^ u 346 THE HIS'TORY Book I, by Leigh in Nat. Hift. p. 84. b. iJL'to be found under a Roman: altar at Chcfter, was moil probably the horn of a moofe. — 7 The paflage has been aftoniihingly overlooked by all our wri- ters. It is very curious and runs thus, Cervos prae nimia pkigue— dine minus fugere praevalentes, quantoque miriores* iuiit corporis* quantitate, tanto prtecellentius efferuntur capitis & cormmm dig- nitate (Topographia Hibernian per Giraldum p. 709 Camden). — 1 8 Offian p. 4, 81, vol. I, and p. no vol. II. — * Camden c. r^yg- and 131 2 wolves are faid to remain in Ireland at preient. But it is a miftake : fee Ware's Antiq. Harris p. 165. aad Smith's Kerry, p. 1 73. — IO Pegge's Coins N° 1. clafsr 2. And on a Roman ailtar difcovered near Stanhope in the bifhoprick of Durham about 1749^ was tliis fignal infcription, Silvano invi&o facrvim . olr Aprum eximiae formae captum quem multi antecefiores ejus prgdari non potuerunt — ,x Claudian d« Laud. Stil. lib, v.&e. — "Camden p. 702 and 708, fpeaking froiA fomc aatient ac~ counts which I have not feea. — * 3 Claudian de Laud. StiL lib. v. and Martial de Spe£t; E. 7. — * 4 Egbricht^ Penitentiale drawn up about 750, p. 13&. vol. I. Concilia Mag. Brit &c. Wilkins, and p. 777. Gale voL L from Ddomfday.-— Andl hears appear in Nomiandy nearly to the conqueft of England: fee Gemeticenfis p.. (*6y. Camden.fr- ,5 Pliny lib- viii*. c.36, and Cajixden p. 701. — l6 Itin* Cur. p. 155 and 170, and Phil. Tranf. 1748 p. 603,. — ,7 Offian vol. L p. 115. — ,8 Lib-x. Cr 8. — ^Mar- tial lib. xiv. E. 216/ See alfo Oppian's Cynegeticks lib. i. — ao Pliny lib. x. c. 8. — 1H Tete, ac fi, Jlridulo canum lapfu aerem valid£ fecantem, fasvofque rapidi harpagones accipiiris finuofis ftexibus vitantem,—rapuiftf —comfort* (p. 20. Gale). — ** In ma- ximd Bibliotheca patrum torn. xiii. p. 85. Ep. 40. of Boniface, Ethelbert, king of Kent in the days of Ethelbald his brother king of England, deiires Boniface* archbifhop of Mentz to fend him a brace of falcons that were bold : and taught enough to fly at cranes and bring them to the ground, as there were very few fuch. in Kent. And in Malmefbury f. 27 we fee Athelftan requiring o£ the Welch Volucres quae afiarum avium praedam per inane
- enari nofcerent. — See a further account of hawking in Spefc"
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