----, paid for, [9], [10], [92].
These items afford much information on the value of falcons at the period. Two falcons and a goshawk cost 3l. Five falcons and a tarsell were worth 8l. and five falcons 7l. 6s. 8d.; so that the value of a tarsell was about 13s. 4d.
---- brought, [87], [184], [198].
Falconer, paid to a, [129].
---- to, for their coats, [142].
----, and hawks given by the King of France, for the expences of the, [275], [279].
Falcons and hawks appear to have been the most frequent, as well as most valued presents, from one prince to another. These accounts present two instances of the kind, the one of the payment of 23l. 6s. 8d. to the bearer of a cast of falcons from the Duke of Ferrara, and the other of a gift of several to Henry, from Francis the First, at Calais. Upon that occasion falconers seem also to have been transferred to Henry's service; for we find a payment of 2l. 2s. 8d. for their exences, (p. [275]) whilst some idea may be formed of the number of birds given to Henry from the item of 2l. 18s. 10d. for the expences of them for one month only. "The best falconers were Flemings, and even those who have attended hawks in England, until a late period, were procured from a particular district of Flanders."—M.
Farm at Greenwich purchased for Lady Ann Rochford, [113].
This entry is more fully noticed at the commencement of the volume, when speaking of Anne Boleyn, to whom it related.
Farnham, to the keeper of the place of, [151].