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A06936	Hungers preuention: or, The whole arte of fovvling by vvater and land Containing all the secrets belonging to that arte, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as trauell by sea, and come into vninhabited places: especially, all those that haue any thing to doe with new plantations. By Geruase Markham.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1621 (1621)	STC 17362; ESTC S112097	110,787	289

hawks then gently vnmaile or vntrusse them as you shal findoccasion for the lesse time your hawke lies mailde or trnst vp the more wholesome it is for your hawks body and the longer she lies maylde or trusst vp the more apter shee is to receiue disease or lamenesse And herein is also to bee vnderstood that this latter kind of Mayling of haukes a trussing vp of the wings is nothing neare so good as the first Mayling with the handkercher nor carrieth a Hawke so easily nor yet so free from danger becanse it not onely pincheth the wings and maketh the pinions sore and tender but also a little bruseth the fethers which being but newly quilled are not come to their full strength and hardnesse and if any of them chance to be in bloud as all Hawkes though of one Ayrie yet some not at one instant then it is great odds but this trussing them either breaketh or bruseth them in their bloud whereby those feathers are made vnseruiceable for all that yeare following There bee some that when they take these young Hawkes doe neither Mayle them nor Trusse them but onely Seele them after this manner They take a Needle with a square point which we commonly call a Glouers Needle being fine smale and much worne and put in it a Crymson silke then put the Needle betweene the Hawkes eye and the neather lidde of the eye and so drawe the silke thorow it and then bring it crosse ouer the Hawkes heade and there taking the Needle from the Silke bring the two endes of the same ouer the toppe of the Hawkes head and so drawing both the nether liddes close ouer the eyes knit them with a fast knott vpon the crowne of the Hawkes heade and so carry her either in your handkercher or vpon your hand at your pleasure But this manner of Seeling of hawkes is both troublesome painefull and dangerous to the hawke and except the man haue a steedy hand and a cunning eye that doth it hee may not onely endammage the putting out of the Hawkes eye with the point of the Needle but also by any little ouer straining of the silke teare out the skinne of the lydde and thereby both cause a foule blemish and sometimes blindnesse as is continually seene in dayly experience To helpe then this discommodity of Seeling If you haue neither skill to Mayle your Hawke nor to trusse your Hawke rather then you shall Seele her you shall take a plaine Ruffter hood which some call the first hood being made of soft and gentle leather large and easie for the head and put it vpon her and so carry the Hawke home The next manner of taking of hawkes according to their seasons is to take them in their sorage which is indeede from that time they haue preyed for themselues and are masters of their owne strengthes and courages being able to make a true choise of their prey and to conquer it vntil the first whole yeare be fully expired and that they haue mewed and exchanged either all or at least most part of their first feathers after which time of the second coat they are no more called Sore-hawkes or hawkes in their soreage but entermewers or hawkes of the second Coat and they are most easily to be distinguished from the first for the feathers of the second coat are a little more palish blew and not so blacke as are those of the first and euery time that she changeth her coate is paler and paler till she come to bee called a white Hawke which you shal so much the easilier distinguish if you obserue the differences of her feathers for no hawk meweth so entirely but she leaueth euer some feather of the former yeare vnmewed those are so easily to be distinguished one from an other that any diligent obseruation you shall be euer able to knowe of what yeare or age your hawke is Now to proceed to the maner of taking these hawks in their sorage or after they preyed for themselues you shall being perfit in the knowledge of the ayrie for that is euer first to be intended most diligently marke their morning and euening going forth to find out their prey and how and where they prey as also the manner of their returning home where they take their stand that is on what brāches of the tree they do most vsually sit for hawkes are the constantest of all birds to the places wherunto they inure woont themselues neither will as others doe sit one while in one place another while on an other Therfore when you are acquainted with their hours of going out the places wher they sit at their returne you shal then take aduantage of her going out when shee is absent about her prey you shal climb the tree wher her stand is in a strait place through which necessarily she must passe you shall take a paire of those Nettes which Faulkoners commonly doe call Vrines or Vrnes being not much different in shape from the nets formerly described for the Branchers only they are much larger and more hollow in compasse and indeede are to bee bought almost of any Barbar or Nettemakers which dwell in the Wood Countries and they must be of strong twisted browne thride and dyed either Blewe or Greene as aforesaid with a reasonable large mashe for that sooner entangleth and holdeth the faster These Vrines you shall place in euery seuerall passage and in sundry Trees round the stand which the Hawkes vsethso as she may come no way to the stande without danger of the Nettes into which if at any time she strik she is presently taken and then to be disposed as was formerly described Now because you may not in any wise suffer the Hawke to hang too long in the Nette for feare of bruising and hurting her selfe you shall as soone as your Vrines are placed take vp some secret and vnseene place where you may lye and watch the comming of the hauke and assoone as you see her strike or be intangled presently with as conuenient speed as you can and not doeing any hurt to your other sport you shall assend vp to the tree and take downe the hauke and mayle trusse or hood her as you shal finde occasion Now if by the vncertainetie of the Hawkes comming home or the opennes and liberty of the passages which these young Hawkes haue you finde that this manner of worke auaileth not you shall then rise two howres at the least before day and come as neere to the Hawkes stand or resting place as you can possibly get without giuing of any affright or amazement to the young Hawkes and ascending vp into such trees as you see doth most face those places where the Hawkes sit and are so plaine in their viewes that they cannot rise without beholding them and in such trees amongst the most conuenient branches you shall pitch and place your Vrines and vnder the guard

by reason that she is lesse stirring and more melancholly then the Batte as also of greater quantity and sooner to bee perceiued shee is a better Stale then the Bat. Now if you haue not a liue Owle or a liue Batte if you can get but the skins of either and stoppe them with woole or flockes they will serue as well as if they were aliue and continue with carefull keeping twenty yeeres and better I haue seene some that for want of either of these hath had an Owle so liuely cut out in wood and so artificially painted that it hath serued him for this purpose as well as any liue one could doe and he hath taken Byrdes in wonderderfull great abundance therewith CHAP. XII Of the taking of Haukes of all kindes and all Ages HAuing written of the generall taking of Land-Fowle of all sorts both great and small and also descended to the taking of some particular Byrdes as hath beene before shewed we will now write of the manner of taking of Hawkes of all kindes especially such as are most frequent in our Kingdome and with which my experience hath oft beene familiar as the Goshawke and her Tercell the Sparrowhawke and her Musket the Me●…ne Hobby Castrell Ringtaile and the like all which haue their Ayries and breed in this kingdome as also the Faulcon-Gentill Haggard Passenger and diuers others which though naturally they breede not amongst vs yet by many accidents they come into the Kingdome wilde and sometimes breaking out of the Mewe turne wilde so that without some especiall Art they are not to be recouered because hauing any long time preyed for themselues the Luer voyce and all rules of obedience are then vtterly forgotten To beginne then with such Hawkes as breed in our Kingdome you shall vnderstand that they are to be taken three seuerall waies and at three seuerall seasons that is to say either from the Ayery after they be disclosed and then they be called Eiasse or after they bee full summed and beginne to forsake their Nest and then they bee called Braunchers or lastly after they haue preyd for themselues and then be called Sore-Hawkes or Hawkes in their S●…reage For the taking of the Eiasse Hawke or Hawkes from the Ayerie which is as soone as they be disclosed and haue cast off the first Downe which couereth their feathers there is but small difficulty to be vsed more then in the finding out of the Ayerie or Nest which is soone done by walking vp and downe in the Woodes amongst the tallest and goodliest Trees which grow in the thickest couerts and are furthest from pathes waies or places where people accustome to frequent for in such they build and no other and if you chance to come where the Ayrie is you shal know it by the mutings slycings of the old hawks which wil not only bedaube the Tree and trences vnder the Ayrie but also the ground and other places as also commonly vpon the ground at the foote of the tree you shal finde much plumage feathers and bones of birdes scattered any of which characters when you find you may then be well assured that there the ayrie is so that if you please but to watch neere or about the same either early in the morning or at the closing of the euening you shall see the male Hawke bring in prey for the female Hawke which sitteth vpon the nest which when you see you may then if you please when the female riseth to bath or solace her self which commonly is about hie noone clime vp into the tree look into the nest and view how many egs she sitteth vpon but in any wise be carefull not to touch any of them or giue any affright fright to the old Hawke but only looke vpon them and so depart for any grosse affright wil soone make her to forsake the ayrie This done you must let them rest till the young Hawkes be disclosed which after they are a weeke or tenne daies old you may take them from the nest at your pleasure and beare them home and so bring them vp with war●… meat and liue birdes till they be f●…ll summed and hard feathered and after reclaime and man them as you shall finde occasion These Hawkes be called Eiasse or Foole hawkes because they will doate and be fonde of the man as of their naturall dambes following him vp and down and crying after him for foode as oft as they see him or be hungry yet this is not the best manner nor the best season for the taking of young Hawkes for neither can the man feede them so naturally and choicely as the true dambe can nor halfe so well preserue their feather from hurts and bruises which by reason of their tendernes bloudines they are much subiect vnto and a hurt taken on the feathers whilst they are in the bloud may disable the hawke in flying most part of the year following The second season for the taking of young Hawkes is when they are Branchers that is to say when they are full summed hard quill-featherd and beginne to forsake their Nests and trust to their owne winges skipping from bough ●…o bough yet not farre from the Nest and as it were trying their feathers and by degrees enabling them to beai●… and carry their bodies euer and anone expecting foode from the olde Hawkes for as yet these Branchers are not able to prey for themselues This as soone as you shal perceiue you shall then being fitted of all such implements as shal hereafter be specified very earely in the Morning as before day arise and go to the Ayerie and there watch the rising of the olde Hawkes when they goe forth to fetch their prey and soone after they are departed you shall see the young Hawkes also rife from the Nest and flye foorth vpon the boughes and branches of the Tree skipping and fluttering vp and downe from one arme of the Tree to another and h●…rein in you shall obserue the waies and passages which they take when they first leape from the Nest and through which boughes and branches they goe for their goings out and their commings in are euer certaine and marking which is the fittest for your purpose you shall presently clymbe vp into the tree and hauing diuers little nets of two foote or two foote and a halfe square made of strong twisted Housewifes threed and dyed as neere as you can to the colour of the leaues of the tree that it may giue no affright or dislike to the Hawkes you shall place one about the Nest halfe circular and leauing one onely passage in and out from and two the Nest and this Net shall as it were penthouse ouer or couer the Nest aboue head yet at least a foot and halfe higher then the Nest and in such secret manner that it may not be perc●…ed for to lye too close and neere the Nest or to open and plaine to bee perceiued will

fleshie partes of the carrion and questionles you shall then take of these rauenous creatures in infinite aboundance Now if you haue a desire to take any other Land-fowle with these baites as House-doues Stocke-doues Rookes Chaughes or any other then you shall take Wheate Barley Fetches Tares or other pulsse and boyle them very well with good store of Nux-vomica in ordinary running water and when they are almost boyled dry and as it were ready to burst then you shall take it from off the fire and set it by and couer it till it bee thorowly colde and that the Graine hath suckte vp and drunke in all the moysture which done take this Graine thus boyled and in the seuerall hauntes where any of these kinde of Fowle frequent which you would haue taken scatter and strew it as thicke as you can possibly deuise and bee you then well assured of it that as many of them as shall chance or happen but to take or eate of the same presently they shall fall downe in a dead swound and you shall come and gather them vp at your pleasure for their dissinesse and drunkennesse comes sodenly and swiftly vpon them that they shall haue no time or leasure to slecke away or to hide themselues but that you may take and gather them vp and so carry them whether soeuer you shal be disposed As thus you take these greater kind of Land-Fowle so you may also take all manner of other smaller Land-Fowle of what nature or qualitie soeuer they be whether of the lesser midle kinde as are the Thrushes Blacke-birds Fell-fares Iay●… Starlings and such like or else of the smalest kind of Byrds as Sparrowes Robins Linnets Bullfinches Cordials and a world of such like if you doe but obserue to boyle in your water with your Nux-V●…mica the seedes of Graynes in which any of these small birds doe delight as Hem●…sedd Linseed Rapeseed and aboue all oth●… your Mustard-seede for though it be not so pleasant as any of the other seedes not yet so apt to intise Byrds to feed vpon it yet when it is thus vsed and boyld it then doth take more surer and certaine then any of the other seedes whatsoeuer both by reason of the naturall sharpenesse and fume which it carryeth and sends vp to the braine to amaze and intosticate it as also the strength of the other mixture which ioyning with the former naturall violence doth so vtterly take away all sence and motion that not any thing is left to the poore Bird but a most deadly slumber There be other Fowlers which insteed of the Nux-Vomica doe only take the lees of wine and the sharper quicker such lees are the better they are and the better effect doth proceede from their vse and in these lees of wines they doe boyle any or al of their graynes as wheat barley fetches or any other pulse as also any or al of the seedes formerly rehersed and doe strew and scatter them in the haunts where the foule or Byrdes doe vsually vse to haunt which you would take and it is altogether as good and as fully effectuall as the Nux-Vomica is and is a greate deale more neate and more wholesome and far better then any other for not being poysonous or infectit corrupteth not the blood or leaues behinde in the flesh any thing but what a man may with saftie taste hauing in it onely a power to amaze and to astonish without any further danger or mischeife which on the contrary parte to a scripulus conceite is both offensiue and loathsome as we finde in daily experience Now in the making of this confection neede you to stand too strickly or seuearely on the boyling of it for if you haue not euery thing answerable to your purpose if you onely steepe and infusse your graines or seeds in the lees of wine it will be fully as effectual and without any boyling at all will doe euery way as much as can be desired herein onely it must then have a longer time to stand and infuse so that the Graynes or seedes may drinke in the Lees and be as it were ready to burst before you make any certaine vse of them There be other Fowlers which in case that they can neither get Nux-Vomica nor yet these lees of wine will instead 〈◊〉 them take the iuice of Hemlocke and 〈◊〉 it steepe these Graines or seedes and then mixe with them in that iuice a p●…tie sprinckling of Henne-bane seede or Poppie seede or both if you can c●…passe to get them and hauing let it stand in steepe two or three dayes at the least after draine it out and then scatter it amongst the haunts of these Fowle or Byrdes and as many as shall taste or feede vpon the same so many will presently be taken with a frenzie or dizines that they shall haue no power to flye or mooue but that you may take them vp at your pleasure and doe with them what your fancie best liketh whether it be to kill them keepe them or to reuiue them againe for some other intent and purpose Now hauing thus attained to the full perfection of all manner of baites for the taking of all sorts of Land-fowle of what nature or quality soeuer they be if then you haue a desire likewise to know the secrets and how with the like baite●… to take all manner ofWater-fowle especially such as at any time doe forsake the water and range vp and downe to finde some part of their food vpon the Lande as for the most part doe your wilde Geese Barnackles the Gray Plouer Mallards Bytters Bustards Curlewes S●…uellers and a world of others like vnto them then shall you for the taking of any of these kinde of water-Fowle take the seedes of the hearbe called Bellenge the leaues rootes and all and hauing clens'd and pickt them from all filth as cleane as is possible you shall put them into a vessell full of cleare running-water and there let them lye in steepe fully a day and a night and fomewhat better then taking the same water in which they were thus longe steept boyle them altogether in the same till the water be in a manner all consumed and the seedes and hea●…bes left in a so●… dry then take it off and let it stand and coole then hauing occasion to vse it take as much therof as you shall thinke conuenient and then goe to the haunts where any of these water-sowle vse whether it be vpon early Winter come lands on Meddowes bankes of Riuers in moist and watery Ilands in Fennes as amongst Reeds Rushes Sedge and other course Stouer or in any other haunt whatsoeuer and there spread of this baite in d●…uers and sundry places and as many Fowle as shall either taste or feede theron so many presently will be stricken with a drunken dizinesse so that they will turne vp their heeles and lye in a dead traunce for a great while together without any