it ten-
der and moyfl ; and the Doue in the mewe, al-
though it be extreamely full of flefh, and with
his eafe and good feed layd with fat vpon the
necke, and vnder the wing, yet this pulled in
peeces you fhall 'finde it hard and extreamely
drye.

Now you vnderfland how I made my hawke
flying to the field, and if you will now fuppofe
her to be truely flying, and that fhe will tend vp-
on the Dogs for a retroue ; for nature will quick-
ly teach her to know what good feruice the Spa-
niell doth her : Say by fome ill accident I miffe a
flighty the Partridge may be runne into a Cony

hole;

Hawkes and Hawking- 35

hole ; it is in Kent a fafe and common refcue : or Naiun tea-
the hawke may ilrike at it in the fall, and fo the ^^\^
Partridge flicke. In Svjfex I haue feene two flights y;,^ hcf^ufi
in one after-noone loft, the Partridge would fall hy any
vpon the hedges which were a rod broad in fome ^^^*^'
place, very thicke, and neuer come to the ground ;
If (I fay) one of thefe or other fuch like accident
ihould befall me, otherwife I held it a very hard
matter to mijGfe a flight, and although I know (if I
would let my hawke alone, and beate to feme her
with one other Partridge) that flie would tend
vpon the Dogs, and fo kill it

I dare do no fuch thing, for I know if I fliould Worthy to be
vfe her much to that, ftie would fall better in loue «'^^^^^^^^^'
with my Dogges then with me, for they anfwere
her attendance with fpringing a Partridge vnto
her, and after a few times fo ferued, although for
want of Partridges they cannot doe it, yet (he will
expert it with fuch defire, as that flie will negleft
my calling her, and fo in the end prooue an ill Letyourcare
commer, and then want no ill conditions ; there -^'T^^^y^'^^'
is no readier way to teach her to catch a Henne ;
one fault begetteth another: If ftie fliould in this
following the Dogs light vpon an Hen, get fome
in your company to runne and catch her by the
legs, letting the Henne goe, if you haue none in
your company that can doe it handfomely, doe it
your felfe ; in fuch manner, and then fetting her
downe vpon fome conuenient place, call her and
giue her fome meate and plumage, and fo flie will
be well reconciled^ and not at all the mere vnfit Make a re-

p 2 to ^<^^^^^^^^'

36 Bert's Treatife of

to flye againe. Now I haue my hawke at this pafie
/ hawke to I define to goe to the couert, if the couert be large
the Couert. j p^^ ^p j^y hawke, not making queftion but fhe

will draw after the Dogs, although I fhould ftand
ftill,(the field hath taught her that ;) If I ferue her
not in a quarter or halfe an houre, I take her to
my fift, and giue her fomething, and then I put
her vp againe, and this bettereth my hawkes con-
ditions : But if I fhould with a vaine hope let her
ThelMwJu (^iij drawe, and not ferue her, I feare very hunger
blafne, will make her looke out to faue her life. The
hawke is not herein to be blamed, for extreame
hunger will make her keeper forget himfelfe. I
pray you note hereby, and by what I haue for-
merly faid, that your voyce, be it high or lowe,
neither your aftion in the couert, is that fhe loo-
keth for, for fhe will giue diligent attendance
vnto the Dogs.

I f I fpring a Phefant, I cannot in the couert haue
my Dogs at that commaund that I haue them in

Uu Md ^^ ^^^^* ^^^ "^^ make aH the haft I can after my

hath taught hawke, I might miffe of the quick finding her, if by

her better, my dogs quefling I were not drawne where fhe is ;

' it is ten to one fhe will not hunt for it vpon the

ground, if fhe fhould it will teach her wit ; but it

is more likely that fhe will, if the couert with

Broome or Furzes be not thicke in the bottome

but that fhe may fee it, fhe will as it runneth tend

it, flying ouer it from tree to tree, and when the

Dogs doth fpring it, fhe is fo ouer it, as that it will

neuer rife to goe to a high pearch, if it fhould the

hawke

Hawkes and Hawking. 37

hawke would haue it before it come tkere, and Ihauefeene
then falling amongft the Dogs they iliiue who ^^^^^^^f
IS molt worthy : All this is quickely done, and be- 2?^^^.
fore the Faulconer can get in to them ; it may be
you fhall finde your hawke to enioy it, if it be
with fome contention adl the better for my
hawke, for it will forbid her not to be too hot of
a Pheafant vpon the ground, and you (hall with
your pradlife finde the profit of it as I haue done;
for in the killing of more Pheafants than I will
name, and I thinke in feauen yeares hawking to
the Couert, I neuer had caufe to cry, Here ret:
For if my hawke hath it not in the foote the firft
flight, when I know my Dogs will not meddle
with it, then I Ihall before I can get to^them affu-
redly here a baye, and my hawke ouer the head
of it, when hauing been well flowne, the feare of
the hawke maketh the Pheafant fit fall: An Eyas
hawke would be hotter, and it may be ftrike at it,
and miffe it, and fo ftrike her felfe vnder the Phe- Thus may a
fant, and then if the Pheafant goeth out vpon that ^^^^^,,
aduantage, it is loft without great lucke. Your pheafant.
Rammiih hawke will not often lofe a Pheafant
thus, flie partly forbeareth, becaufe the Dogs are
fo hotly baying,.and it may be flie hath met with
fome rough dealing amongft them before, but Which I
ftie will fo tend it as that flie will challenge it for ^^f^^
her mafter : And I haue euer had fuch fuccefle thefirH
with fuch hawkes, as what with their true ^yingflying-
and diligent attendance at the retroue, I fliould
feldome finde the Pheafant but i6;high. as that I

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38 Bert's Treatifeof

might take it downe with my hand, or elfe ihake
it downe in my armes ; which done, I would goe
to a conuenient place, whether my hawke would
diligently wayte vpon me, and there holding it
by the l^s, I ihould foone haue my hawke vpon
the body, but I would cleanely put her to the
head, couering the body with my Hat or Gloue,
I would not ilicke to pleafe her well : Notwith-
Handing, fome mens opinions are, that if they be
well rewarded, and kindely pleafed vpon a Phea-
fant, they will forbeare the true ftiuing Partridge:
I know not whether my difcretion hath fo pre-
uailed with my hawkes, or their own good difpo-
fitions haue wrought fuch vnderftanding in
them ; but affuredly I neuer had hawke that I
haue had the handling of from the beginning,
Lorn a Par- but they haue loued a Partridge much better
fridge better then the Pheafant. 1

>S "^ ^^^"^ ^^ "^^y ^ ^ wonder to^fome why I define not |

to haue my hawke take a Pheafant from the
pearch, and further wondred at, why I fhould
allowe of fome contention betweene my hawke
and Dogs. I vnderftand that generally all dogges
are hotter in the couert then in the field, and I
may meete with dogs, that if fhe fhould not be
coye of them, they would endanger her life, efpe-
cially if fhe fhould catch a Hare, and fo might my
owne dogs doe againfl their will. I haue feene a
Pheafant when the hawke hath come to flrike at
him at the pearch, chop to another bough with
fuch skill, as that hee hath gotten a long bough

betweene

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Hawkes ancf Hawking.

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betweene him and the hawke, and with his cun*
ning remoues beate the hawke out of breath, and
in all this conflict would ilriue to get aboue the
hawke ; and when he hath had this aduantage,
goe proudly away, and leaue the hawke out of
breath, or vnable to follow.

It may likewife be faid that I am too perempto-
ry in my opinion, in prefuming my hawke fhal kill
the firft Partridge : For myopinion to the couert,
hauing my hawke fo familiarly made, as that in
the field ihe is wel pleafed with my louing dealing
with her, and will attend my comming in to her,
not fearing any thing fo I be by her: fo would I
haue her in the couert wholly to relye vpon mee,
and be confident that when I fhall come vnto
her, fhee fhall haue her defire fatisfied ; fhe will
fbone vnderfland thus much, with vfing her in
fuch manner as I haue fore-tolde ; and as for my
hawke I am mofl confident in her entring her
felfe, fhe hath no way beene weakened, fhe is fa- Make her
miliar, flroncf, and able, and I know nature hath ^^^^% ^^

11 t 1 % CL n famutar^ or

taught her to do the belt fhe can. ^ife her

You haue formerly been told how and whereA^«^'^ <»«<^
I would enter my hawke, at Partridges that had xu^ttoill
not beene flowne at, and in faire flying; I aduife conditions,
you what to doe, by telling you what I haue
done.

I was entreated to flye a Gqfhofwke of my neigh-
bours, that would not kill a Partridge, nor had
killed one that yeare ; I flew her to the couert,

where

40 Bert's Treatife of

The couert where I fo encouraged my hawke, as that Winter
htndrethnot (j^g proued a good Partringer. This approoueth

ing in the ^^^^ ^^ ^V^Z to the Couert doth not hinder a
field. Hawkes mettle in the field.

I did know Sir Edward Suliard, a Knight of

high eilimation in that Art, as well as otherwife,

for his worthy difpofition, flye a foolifti Gof-

hawke at Blacke-bird and Thirufh, and he was

glad when he had gotten her to that perfection,

to beate it into a hedge or buih : he did it to make

her know that fhe had a commanding power o-

uer Fowle, if fhe would put her felfe to it ; Ihe

proued a very good Hawke.

Hawkes I know many will fay they haue had Hawkes,

^i^mtot^ that if they had once feene a Pheafant, that then

Pheafant they would kill no more Partridges that yeare : It

will flye no is very like there haue been many fuch ; and as

l^arfride ^ eonfeffe that, fo I pray you giue mee leeue to

thinke that the fault was not in them, but in the

vnskilfulneffe of their Keeper.

Some men fo foone as their Hawkes giue vp

a Partridge, doe prefently worke vpon them with

fcourings, and then pinch them and ihorten their

How they dyet, by which meanes they are vnable to kill a

are fade Partridge, or thereby their courag^e is fo taken

vnable to kill ^ 11 1 -n /v i. 1.

a Partridge, "om them, that they will not Ihew what they are
able to doe.

I would aduife you herein, but all is in the
praftife and handling; I will tell you my courfe,
if I meete with fuch a Hawke, and my reafon for

it,

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Hawkes and Hawking. 41

it, contrary to moft mens opinions. I fet vp my

reft that in tenne dayes I will flye my Hawke no

more ; but I ftriue with all the Art I haue, to Reft increa-

bringf her to as much courage and ftren^h ^sJ^^^,^^^^^^^

n 1 1 . t % 1 i. 1 and courage.

euer ihe had, with good meate, and fome other
deuices I would praAife vpon her, (wherewith
you fhall meet amongft my receits, fet forth for
cures.) I would now haue more care in ma-
king this Hawke, for it is credite to make of a Herein true

Buflard a good Hawke. ^nunued

It is not my meate and dyet I giue her muft
alone effe6l this in my Hawke, but a diligent
care ouer her for other wants, as manning, ba-
thing and weathering, all fpeciall meanes to
make a hawke ioy in her felfe ; and ihe fhall
bate as little as I can, for weakning hen

When I haue brought my Hawke to fuch
perfeftion, I dare promife to my felfe Ihe (hall
then doe as well and better than euer fhe did.
Although I haue beene tedious, and at large fet
downe my manner of pra6tizing with the fore
Rammifh Hawke ; yet I doe not thinke there
is any thing fet downe but fome will be con-
tent to haue the reading thereof: and let mee
deliuer this as my laft requeft.

When you haue made a perfe<3t good A Hawke
Hawke, let her not be neglefted, but keepe ^^^^^^^^^^
her fo ; the keeping is much eafier then the tendance.
making her fo.

I affure you in all my proceedings^ from

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42 Bert's Treaii/e of

Iwoiher the iirft to the lafl with my Hawke, I neuer

^m"'fi/'" *°""^ ** painefull, but the comforts I had of

fellmv. ^ goode conclufion fedde mee with fweete

contentment and pleafure. It now follow-
eth ihat I fhew how to reclaime any
ihort-winged Hawke from
any euill condition-

THE

1

Hawkes and Hawking. 43

THE SECOND

TREATISE, OF

Hawkes and Hawking:

PFherein theAuJiringer is taught to reelaime
his Hawke from any iU-condition.

Chap. I.
How to make a Hawke hcode well, thai will not a-
dide the fight of the hcode, 6ut bite at it, and with
her feetefir^e at thy hand and hoode, bate,
Jhricie, hang by the heeles, and will itotjiandvp^
on thejyii and thisjhall be done within fortie
eight h^mres, with leffe then fortie bates.

9 He greateft motiue that fet

« my thoughts a-worke to

* finde out a fecret, whereby

^ a hawke fhould be brought

B< to like of that which flie

^ did moft deteflably hate,

fy was that in my hearing, it

hath been often and many times faid, by many

Gentlemen, of which, fome would fay they

G 2 would

44 Bert's Treatife of

would giue forty (hillings, fome would giue fiue
pounds, and fome other would giue ten pounds
that their hawke would hoode well

Many experiments I tryed, wherewith I
could haue hooded fuch a hawke well, which I
will not publifh, becaufe they brought as much
ill to the hawke in fome other kinde, as the wdl-
hooding ihould profit them. At length I thoght
of feeding a hawke through the hoode, cutting
the hole for her beake very wide, it is but the
marring of a hoode. I would haue the hole fo
wide, as when I did holde it by the taffell, fhe
ftiould very eafily (when it was layd vpon the
meate) feede through it. I would continue fee-
ding her fo three or foure dayes, neuer offering
in all that time to put it on. But now that ihee
was growne familiar with the hoode, all feare
thereof forgotten, which ftie would fhow by her
bould feeding therein, and that fhe fhould make
no fhow of difliking my putting it ouer the
meate, and my taking tt backe.

When I found her thus fecurely feeding, and
her head in the hoode, I would then gently and
lightly raife my right hand, a very fmall motion
will ferue, and fo leaue the hood vpon her head;
Take heed you giue her no diflike by the fodain
putting it on, and by the too high raifing your
hand in this your beginning with her ; & haue as
great a care that fhe be throughly imboldened
with the hoode, before you offer to put it on :
with this pra6life, putting on her hood & pulling

•

It

Hawkes and Hawking. 45

it off, oftentimes in her feeding, you fliall efFe<ft
her taking the hoode to your defire ; prouided
alwayes your pra6life be with patience and lei-
fure : for if you fhall pop it on fodainely, and
with hafle, you may thereby put her in minde
that thereby £he tooke her firft offence : You
cannot wrong her by any other meanes; re-
member alfo to leaue her with the hoode vpon
her head when fhe is feeding.

This I did priuately deliuer to fome of my
friends, by word of mouth, aboue twenty yeares
fmce, and fome did carefully follow my direfti-
on, and did not faile, but brought their hawkes
to fuch perfe6lion, as when ihee was mod dif-
contented, with a ftumpe of a Partridge wing he
would readily hoode her.

Others, whofe patience could not endure
the time whileft they were throughly embolde-
ned with the hoode, and would feede fecurely
and gently in it, would be offering to put it on ;
and then what through her feare, and his hafty
carrying his hand, which encreafed her feare,
brought her to that paffe, that fhee would not
feede any more through the hoode, but with
fuch a cautill feare as that fhee would not be
hooded, but was then as ill as euer fhe was, and
fo much worfe, becaufe he had now bobbed her
with this tricke, whereby fhe might haue beene
taught.

Swolne big with defire to effeft this by fome
more ready & eafie meanes, which might more

G 3 fpeedily

46 Bert's Treatife of

fpeedily be done^ and truely performed. I had
an imagination of this courfe, which here I will
deliuer, by which meanes I brought fiue hawks
and Tarfels to as good perfe6lion as I could de-
fire in the time of keeping my houfe and cham-
ber, being at that time very weake, and all of
them were as much difordered as hawkes could
be, and I deliuered them as gently hooding as
could be defired. After they came vnto mee,
and that I had bellowed them vpon the fill of
' one of my people, I kept them vpon the fill, that
day they came vnto me, and that night they
were truely watched, after the former manner
of watching my hawkes, both man and hawke
to walke, or at the leall the hawke to walke. So
foone as it was faire and light, I did male them
vp in a handkercher, (I pray you vnderlland
thus much, that it is not good Ihee fhould be fed
before Ihe be maled) making it very clofe about
the fhoulders and body : I would not male vp
the tops of her flying feathers, left I Ihould
thereby marre the web of the feather ; her legs
they were laid along vnder her traine, but to
faue her traine from breaking any featiier, be-
caufe her legs and it muft be tyed together, I
plaite a large handkercher fixe times double,
and lay that vpon her legs vnder her traine, by
which meanes, by binding her vp, you cannot
bruife or cracke a feather. There is nothing but
all fafety in this courle.

My hawke thus maled vp, I lay her vpon

Hawkes and Hawking. 47

a cufhion, and carry her vp and down vnder my
arme ; She is now fall fhe cannot rebell, I offer
the hood, whereat although fhe ftrike, and ftriue
to ftirre^ flie cannot : fo foone as fhe is quiet, hol*-
ding the hoode by the taffell, I gently put it on ;
(he cannot forbid it: thus I follow her hoo-
ding and vnhooding ; I lay her vpon a Table, I
walke by her, I put it on, and pull it off very of-
ten ; and if I (hall be made acquainted with any
thing that (he cannot endure, I will then pre-
fent her with that : Say (he will not abide the
fire, or not the blowing or ftirring thereof; I
walke vp and downe before the fire, which (hee
(hould heare blowne, and fee it (lirred and rat-
led together, (he canned bate nor hurt her felfe ;
and when (he (hall patiently lye (till, and finde
that it doth not hurt her, ihee will be the le(re a-
fraid therof, & in al this time I lofe nothing about
my other praftife : It may be (hee is coye and
fearefull of the dogs, I lay her vpon the ground
with her cu(hion, where fhe (hall for that time
haue familiarity enough with them: lying fo,
walking by her, I ply her with the hoode, and
fo I continue vntill night : When night commeth
I vnmale her ; I haue had a hawke thus maled,
that in a winters day (he hath not made a mute ;
admit (hee doth mute, it is great oddes (hee
fhall, (he fouleth none but a few of her fmall
feathers about her tewell, which are prefently
wa(hed with a fpunge without any hurt.

When

48 Bert's Treatife of

When (he is now unmaled, and fitteth vpon
my fift, fhe will take the hoode by Candle-light,
as well as fhe did when fhe was maled, which it
may be fhe would do before fhe came vnto me,
for many hawks will hood by Candle-light that
will not abide the fight of it in the day.

But for your better inflrudlion, it mufl be
with holding it gently to her beake, which fhe
mufl be as willing to put into the hoode, as you
are to put it oa. I pray you let your own rea-
fon guide you thus farre; haftine£Ee to hoode
her, when fhe would not be hooded, brought
her to this imperfe<5lion ; therefore keepe you
as farre from that as may be^ and in this pra<Ffcife
to doe it with as much leifure as may be. It is
not to be belieued how the leafl hafly motion
will put her in minde of what fhe hath formerly
met with. I watched her this night with the often
vfing the hoode, and whether I did fit flill or
walke, I would be fure fhe fhould not be idle ;
belieue it, all this night fhe wiU take the hoode
as well as you can defire, but the queflion is for
the morning : Therefore I would be without
faile walking abroad in the morning before
day, and then and there follow my pra<5life,
when it may be I fliall not finde him contrary
my defire : As I feede often in the night, fo now
I faile not, lefl hunger fhould make him flur, if
he be not coye of the hoode, at or a little before
the Sun rifeth, if they be carefully handled they
are for euer made well hooding. I neuer had any

but

Hawkes and Hawking. 49

but one Tarfell, but with the night and day be-
fore, were made very gentle to the hoode, onely
that one Tarfell I was driuen to male vp againe
the fecond day; I muft let none of them all haue
their full reft that night ; but when they are thus
made, they muft be followed, for feare they fall
againe : Be fure to be abroad early in the mor-
ning, following her with the hoode ; I hope this
is fenfibly to be effe^led by any man ; But if my
hawke turne her head from the hoode, I pati-
ently attend her patience, holding my hoode to
her head, and with turning my hand fet her
right and fit to take it ; but if ihe will be wilde Her watch-
or angry, Ihe cannot vnderftand me. ^^h^\

He that will vfe violence with a Horfe alrea- /^^ /yj^/
dy diftempered, and with fpurre or chaine adde
fury to furie, may perhaps at that time be de-
ceiued of his expectation : So, he that ihall deale
with a man in the time of his impatience, may An example
peraduenture at that time want of a reafonable ^^ cofupart-
hearing ; but giue the man time vntill that hu-
mor be fpent, and fo thy Horfe, and Hawke,
and they will all mildely attend thee.

If your Hawke be diftempered, and you
know no reafou why, vfe her not other-
wife but with a louing refpe6l, and aflbone
as may be make a peaceable loue and reconcile-
ment betweene you ; there is no indifferent hoo-
ding to be looked for by this manner of vfing
her, for fhe muft doe it well in the higheft de-
gree. Hereof I conclude, and fo I proceede to

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50 Bert's Treatife of

the recouery of all other ill conditions. And
firft for a Hawke that will royle and houfe.

Chap. II.

How to bring a Hawke that will royle andfeekefor
Poultry at a houfe ^ to good perfeSlion andjlaid-
nejfe^ and how to get that Hawkes loue in whom
an ill Keeper hath bred fuck carelefnes.

TF a man (hould deliuer among many Auftrin-
^gersy (and fuch that would fcorne that any
man ihould exceede them in knowledge) that
there were a man that would and could recouer
a hawke to good perfe<5lion that were plentiful-
ly furniflied with all faults, and wanted no ill
condition^ I know they would laugh at him, and
fay it were a lye, and vnpoffible : But I auouch
it, and am warranted through my pra<5lifed ex-
perience, not to bluih or care for what they fay ;
but this I aduife them that (land affe^led to
company and good-fellowfhip, to haue care
how to order their hawkes, for now their ma-
ilers ihall finde, that diligence will effed: any
thing, and not vfing carefuU diligence there is
no good to be gotten at their Hawkes hands.
But now to make proofe of my Art, and for
thy inftru6lion (good Friend) you are to note,
you are to deale with hawkes that haue beene
ill handled, and not to beginne with them as
with hawkes from the Cage, for ihe will royle

and

Hawkes and Hawking. 51

and houfe, which at the firfl did come by her
not comming, and her not comming was want
of loue to her keeper; for if Ihe had fo loued her
keeper as that fhe would haue come to him, hee
had beene out of his wits, if hee would haue let
her alone to royle, and houfe.

I cannot otherwife thinke, that hauing this
fault, but ihe is withall wilde & rammifh, which
might be a fecond meanes to make her trauell in
this fort, and therefore your firft courfe muft be
by watching & manning to make her very gen-
tle & familiar, and in that time you muft labour
to get her a good ftomake. It is not fhort meales
alone breede a hungry defire in your hawke,
but continuall carriage, caftings, and often and
cleanely feeding, with cleane and light meate
drawne through water, but after drye your
meate, for if the hawke ihall be fat and in greafe
when Ihe doth come vnto thee, your care muft
be the more for her dyet ; for if flie want meate
wherewith to carry away her greafe, the break-
ing of her greafe will take away her ftomacke,
and her greafe too faft broken, will not onely
make her fickely, but truely ficke, and kill her,
or breed difeafes, fuch as ihee had as good be
dead : Therefore let her not faft, nor doe not
ouer-feede, which fault is as dangerous as fa-
fting ; for with her meate in her mutes Ihee will
fpend more greafe then Ihe can bring vp with
her cafling.

Her greafe gone, and your hawke made gentle,

H 2 your

52

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Wildenes
will not
Suffer a
hawke to
Jhow her
hunger.

your Hawke will quickely (hew a good fto-
make, let not your hafty defire hinder your
good conclufion herein.

When your hawke is come to a good fto*
make and perfe6l gentlenefle, as I did reclaime
my fore Rammifh hawke, calling her to the fift
out of the hoode, from the fift of another man,
in manner as the long-winged hawke is lewred;
you muft obferue the fame courfe, onely diffe-
ring herein, for you muft call her to a catch or
lewer, and therevnto take her as the long- wing-
ed hawke is vfed, wherewith thou muft make
her much in loue with thy fweet and mild v-
fing her, and in doing thus, it will make her
loue thee better then euer (he loued houfe : Let
her pleafe her felfe vpon the catch, offer not to
meddle with it, but let her freely and peaceably
inioy it; and when flie is pluming vpon it,
feede her with bits of good meate from thy
hand, it wil make her look for that fweetnes not
only then when fhe is vpon the catch but it will
likewife make her loue thee when flie is vpon the
quarry. If thou flialt ply her thus with thy hand,
it will bring her to fuch paife as flie will readily
iumpe to your fift from the catch, and the fweet
and often vfing hereof, will make her leaue the
quarry in fuch manner, & fo preferue her fethers
from wetting. At the firft beginning of calling
her, I hope your vnderftanding will aduife you
to haue her in cranes, wherewith if fhe would
checke fhe fhall he preuented, and wherewith

fhee

Hawkes and Hawking. 53

fhee (hall be flaied if fhee' offer to drag or carry
the catch ; for the want of loue to her former
keeper, could not but breed thefe as well as
other ill conditions : but I hope your gentle
vfing & manning her, before you did euer Ihew
Catch or Lewer, hath freed her from thefe, and
your now kinde dealing with your hawke, fee*
ding her fo from the hand vpon the catch, will
giue her fuch contentment, that neuer met with
fuch content before, as that I am perfwaded
fhee will be 'made thereby more trudy louing
vnto thee, then a hawke (hall be made, bought
from the cage.

I pray let vs admit that fhee was a good con*
ditioned hawke once, and would come to the
fifl very familiarly ; how fhould fhee then lofe
this, by her keepers negligence, being not often
or feldome called, and then vpon her comming
(lightly rewarded, fuppofing if hee (hould giue
her any meate, it would hinder her well-flying,
which might fall out to be prefently, but fuch
reward as would pleafe her, will worke no fuch
ill effeft ; and now thou hafl her moft readi-
ly comming to the catch, if thou wik handle her ;
with no better refpedl, but onely caring how
for that prefent to get her to your (ift, and there-
by pleafe your felfe, and not at all her ; (he will
be weary of it, and fuch vfage, and fall to her
olde trade ; which being handled as I haue di-
rected, I would not doubt but to put her vp a-
mongft hens, when at any houre in the day (he

H 3 (hould

54 Bert's Treatife of

ihould leaue them all for loue of mee, and the
catch, which asketh no longer time then
throwing it out; which I would vfe her vnto
euery houre, if I were not fure of my flight.

And this I hope will fuffice for this : But if
you will haue me gprant that which I cannot
yeelde vnto, that hauing flowne a Partridge to
a houfe, notwithftanding all thefe kinde courfes
taken with her, fliee hath caught a Hen, then
let fome one in the company, that can tell how
to doe it, make hafte vnto her, taking vp both
Hawke and Hen, and runne to a ipond or pit
of water, (there is no dwelling houfe inhabited,
and where hens are, but you fliall finde fome
water) and thereinto ouer head and taile wa(h
them both together three or foure times ; then
hauing the hawke vpon his fift, let not her kee-
per Ihew himfelfe vntill he that hath her, hath
with her lines faftened her calling-cranes vnto
her ; then I would adoife her keeper to giue her
his voyce out of her fight, but the hawke to be
ftill held although ihee doth make a bate to goe
to him : He is to giue his voyce but once or
twife, and that is where Ihe feeth him not ; after
when hee commeth neere her let him giue her
his voyce cheerefully ; and let her in cranes be let
goe to him, when he throweth out the catch in
cranes, left beeing wet, fhee fhould defire to
flye to a tree to weather and drye her felfe ; her
cranes forbid it And now you muft not thinke
ihee hath committed a fault, foir fhee hath done

pennance

Hawkes and Hawking- 55

pennance for it, and comming to you (he loo-

keth to be much made of; fatisfie her expedlati-

on, giuing her all the contentment you may: It

is not poflible there fhould be a hawke fo ill but

by this meanes fhe will be recouered.

. It may be fome young profeffor in this Art is

poffeil, that if his hawke be very hungry and

fharpe, fhe will the fooner come vnto him : He

is herein much deceiued ; for vnlefle (he loueth

him very well, hunger is the fpeciall meanes that

draweth her from him» for hunger muft be fa*

tisfied, and her little loue to him will make her

the better pleafed with that (he prouideth for

her felfe, and make her looke out for her owne

prouifion : But if (he be truely louing him, then

there is no doubt but (he would come the readi*

Iyer. Marke then, if this be not the onely maine a fpedaii

poynt, for an Auftringer to haue his hawke in ^^^ ^^ine

lo"e with him. ^ZSJlnL

There be many that will neuer a(fedl my
doilrine, becaufe my courfe herein fet downe is
painefuU ; but what is any thing worth that is
eafily gotten ? but he is deceiued that holdeth it
paineful, for his hawke once well made, (he will
not aske halfe the paines or attendance in the
time of her flying, as other hawkes, that are but
halfe, for halfe made hawkes muft be followed
with. Whenfoeuer thou calleft thy hawke giue
her fome reward vpon the catch, and likewife
pleafe her vpon the (ift.

If I may be fo bolde without reprehenfion,

for

56 Bert's Treatife of

for my recreation, to thinke of a more worthy
delight, I will reft thankful!, I will fpeake of the
Horfeman and his horfe, the Auftringer and his
hawke ; alwaies vnderftand that I acknowledge
the one to exceede the other as much as golde
exceedeth droffe; but what I intend is this,
both horfe and hawke are as they are taught
If a horfe prooue hard-mouthed, a run-away,
carry an vnfteady head, his necke awry, or his
body vn-euen ; nay fometimes he may and will
refufe to turne of the one hand, and fome other
time diflike fome part of the ground wherein
he is ridden, and there will flye out, or perhaps
ftop of his forefeet, without either rucking be-
hinde, or aduancing before, vntili after his ftop,
and other fuch vices, can it be faid that that
horfe hath gotten fuch a fault or faults, other-
wife then through the vnskilfulnefte of his rider,
when the true Artift is not onely able to amend
thefe faults, but in fome parts to amend what
nature hath made defe^iue ? The hawke is fel-
dome feene to haue any naturall defe<5l, and
therefore asketh no fuch Art: Neither doe I
queftion the ftiapes of horfes and hawkes, for
in both kindes their (hapes much differ, but
what I write is for the manner of their making,
for the ill (hape of either of them cannot excufe
their ill conditions ; the worft you can fay by
an hawke for their (hape is^ that Ihee is a long
flender and beefome tailed hawke. I iay aD fea-
thers flye, as horfes of feuerall races, are of

li^^ter.

Hawkes and Hawking. 57

lighter, quicker, or duller difpoiition : So are
your hawkes out of fome Countrie and eayrie,
of much more fpirit and mettle then the other ;
and will aske fhorter or longer time in making ;
but for their vicious making, therein refteth the
comparifon. If thy hawke will not come, or
not abide company, or a flranger in the com-
pany, perhaps not a woman, a basket, a horfe
or Cart, or will royle or houfe, or any of thefe
vices ; can the Auflringer haue a lefle imputa-
tion layd vpon him, then the ill-ridden horfe
hath giuen his rider, which is, he was ignorant
and wanted knowledge ? Alas, fimple Auftrin-
ger, how (hallow is thy Art in refpedl of Horfe-
man-fhip ? and fo much the more art thou wor-
thy of blame : The excellent horfeman will
make and fhew his horfe without any vice; and
fo will the exquilite Auflringer fhew his hawke
without any ill condition : In euery Trade
wherein a man is mofl exercifed, he is mofl ex-
cellent ; Then flriue and labour to exceede
them in fome meafure that haue little skill, for
the ordinary Handicrafts-man pafTeth by with
leffe then ordinary or no refpeft, when the skil-
full is defired and much fought after. Who vn-
derflandeth not that the loue of one Hawke is
more readily gotten, then the loue of another, &
that it is not fo eafie to get the loue of a hawke
that hath beene dealt with and bobbed, as to
haue it from a hawke that hath not beene dealt
with? And therefore in your practice haue

I patience^

58 Bert's Treatife of

patience, and neuer thinke fhe doth well vntill
fhee be wholly at your commaund, thy paines
will be anfwered with pleafure ; worke out the
weeke, and Sunday will be holy-day. I will now
proceede and examine what other ill quality a
hawke may haue* There is an excellent hawke
will fly and kill a Partridge very well, but fhee
will carry it from her keeper when he commeth
in. The remedy.

Chap. III.

How toftay that Hawke that hauing killed a Par-
tridge^ will very vnwillingly fuffer her keeper
to come vnto her^ but will €arry it.

ILTE was an vnkinde keeper, and handled his

^ ^ hawke very ill, fo to get her hatred, from

Dijlikeof whom but through loue he could not hope to

her keeper, receiue any good : otherwife hee was very vn-

or rcLfji- J ^ ' J

mifhnes. skilfuU, to flye his hawke fo wilde and fo ill man-
ned ; for one of thefe muft be the caufe, then by
working the contrary in her, fhee is faultleffe
and will flye the better : If fhee will come well,
then it is not meerely out of diflike of her kee-
per ; and fo much the fooner brought to good
perfeftion : But it may be partly fo, and part-
ly wildeneffe and fammifhneffe, and there may
be a third diflike, which flronglier poffeffes her
then any of the other, which prefently fhall be
deliuered vnto you. Before a hawke be truely

manned

Hawkes and Hawking. 59

manned and made gentle, fhe will neuer learne

good, or leaue bad conditions ; for fo long as fhe

is wilde, ihee is altogether angry, froward, vn-

ruly, and diforderly, therefore be fure to vfe

fuch patience and gentleneffe, as that fhe may

vnderftand thee : then put her in cranes, and fet

her vpon fome mans fift ; haue a dead doue or

fome other foule, it mattereth not although

you ftand not aboue twenty or thirty paces

from her, giuing your voyce as though you

would call her, throw the fowle as farre from

you, as you can, which when (hee hath in her

foote and doth offer to carry, which the cranes Nowjlie

forbid, then know, that it is not wildenefTe or S?^!f w

' , trie cduje of

rammifhneffe, for before this with carriage xn her fault
company thou hadefl made her gentle, neither
can it be that fhe feareth thee, for thou hafl la-
boured before this to a better purpofe ; if you
haue not, I haue fet downe my dire6lions in
vain : If then you haue fo carefully manned
her, as that fhe neither feares you, nor is in feare
of any man elfe ; yet it is feare that caufeth this,
not fearing thee, but fhe feareth the quarry fhall The third
be taken from her by thee, and fhee would be ^^^^^ ¥^^^^

' carrying.

glad to giue her felfe a better reward therevpon

then you will alow of, and the fmall rewards

you haue giuen her, when you haue taken her

from the quarry hath bred this fault ; but this

fault fheweth the hawke hath metall and fpirit // is a good

enough. Well now that fhee is vpon the catch, »^<^ to^ue

and fo long as fhe flands flill, fearing fhee know i^^ fi^^

I 2 not quarry.

6o Bert's Treatife of

not what, (land you ftill, not offering to goe nee-
rer then you are, vntill Ihee fall to be bufily
pluming, houlding the cranes fail, and continu-
ally gluing her your voyce : When fhe falls to
plume, walke gently to her, flill giuing her your
voyce ; and whereas her feare was the quarry
fhould be taken from her, let her finde altoge-
ther the contrary, let her inioy it ; and take this
courfe, whereby you fhall foone winne her fa-
uour, that at any other time ihee will not onely
giue you leaue, but louingly expeft your com-
ming vnto her, haue in readineffe her fupper or
breake-fafl, or at any or euery time of the day
fuch meate as is warm and good, (her tafle is
very good, although it cannot compare with
her fight) feede her therewith by little bits out
of your hand. If fhe look at you for more, for-
bearing what is in her foote, then doe you for-
beare to giue any more vntill fhe fall againe to
plume, then giue her your voyce, and feede her
fo againe. If you will doe thus, you fhall
finde her looke as earneflly at your hand for re-
ward, as a hungry Spaniell will looke for a
crufl, and fhe will be fo pleafed with your voice,
as when fhe hath a Partridge in her foote, fhee
will diligently attend and flay your comming,
when I thinke hereby you are well taught how
to vfe her : And now for this fault I may con-
clude, and inquire what other fault may dif-
grace a hawke : She will carry it to a tree.

Chak

Hawkes and Hawking. 6i

Chap. IV.

To reclaime a Hawke that will carry a Partridge
into a Tree,

TT is fo lately fet downe how to ftay a hawke,
^and make her louingly expeft your com-
ming vnto her, as it is frefti in memory. Your
hawke being brought to that pafTe, this fault wil
foone be left, I haue approoued it : So foone as
your hawke is gone into the tree, get all the The remedy.
company to goe vnder her, vfing as fearefuU
noyfe as they can, Ihewing Hats and Gloues,
which will foone make her remoue, but it may
be to an other tree, follow her againe with the
like noyfe, there is no doubt but it will remoue
her, if not, they muft vfe fome more violent
meanes, as ftriking the tree with (licks, or throw-
ing cudgells vp, (he may peraduenture remoue
twice or thrice before (he come to the ground,
but fo foon as (he is come to the ground, wherof
you (hall not haue fo great caufe of ioy, but (he
will ioy more to heare your louing voice, which
I would then haue you freely and familiarly
giue, when (he will foone vnderftand (he (hall
enioye what (he hath with fweet content and
quiet.

I 3 Chap.

62 Bert's Treatife of

Chap. V.

ForaHawke thatfofooneasjhe hath caught a Par-
tridgCy will breake and gorge her f elf e vpon it,

npHe caufe of a griefe knowne, the difeafe is
^ foone cured; and fo it muft be enquired
how Ihe came by this foule fault, and then it is
foone remedied. I cannot vnderftand it fhould
be any otherwife then thus, at the firft when fhe
had caught a Partridge, and before you come
vnto her bad begun ne to feede, and peraduen-
ture fed fo much as you feared it would hinder
your whole dayes fport, it could not but moue

The Caufe, fome paffion in you, which you fhould haue
diffembled \ but it could not be but with fome
impatience yOu take her from the quarrie, not
fuffering her to eate any more, which now at
the firft fhe did fall vnto by chance ; but now
fhe hath found the f weet thereof, and the wrong
you offered her in fo fodaine taking her vp,
will make her the next time more earneftly and
with the more hafte to feede, remembering how
fhe was taken from it before, left fhe now be fo

The remedy, ferued againe : The beft remedy is this, when
fhe fhould flye to the next Partridge and kill, if
you come in vnto her before fhe breake (it may
be fhe may catch it neere you at the retroue) let
her alone with it, and feede her with your hand,
fhe fitting vpon it, as I taught you before : If

by

Hawkes and Hawking. 63

by chaunce fhe happen of a bare place, be not
difcontented, but plye her with giuing her meat
from your hand, and let her eate in fuch abun-
dance vntill (he doth forbeare to eate any more ; In her plu-
it (hall not be amiflfe when you haue put on her ^^^SP^* 0^
lines to pyne her downe at length, and whether
fhe hath it in a ditch, bu(h, or hedge, neither re-
ward her, nor any other hawke, vntill you haue
her in the plaine, and that will make them fo
foon as they haue a Partridge get out with it into
the plaine ; then if (he bate vpon any extraordi-
nary occafion, (he (hall not goe away gorged.
You muft not now be fparing of your labour,
for if you fpend three or foure houres in thus
feeding her, ((he will not be fo long in feeding)
yet with the Partridge in her foote, whereon al-
though (he will not feed, (he will be vnwilling to
part from, let her enioy it, & be often offering her
meate, and when you (inde that (he is careleflTe
of the quarry, take her to your (ift ; it may be Afuppofi-
in your firft entring, you were too fparing in ^^•
your reward, but howfoeuer (he commeth by
this, in following this pra6lice but twice or
thrice, you (hall with kinde handling her in her
rewards, which (hould be much from the hand,
you (hall haue her handle a Partridge, as that
you may at any time take a liue Partridge out
of her foot, to enter one withall. And thus I con-
clude for this, vnleflTe you will fay (he hath al-
moft eaten the Partridge before you come to
her, I fay let her eate, and feede her ftill with the

moft

64 Bert's Treatife of

moft prouocation you can, no doubt it will
make her very choyce how fhe feedes after Ihee
hath beene fo ouer-fed, and after fhe hath been
twice or thrife fo dealt with take leifure. A
hawke loueth her keeper very well Ihee will
draw after him and come at his pleafure, fhe will
in her drawing be flill vpon the head of the
dogs, but when fhe hath killed it, will carry ve-
ry fouly.

Chap. VI.

How to v/e that Hawke that will carry for feare
of the dogges.

T Mufl herein fuppofe that fhee will draw after
^the dogges, or otherwife after her keeper; but
fo foone as fhee hath the Partridge, and as foone
as the dogges come to her, fhe carryeth away
the quarry ; this can be but to the next hole to
hide her felfe; but then if the dogges fhall follow
her thither, and thrufl her out from thence,
Examine by herein the hawke is not to be blamed but the
which, it Spaniels, that better deferue a haulter then a

foone rt T nil 1 n

amended. crufl. It muft he thought vpon how Ihee came
to be thus fearefuU of the Spaniels, it could not
be in the field, becaufe the Faulcknour fhall be
at the retroue, and then hee is onely to be bla-
med, that hath not taught his Spaniels better ;
if by neither of thefe, then this mufl be gotten
by very foule dogges in the couert, where if the

Spaniels

Hawkes and Hawking. 65

Spaniels be but a little hot in their fport, xtMyobferua-
teacheth the hawke mofe wit then knauery ; for *^-
as I haue partly faid before, (hee will not be too Not to hunt
hot vpon the game for feare of them, but will-^-^'*^ ^^^'
truft to my helpe, and will tend it fo as that fhe tk^ ground.
will not lofe it, fo that I fhall be fure to haue it
of my owne catching. I reape this benefit by
her feare, that fhe will not ftrike at the Pheafant
vpon the ground ; for if ihee (hould fo doe, it is a difiommo-
great ods but fo fhee miffeth it, and if it then ^^^y-
fpringeth, it is more ods, but it is cleane loft ; but
if fhe tend it, and the doggs, as I haue forefaid, it
is great ods but it goeth to pearch^ from whence
it is likely it will neuer flye, but by my hands is
to be deliuered to her; I doe not as I haue ieene
fome doe, toffe it vp high, that thereby fhee
fhall catch it, and fo fall among the dogs, which
as they fay, doth imbolden her vpon the dogs. Some mens
it mufl be there fo, becaufe fhe knoweth fhee is opinion,
not able to carry it from them, but when fhee
is in the field, and hath a lighter matter in her
foote, it may then worke a worfe effedl, and ha-
uing field-room & fight whether to carry it in
fafety, fhe will remoue. The difcommodities that
I haue met with in hauing my hawke take a Phe-
fant from pearch, fome I haue before fet downe,
in the feauenth chapter, & this is an other; Many
times fhee hangeth of one fide of the bough, ha- Freuent
uing fafte holde vpon the Pheafant, and theJ^^J^^j^
Pheafant vpon the other : whether your hawke'^^4/'^'^
receiueth hurt hereby or no iudge you ; and the any ilL

K like

66 Bert's Treatife of

like mifchiefe muft needs befall, when a Phea-
fant is toffed high vnto her ; for when Ihe catch-
eth it fo high, fhe will not fall plumme downe
therewith, but will a little flriue to Ihew her
ftrength, and then the Pheafant hitting a bough
neuer fo little, although the twig be very little,
if the hawke letteth it not goe, (he muft needs
hang as before : I defire not to make my hawke
hot in the couert, my reafons before expreffed
may fuffice ; but thefe inconueniencies may ad-
vife other men how to deal in this cafe : But in
No inconue- my praftife I am fure there is no inconuenience
ntence. ^y carrying it into a plaine, and there to ferue
her as I vfed my rammiih hawke ; I am well affu-
red that thereby I make my Hawke as truely to
loue mee, as a Hawke can poffibly loue a man ;
and this benefit thou ihalt finde it worke in thy
This good Hawke that will carry, it will make her fo to loue
tnfueth, x}ci&^^ and to affure her felfe in thee, as that if fhee
doth carry a Partridge for feare of the dogges,
yet hearing thy voyce fhee will be fo confident
and fecure in thee, as flie will ftirre no more ; for
fhe knowes fhe fhall haue her reward with qui-
etneffe. If your Spaniells will not leaue to fol-
low her, but be more ready to beat her out of the
country then otherwife ; if you will not part from
them, God fend him forrow that loueth it.

Chap.

Hawkes and Hawking. 67

Chap. V I L

How to vfe a Hawke that will carry a Partridge
into a tree^ and will not be driuen to the ground^
but there will affuredly eate it.

^TpHere is no Hawke trayned as I haue done
^ mine, and as I haue taught to vfe yours, will
fuffer fuch a vice to take hold of her : but I muft
not ftand vpon, if ihee had beene thus, or thus
dealt with, this would neuer haue beene, but
now wee muft feeke to amend it ; and fay fhee
doth it neither for feare of man nor dog, but out
of a naturall difpoiition, and accuftomed pra-
6life, let her be Ihort coped, fo I would aduife
all fhort-winged hawkes to be vfed, for the fafty An obiec-
of thy owne hands : It may bee obiefted, how ^^'
fhall fhee then hold a Pheaiant ? How haue my
hawkes done that would hardly miffe a Phea- An/were.
fant, and all of them fhort-coped ? I will now
deliuer a truth, for the af5firming whereof I am
willing to take my oath ; I had a Tarfell of a
Gofhawke, that one after an other, let two Phea-
fants flip out of his foote ; I was thereat much
perplexed, I found many of their feathers, but I feared the
neither of their bodies : ftanding with my hawke-^^^^^ ^^
vpon my fift not knowing what to doe, whether
I fliould flye any more or no, the wood was
large, but the groath of two or three yeares ; as
I ftood ftill, a Cocke did fpring very neere mee,

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my Hawke did neither fodainely nor earneftly
bate at him, yet when he did bate I did let him
flye, when he fhewed he neuer meant to catch
it, but flew to marke, and I faw him darte vp
into a fpeare, I made hafle vnto him, and I did
fpring the Pheafant iuft vnder him, hee turned
vpon his ftand, and then flew after, not lofing a-
ny ground of him, but when he plained to fall,
he caught him by the head, and did hang almofl
a yard from the ground, I came to him, layd
him in the piaine, and couered his body, fo hee
had as much pleafure and as good a reward as I
could giue him vpon the head and necke : After
this I affure you in all the time I kept him, & in
the killing of very many Pheafants, which then
were very plentifuU, hee neuer made mee a re-
troue, but would moft affuredly haue him by
the head at the fall, when the Pheafant would
His nature lye ftretched out at length and neuer ftirre fea-
T^.^^ 'jr r then If when I had drawne a couert, a Pheafant

Jprtnge^ if jo , - . , , . , -

caught had gone to pearch, hee would come and lit
neere him, but not in that tree; put him out, he
would take an order with him, he fliould neuer
fall more, but when he had him by the head. It
hath beene faid that hee killed one olde Cocke
that had beaten an excellent Gofliawke of olde
Sir Robert Wroths, & Matter Rainefords hawke.
I could neuer meete with any Pheafant that e-
uer ferued me fo ; and I deliu^r this vpon heare-
fay. Now your Hawke is thus coped, take a
leather in all poynts fafliioned like a bewet, put

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it about her hinder tallent, and then button it TTupraBife-
to her bewet, whereon her bell hangeth, and it
will fo holde vp her tallent that fhee cannot at
all gripe with it, then fhee cannot fit vpon a
bough, holde a Partridge, and feede. For a plai-
ner demonftration, make your leather in all
poynts like your bewet, for the length, that you
muft make fit to holde vp her tallent in fuch
place as you fhall fee caufe, I aduife you make it
not too fhort, left it ihould hinder her truffing
a Partridge, and fo be difcomfited ; cut a little
flit in the midft of it, or neerer the button then
the midft, as you do in the leather wherewith
you couple your Spaniels, and as you faften
that about the ring of your couples, fo faften
that about the tallent of your Hawke, and fo
faftened, button it about the bewet, as you but-
ton the couples about the Spaniels necke. Here-
in you are fatisfied ; let vs now enquire for more
ill properties.

Chap. VIII.

How to reclaime a Hawke that will neither abide
Horfe-men, Strangers^ CartSy Foote-men or
Wometij and fuch like.

T Et it be enquired how Ihe came by this coy-
-*^neffe, and why ftiee fhould not endure all
thefe, or any of thefe, as well as other Hawkes :
There can be nothing faid for it, but that fhee

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hath not beene well and orderly manned ; then
it fliould appeare that well and orderly man-
ning them fhould make them familiarly endure
thefe or any of thefe, and fo it will ; but now it
muft be done by other meanes. You well vn-
derftand the courfes I haue vfed in manning my
hawkes, which truely praftifed vpon them, there
fhall no ill condition follow them : But when
a hawke is but halfe made, then (hee falls from
bad to worfe, and fo fhe is harder by much to
be reclaimed then fhe was at the beginning, and
will aske more tendance and refpedliue care to
holde her well at the fecond making, then a call
of hawkes, wellmade, in their firft handling. Be-
fore you beginne to practice vpon her let her
be watched, and carried a day or two, when you
haue fo done, if fhee haue a good ftomake, you
may the fooner beginne with her, and yet fhee
may haue a good flomake, but rammifhnes will
not fuffer her to fhew it There is nothing to
be done with fuch a hawke, vntill by watching
and manning fhe be brought to patience, which
done, beginne thus ; finde out fome place where
there is fome great affembly either at bowles, or
fome fuch other exercife, and hauing her in
cranes there, fet her vpon fome mans fifl:, & let
her iumpe to a catch, and thereupon dandle the
time with her : This mufl be done many dayes,
and many times in the day. I would be neere
fome Market- Towne, where vpon a Market-
day I would find fome conuenient place, where

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Women with their Baskets, Horfes with loads
vpon them, Carts with their carriage, variety
of coloured Horfes, and paffingers-by in diuers
paces fhould come by her, there I would be
fare to fpend the whole day in playing with her
in fuch manner vpon the catch. If you will
aske me how long (he will be in making famili-
er with all thefe things, I fay you will neuer do
it, if fo foone as you haue ended your praftice,
you goe and fet her downe to growe wilder,
and be the fecond day as ill as fhe was at the
firft; but in the continuance hereof three or
foure dayes, and thy carefuU attendance ouer
her day and night, will greatly preuaile with
her: I would not doubt but to make fuch a
Hawke with my diligence and paine (vfing her
as I haue herein taught you) to fit vpon the pelt
in the Market-place, nor fearing nor caring for
any thing, {ajffiduajiilla/axum excauat) bath not
God made all Creatures } haue not wilde Stags
by watching & manning been driuen like cattel
vpon the way ? What is it that man cannot ef-
feft, if he wil thervnto apply himfelfe ? If one day
will not ferue the turne, take two ; if not two,
then ten, and twenty more, but I would haue
my trauell fatisfied with a fweet conclufion.
There is fomething elfe to be thought vpon, and
therefore I will proceede.

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Chap. IX.

What courfe is to be taken with a Hawke that hath
fiowne a Partridge, and will continually Jit
vpon the ground at markcy and thereby is likely
to beate out her /elf e from her true flyings by
ntijffing of many flights.

A Special! care is to be had herein how you

^^flye your Hawke, which muft be as the

Countrie is where you flye your Hawke, as

In the thus ; if it be in the Champion, then you muft

Champion j^^ fly^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Partridges, there Ihe can-

fltefarre off. { r r- ^ r ^ i. i/i

not lofe fight of them, and yet it may be Ihee
fhall not fee the fall fo well, but being farre be-
hinde, if ihe be in ftrength and courage fhoote
vp to a tree, for (he is more then a dull-fpirited
Hawke, and I thinke there is not fuch a hawke
will flye home a Partridge, but flie will ftirre or
hunt for it if (he be neere it at the fall, or foone
learne to goe to a tree, which I faid before I
would haue you preuent, by flying farre from
the game, when flie fliall not be inticed by be-
ing neere to" them to fall vpon the ground. If
this pleafe you not, goe hawke in the Wood-
land, and make choyfe to fly at fuch Partridges
A contrary as will flye to a woode : Here your courfe muft

1w^^/^ ^d^ ^^' ^^^ ^^ y^" ^^^ ^" ^^^ Champion, but to flye
as neere them as may be, for feare, if flie fliould

be farre behinde, fliee ftiould lofe the fight of

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them, but being neere, they then tempt her to
fall in the wood vpon the ground ; then let her
fet and hunt vntill ihe be weary of fo doing, be
carefull not to fuffer a dogge to goe vnto her,
neither let her hear your voyce at all ; at length
fhee will finde that there is no good to be got-
ten by walking, and then fhee will vp to a tree ;
now your owne knowledge affureth you XlazX. it is the
out of the wood the Partridges will not flicke,^'^^^^ ^^
and that putting your dogs into the wood you*^^^
(hall be fure to (hew her a flight, wherewith if
jQie fall againe, I would without queftion let
her alone vntill ihe fliould wifh (he had her fup*
per: if in the wood-land you fliall fometime
make her draw after you, and ferue her with the Draw not
Spaniels, it will doe her good ; but the generall ^^^ htmjts.
pra6life will very quickly worke wit in her. And
thus much for this, hauing a little fpoken of it
before.

Chap. X.

That the Tar/ell is more prone to thefe ill conditu
ons then the hawke^ and how to reclaime him
that will feeke out for a Doue-haufe; with
which fault I neuer knew Gofhawke tainted.

A LL my proceeding and direftion hath been
^^ wholly intended for the reclayming and
making the hawke, which is all one for the Tar-
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in the fame manner as is the Gofhawke, but
there is one vile quallity that I haue heard a
Tarfell would often pradlife ; wherewith I ne-
uer yet knew Gofhawke tainted, and whereun-
to a Tarfell would neuer fall, if he be handled
in that forme that I haue fet downe. Some Tar-
fell after a Haggourtly or Rammilh difpofition,
The keepers will vpon the miffing of a flight, not ftay at
^ marke your comming to feme him ; fome other

will fit fall vntill fome ftranger fhew himfelfe,
and then he is gone : Thefe quallities follow ill
manned hawkes, as well as the Tarfell ; this is
nothing but wiideneife ; want of true manning
brought him vnto this; & he is of this fault to be
reformed as is the hawke, by feeding often, and
many times in the day amongfl a multitude
of people in cranes, vpon a catch, where you
muft make a true pra6life, with feeding him
from the hand : It may be faid he will kill him-
felfe before he will be quiet in fuch an aifembly,
he muft be then watched and carryed bare-fafte
vntill he be fo gentle, as that he will indure all
company, and then vpon the catch thou fhalt
make him fo in loue with thee, with thus vfing
him vpon it, as I haue formerly fet downe, that
hee will indure all things whatfoeuer. I haue
heard, but I thinke it was more then truth, that
a Tarfell royled from marke, and was that night
taken in a doue-houfe eameftly feeding vp-
on a Doue, twenty miles from the place
from whence hee was flowne : It is beyond all

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vnderftanding, that louing and knowing a doue-
houfe well, as he did, he ihould trauell fo farre
before he ihould finde one fhould pleafe him,
and this ihould be in a country that of my
knowledge affordeth plenty of doue-cotes : But
truth is, fuch was his fault, that vpon euery lit-
tle difcontent, he would fo pleafe himfelfe; from
which hee is thus eaiily to be reclaimed, but be
fure by watching and manning he be made ve*
ry gentle before you begin thus to pra6life, then As gentle as
call him in cranes to a catch, as I haue taught ^ ^'''^^^•
you to doe a Goihawke that will houfe, feed him
in the fame manner, and call him vntill you
finde that hee will come fo foone as the catch
is throwne out, it may be a doue that hee k>ueth
fo well, but it is not much to the purpofe what
foule it be, although it be a Lewer well garniih-
ed, for he will foone fall in loue with any thing
wherewith he ihall be fo well pleafed. When he
is brought to that paffe that he is truely in loue
with thee and the catch, comes readily, and will
indure all company, then vfe him to draw after
thee all times of the day, and take him downe
very often : I would aduife that in the euening
hee might be called neere vnto a doue-houfe,
where fome of purpofe ihould fhew and ilirre
the Doues, that if hee went into the houfe,
one of your company, rather then your felfe,
might be quickely with him, hauing in a
readineife prepared a boxe filled with beaten
Pepper, and where hee hath broken the Doue,

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ftrewe Pepper aboudantly, and fo haue a i

care that fo foone as hee fliall bare a new \

place, that you prefently plye that place with j

ftrewing more pepper, which will foone make
him diflike fuch and fo hote a dyet, and make
him fo much the more to loue him who ftiall or J

hath fo kindly vfed him. I would fhew my felfe
a little negligent, and not with much hafte to j

take him downe, when he were fo neere that he
loueth fo well, for now you are fo neere him,
as you would quickely be with him to giue vn-
to him more than hee would eate, and thereby
make him out of loue with a Doue-houfe. It
may be faid this is the next way to kill him ; no,
he will caft his gorge, wherein there is no dan-
ger or caufe of feare ; when a Hawke cafteth
his gorge vpon diflike of his meate ; for fome-
times the lying of a bone awrye will make him
caft his meate, or part of it : but if a hawke ca-
fteth his gorge, and the meate ftinketh, this is of
an other caufe, he is then (icke, his ftomake can-
not digeft what nature deiireth, and fo the con*
tinning thereof, with a defire to put it ouer and
cannot, putrifieth the meate and ftinketh, and
maketh that hawke in a defperate eftate. Your
feruing your Tarfell thus ftiall not affed: any
fuch matter, but hee will finde a difference be-
tweene fuch a diftaftfuU fupper, and a fweet
pleafing breakefaft, which I would aduife fliould
the next morning be giuen in Cranes, where
the fweet hand and kinde dealing with him

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vpon the catch will day him or any hawke from
royling. When he is thus made, keepe him fo,
and that muft be with continuall familiarity : If
I thought a hawke fo gentle and familiar could
be drawne by any meanes from her keeper,
then I would fet downe another courfe, which
although you Ihall neuer haue neede of, I wiil
fet downe. When he is at the height of his fa-
miliarity, cut out of either wing three of his beft
flying feathers, and put to his heeles a knocking
paire of bels, and fo traine him when his want
of power will hinder his defire to trauaile fur-
ther, then you may with eafe follow him ; and
I would wifh you to follow him fo as he fhould
not fee it, but be continually thirty or fortie
fcore from him, and fometimes giue him your
voyce. If you finde him not inclined to heare
you (which fhould be more flrange to me then
any thing belonging to a hawke, if hee be made
gentle and in cranes well-comming as aforefaid)
then get one with you that may follow him, but
neuer offer to take him downe, but let him be
as neere the Tarfell as may be, who when hee
the hawke remoueth, by his voyce he may giue
you knowledge thereof, when 1 would aduife
you to giue him your voyce, and call him, but
goe no neerer vnto him. When it groweth to
that houre that you thinke hee will remoue no
more, then let a Hue Doue, by him that is with
him, be throwne out in a paire of cranes, and To
foone as he hath it, let him be beflowed vpon

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his fill, vntill he commeth home, where let him
faft vntill you goe to bed ; then for his fupper
giue him a fet of ftones and knots, (the number
and fize I will deliuer hereafter, with their pro-
fits :) The next morning carry him abroad
with you an houre before you call him, then let
him goe at liberty : You haue your friend if
neede be to follow him, whereof there fhall be
no need ; then let him fee you kill and pull off
the feathers of a Pidgeon,^ and before you call he
will come fo foone as you throw out the catch,
and if he could fpeake, thanke you. When you
haue made him fuch as you would haue him,
then put in his feathers againe, which I hope
were fo carefully cut out, and well preferued in
a booke vntil you fhould haue this vfe for them,
that hee may be better imped with his owne
feathers then it is poffible to impe a hawke with
any other then his owne, and he will not fly one
pinne the worfe. I cannot in my vnderftanding
thinke of any other fault that my Hawke
hath, and therefore hereof I muft of ne-
ceflTity leaue further to fpeake ; and
fo proceed with my cures, which
follow in this third and
laft Treatife.

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THE THIRD

TREATISE, OF

Hawkes and Hawking :

Wherein is contained Cures for all knowne

Difeafes; all which haue been praftifed by

my felfe more vpon worthy mens Hawkes

that haue beene fent vnto me, then

vpon an; of my owne.

FirJl,for the heake, mouth, eyes, head, and throat,
and of the feuerall grief es there breeding and
offending.

'J N the Beake there is a drye
Canker, whereof I haue little
defire to write, becaufe it is
I fo common, and the cure as
f eafie ; but to him that know-
l* eth it not, this (hall giue
' him fufficient vnderftanding :
That it flieweth it felfe white in that part of the
Beake where it is, it may haue a cracke or 6awe

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in it before you Ihall difcouer it, vnder that
white it eateth into the beake. With a knife pare
the white off fo farre and fo deepe as it hath ea-
ten into the beake : with a piece of glaffe new
broken you may fcrape it, and make it more
fmooth then you can with a Knife. After you
haue fafliioned the beake fo well as you can,
walh it either with the iuice of a Lemmon, or
with a little Wine-vinegar, and it will require to
be no oftener dreffed.

A Medicine for the wet Canker in the mouth or
Beake ^ which willeate into her eyes andbraine^
{and vnleffe it be killed) it willfoone kill her :
And this is more common with the long-winged
then the Jhort-winged Hawke : This of my
owne praSlife, and how dangerous foeuer itjhall
appeare to him that hath not made vfe thereof
belieue me, in the adminiftring thereof there is
nothing butfafety.

npAke Aquafortis, you fhall haue it at the
^ Goldfmiths, for there is moft vfe made of it ;
there is fome of it made more ftrong then other,
but how ftrong or weake foeuer it be, you Ihall
quallifie them in this manner.

Haue in a readineffe a porringer of fpring-
water, and a feather in it, then poure fome of
your Aquafortis into the deep fide of an Oyfter-
ihell, where you Ihall fee it prefently boyle, as
if it were ouer a fire, and would foone eate

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through the Oyfter-fhell, take your feather in
the fpring-water, and therewith of the fame
water, drop into the Aquafortis that is boyling,
by drops, drop after drop, vntill you Ihall fee
it leaue feething, then for your vfe put it into a
vioU, and we call it Aquafortis quallified. Now
you are prouided oi Aqua fortis \n his vigour
and ftrength, and you haue it alfo quallified. For
the Canker, I would advife you to take the
moft fpeedy and moll fure courfe to kill it : And
therefore for cure thus proceede : With a quill
made fit for the turne, fearch the fore well, and
take off the roofe, (that couereth and groweth
fall to the fore,) as cleane as may be ; and left
the bleeding Ihall hinder the true fearch, haue
in readineffe a fticke with a little clout tyed to
the end, which wet in faire water, you may
therewith wipe away the blood fometimes,
whereby you may the better fee what you haue
done to the fore ; you may perhaps finde a lit-
tle core feeding within the fore, pull and get -
out of it as much as is poffible, and then hauing
a little fticke, with a little clout, to the bigneffe
of a fmall Peafe faftened to the end thereof, and
wet in the Aquafortis, and not to haue it other-
wife then wet, not that it Ihall drop ; herewith
doe but touch the fore once or twice that it may
be wet, and it will foone kill it : Dreffe it once in
foure and twenty houres ; and if it be not in a
very defperate eftate when you beginne there-
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it fhall needc ; and if the core fhall be at the firft
taken cleane out, it will not aske more dreffing :
You may feede within one houre, or an houre
and a halfe after fhe is thus dreffed.

A Medicine for the Frounce^ whervnto the long-
winged Hawke is much morefuHeSl then is the
Jhort'Winged Hawke.

T Haue heard many men of this opinion, that
^the Frounce & Canker are all one ; and fuch
they w^re as held themfelues very skilful! : But
fuch as haue ^11 & iudgement know that they
were difceiued in their opinions. The Frounce
proceeding out of a heate and drynes in the bo-
dy, or of a bruife, and it foUoweth moft your
frefti Haggard. Although the fore- Hawke or
Tarfell is not free, bwit are vpon heats fubie<5l to
that infirmity, the older a Hawke is fhee is the
more hote & drye ; and you fhall haue fodainly
growe vpon an olde Haggart, although ihee be
well kept, for it will growe vpon that Hawke
foonefl that is of a fretfull difpofition. A Faul-
conour of iudgement will hereupon worke to
Heate and feeke out meanes to amend the caufe, and then
drinejje. every fmall matter will cure the griefe, when
it is but little and newe bred. I haue knowne it
killed with wafhing her mouth with the iuice of
Lemmon, and fo giuing her ftones out of the
fame iuice ; this worketh as well in the body as
the mouth: But Aqua fortis to be vfed for the

Frounce,

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Frounce, as I haue dire<5led for a Canker, is be-
yond all other receits.

Otherwifefor the Frounce.

^T^Ake of your Aquafortis that is quallified,
^ and with a quill made for that purpofe,
take off the fcabbe or roofe from the fore, then
with a fticke and a cloth at the end thereof, well
wet in your quallified water wafh the fore : and
although there be fo much water as fome of it
doth goe into her body, I haue found no hurt
but profit thereby; for without doubt it hath
had an extraordinary working in her body,
without making any fhew of ficknes, but there
hath come from her drofiie mutes that haue
floode full of bubbles : I haue herewith recoue-
red Hawkes troubled with a fore Frounce, and
made them found*

An approued medicine for the Frounce^ that is to
be had in euery Towne.

T^Ake a piece of good Rocke-AUum, and
^ bume it leifurely, and then pound it to as
fine powder as may be, then take a little
Englifh Honie, and a little of the powder, let
them be wrought together with a kniues point,
and then your Hawke call, and the fcab cleane
taken away to the bottome, (feare not to make
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formerly taught) and this receipt clapped vp-
on it, without doubt with leffe then fixe times
dreiiing, it fhall kill it; and let it be drefled once
in foure and twenty houres ; let her not be fed
in two houres after fhee is dreffed. I could fet
downe forty common receipts more for this
griefe, and all needleffe, for any one of thefe three
lafl fhall kill any Frounce. I would not haue fet
downe this lail receipt but that Aquafortis is not
to be had in euery place,

A remedy for the kimells whereunto the long^
winged Hawke is not fubieEl^ but it followetk
much the Jhort-^inged hawke.

np He kirnells beginne and breede vnder the
eye, betweene the eye and chap, outwardly
appearing, and will very foone fhew it felfe as
bigge & long as the halfe of an ordinary Beane,
and will foone grow greater and fwell vp the
eye, and kill her if it be not preuented. For cure
thereof doe thus, launce the place fwdled long-
waies, and with a quill take out the kirnells as
you can, they are white as kirnells in cattell,
(but I pray vnderfland) that they are of a very
fmall fize ; without any danger you may cut the
hole large enough, feeth fome fpring water, and
when it hath fod, put into it a peece of Rocke-
AUum, and fome Englifh honey, let it feeth no
more, but let the ingredients difolue therein ;
then hauing a linnen cloath fallened to the end

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of a fticke, wet in the water, the water not being
otherwife then the colde taken off, walh the
place very cleane within, and then put into it
fome powder of burnt Allum ; you fhall neede
to put your Allum into it but once, and once it
mull be, otherwife it will be in foure and twen-
ty houres clofed vp againe, and ihew it felfe
healed, and fo the kirnells increafe againe, and
very foone be as ill as it was at the firfl ; but the
Allum once applyed, and the place walhed
three mornings together, feare it not, for it is
cured and found.

There is a difeafein the head of fome, called V^r-
tego, it is a fwimming of the braine ; and thus
followeth the cure.

^ I ""His griefe is very dangerous, and it appea-
^ reth too plainely, for very feldome the
hawke holdeth ftill her head, but continually
putteth her head ouer her fhoulder, and fo let-
teth it fall to his proper place againe, it procee-
deth of a cold caufe in the body. Take a quan-
tity of Butter out of the Churne, doe not walh
it, take a Cloue of the middle lize, and as much
Mace, let them be bruifed, not beaten, and lap
them in a little of your Butter, to the bigneffe
of a ftone, fuch as you gaue that hawke ; (al-
though it be very large it will be a calling
little enough) put it into a fine peece of Lawne,
and then tye it fall; giue it vnto your hawke, and

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after it, giue vnto her, her fupper ; in the mor-
ning fhee will caft the Lawne againe, with the
Clone and Mace therein, the Butter paffing
through her, then giue vnto her a clone of fod-
den Garlicke. And becaufe euery man hath not
made vie thereof, I will therefore fet downe the
manner how to feeth it, for it is very profitable
for very great vfes ; take the cloues out of the
head, but doe not pill them, feeth them in faire
water, & with a fpoone feele of them very often,
left they ouer feeth, for they muft be foft, and
yet no fofter, but that if your Hawke will not
take them in meate, they may be put into her
without breakings but now the huske and thin
white filme muft be taken off, giue vnto her, her
breakefaft before, or therewith, fhe will not one-
ly indew it, but that will worke good digefture
for her other meate ; at night giue her Butter,
Clone, & Mace ^gaine, as aforefaid, and fo euery
night, and euery third morning a Cloue of fod-
den Garlicke, vntill fliee be cured, keepe her
warme and continually hooded^ if fhee will
not fit quietly let her be maled vp.

The Pinne in the throat a mojl defperate and vncu-
rable difeafe, I ham neuer heard of a long-wmg-
ed hawke troubled therewith^ but Ihaue knawne
many Jhort'Winged hawkes killed with it.

npHis difeafe is plainely difcouered, for vpon
^ any bate Ihe wil heaue & blow, and rattle in

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Hawkes and Hawking. 87

the throat. In my very fri^ids houfe, I found a
Gofhawke at that pafle, it is ten yeares iince,
and they did not perceiue it vntill that day ; my
aduife was defired, which I deliuered, and thus
put in pra^life ; they did caufe prefently fome
Butter to be made, which I tooke, not wafhing
it ; but I laped or noynted a wing feather of a
Henne therewith, and fo twice or thrice in a
day put it vp and downe her winde pipe, and
twice or thrice at a time. Whether this was the
Pinne, or no, I know not, or the Pinne bree-
ding; but I am fure that in three or foure dayes
the Hawke did well, without any other thing
adminiftred. And by others it was thought to
be the Pinne. One Sparhawke had the Pinne
this laft yeare in her foreage, and I tolde her
Mailer of the happy proceeding I had with the
Gofhawke, and he did pra<5life the fame : But I
beleeue he rather put the feather which was but
fmall into the throat, then into the winde-pipe,
for within one fortnight or tenne dayes after it
begun, flie dyed thereof.

One other Gofhawke was brought vnto me
in her rufter-hoode, to be made flying, as hee
faid that brought her, fhee had beene drawne
three weeks, and for a fortnight & more fhe had
taken euery night a calling; the Hawke I knew
for her goodnes & good conditions could not be
bettered. I was glad of her comming, my houfe
being full of my friends : I imparted fo much
vnto them in the euening, hauing formerly

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beene well acqainted with her good conditi-
ons, I pulled off her hoode, after awhile fitting
quietly fhee made a flout bate, but fo foone as
(he had done fo, fhe gaped, and ratled fo in the
throat, as that fhee might eafily be heard into
the next roome. If this were not the Pinne, then
no hawke hath the Pinne ; but the fight hereof
did very much perplexe mee. To be ridde of
her I could not, for her Mailer was ridden into
the Countrey a hawking iourney, as his owne
letter that day fent did teftifie : Seeing in what
defperate eftate the hawke was in, I would wil-
lingly haue giuen forty (hillings I had not med-
led with her ; Hee was a worthy Knight that
brought her, and to him I ftoode bound for many
former kinde guifts, which was in truth the
moft efpeciall caufe that encreafed my griefe,
rather fearing her death, then hoping for life.
The next day by fome occafion there were two
Knights, both of them very iudicious Auftrin-
gers, and two Gentlemen of the fame family,
though dwelling tenne miles afunder, and di-
ners others; all which, for my colde comfort,
faid fhe was a hawke not to be recouered. Then
I pra6lifed vpon her in this manner : Firfl, I put
on her rufter-hoode againe, and then with a
large feather lapped about with butter, I did
twice or thrice together, and three times in a day
put vp and downe her throate, (I pray you re-
member that it was butter out of the Churne,
& not wafhed.) Whileft I was in this praftife, I

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mull tell you that fhee did not thereupon leaue
her ratling in the throat at all, but it did en-
creafe a while after fhe was drefled, and made a
greater noyfe ; and great reafon for it, for Ihee
had in her dreffing ftriued very much, and
now labouring in the body, her throat full of
butter, fhee muft needes make the noyfe the
greater, which after fhe floode flill a while and
was quiet, fhe neuer made fhew of: After a
weekes pra6life thus, I tyed two feathers toge-
ther, in fuch manner, as fome Arrowes and Bolts
for Cro&owes haue their feathers lapped about,
then did I clip off halfe the deepe fide of the
feather, and being drye, I put that into her
winde-^pipe, putting it vp and downe, and tur-
ning it round, infomuch that the feather was
bloudy, (it* troubled mee much, but the cure be
ing defperate, I thus followed on my praAife, I
confeffe I neuer had that experiece before) I had
then two other feathers lapped together with
filke as the other two were, about and into
which I had laped and wrought, the powder of
burnt Allum and Englifh Hony, prepared as I
taught you for the Frounce, and with that I did
well rubbe her winde-pipe vp and downe once
a day, for three daies together, and fo left, know-
ing that it had wrought much in fo fhort a time
vpon a fore Frounce. I continued this Hawke
one weeke longer in her hoode, when fhe gaue
mee affured knowledge that fhe had no Pinne,
neither would flie blowe for one bate, or two,

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or three, if they were not great, and for that
blowing I doe not thinke it was the Pantife, but
rather a faintneffe and weaknefie after her
iickneife, as it is very commonly approued a*
mongft our felues after a long ficknefle ; and
her difeafe was none of die lead : I met with the
meffenger that brought her vnto me, (within
one weeke after I had her) vnto whom I impar^
ted my griefe for the hawke, when he did con*
feffe vnto mee (hee had met with two or three
mifcbances, by fcratching of her hood before
ihe came vato me, which might be a caufe of
breeding the Pinne, which being the greater
griefe, would not fuflfer the lefler to be feene vn-
till that was cured, which was the Pantife, if it
fo proue: You. haue herein beard my opini-
on ; but for the Pantife I caimot meddle withi
for therein my difcourfe woiikl proue very
tedious, as to deliuer the caufe thereof, &c,
I fhould compare it to the Tifficke in a man or
woman, or to a Horfe, which fome fay is
broken- winded, and I fliould contrary that or
pinion : And although I fliould haue many a^
gainft mee, yet I fliouId haue many maintaine
my opinion. And thus I leaue that vndifcour-
fed of, becaufe it would proue very tedious
to fet downe the reafons,/r^ & contra. But for
this vncurable difeafe» I am perfwaded, that if
Seethe it fhall be rubbed with two drye feathers, lap*
^waw^if p^^ together and dipped, as I haue before faid,
* and afterward to wet them in Aquafortis that is

quallified.

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quallified, and fo thruft the feather vp and
downe her throat, I muft needs thinke it fhould
eate away the Pinne, and cure it, hauing bad fo
good experience of the working thereof, which
doth confirme my opinion, and not to danger
the Hawke: Admit it fhould endanger her
life, fhee can be in no greater daunger then the
Pinne putteth her in. I leaue the vfe thereof to
your owne coniideration.

An excellent medicine far a lafh in the eye.

npAke white Sugar Candy, bume it as you
^ burne your Allum, then broife or beate it
to a very fine powder, and thereof morning and
eu^ning put fome of it into her eye, let her be
alwaies hooded, vntill fhee be well, which will
be in a very fhort time ; yea, although a filme
beginne to growe ouer it, becaufe it hath not
beene looked vnto in time ; yet reft affured it
will cure it

A Medicine for a fait or hot humour that runneth
out of the eyeyUndfcaldeih all the fecUhers from
that part vnder the eye^ and maketh it bare.

^T^His difeafe will make the one eye feeme
bigger then the other, and at all times feeme
to be full of water, it may be both the eyes be in
that ill eflate, the often wiping of the eye againfl
the wing, putteth off the feathers, and maketh

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the eye the worfe. For cure, take the ftalke of
Fennel and cut it off at one ioynt, and into that
part of the ilalke which you leaue long, being
(lopped with the ioynt at the other end, you
fhaJl put or fill with the pouder of white fuger-
candie, very finely pounded, and then with
waxe make very clofe that end, and fo doe three
<xc foure, and then bury them in the earth two
or three dayes, and your pouder will be diffol-
ued into fine water, which you fhall drop into
your hawkes ^ye, or your owne, if you Ihall
haue neede : It is approued very good.

For the fame otherwife.

npAke a piece of Gum-draggon, and let it lye
^ in three or foure fpoonefuUs of fpring-wa-
ter, vntill it diffolue and grow foft, then drop
of thai water into the eye ; it is veiy good for
ourfelues if we haue neede.

Far afnurt orcolde in the head of any hawke^ it is
nu^pri^erly to be tearmedtkm in long-winged
hawkes^ for Jhort-winged hawkes the Rye^ and
yet they differ.

T Haue known Faulcons that haue been wafh-
^ed at the brooke in colde and frofty weather,
or fo wet with raine, that therevpon they haue
beene fo troubled with a colde in the head, as
that in a moneth or fixe weekes they could not

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Hawkes and Hawking. 93

be brought againe to true flying : The Rye in a
fliort-winged will grow as well vpon her, and
fooner, by being ill kept without tyring or plu-
mage, or by being in pouerty, as through colde
or wet. Notwithftanding fhee is the tenderer
hawke ; yet if fhee be full of flefh and haue na-
turall meaneSy good and warme dyet, with plu-
mage and tyring enough, and kept warme, fhee
will foone outgrow it ; but for the Faulcon and
fuch like, a wilde Primrofe roote dryed in the
Ouen after the bread is drawne, and .made fo
drye as that it may be beaten to a fine pouder,
and fo blowne into her Nares, will very foone
break it If you will take the leaues, be fure they
be of the wilde primrofe in the field or wood,
flampe & flraine out the iuice and put fome of it
into her Nares, and it fhall worke the like effedl.
It fhall not be idleneffe for mee to deliuer, nor
yet vnprofitable for you to heare ; that one did
lye in his bed fo troubled with paine in the
head, that vpon the leafl motion or flirring hee
would cry out in fuch manner, as that he fhew-
ed hee fuffered much torment I was talking to
one of this receipt for my hawke, where vpon
the parties petitions were fo piercing, as that
there muft be no denyall but that fome leaues
fhould be fought for and gotten, and which
was done, the iuice taken out, I thinke hee did
fnuffe vp into his nofe one fponefuU ; but hee
was for halfe an houre after fo tormented, as
that I for my part wifhed that I had neuer

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fpoken of the receipt, but that little feafon fo
borne out, the party was prefently as wel as euer
he was in his life ; this was fudden and this was
ftrange, adminifter neither of thefe to your
hawke but when ihe is empty, and feed not too
foone after it, but be fure to keepe her warme ;
for otherwife her powers being fo open, fliee is
more apt to increafe the colde fhee hath alrea-
dy taken then to breake it

A medednefar the MUeSyfome hawkes haue beene

fo ill looked vnto, thai they kaue not onely beene

troubled about the beake and eyes, but the nicks

oftkewings and hinder parts of them haue beene

eaten to the quieke.

ILTIs iudgement fhould much feile him that
-*- ^ will not thinke that hawkes fo ill fumifhed
haue beene neither cleanly kept nor carefully
looked vttto; by both which meanes a hawke
may haue them, and tibey are fooneft gotten
from the pearch or blocke where an other
hawke hath fate that haue had the mites: If they
be timely difcouered, and that they haue not
ouer-runne the whole body. Aqua vita and
Stauefacre will kill them, onely rubbing her
Nares therewith when you fet her downe for
all night, and fo will Vinegar and Stauefacre.

The luke of Hearbe-graffe, the leaues ftam-
ped and ftrained, and the parts offended about
the head rubbed therewith, when you goe to

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Hawkes and Hawking, 95

take your reft, is as good as any of the reft : Take
heede where you fet your hawke, for if Ihee fit
by a hawke that hadi tbe Mites, fhee will too
foone finde that fhe^ hath met with too many
ill neighbours; Mafter Batcheler that was Mafter
of all the Faulconers by Pbwles, to whom my
loue then was fuch as that I could fpeake much
good of him now ; hee I fay had a fparhawke,
all her body over-runne with fuch vermine,
which he could deftroye by no meanes vntill
hee did vndertake this courfe ; Hee got Stauef-
acre, and beate it fmall, and then boyled it in
faire water, making it ftrong, and then ftreined
it gently through a fine cloath, fuffering none
of the Stauefacre to goe through ; and in that
he did well wafii his hawke ; suid when hee had
her out of the water, he lapped her vp in a Lambs
skinne that was made warme and ready for that
purpofe, and therein kept her vntill flie was ve-
ry neere dry, when hauing another skinne war-
med, he put that about h^*, and fo continued
two houres, into which Lambes skinnes the
vermin did runne, and fo the hawke was made
cleane and freed from her death.

A r eceipt beyond all other y to take cut the Lyme out
of a Hawkes feathers.

nr^Ake Neates-foote oyle, any oyle elfe will

^ neuer be gotten out of the feathers, and

annoynt the place lymed therewith ; that

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done, draw the webbe of the feather euen as it
groweth from the quill, betweene the flelh of
your fore-fitiger and the naile of your thumbe ;
with the naile neuer leaue working, vntill there-
wkh you haue drawne the Lyme cleane out,
and then you ihall finde the feathers looke with
as good a gloffe as any of the reft, and ftand
fmooth as you draw them.

A receipt to beginen to a Hawke that bloweth^ and
isjiiort or thicke-^wmded^

I Was once asked by one of my friends what
was good for fuch an infirmity, I tolde him
the tops of Rofenmry leifurely dryed betweene
two warme Tyks, either made warme, and fet
vpon hot embers to continue them fo ;: or in
an Ouen^ fo foone as the bread was taken out ;
and when they were fo well dryed as that they
would be beaten to a fine powder, to give of the
powder in good aboundaace to his hawke with
her meate. I made it knowne vnto him that this
was taught mee by one that was an ancient and
skilful! Auftringer ; and withall tolde him^ that
I had made no vfe thereof, neither could I al-
leadge a reafon why it fhould be good; As
he was a Faulconour, fo was he a Cocke-msdler,
and he tolde mee he had made vfe of it in fuch
manner for his Cockes ; fince when^ for a hawke
fo troubled I haue made proofe of^ and found
it very profitable;

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Hawkes and Hawking. 97

A Medicine for the Womtes^ wherewith all crea-
tures (/ thinke^ as well as Hawkes) are trou-
bled.

X^Los/ulphuris giuen in her meate is very gcxxl,
^ and fo is Corolinum, otherwife called Sea-
moffe dryed, and in powder giuen the Hawke
with her meate. Puluis contra vermis is to be had
at fome Pothecaries, giuen with her meate in the
morning, fhee will not at all flye the worie at
night Lauender-Cotten, minced and made in-
to a pill with butter, and rouled vp in Sugar, is
good. Callings of Wormewoode, and Saintu-
ary are very good. Sodden Garlicke in my
prac^life \% better than any of thefe. There can
no better thing be given to a long-winged
hawke for the Fillenders ; if fo, it mufl then be
granted, nothing can helpe digefture better.
You (hall finde how it is fodden in the Chapter
for the difeafe in the head. I haue giuen euery
night a Clone to a fhort-winged hawke, fixe
nights together. Wormefeed giuen with meate,
or Wormefeede with Aloes, Butter, and two or
three chiues of Saffron giuen in a pill, is very
good. And I thinke fo are a hundred more me-
dicines for this difeafe; and there are more
Hawkes dye hereof, then of all other difeafes
befides.

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A Medicine or Pill to begiuen to a Hawke that
hoik the WomteSf whereof I make the beji
allowance.

TAke Engliih-Honie and clarifie it, take off
the fcumme with a feather when it hath
boyled a little, and then it is clarified ; let
it boyle leifurely vntill it groweth fo fliffe as
that you may make it vp in pills, which you
ftall thus approue ; take a little out of it vpon
a kniues poynt, and drop it vpoa a Trencher,
when it is cold you fhall fee whether it be ftiffe
enough, or no ; then beate fome Wormefeede
and put into it, and fo make it vp in pills. I will
tell you how I doe vfe to giue them ; I lappe
them vp in a fingle white paper, of the thinnefl
paper I can get, and then I put therein my pill,
and tye the paper clofe about with a thrid. I
am very carefuU not to touch the out-lide of
the paper, after I haue handled the pills before
I wafh, for feare fhe fhould take any diflike in the
taile. I put it into fo thinne a paper that it may
the fooner diifolue ; for if it be in a thicke paper
that will not fo foone take moyfture. (I haue
approued both) and then if (hee offer to ca£t it,
(he may with fo ftrong paper cail all : Which
to preuent, if I know any thing my Hawke will
diflike, I fhew her that, it will be a meanes to
make her keepe it ; otherwife I will haue in a
readineffe a wing of fome Fowle, wherewith I

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Hawkes and Hawking. 99

will tend her, fometimes with fhewing it, and
fometimes fufTering her to plume, by which
meanes you (hall haue your pill or pils worke
Icindely. You may giue two as bjgge as a fmall
Hazell-Nut to a Gofhawke, one to a Tarfell ; it
is a good fcouring, befides the benefit of killing
Wormes. I haue heard very experienced Au-
ftringers fay, that there is no killing of Wormes
with any fuch receipt as I haue mentioned ; but
their aduice is to beate a fmall flint-ftone to
fmall pummis, and to giue it her with her meat :
And this they fay muft iirft breake the bed of
Wormes, and then any of th^e receipts will kill
them. I cannot vnderiland where thefe wormes
fliould lye, that mufl haue this helpe, and with-
out which the other cannot profit. I haue feene
a fmall grub worme in long-winged Hawkes,
and efpecially in the blancke Tarfels, that haue
beene muted daily, fometimes two, fometimes
three, and fomtimes foure in a mute and more.
And to kill thefe I haue laboured, but I will ne-
ver approue it more, for I cannot doe \\ ; and
befides, I thinke they rather benefit a hawke
then doe any hurt : For I flew a Tarfell fo trou-
bled all his fore-age, and when he was an enter-
mewer, vntill after Chriftmas at the Cocke, hee
was a very high flyer that yeers remain ; & three
yeares after he was a lead Hawke at the Brooke
in Letce/hr-Jhiere, and all this time had thefe
wormes, and hee was called by that name
Wormes, I am put in minde of giuing a Hawke

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Brimftone, by fpeaking of the pounded flint,
and I haue very often approued it, to giue it in
this manner to any hawke, broken like fmall
grauell, & at night giue it with her meate, & fhe
will in the morning bring it vp in her cafting :
It will helpe greatly to cleane a Hawke, and
breed a good ftomacke. There is not fo com-
mon a difeafe folio weth a hawke as the wormes,
and I haue found them in moft feathered
Fowles, but neuar any within the bowels, but
in the body mofl aboundantly, and without all
doubt the backe-worme, if a msui were cer-
taine his Hawke were fo difeafed, both the pill
and fodden Garlicke with continuance would
deftroy it.

A reteiptfor a Hawke that fuUh loji her courage^
andiayeth not, or is lowe inflejh.

nr^Ake a wilde ^nd well-fleftied houfe Doue,
^ and draw out a wing, you know what to
pare away, and how to prepare it fit for your
Hawke : Take a new-layed ^g%% whileft it is
warme, and warme a Porringer or Pewter-difh
againft the fire, then breake the ^%%!t^ and put
the yolke thereinto, let it be broken a little with
a fpoone, and then drawe your meate through
it, and as your Hawke is feeding, with a feather
lay on more. I would haue this fo quickly done,
as that the Doue nor Egge fhould lofe but little
of their naturall heat, & by making it more hot

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Hawkes and Hawking. loi

you make it worfe then the lofing of the heate.
Vfe this but two or three mornings, & you fliall
finde your Hawke growe brauely vpon you.
For a hawke to be proude and full of flefh, is
but a fpurre or whetftone to put her into all ill
conditions if fhee be wilde : But let her be gen-
tle and not wilde, fhee is able to kill any thing
that is fit to be flowne vnto.

Another receipt very good for the fame

purpafe.

^TpAke a pound of Beefe of a young beaft, or
^ more Beefe if you will, make it very
cleane, not leaning either fat or firing therein :
You may the better doe it becaufe the Beefe
mufl be fliced very thin, which when it is fo fli-
ced, and well picked, lay it in a ftill, and put
thereto as much Claret wine, of the befl high
Country wine you can get, as may couer the
Beefe, put thereto one or two ounces of white
Suger-Candy, beaten to fine powder, and then
flill them together, but let the ftill be very tem-
perately kept, and through this you may often
drawe your Hawkes meate.

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How to draw a water that is cooling, and the pro-
pertie thereof is to kill any vnnaturall heate in
the mouth or body, it is a great cleanfery and in-
creafeth breath ; it will keepe the body in good
temper^ and helpe the body diftempered with
heate.

T Would gladly fet down euery thing fo plain-
^ ly, as that there might neither be queftion
made of my meanings nor that there fhould be
any thing miilaken, for want of a true difcrip-
tion. Prim, of fome called Prim-priuet, it is
that which is planted in fome Orchards, and in
fome Gardens, to beautifie the walls, and is kept
with cutting, it doth carry a white flower, which
when they are blowne, I would haue cleanely
picked, taking nothing but the flower, let not
your fire be kept ouer-rafti or ouer-hot, but let
them be carefully diftilled, and then put it into
a glaffe vntill you haue vfe of it, no hawke will
diflike the tafte of the water, and the water thus
ftilled hath a very good fmell, but it leaueth a
mod ilinking StilL If you fhall giue her this
water with her meate, you fliall finde admira-
ble profit therein : It is very good wherewith to
enfayme a hawke of any kinde, for a long- wing-
ed hawke that is in fummer ftowne to the field,
there neuer was or can be vfed any thing better,
it is moft true that in giuing fomething to heate
the ftomacke, you may therewith ouer-heate

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the liuer ; and it is fo for the liuer, giue fome-
thing to coole that, and fo you may ouer-coole
or kill the ftomacke. But there is fuch an excel-
lent propertie in this water, as notwithilanding
it cooleth the liuer, yet it bettereth the ftomacke,
the vfe of this water will preuent many difeafes,
for infirmities and fickneffe doe continually
follow fuch hawkes, as are not cleanely fed ; but
flowne fowle before they be well enfaymed, it
will keepe thy Gofhawke and Tarfell in conti-
nuall health, if you be carefull in the enfayming
of them, and not flying of them before they be
cleane ; If you will not be carefull, but thy ouer-
hafty defire of fport, (hall make thee flye them
before they be fit to flye ; then you fliall haue
from them for a little feafon fome fport, but then
the conclufion will be confufion : to be weake
and fickly is the beft hope can be had of a hawke
het or flowne before flie be cleane, but to be het
or flowne when flie is more then foule, fo foone
as colde weather doth come, be aflured of the
Pantife, and other difeafes which will fall into
her feete and legges, and then as good pull off"
her head as keepe her. I know not any man that
hath had the vfe thereof but my felfe, and I haue
vfed it, this fixteene or feauenteene yeares, and
I did neuer impart to any man, but one Knight
what it was, who to my knowledge did neuer
caufe it to be drawne.

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A very excellent medicine for a dangerous bruife^
prefently to be giuen after the hurt.

np^Ake Englifh honey and clarefie it, and fo
^ foone as you haue fo done, before it boyleth
any more put into it halfe fo much flone-
pitch or fomething leffe then there is honey, and
then let it boyle ag^ine : It fhall not neede to
boyle long, becaufe the pitch will make it ftrong
and faft enough to make vp in pills ; as foone as
you can, giue her a large pill thereof, and al-
though fhee faft aboue twelue houres after the
receiuing, it is the better : I pray let mee make
all plaine vnto you, for this is worthy to be had
in good eftimation^ both of the Faulconer and
Auftringer. It is a praftife of my owne deui-
fing ; and thus I vfed the fame : I haue had di-
uers Tarfolls flying at the Cocke, fo hurt them-
felues that they haue not beene able to ftand or
holde vp a wing, I haue prefendy maled them,
to keepe them warme vntill I came home,^ (I tell
you this becaufe you fhall vnderftand that it is
very dangerous to let them take colde before
the receipt of this pill or pills, for making of
them fomething leffe, you may giue two,) when
I came home, I would keepe her ftill maled vp,
left ihe fhould catch colde vntill I had made her
pills ready, when I would not yet vnmale her
if I found it a dangerous bruife, but kepe her fo
all night or day, and I would be fore that when

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Hawkes and Hawking. 105

I did vnmale her to feede, or to fee how fhee
could (land, it fhould be in a very warme
Chamber, where there fhould be a good fire.

I did flye a Gofhawke that was not my own,
for which hawke I was offered fortie pounds, I
could not, and her M after would not fell her ;
the next yeare fhee had fuch a bruife vpon her
body againfl a fmall tree, not much bigger then
my leg, crofTmg to catch a Pheafant-Cocke, that
fhee lay there to the beholders dead, and there
fhe had beene dead but that this accident kappe*-
ned very neere vnto one that was with me, when
I came vnto her I faw her eyes flirre a little, I
opened her mouth, and put my finger downe
her throat, fhee fiirred no part of her body, I
lapped her vp in a good-fellowes terkin that
was with mee, and fo I carryed her vnder my
arme to a houfe two miles from thence, I found
fhe had Hfe in her, & then I had hope ; I gaue her
two pills, fuch as I haue formerly fpoken of, flie
did lye fo lapped up at the leaft fixteene houres^
and when I did vnmale her to fee her flrength,
fhe was very vnable to fland, and hardly able
to offer to ftand, I fed very fhort, but with my
care itt one week I delivered her to her Mafler,
with fome dire^ions ; in all the time I had her
after her bruife fhe neuer cafl any meate, but af-
ter I parted from her, fhe would once in three
or foure meales cafl part or all of her meate, my
confent was asked when I came thether, that her Conjule cum

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head might be pulled off^ I would not yeeld to
that : but vpon eafie tearmes I tooke her home
with mee.

In the Strand I met with that worthy Bar-
ron who before had made meanes to buy her,
and he asked mee, if I would not helpe him to
that Gofhawke ; I tolde him truly in what def-
perate cafe fhee was in, and all the truth. Hee
faid you will recouer, you will recouer that ; I
promifed if (he did recouer, he fhould haue her,
and at Eafter-tearme (fliee receiuing her hurt,
neere Shrouetide) I did deliuer her a very found
hawke, and I had for her thirty pounds, and her
well-prouing was worth twenty pounds more
vnto mee. One other Gofhawke I recouered,
that wanted not much of her danger, and her
Mailer folde her in SufTex for fifteene or fix-
teene pounds, and a young Gofhawke cleane
mewed out of the mew. I dare write no vn-
truth, for this muft be ouer-viewed by the
aftors; what fhall I neede to fet downe any
more for this, knowing this to be fo approued
good } and which raaketh it the more excellent,
it is to be had in euery place, fo is neither Par-
mafite^ nor Mumma, I could mention more but
all worthlefTe in refpe<5l : If you will giue any
thing elfe, let it be Mumma beaten into pow-
der and fo giuen with her meate, you fhall finde
it in the morning in her cafling, and it is very
good where the other is vnknowne.

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Hawkes and Hawking. 107

A receipt for a wound or hurt taken either by a
Dog^ or the clawes of a Hare^ or otherwife.

TJTAue a fpeciall care that the winde or colde
-■■ ^ enter not into the wound before you haue
wherewith to dreffe it ; If it be where you can
haue foueraigne Balme, there is nothing better,
that is to be had but in few places : And there-
fore for want thereof, take a quantity of Spring-
water, and let it feeth, then take it from the fire,
and put into it a peece of Rocke-AUum, and
fome Englifh- Honey, and fo let them diffolue
in the water, the water being bloud-warme;
therewithal! wafh the fore, it will keepe it cleane
from putrifying, and heale it, but ftill be care-
full that it doth not take cold.

A medicifufor the Cray.

THis griefe proceedeth of a hot & dry caufe,
and it is a dainty cure. Hawes diililled, and
the meate drawne through the water is
very good. To drawe your hawkes meate tho-
rough Cowes milke warme from the Cowe, is
very good, and fo approued.

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Another far the fame.

TVyrilke from the Co we diililled is excellent
good for that griefe; but thus foUoweth
the discommodity, it cooleth and hurteth the
ftomacke. I haue knowne this water vfed for
the ftone, but the difcommodity was foone
found. But if you will diflill a pinte and halfe
of milke, and ivithall an ounce of white Suger-
Candy finely pounded, it will re6lifie all, it hin-
dreth not ks property for the Cray^ and yet it
doth now comfort the flomacke.

Another for the fame yand the beft of any for the
fame.

T Haue knowne Tome pare the end of a Candle
-"^to a fmall quantity, and fo put it into her
tewell gently, and it hath doone good. But I
vfe Caftle^fope, and thweof cut a peece an inch
long in manner of a Suppoiita, and fo put it vp,
and fo leaue it, this is very good : But withall I
haue pared a little of fuch Sope, and conueyed
it into the gut of a Foule, being very careful! of
the cleanely doing it, not knowing whether the
tafte might offend, or no ; fo doone, I call my
Hawke, and put it downe, and then I feede vp-
on it, to make her the better to put it ouer; this
with the Suppofita will fo open & make glibbe

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the paffages, that you ihall foone finde amend-
ment in your Hawke.

Otherwifefor the fame.

T Was taught to put vp in the manner of a
^ glifter oyle of Rofes, with a Syrren.

A receipt for ajlraine or bruife in thefoote.

'T^Ake a handful! of Mallowes, and boyle
^ them either with Neates-foot-oyle, Goofe-
greafe, Capons-greafe, or Hogges-greafe, when
they are well boyled, ftreine them through a
cloath, and then mingle with them good Aqua-
vita, and let them boyle all together a little,
and therewith annoynt the place.

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