very dangerous to let them take colde before the receipt of this pill or pills for making of them something lesse you may giue two when I came home I would keepe her still maled vp lest she should catch colde vntill I had made her pills ready when I would not yet vnmale her if I found it a dangerous bruise but kepe her so all night or day and I would be sure that when I did vnmale her to feede or to see how shee could stand it should be in a very warme Chamber where there should be a good fire I did flye a Goshawke that was not my own for which hawke I was offered fortie pounds I could not and her Master would not sell her the next yeare shee had such a bruise vpon her body against a small tree not much bigger then my leg crossing to catch a Pheasant-Cocke that shee lay there to the beholders dead and there she had beene dead but that this accident happened very neere vnto one that was with me when I came vnto her I saw her eyes stirre a little I opened her mouth and put my finger downe her throat shee stirred no part of her body I lapped her vp in a good-fellowes Ierkin that was with mee and so I carryed her vnder my arme to a house two miles from thence I found she had life in her then I had hope I gaue her two pills such as I haue formerly spoken of she did lye so lapped vp at the least sixteene houres and when I did vnmale her to see her strength she was very vnable to stand and hardly able to offer to stand I fed very short but with my care in one week I deliuered her to her Master with some directions in all the time I had her after her bruise she neuer cast any meate but after I parted from her she would once in three or foure meales cast part or all of her meate my consent was asked when I came thether that her head might be pulled off I would not yeeld to that but vpon easie tearmes I tooke her home with mee In the Strand I met with that worthy Barron who before had made meanes to buy her and he asked mee if I would not helpe him to that Goshawke I tolde him truly in what desperate case shee was in and all the truth Hee said you will recouer you will recouer that I promised if she did recouer he should haue her and at Easter-tearme shee receiuing her hurt neere Shrouetide I did deliuer her a very sound hawke and I had for her thirty pounds and her well-prouing was worth twenty pounds more vnto mee One other Goshawke I recouered that wanted not much of her danger and her Master solde her in Sussex for fifteene or sixteene pounds and a young Goshawke cleane mewed out of the mew I dare write no vntruth for this must be ouer-viewed by the actors what shall I neede to set downe any more for this knowing this to be so approued good and which maketh it the more excellent it is to be had in euery place so is neither Parmasite nor Mumma I could mention more but all worthlesse in respect If you will giue any thing else let it be Mumma beaten into powder and so giuen with her meate you shall finde it in the morning in her casting and it is very good where the other is vnknowne A receipt for a wound or hurt taken either by a Dog or the clawes of a Hare or otherwise HAue a speciall care that the winde or colde enter not into the wound before you haue wherewith to dresse it If it be where you can haue soueraigne Balme there is nothing better that is to be had but in few places And therefore for want thereof take a quantity of Spring-water and let it seeth then take it from the fire and put into it a peece of Roche-Allum and some English-Honey and so let them dissolue in the water the water being bloud-warme therewithall wash the sore it will keepe it cleane from putrifying and heale it but still be carefull that it doth not take cold A medicine for the Cray THis griefe proceedeth of a hot dry cause and it is a dainty cure Hawes distilled and the meate drawne through the water is very good To drawe your hawkes meate thorough Cowes-milke warme from the Cowe is very good and so approued Another for the same MIlke from the Cowe distilled is excellent good for that griefe but thus followeth the discommodity it cooleth and hurteth the stomacke I haue knowne this water vsed for the stone but the discommodity was soone found But if you will distill a pinte and halfe of milke and withall an ounce of white Suger-Candy finely pounded it will rectifie all it hindreth not its property for the Cray and yet it doth now comfort the stomacke Another for the same and the best of any for the same I Haue knowne some pare the end of a Candle to a small quantity and so put it into her tewell gently and it hath doone good But I vse Castle-sope and thereof cut a peece an inch long in manner of a Supposita and so put it vp and so leaue it this is very good But withall I haue pared a little of such Sope and conueyed it into the gut of a Foule being very carefull of the cleanely doing it not knowing whether the taste might offend or no so doone I cast my Hawke and put it downe and then I feede vpon it to make her the better to put it ouer this with the Supposita will so open make glibbe the passages that you shall soone finde amendment in your Hawke Otherwise for the same I Was taught to put vp in the manner of a glister oyle of Roses with a Syrren A receipt for a straine or bruise in the foote TAke a handfull of Mallowes and boyle them either with Neates-foot-oyle Goose-grease Capons-grease or Hogges-grease when they are well boyled streine them through a cloath and then mingle with them good Aquavite and let them boyle all together a little and therewith annoynt the place FINIS A comparison In either kinde this holdeth not generally A comparison A caueat A great inconuenience I will not affirme that all will prooue thus Neither is this generally to be vnderstood You shal finde hereafter a remedy for this Easie to be amended How I begin with my Hawke This must be especially obserued Thus you may recouer her strength that in so long a iourney is made weake My manner of castings in the beginning The Feathers of the House-Doue not good For peppering A reason why thus Especially such as are not perfectly sound An office ill performed Auoyde euery inconuenience A fault in her keeper The earnestlier she looketh at many things the lesse she will feare any Let her haue no meate aboue when you pepper her Sit not still in manning your Hawke A good meanes to man your Hawke Obserue this Lose not
buy my Rammish Hawke about the latter of Michaelmas terme or if I can learne that there are more Hawkes comming before Christmas I will tarry their comming for those Hawkes doe not shew themselues out of the great couerts vntill after Saint Iames And to buy one of them in the beginning of Michaelmas terme that hath beene so long taken and done so little for her selfe I like not but I will hope for a more late taken Hawke which when I haue I follow in this manner I continue her vpon my fist tenne dayes or a fortnight vnlesse in a shorter time I finde her a sound Hawke which I shall the sooner vnderstand because I see how she putteth ouer her meate how shee doth in due it and if there be any doubt of her well-doing there shall hardly a mute escape my sight whosoeuer doth carry her for mee for she shall be well assured to finde no other perch then the fist from that time I rise vntill I goe to bed when she shall goe with me and if in this time I finde it fit she doth not faile to haue casting I finde no time lost in this course for in this time I will raise my Hawke and giue her strength and she will be the lesse time after she is vnhooded before shee doth flye my castings that I giue are Thrums gotten of the Weauer I get them washed but not with Sope I cut the threads an inch long or lesse and I size them out for a small casting and giue them lose with her meate or otherwise I tye vpon the thrids two or foure small knots leauing some thrids open at the end of either knot otherwise I giue plumage and some small bones if the fowle like me the bones of that part of the wing that is vsually broken from the Partridge Flannell I could neuer approue of neither did I euer vse the iukes and feathers of a house-Doue for they by reason of their owne dung they sit in are hot and strong in sauour I am carefull not to make my casting too great I thinke there is no man but hath that care if hee but vndertake to feed a Hawke When I find my Hawke in strength of body and stomacke bettered I proceed to peppering for I will let nothing escape me vnset downe in the whole practise of my Hawke vntill I haue made her flying and although peppering be as common with euery man as feeding yet because I haue knowne and heard of many Hawks that haue dyed vpon peppering when I had younger experience I grew very carefull thereof and I tooke this course First I made my water seeth and then I put thereto a quantity of pepper and a lesse quantity of Staues-acre pounded small I put in the lesse of both because I seeth them in the water which maketh the water strong When the water had sod a while I did streine it through a fine linnen cloth which should suffer neither Pepper nor Staues-acre to goe through and therein I would then wash my Hawke My reason why I doe not alow of nor vse the common course of peppering is this The water not strained through a cloth the Pepper hangeth in the Hawkes feathers and when she falleth to pruning of her selfe shee oftentimes getteth it into her beake and so it hangeth either vpon the tongue or in the mouth of the Hawke and setteth it on fire the heate and dislike whereof maketh many Hawkes to cast their gorge and so their sicknesse encreasing they dye Besides I haue come many times to some places foure or fiue daies or a weeke after that they haue peppered their Hawkes And I haue seene the backe part of their wings red so long after their peppering There may thereupon grow although not sodainely an incurable blister which will lame his Hawke and her Master shall neuer know how it commeth but with the roughnesse of the Pepper and with the ill handling of them that haue executed that office I haue many times seen the skin in that place rubbed off If any man will follow my course he may if not let this warne him of the inconueniences that follow the other many Hawkes hauing dyed vpon peppering my reason can finde no other cause than what is aforesaid or else a great fault in her keeper that would put his Hawke to such a hazard before he had made her body able and fit for it My place of peppering should be in a very warme roome although the fire were not very great I cared not my time should be in the euening and for my company I cared not how many both men and dogs the more the better for then the Hawke seeing so many things that any one of them might giue offence alone there is now so much change men dogges fire-light and candle-light that she looketh at all and knoweth not which to be afraid of Besides she hath a desire to dry her selfe and so let her continue vntill she be dry and hath picked her selfe by that time I would thinke it time to giue her some meate that should be but a little she had none aboue one houre before I beganne to pepper her my hoode is layd away with no purpose to handle it before foure and twenty houres were spent that night she neuer went from my fist but when I entreated my friend to ease me But note I seldome did sit still with her but I would walke and when I walked or whether I sat still I would entreate my Hawke not to be idle but in this manner to walke and trauell with me very often turning my hand gently forward and backeward whereby my Hawke should be made leisurely to remooue her feete one after another forward and backeward I had rather she should gently remooue a foote then with anger strike a wing and the often remoouing her foote will saue her many a bate It may be your Hawke good friend shall want that attendance that mine hath had for a fortnight before if you faile in the beginning looke for no succesfull ending it is very like you shall finde it at this time when shee will distemper and ouer-heate her selfe with bating which my former courses taken with my Hawke assureth me that I neede feare no such thing To proceede I with my Hawke vpon my fist walke and I entreate her to doe so likewise by the gentle remoouing her feete which she should practise that night either vpon my fist my friends or my mans towards the morning if the weather would giue me leaue I walke abroad with some company both men and dogs and howsoeuer the weather was I would euer be abroad at the breake of the day and so continue so long as I could conueniently If my Hawke were vnquiet it would be about or rather before the Sunne riseth it is a time wherein all creatures spirits are quickened Although
that haue beene muted daily sometimes two sometimes three and somtimes foure in a mute and more And to kill these I haue laboured but I will neuer approue it more for I cannot doe it and besides I thinke they rather benefite a hawke then doe any hurt For I flew a Tarsell so troubled all his sore-age and when he was an entermewer vntill after Christmas at the Cocke hee was a very high flyerthat yeers remain three yeares after he was a lead Hawke at the Brooke in Leicester-shiere and all this time had these wormes and hee was called by that name Wormes I am put in minde of giuing a Hawke Brimstone by speaking of the pounded flint and I haue very often approued it to giue it in this manner to any hawke broken like small grauell at night giue it with her meate she will in the morning bring it vp in her casting It will helpe greatly to cleane a Hawke and breed a good stomacke There is not so common a disease followeth a hawke as the wormes and I haue found them in most feathered Fowles but neuer any within the bowels but in the body most aboundantly and without all doubt the backe-worme if a man were certaine his Hawke were so diseased both the pill and sodden Garlicke with continuance would destroy it A receipt for a Hawke that hath lost her courage and ioyeth not or is lowe in flesh TAke a wilde and a well-fleshed house Doue and draw out a wing you know what to pare away and how to prepare it fit for your Hawke Take a new-layed egge whilest it is warme and warme a Porringer or Pewter-dish against the fire then breake the egge and put the yolke thereinto let it be broken a little with a spoone and then drawe your meate through it and as your Hawke is feeding with a feather lay on more I would haue this so quickly done as that the Doue nor Egge should lose but little of their naturall heate by making it more hot you make it worse then the losing of the heate Vse this but two or three mornings you shall finde your Hawke growe brauely vpon you For a hawke to be proude and full of flesh is but a spurre or whetstone to put her into all ill conditions if shee be wilde But let her be gentle and not wilde shee is able to kill any thing that is fit to be flowne vnto Another receipt very good for the same purpose TAke a pound of Beefe of a young beast or more Beefe if you will make it very cleane not leauing either fat or string therein You may the better doe it because the Beefe must be sliced very thin which when it is so sliced and well picked lay it in a still and put thereto as much Claret wine of the best high Country wine you can get as may couer the Beefe put thereto one or two ounces of white Suger-Candy beaten to fine powder and then still them together but let the still be very temperately kept and through this you may often drawe your Hawkes meate How to draw a water that is cooling and the propertie thereof is to kill any vnnaturall heate in the mouth or body it is a great cleanser and increaseth breath it will keepe the body in good temper and helpe the body distempered with heate I Would gladly set down euery thing so plainly as that there might neither be question made of my meaning nor that there should be any thing mistaken for want of a true discription Prim of some called Prim-priuet it is that which is planted in some Orchards and in some Gardens to beautifie the walls and is kept with cutting it doth carry a white flower which when they are blowne I would haue cleanely picked taking nothing but the flower let not your fire be kept ouer-rash or ouer-hot but let them be carefully distilled and then put it into a glasse vntill you haue vse of it no hawke will dislike the taste of the water and the water thus stilled hath a very good smell but it leaueth a most stinking Still If you shall giue her this water with her meate you shall finde admirable profit therein It is very good wherewith to ensayme a hawke of any kinde for a long-winged hawke that is in summer flowne to the field there neuer was or can be vsed any thing better it is most true that in giuing something to heate the stomacke you may therewith ouer-heate the liuer and it is so for the liuer giue something to coole that and so you may ouer-coole or kill the stomacke But there is such an excellent propertie in this water as notwithstanding it cooleth the liuer yet it bettereth the stomacke the vse of this water will preuent many diseases for infirmities and sicknesse doe continually follow such hawkes as are not cleanely fed but flowne fowle before they be well ensaymed it will keepe thy Goshawke and Tarsell in continuall health if you be carefull in the ensayming of them and not flying of them before they be cleane If you will not be carefull but thy ouer-hasty desire of sport shall make thee flye them before they be fit to flye then you shall haue from them for a little season some sport but then the conclusion will be confusion to be weake and sickly is the best hope can be had of a hawke het or flowne before she be cleane but to be het or flowne when she is more then foule so soone as colde weather doth come be assured of the Pantise and other diseases which will fall into her feete and legges and then as good pull off her head as keepe her I know not any man that hath had the vse thereof but my selfe and I haue vsed it this sixteene or seauenteene yeares and I did neuer impart to any man but one Knight what it was who to my knowledge did neuer cause it to be drawne A very excellent medecine for a dangerous bruise presently to be giuen after the hurt TAke English honey and clarefie it and so soone as you haue so done before it boyleth any more put into it halfe so much stone-pitch or something lesse then there is honey and then let it boyle againe It shall not neede to boyle long because the pitch will make it strong and fast enough to make vp in pills as soone as you can giue her a large pill thereof and although shee fast aboue twelue houres after the receiuing it is the better I pray let mee make all plaine vnto you for this is worthy to be had in good estimation both of the Faulconer and Austringer It is a practise of my owne deuising and thus I vsed the same I haue had diuers Tarsells flying at the Cocke so hurt themselues that they haue not beene able to stand or holde vp a wing I haue presently maled them to keepe them warme vntill I came home I tell you this because you shall vnderstand that it is