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.

To right and mend a Feather broken on the one side, and to ympe a bruised Feather.

TAke a slender long néedle, lay it in Vineger or salte water, that it may ruste and so hold the better within the feather: Afterwards thread it with vntwisted thread, and draw it through both ends of the bruised places, then draw it backe by the thread, vntill it may draw that one part to that other, so as the webbe may be close ioyned together: and suffer not your Hawke to flée, nor to vse her wings, vntill it be closed and strong againe. But if it were broken on both sides, cut it off, and take a square ymping néedle like vnto a Glouers néedle, lay it in Vinegar and salt water, and thrust it into both the ends of the web, vntill you haue brought them together, then giue your Hawke rest vntill the néedle be ru∣sted in that web. For a feather that is broken or bruised within the quill, take another quill that is lesser, that it may goe in∣to the broken or bruised quill, then cutte off the feather in that place, and the stalke of the quill being put into the old quil, force the end of the feather into the new quil that is cut: Afterwards ioyne together the two péeces, with the quill that is so put in, couering the place where it is so ioyned, with Cottō or smal downe feathers, with lew or Semond, or if you would

not ympe it, glew it in with Semond or Rosen, and Ware molten together. If the feather be dropt away cleane, then put in another of like syze and colour For to bind in a feather that were slipped out of the pynion, take flaxe small chopped, & mingle with the yolke of an egge well beaten, put them toge∣ther vpon a linnen cloath which is very neare worne, with the which you shall bind on both sides the place where the feather slipped, or else annoynt that place with Myrche and Goates bloud mingled together. To make a feather come a∣gaine which is cast and lost by bruise, or otherwise, and espe∣cially in the trayne of an Hawke, take oyle of Walnuttes and oyle of Bayes, as much of that one as that o∣ther, mingle them together, and droppe them into the place where the feather grew, and it shall put out a new feather speedily.