Curiosities of civilization : reprinted from the "Quarterly" & "Edinburgh" reviews / by Andrew Wynter.
- Andrew Wynter
- Date:
- [between 1860 and 1869?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Curiosities of civilization : reprinted from the "Quarterly" & "Edinburgh" reviews / by Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Eicliard Finney, Esquive, of Alaxton, in Leicestershire, about afortnitrht since lost a Lanner from that place; she hath neither Bells nor Varvels ; she is a white Hawk, and her long feathers and sarcela are both in the blood. If any one give tidings thereof to Mr. Lambert at the goldeu Key in Fleet-street, they shall have forty shillings for their pains.—Men-cuHus Publicus, September 6, ]660. As London was the only place in wLicli a newspaper was published during the reign of Charles, and indeed fbr nearly fifty years afterwards, the hue and cry after lost animals always came to town, as a matter of course. It sounds strange to read these advertisements of a sport the very terms of which are now unintelligible to us. What ages seem to have passed since these birds, in all the glory of scarlet hoods, were carried upon some faire lady's wrist, or poised themselves, with fluttering wing, as the falconer uncovered them to view their quarry ! We have skipped a few years, in order to afford one or two more examples of these picturesque advertisements, so different from anything to be seen at the present day :— LOST on the 30 of October, 1665, an Intermix'd Barbary Tercel Gentle, engraven in Varvels, Richard Windwood, of Ditton Park, in the County of Bucks, Esq. For more particular marks—if the Varvels be taken off—the 4th feather in one of the wings Imped, and the third pounce of the right foot broke. If any one inform Sir William Boberts, Knight and Baronet (near Harrow-on-the Hill, in the County of Middlesex), or Mr. William Philips, at the King's Head in Paternoster Row, of the Hawk, he shall be sufficiently rewarded.—The Intelligencer, Nov. 6, 1665. The next paper contains an inquiry for a goshawk belonging to Lord William Petre, and two years later a royal bird is inquired after in the London Gazette, as follows :— A Sore ger Falcon of His Majesty, lost the 13 of August, wlio had one Varvel of bis Keeper, Roger Higs, of Westminster, Gent. Whosoever hath taken her up and give notice Sir Allan Apsiey, Master of His Majesties Hawks at St. James's, shall be rewarded for his paines. Back-Stairs in Whitehall. This Sir Allan Apsley is the brother of Mrs. Hutcliinson, who has given us such a vivid picture, in the memoir of her husband, of the Commonwealth time. The London Gazette, from which we quote, is the only paper still in existence that had its root in those days. It first appeared in Oxford, upon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20401309_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
