The booke of faulconrie or hauking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman.
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- The booke of faulconrie or hauking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman.
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- Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
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"The booke of faulconrie or hauking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14016.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- The Contentes of the Booke.
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To the right Honou∣rable, my verie good Lord, Ambrose, Earle of
Warwicke, Baron Lisle, Maister of hir Maiesties Ordinance, Knight of the most honourable order of theGarter, and of hir highnesse priuie Counsell: George Turberuile wisheth encrease of ho∣noure, with all good fortune. - In commendation of Hawking
- The Induction or proeme to this discourse, and treatise of Hawking.
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A generall diuision of Hawkes, and Birdes of praie, after the opinion of one Francesco Sforzino Vycentino, an
Italyan Gentleman Falconer. - A second or subdiuision.
- Of the names of Hawkes of praye.
- Of the kyndes of Eagles.
- Nowe as touching the Vultures, and first of the large ashe coloured or blacke Vulture.
- Of the lesse Vulture, whiche is the browne or whitish Vulture.
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The opinion of William Tardiffe a Frencheman, concerning the diuision of birdes of praye, and otherthings woorthe the obseruation. - A deuise and remedie for you, when the Eagle doth moleste and hinder your game in hawking.
- Now will I laye you downe the report of Frauncis Sforzino Vicentino, an Italian, as tou∣ching the diuision and nature of Eagles, and so proceede to the Falcon.
- Of the Falcon, and how many sortes of Falcons there are.
- Of the Falcon gentle and hir propertie.
- An Obseruation.
- The good shape of a Falcon.
- Of the names of a Falcon, according to hirage and taking.
- Of the Haggart Falcon, and why she is called the Peregrine, or Haggart.
- Of the Barbarie Falcon.
- Of the Gerfalcon.
- Of the Sacre.
- Of the Laner.
- Of the Tunician Falcon.
- Of the Merlyn.
- Of the Hobbye.
- Of the Goshawke, after the opinion of VVilliam Tardiff a Frenchman.
- Of the Sparovvhawke out of the french Authors.
- Of the Matagasse.
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The Second parte or booke, of this collection of Falconrie.
- Certayne speciall poyntes, necessarie for a Falconer, or Ostreger, collected out of the Italian Author.
- The first instruction is, how to make a Falcon and other hawkes fleeing, after the opinion of Ian de Franchiers.
- The manner of fleyng with hawkes, as well to the fielde as to the Ryuer, and firste to the Ryuer, according as Martine teacheth.
- To flye at the Hearon according to Martine.
- For the flight to the field as Master Amé Cassian teacheth.
- Other flights to the field called great flights.
- Aduertisement giuen by Master Martine to make a Hawke bolde and hardy, and to loue hir pray.
- How a man should vse an Eyasse Hawke.
- A consideration of the diuersitie of Hawkes natures, accor∣ding to Martine.
- Howe to seele a Sparowhauke and to make hir fleing according to Guillam Tardif.
- Hovve a man shoulde manne a Spa∣rowhavvke, and make hir fleing.
- The meane to make a Sparowhawke fleeing.
- To take lyme from of a hawkes feathers.
- Howe to ryght and make strayght brused feathers.
- To right and mende a feather broken on the one side, and to ympe a broosed feather.
- Howe to beare and make a Falcon.
- Howe you shall manne a Falcon, and bring hir out of hir ra∣magenesse.
- How to lure a Falcon lately manned.
- How you shall bathe your Hawke being but lately reclaymed, how you shal make hir fleing, and to hate the cherke.
- How to flee the Hearon.
- How a man shall make his Hawke to loue other Hawkes, when she hateth to flee with them.
- How you shall enseame a Hawke, or giue hir castings, skourings. &c.
- To enter or make a Hawke, after the fashion of Lombardy.
- To enseame a Falcon and to make hir.
- To flee all manner of fowles.
- Howe to make a trayne or flight for the Goshawke.
- To manne, hoode, and reclayme a hawke, after the opinion of the Italian Falconer.
- To keepe and make Sparhawkes.
- The maner to feede a Sparhawke.
- Of feeding a Hawke.
- To man and make a Hawke: and first of a Niasse Falcon.
- Of Ramage Falcons.
- To vse a Hawke to the hoode.
- To make your Hawke knowe your voyce.
- How to make a hawke know hir feeding.
- To make a Falcon bolde and ventrous.
- To make a Falcon knowe the lewre.
- How to call your Falcon loose, and at large.
- How to call a Falcon, that will come loose.
- To make a Falcon fleeing.
- To make a Falcon leaue the stande on the grounde.
- To make the Falcon to the Ryuer.
- To make a hawke inwarde at the Ryuer, when she raketh out.
- To make a flight for a Haggarde.
- How to make your Falcon kill hir fowle at the firste.
- How to do when your riuer Hawke will take stand in a tree.
- To make a Hawke fond of the Lewre.
- How to help a Hawke when she is froward and coy through the pride of grease.
- VVhen a Falcon will not hold in the head.
- How to keepe a Hawke high fleeing.
- To make a high fleeing Hawke vpwards.
- To make a Falcon to the Hearon.
- To make your Hawke flee the wilde Hearon.
- Of such Hawkes as flee from the fiste, and first of the Sacre.
- How to flee with the Lanner from the fiste.
- To hawke with the Gerfalcon and the Mylion.
- To flee with the Merlyne at the Partridge.
- To flee with the Merlyne at the Larke and Lenet.
- Of the time to mewe a Falcon.
- Of mewing at the Stocke, or the Stone.
- Of mewing at large.
- How to mew Marlins.
- Of Goshawkes.
- To make fleeing the Goshawke, either Niasse or Ramage.
- To make the Sore Goshawke or the Haggard Goshawke.
- To make a Goshawke flee to the Partridge.
- Howe to helpe a Hawke that turneth tayle to tayle, and giueth o∣uer hir game.
- When a Goshawke will not flee at all.
- To make a Goshawke flee quickly.
- That a Goshawke being a good Partridger, be not flowen with to the Feasant.
- How to vse a haggard Goshawke.
- To flee with a Goshawke to the Riuer.
- Of fleeing the Wildegoose and Crane with a Goshauke.
- To mewe a Goshawke.
- To draw the Goshawke out of the Mewe.
- To make a mewed Goshawke fleeing.
- Howe to keepe Nyasse Sparowhawkes.
- To reclayme and make the Nyasse Sparowhawke.
- To trayne a Nyasse Sparowhawke.
- How to hawke with a Sparowhawke being made.
- How to make a Sparowhawke, being ey∣ther Sorehavvke, ramage, or me∣vved Hawke.
- Certayne obseruations for an ostreger in keeping of a Goshawke.
- Certayne obseruations concerning Sparowhawkes.
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The third part, or Booke, of this collection of Falconrie.
- Of the diseases and cures of Hawkes. The opinion of master Francesco Sforzino Vicentino, an Italian Gentle∣man Falconer.
- How to knowe the health and disease of a Hawke by hir casting.
- Of naughty castings.
- The waye to knowe in what tune hawkes are, by their mewting.
- Of the Feuer or Ague, wherewith Hawkes are wont be mo∣lested and troubled.
- Of diseases of the heade, and first of the Apoplexye, or falling euill.
- Of the Apostumes of the heade.
- Of the distillation and swelling of a hawkes heade, and also of hir eyes and nares.
- Of the giddinesse and shaking of a Hawkes head.
- Of the Cataract in the eyes of a Hawke.
- Of such euils as happen to Hawkes in their chappes and mouthes.
- Of the Pantas.
- Of the infirmitie and disease in the gorge of a Hawke, when she dothe cast hir gorge.
- Of diuers accidents that happen to Hawkes, by meanes of fowle∣nesse of the gorge, and in∣disposition thereof.
- Of woormes, that molest and trouble hawkes out of measure.
- Of the Filanders.
- Of the disease of the Lyuer.
- Of diseases that happen to Hawkes feete, and first as touching the swelling of a Hawkes foote.
- Of the Gowte in a Hawke.
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Of the Pin in the Hawkes foote, a disease much like the corne in the foote of a man. The Italians tearme them
Chiodetti. - Of the breaking of a Pounce, or Cley of your Hawke.
- VVhen the thigh or legge of a Hawke is out of ioynt.
- When a Hawke hath broken a thigh or a legge.
- Of stripes and brooses in a hawke.
- Of Hawkes Life.
- Of misfortunes that happen to Hawkes in the mew. And first of all, of their laying egges in the mew.
- To cause a Hawke to mewe fast and well.
- Of accidentes that happen and lyght vpon a hawkes feathers, and firste, how to vse the matter, when a feather cannot be imped.
- The way and manner, howe to ympe a Havvkes feather, hovvsoeuer it be broken or broosed.
- Hovv to ympe the trayne of a havvke, beeing all broken, and neuer a feather whole or sound.
- The waye and meane to prepare Mummie for Falcons, and other birds of praye, and when and howe it oughte to be gyuen.
- Mummie is prepared in this manner.
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Of the cauterising instruments and tooles, vvhere∣vvith Falconers do seare their Havvkes in desperate cures, when nothing else vvill serue the turne but fire, the last refuge of all others.
- How to keepe and mayntayne all manner of Hawkes in health, good plight and liking.
- Of Aloes Cicotrina, wherewith you must make scowrings for youre Hawkes.
- Of common pilles that are giuen to Hawkes for laxatiue medicines or downe∣warde scowrings.
- Another vvay to scovvre by medicine.
- To make a Hawke cast when she kee∣peth it too long.
- Of the bathing of Havvkes.
- To keepe Hawkes from inconuenien∣ces which they take of themsel∣ues, or which happen to them vnwares.
- How men should make their Hawkes to tire euery day.
- Another receyt to keepe and mayntaine youre Hawkes in good healthe.
- That the diseases whiche Hawkes haue in their heads, do commonly come of giuing them too great gorges, and of foule feeding: the meane of knowe it.
- The remedie of the sayde disease.
- Of a confirmed Rewme that commeth of colde.
- Another medicine that Mallopin giueth in stead of the other aforesayd.
- For the disease of the eares, whiche commeth of the Rhewme and colde.
- Of the disease of the eylyddes, whiche commeth of the rewme and colde.
- Of the Hawe in the eye, whiche commeth of moysture, and colde, and howe it happeneth.
- Of a blowe giuen to the eye, or of some other mischaunce.
- Of the Filme in the eye, which some call the Veroll, or the Pinne and webbe.
- For the disease that breedeth in hawkes beakes, commonly called Formica.
- For the disease that breedeth in the Nares of Hawkes.
- The disease called the Frownce, whiche breedeth within hawkes beakes, and in their tongues.
- Of the disease called by the Frenche men, Escorchillons, a kinde of frownce or Canker.
- The disease of the Canker which breedeth in the throtes and tungs of Hawkes.
- Of a kinde of Pippe that is in a Hawke.
- Of the disease of their palat which falleth of swelling by reason of moysture of the head.
- For the disease of the iawes.
- M. Michelins medicine for the same.
- Of the Hawke that hath broken hir clappe, by some mischaunce.
- Of the falling sicknesse, whiche hapneth to hawkes as well as to men, and other liuing things.
- Of another falling euill which first breedeth in the necke and in the gorge of a Hawke.
- Of the Fistula, a grief that proceedes through payne of the head.
- For the swymming in the head of a Hawke.
- For all maner of diseases in the head, and special∣ly for the ache that is in a Hawkes head.
- Of the stone, and how and wherof it cōmeth.
- For the disease called the Filanders which happen in the bodyes of Hawkes: and first of such as are in their gorge.
- Of the Filanders that are in hawkes bowels, and in their reynes.
- Of the Filanders or wormes that are in hawkes legges and thighes, whiche the Frenchmen call Vers.
- For the disease called in french the (Aiguils) an e∣uill worse than the Filanders, for which I know no apt English terme, and therfore must borow the french terme of mine Author.
- When a hawke gapeth inordinatly vpon the fiste of hir keeper.
- Of Apostumes that breede in Hawkes.
- Of a Hawke that hath hir Liuer inflamed.
- Of the Canker which breedeth of ouer great heate in the Liuer.
- Of the Pantas of the gorge.
- Of an other Pantas that commeth of colde.
- Of the Pantas that is in the reynes and kidneys.
- Of the Hawke that is morfounded by some mischaunce.
- Of the disease that is called the priuie and hidden euill in a Hawke, for vvhich vve haue no speciall terme.
- Of the disease and weaknesse in the reynes.
- Of Havvkes that haue the ague or feuer.
- Of the Havvke that voydeth vvormes.
- Of the Teynte in a Hawkes feather, and hovve many kindes of it there be.
- Of the Hawke that indeweth not, ne putteth ouer as she should doe.
- Of the Hawke that can neither cast vp hir meate, nor endew it as she ought.
- Another medicine to make hir cast hir gorge.
- Of the Havvke that casteth hir gorge ouer much, and cannot indew as shee shoulde doe.
- Of the Havvke that hath lost hir appetite and vvill not feed, to make hir eager vvithout bringing hir lovv.
- When Hawkes are low brought, a remedie.
- Of a Hawke that hath no liste to flee, and is become vnlustie or slouthfull.
- Of the Hawke that hath broken hir wing by some mischaunce.
- Of a Havvke that hath had some blovve or stripe vpon hir vving.
- Of the Havvke that hath hir vving out of ioynte.
- Of a Havvke that hath hir pynion broken.
- Of the Havvke that hath hir legge or thyghe broken.
- Of the Hawke that is wounded with a stripe, or some other misfortune.
- Another medicine of master Cassians making.
- Of the Hawke that hath swollen feete.
- Of the swelling in the legges or thighes.
- Of the svvelling in a Havvkes foote, vvhich vve tearme, the pin, or pin Goute.
- Of the Havvke that eateth avvay hir ovvne feete.
- The maner of the taking vp of Havvkes veynes vvhen an humor droppeth dovvne too fast on their feete.
- The maner of scowring, and vsing youre Hawkes when they are to be cast into the mewe.
- The maner hovv to deale so vvith a Havvke in the mevv, as she may auoyde the mis∣chaunces of the mevv, vvhich sun∣dry times do happen, as vvell diseases, as other harmes.
- Another vvay.
- The maner of dieting and keeping Hawkes in the mewe.
- The maner of drawing Hawkes out of the mewe.
- VVhen Aloes is to be giuen to Hawkes that are fleeing.
- Of the Hawke that hath hir talons broken.
- Of the Hawke that layes an egge in the mewe, or out of the mewe.
- The maner of taking Hawkes in the Eyree.
- Of Hawkes that haue lice, mites or other vermine.
- Of the Hawke that holdeth not hir wings vp so well as she should do, but lolleth them.
- Of the Crampgout.
- To keepe a Hawke from all manner of Goutes, the Frenche mans opinion is this.
- For the byting of avenemous beaste or woorme.
- For the wound or byting of any beaste.
- A treatise and briefe discourse, of the Cure of Spanels, vvhen they be any vvaye ouerheatte: deuised and written by Ma∣ster Francesco Sforzino Vicentino, the Italian, Gentleman Falconer.
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