Also, the plague was at Highworth before
the late warres, which was very prejudiciall to the market there; by
reason whereof all the countrey sent their cattle to Swindown market,
as they did before to Highworth.
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Devises. - On Thursday a very plentifull market of every thing: but
the best for fish in the county. They bring fish from Poole hither,
which is sent from hence to Oxford.
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[At this place in Aubrey's manuscript is another "digression"; being
"Remarks taken from Henry Milburne, Esq. concerning Husbandry, Trade,
&c. in Herefordshire". - J. B.]
PART 1I.-CHAPTER XIV.
OF HAWKS AND HAWKING.
[A PAPER "Of Hawkes and Falconry, ancient and modern", is here
transcribed from Sir Thomas Browne's Miscellanies, (8vo. 1684.) It
describes at considerable length (from the works of Symmachus,
Albertus Magnus, Demetrius Constantinopolitanus, and others), the
various rules which were acted upon in their times, with regard to the
food and medicine of hawks; and it also narrates some historical
particulars of the once popular sport of hawking.-J. B.]
QU?RE, Sir James Long of this subject, for he understands it as well
as any gentleman in this nation, and desire him to write his marginall
notes.
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[From Sir James Long, Dracot.] Memorandum. Between the years 1630 and
1634 Henry Poole, of Cyrencester, Esquire (since Sir Henry Poole,
Baronet), lost a falcon flying at Brook, in the spring of the year,
about three a'clock in the afternoon; and he had a falconer in Norway
at that time to take hawks for him, who discovered this falcon, upon
the stand from whence he was took at first, the next day in the
evening.
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