Three panels depicting hawking in england from various time periods. The middle panel is from a saxon manuscript dated to late 900s - early 1000s, as of 1801 held in the "cotton library," showing a saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks upon the banks of a river, waiting for the rise of the game. The top and bottom panels are drawings from a manuscript held, as of 1801, in the "royal library" dating from early 1300s showing parties of both sexes hawking by the waterside; the falconer is frightening the fowl to make them rise and the and the hawk is in the act of seizing upon one of them. Date: Middle image is near close of 9th century or commencent of 10th, bottom and top are early 14th century.
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