The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
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The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
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Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard,
1595.
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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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How you shall take Hawkes, with what in∣struments, and how you shall kidde them.
What gentleman or other whosoeuer will take Hawkes he must haue nets which are called vrines, and they must be made of good small threed, which would be died either greene or blew, for feare of the Hawkes espying of the same, then must he haue nee∣dle and threede for the inseeling of such Hawkes as are taken, and in this manner they must be inseeled: take the needle & threede and put it thorow the vp∣per eie lidde of the one side, and so likewise of the o∣ther, and make it fast vnder the Hawkes beake: so as she may not see at all, and then she is inseeled as shee ought to be: some vse to inseele Hawkes by the ne∣ther eie lidde, fastning it aboue the beake almost vp∣on the head, but that is approoued ill, for by all rea∣son the vpper eie lidde closeth more iustly than the neather, because that it is much larger: when you haue seeled your Hawke, and brought her home, cast her on a pearch, and let her stand there a night and a day, and on the next day towardes euening, take a knife, and with great care see you cut the threedes insunder which inseele hir, and take them away soft∣ly for feare of breaking her eie liddes, then beginne in gentle manner to feede her, and vse all the lenitie and meekenesse you can vnto her vntill she will sit quietly vpon your fist, for by much striuing you shal hurt her wings which were not a little dangerous: and then the same night after the feeding, watch her
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all night and all the next morrow from any sleepe or rest, which will occasion hir to be reclaimed with lesse difficultie: yet note, that the first meate which she shall eate be hote, and let her take enough there∣of without troubling.
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