Hawking or Faulconry

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Hawking or Faulconry
by Richard Blome
This person Blome is esteemed by the chiefest heralds a most impudent person and the late industrious Garter. (Sir VV. Dugdale) hath told me Uiat lie gets a livelihood by bold practices'. ] So Wood commented in Athenae Oxon. The pre-] cise nature of these practices is made clearer by I another remark, 'he practised for divers years i progging tricks in employing necessitous persons : to write in several arts', and to get contributions j from the nobility to promote the works. Not only this but Bishop Nicholson dismissed his Britannia [ as 'a most entire piece of theft out of Camden and J Speed'. Thus Blome achieved notoriety during his own lifetime, and all that can be said in his favour is that his plagiarism and sycophancy were : successful.
In 1686 with the aid of adroitly levied subscriptions, his "The Gentleman's Recreation" appeared. The first part was an encyclopaedia of the arts and sciences, the second treated Horsemanship.... Tovább

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Hawking or Faulconry
by Richard Blome
This person Blome is esteemed by the chiefest heralds a most impudent person and the late industrious Garter. (Sir VV. Dugdale) hath told me Uiat lie gets a livelihood by bold practices'. ] So Wood commented in Athenae Oxon. The pre-] cise nature of these practices is made clearer by I another remark, 'he practised for divers years i progging tricks in employing necessitous persons : to write in several arts', and to get contributions j from the nobility to promote the works. Not only this but Bishop Nicholson dismissed his Britannia [ as 'a most entire piece of theft out of Camden and J Speed'. Thus Blome achieved notoriety during his own lifetime, and all that can be said in his favour is that his plagiarism and sycophancy were : successful.
In 1686 with the aid of adroitly levied subscriptions, his "The Gentleman's Recreation" appeared. The first part was an encyclopaedia of the arts and sciences, the second treated Horsemanship. Hawking, Hunting, Rowling, Fishing and Agriculture, with a short treatise of cockfighting'. The second part was lifted almost entirely from a translation of Less Ruses Innocentes and from the works of Markham and Turberville. From this compendium has been extracted the piece on Hawking, together with an interesting article on the taking of birds including hawks with an eagle owl. ] The scope of this extract is covered by a typically i generous subheading, 'wherein is treated of the I several kinds of Hawks now in use with their : natures and qualities. The manner of reclaiming, ; mewing and flying them for the respective game -I proper for each hawk with directions for feeding ; and ordering them. Their diseases and cures. With i a short discourse of the spaniel showing his use in 1 Falconry.'
Falconers will welcome the reappearance of this scarce treatise on seventeenth-century hawking, with its fine copper engravings, although a massive piece of plagiarism, the original scholarship is sufficiently sound to justify its reissue. Vissza