The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
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At London :: Printed by Thomas Purfoot,
1611.
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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the breaking of a Pounce, or Cley of your Hawke.
SEing that I haue begunne to write and decipher you the mischiefes that doe happen to hawkes féete, it shall not be beside my purpose, nor amisse to say somewhat of the cure of their Pounces and Talons, when eyther by striking the fowle, or by any other accident they breake cleane off, or riue in sunder.
Wherfore when your hawk hapneth to haue this mischiefe the part of the pounce, or the whole pounce being brokē away, you must apply vnto it the bladder of the gall of a Henne,
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vsing the matter so as it may get into the broken Talon, bin∣ding it so handsomely and artificially to the hawkes foot, as the gall may not issue out, nor fall away from the place. This deuise will stoppe the blood, cease the paine, and within foure or fiue dayes fasten and harden the horne of the Pounce, so as the hawke shall bée able to flée: and if shée be a Falcon shee shal strike or ruffe a Ducke as before her hurt.
And to the end your hawk teare it not away with her beak, it shall bée necessary eyther to clap her on a hoode with a false beake made vnto it, or to fasten to her hood a péece of leather artificially, so long and large as may serue the turn, to arm her beake, so as in time her pounce, if it be but broken, may waxe whole againe: or if it bée clean riued away, a new may grow in the place againe. [But if it bée not cleane riuen away, then with a little new red sealing wax fixt about it,* 1.1 let her rest, & it will soone conglutinate together again.]
Let this suffice as touching the breaking or riuing of the Pounce of a Hawke.