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 3IO Hijiory of Domejlic Manners fame manufcript laft quoted (MS. Reg. lo E. i), reprefents a lady tending her hawks, which are feated on their " perche." The author of the " Menagier de Paris/' a Httle farther on than the place laft quoted (p. ,311), goes on to fay, "At the end of the month of September, and after, when hawking of quails and partridges is over, and even in winter, you may hawk at magpies, at jackdaws, at teal, which are in river, or others, ... at black- birds, thruflies, jays, and woodcocks ; and for this purpofe you may carry a bow and a bolt, in order that, when the blackbird takes fhelter in a bufli, and dare not quit it for the hawk which hovers over and watches it, the lady or damfel who knows how to flioot may kill it with the bolt." The manufcript which has furniflied us with the preceding illuflrations gives us the accompanying fketch (No. 207) of a lady fliooting with her bolt, or boujon (as it was termed in No. 206. A Lady and her Haivks. tm^ No. 207. Ladies Shooting Rabbits. French), — an arrow with a large head, for ftriking birds 5 but in this inftance flie is aiming not at birds, but at rabbits. Archery was alio a favourite recreation with the ladies in the middle ages, and it no doubt is