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.

Of the Hawke that hath broken her clappe by some mischance.

ANother inconuenience befalleth hawks by the negligēce of such as kéepe them: for in their féeding there cleaueth or remayneth some peece of flesh in their iawes, or in the roofe of their mouth, or on some place or other of their beake which marreth their beaks, so as it is enforced to fall away in sliuers & péeces. This hapneth for want of wiping their beaks as they ought to bée after their féeding, by meane whereof both her claps grow so much, as at length it falleth to breaking and riuing if it bée not remedied in time. And thereof bréedeth this disease which we call (Formica Corrosiva) whereby the beake becommeth brittle, & is vtterly marred. Master Amé Cassian appointeth this remedy following. Looke into your Hawkes beake, coping it and keping it very cleane, and if you find any Formica corrosiva there, remoue it. That done, annoint y^e horn of her beake with the bloud of a snake or an adder, & the bloud of a henne mingled together, to make it to grow the more spée∣dily. Also let the meat which shee eateth be cut in small pellets, for otherwise shée cannot féede. And yet for all that, cease not to flée with her. Within 15. dayes or thrée weekes after, when ye sée her beake begin to grow againe, cast your hawke hand∣somely, and cope her nether clap that the vpper clap may ioyn orderly vnto it, as it should doe of his owne nature.