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 flee all manner of Fowles.

ALl traines of Partridge, Rookes, Crowes, & Choughs, should bee seeled. Now to enter your hawke at any of them, make a little pit or hole in the ground, and put your traine therein. Then couer the hole with a little borde or sod of earth, to the which you shall fasten to a small cryance or corde, and that you shall holde in your hande to drawe away when you list. Then you shall make as though you vncou∣pled your spaniels to hunt and put vp y^e game, and you shall carry your hawke vnhooded. And when you perceiue that your hawke looketh that way where you haue layd the traine, then drawe off the borde, and cause the traine to springe as though the spanels had sprong it. And if your hawke doe take it, let her féede thereon her fill vpon the ground. And thus must you doe sundry times. If you would haue a good hawke, then nowsle her yong, for so will shée encrease her force by little and little, and in the end, shee will ouercome both Fea∣sant and Partridge, &c. And when shée hath killed, let her gripe and seaze the prey at her pleasure. And let her also plume thereupon so long as shée will, & euermore let her bée re∣warded vpon the ground. And when shee is well nousled, then reward her neuer but vpon the cockes of all preyes, because that will make her loue that prey the better. And when shée killeth a hen of any kind, let her no more but plume vpon it, &

giue her but the heart, and the brayne at the most, because shée shall not loue to flée the Henne so well as the cocke. It is much better to nousle hawkes at yong fowles, than at the olde. For most commonly if a yong hawke bée let flee at olde game, shee will turne tayle, end cowardly giue it ouer, vn∣lesse you doe as before is declared. If you woulde nouzle or enter a Haggart▪ then do not enter her, or set her in blood vp∣pon a yong prey, or inure her thereto. For then shée woulde not afterwards passe much for olde game. And likewise for the same consideration you shall not nouzle nor enter a mew∣ed Hawke at yong game.

For the Goshawke, all fowles generally are good traynes, as Crane, Bustard, Hearne, wilde Goose, Riuer fowle, Cor∣morants, Choughes, Rookes, Kites, and all other fowle that haunt Riuers or Plashes.