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Author: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Title: Havvking, hunting, fouling, and fishing, with the true measures of blowing A vvorke right pleasant and profitable for all estates, vvhoso loueth it to practise, and exceeding delightfull, to refresh the irksomnesse of tedious time. Whereunto is annexed the maner and order in keeping of hawkes, their diseases, and cures: and all such speciall poynts, as any wise apperraine to so gentlemanlike qualitie. now newly collected by W.G. faulkener. Pulblicum comodum priuato preferendum.
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Print source: Havvking, hunting, fouling, and fishing, with the true measures of blowing A vvorke right pleasant and profitable for all estates, vvhoso loueth it to practise, and exceeding delightfull, to refresh the irksomnesse of tedious time. Whereunto is annexed the maner and order in keeping of hawkes, their diseases, and cures: and all such speciall poynts, as any wise apperraine to so gentlemanlike qualitie. now newly collected by W.G. faulkener. Pulblicum comodum priuato preferendum.
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?, Gryndall, William.
Imprinted at London: By Adam Islip, and are to be sold by Richard Oliue, 1596.
Alternate titles: Boke of Saint Albans
Subject terms:
Falconry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fishing -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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❧ To the Courteous and friendly Readers, the Author hereof wisheth their good acceptation of his paines.
❧ Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing, with the true measures of blowing: Whereunto is annexed the manner and or∣der in keeping of Hawkes, their diseases and cures: and all such speciall points, as in any wise appertaine to so Gentle∣manlike qualitie.
How you shall behaue you in taking of Hawkes, and with what Instruments, and hovv you shall call them.
How your Hawke may be drawne to clayme, and the maner of her diet.
How you shall feed your Hawke, and to know her infirmities, and of the diuersities of them.
Marke well you Medisines here following.
How the Cray commeth.
When your Hawke shall bathe her.
How you shall make your Hawke flie with a good courage in the morning.
How you shall guide your Hawke if she be full gorged, and that you would gladly haue a flight.
A medisine for the Rye.
A medisine for the Cray.
The perfect and kindly tearmes for a Faulkner belonging to Haukes.
For speciall tearmes belonging to Hawkes, when you shall haue any cause to commend them for diuers of their properties.
How your Hawke putteth ouer.
When you shall say she endueth and embowelleth.
Marke well these tearmes.
To know the mayle of an Hawke.
Plumage and cast your Hauke.
Noume or fenced.
Wherefore a Hawke is called a Rifler.
The names of all the members of your Hawkes, with their conuenient tearmes.
The Key or closer.
Seres of watry or waxy colours.
The beame feathers.
Brayles or Braylefeathers.
Breast feathers, Plumage, Barbe feathers, Pendant feathers.
Flage or flagges feathers.
Beame feathers of the wing.
Ensayme.
Couerts, or couert feathers.
Backe feathers.
Beake, Clap, Nares, Sere.
Cryuets.
Sore age.
To reclaime a Hawke.
When a Hawke is called an Eyesse.
What a Taint is.
Medisines to Ensayme your Hawke.
How your Hawke ensaymeth.
How you shall behaue your selfe in putting vp the Partrich.
Hovv you shall revvard your Havvke.
Hovv your Hauke shall reioice her selfe.
When your Hauke hath noumed a Foule, vvhat you shall doe that you rebuke not the Hauke.
A Medson for an Hauke that is lovvsie.
The opinion of Ostregiors.
Ostregers, Speruiters, Favvkners.
A Medson for an Hauke that casteth her flesh.
A Medson for an Hauke that hath lost her courage.
A Medisine that an Hauke shall not lie in Mevv for vnlustinesse.
A Medisine for an Hauke that hath the Tanie.
Hovv you shall take your Hauke from the aire.
A Medisine for vvormes in an Hauke, vvhich sicknesse is called the sylanders.
A Medisine for an Hawke that casteth wormes at her fundament, and vvhat vvormes they be.
A Medisine for an Hauke that hath a sicknesse, called the Aggersteyne.
A Medisine for an Hauke that hath the Crampe in her vvings, and hovv it commeth.
Let not your Hauke be put into mevv to fat, but in this maner as follovveth if you loue her.
Hovv you shall dispose and ordaine your mevv.
The maner hovv a man shall put his Hawke into the Mevv: and is proued.
In vvhat maner you shall feed your Hauke in your mevv.
To make a Hauke mevv quickly vvithout any hurting of her.
Who so vvould haue his Hauke mevv, and that her feathers should not fall.
For the Goute in the throte.
For the Goute in the head and in the reynes.
A medisine for the Crampe in the thigh, in the leg, or in the foot of an Hauke.
For the Cough or the Pose.
A Medisine for the sicknesse within the body of any Hauke, if it shew not outwards, how she shall be holpen and in what maner.
For the passion that Goshaukes haue fasting.
For Haukes that be wounded.
A medisine for an Hawke that hath the Artelick.
A medisine for an Hauke that is troubled in the bowelles.
A medisine for an Hauke that hath the Gout.
A medisine for an Hauke that hath Mites.
A medisine for an Hauke that hath the Stone.
A medisine for Vermin.
A medisine for the Rewme that Haukes haue.
A medisine for Haukes that be drie and desire to drinke, to keepe them moist.
A medisine for diseases in the Entrailes.
For sicknesse of swelling.
A Medisine for Blaynes in Haukes mouthes called frounces.
A Medisine for an Hauke that casteth her flesh.
A Medisine for the Agrum.
A Medisine to make a Hauke fat.
For botches that grow in a Haukes iavv.
A medisine for an Hauke that vvill not come to reclayme.
A Medisine for Haukes that be refrained.
A Medisine for Haukes that haue paines in their Croppes.
A medisine for the stone in the fundament.
A medisine for the drie Frounce.
A medisine for wormes called the Angules.
Proper tearmes vsed in keeping of Haukes.
The names of Sparhawkes, as Ostregers and Speruiters haue determined.
An Hawke flieth to the vewe, to the Beake, to the Toll, not a crewe, Ouerre, ferre Iutty.
Novv ye shall knovv the meaning of these tearmes, Randon, Creep, Emewed.
A Theffe.
Querre.
Marke this tearme draw.
If you vvill make your Hawke to the Querre, you must vse her in this maner.
A pretie deuice to take a Hauke that is broken out of Mew, and all maner of other Foules that sit in trees, or that hath taken vp their perch all night in any place.
Of the Belles for Hawkes.
Here endeth the Booke of Hauking, and hereafter insueth the names of all maner of Haukes, and to vvhom they belong.
❧ The Booke of Hunting, where∣vnto is added the measures of blowing, ve∣rie pleasant to be read, for all those that haue delight in the Art of Venerie.
Of Beasts of Venery there be foure sorts.
Beasts of Chase there be fiue kinds.
Of the age of an Hart.
Of a Heard, a Beuy, a Sounder, or a Rout.
A middle heard, a little heard, a great heard.
You must say a great Hart and not a faire Hart.
Of a Beuy of Rowes great or small.
What a Sounder of Swine is great or small.
Of the hunting of the Rowe, the breaking and dressing.
Of the age and vndoing of the Bore.
Of the Hare.
The reward for the Hounds.
The descriuing of a Bucke.
Of the Rowe Bucke.
Of the Hart and the Hind.
Of the crying of these Beastes.
Marke vvell these seasons following.
The Maister Hunter maketh his report to his man, as followeth.
For two causes the Hart desireth to go to the Riuer: marke vvell these tearmes follovveth, that is, dessend and other.
Novv of the numbles, marke vvell the tearmes.
A vaunt, Lay, and Relay.
What is afforlone.
What three thing causeth the Hounds to endure.
To vndoe the vvild Bore.
How you shall breake vp an Hart.
Beasts of the Chase of sweet foot and of stincking.
The names of diuers Hounds.
The properties of a good Greyhound.
The proper tearmes and names of companies of Beasts and Foules, with others.
Heere follovveth the proper tearmes belonging to the brea∣king vp or dressing of diuers kinds of Beastes, and Foules, and Fishes.
Of Fishes.
You shall say thus.
The true and perfect measure of blowing.
To blow to the field.
To blow in the field.
To blow to seeke.
When the Hounds hunt after a game vn∣knowne blow thus.
To draw from Couert to Couert.
To blow the earthing of the Foxe vvhen he is couerable.
To blow if the Foxe be not couerable.
To blow the death of the Foxe in field or couert.
The death of the Foxe at the Lords gate.
The death of the Bucke either with Bowor Hounds, or grey hounds.
The knowledge vpon the same.
The death of the Bucke with hounds.
The price of an Hart ryall.
To blow the call of the keepers of any Parke or forrest.
When the game breaketh couerd.
Where the Foxe is earthed blow for the Terriers after this maner.
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A briefe Treatise of Fouling: wherein is conteined diuers proper Deuises both of Baites and others: with the making of Bird∣lime, the maner and order in vsing of it one your Limerods: with many other special points. as appertaineth to that Exercise.
Hovv to make Birdlime very pure.
A rare secret to catch foule, as Geese, Duckes, or Birds.
Another pretie way to make birds dronke that you may take them with your hand.
An excellent good vvay to make a baite to catch vvild Geese, or wild Duckes, and all other sort of foule.
Of fouling with Limebush.
How to foule vvith Nets.
To goe vvith a Trammill.
To set Springes.
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A briefe Treatise of Fishing, with the Arte of Angling: wherein is conteined the perfect making of all manner of Implements appertaining to that exercise: The diuers and seuerall baites for euery kind of fish, with the best times of the yeere for the taking of them.
For to make your heare yeallowe.
To make another yeallow.
For to make Russet heare.
To make your heare browne.
For to make a tawny colour.
Here I will declare vnto you, in what place of the vvater you shall angle, either in Poole or standing water, & according to the deepenes of the said water.
And because the Sammon of all fish is the most stateliest, therefore I meane to begin with him the first.