The Ornithology of Shakespeare Part 46

Styntes after vi. a id.

Quaylles iid. a pece at moste.

Snypes after iii. a id.

Perttryges at iid. a pece.

Redeshankes id.

Bytters (_i.e._ Bitterns) xiid.

Fesauntes xiid Reys (_i.e._ Ruffs and Reeves) iid. a pece.

Sholardes vid. a pece.

Kyrlewes xiid. a pece.

Pac.o.kes xiid. a pece.

See-Pyes (no price).

Wegions at id. the pece.

Knottes id. a pece.

Dottrells id. a pece.

Bustardes (no price).

Ternes after iiii. a id.

Great byrdes after iiii. a id.

Small byrdes after xii. for iid.

Larkys after xii. for iid.

[121] "Extracts from the Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the L'estranges of Hunstanton, 1519-1578." (Trans. Roy. Soc. Antiq. 1833.)

[122] "The Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, 1536-1544."

(Edited by Sir F. Madden, 1831.)

[123] Some interesting remarks on pheasant and partridge-hawking will be found in Freeman and Salvin's "Falconry; its Claims, History, and Practice," pp. 233, 235.

[124] _Vide_ Julius Pollux, "De ludis," lib. ix.

[125] "Musurgia Universalis," 1650, p. 30.

[126] In Sweden the bird is known as _wipa_ to this day.

[127] The fine was 8_d._ for every egg. _See_ 3 & 4 Ed. VI. c. 7, and 25 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

[128] "Falconry; its History, Claims, and Practice," by G. E. Freeman and F. H. Salvin. London, 1859.

[129] Leland states, that at the feast given on the inthronisation of George Neville, Archbishop of York, in the reign of Edward IV., no less than "400 Heronshawes" were served up!

[130] _Every Man Out of his Humour_, Act iii. Sc. 3.

[131] Thornbury, "Shakespeare's England," vol. i. pp. 169, 170.

[132] Thornbury, "Shakespeare's England," i. p. 21; see also p. 33.

[133] "The Gentleman's Recreation." 1595.

[134] See pp. 164, 165.

[135] "The British Army: its Origin, Progress, and Equipment," vol. ii.

p. 286.

[136] _See_ the Report in Maitland's "Hist. of London," p. 594.

[137] "An Answer to the Opinion of Captain Barwicke." (Harl. MSS., No.

4,685.)

[138] Their numbers, in Mr. Hewitt's official _Tower Catalogue_, are 12/10 and 12/11.

[139] "Brief Discourse of War, 1590."

[140] Peck's "Desid. Cur."

[141] Bandoleers consisted of a belt of leather worn over the left shoulder, on which were suspended little metal, wooden, leather, or horn cylinders, each containing one charge. Examples are preserved in the Tower of London.

[142] Harl. MSS., No. 5,109.

[143] Brantome, "uvres," tom. vii. pp. 425-429.

[144] Sidney, "Arcadia," ii. p. 169.

[145] See _ante_, p. 197.

[146] Aldrovandi Opera Omina: Ornithologia. 3 vols. Bononiae. 1599.

[147] "Philosophical Transactions," l.c.

[148] The doctrine of Pythagoras is again alluded to by Gratiano, who says:--

"Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men."

_Merchant of Venice_, Act iv. Sc. 1.

[149] In China, at the present day, an allied species, _Ph. sinensis_, is reared and trained to fish.

[150] This diary is amongst the additional MSS. in the British Museum.

It is bound in soft parchment, and entered in the catalogue as "Wurmser, H. J.: Travels with Louis, Count (?) of Wurtemberg, 20,001."

[151] The presence of the King at Thetford at this date, as on other occasions, is recorded in the "Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First," as published in four volumes by John Nichols, F.S.A., in 1828.

[152] The above extracts were communicated by Mr. Salvin to Mr. Frank Buckland's journal, _Land and Water_, in 1867, in a series of articles on "Cormorant Fishing."

Some interesting chapters on the subject will be found at the end of Freeman and Salvin's "Falconry; its Claims, History, and Practice." 8vo, 1859.

[153] Sidney Bere, in _Land and Water_, April 20, 1867.

[154] In "Chambers's Journal" for 1859, will be found an interesting article upon the subject, ent.i.tled "The King and his Cormorants."

[155] Mr. Salvin, to whom we have before referred, and Mr. E. C.

Newcome, of Feltwell Hall, Norfolk, still keep and use trained cormorants; as, through the kindness of the former, we have had pleasant opportunities of attesting.