We shall notice but one other claim, that of the lord of the Isle of Man to present the king with the interesting present of two falcons on the day of his coronation. "Hawks and falcons were favourite subjects of amusement, and valuable presents in those days," says Mr. Turner[66], "when the country being much over-run with wood, all species of the feathered race must have abounded. A king of Kent begged of a friend abroad two falcons of such skill and courage as to attack cranes willingly, and seizing them to throw them on the ground. An Anglo-Saxon, by his will, gives two hawks (hafocas), and all his stag-hounds (head or hundas) to his natural lord." And similarly to this claim of the king on the lord of Man, "Ethelstan," according to this writer, "made North Wales furnish him with as many dogs as he chose, whose scent-pursuing noses might explore the haunts and coverts of the deer; he also exacted _birds_ 'who knew how to hunt others along the atmosphere[67].'" The Isle of Man was given in the reign of Henry IV. to the Northumberland family; on the forfeiture of that earldom Sir John Stanley became possessed of it, on the present tenure of presenting the kings of England with two falcons on the day of their coronation; and although the sovereignty was purchased from the Duke of Athol by the crown during the late king's reign, that nobleman still holds his manorial rights by the performance of this duty. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 56: There have been instances in which the see having been vacant, and the archbishop suspended or abroad, other prelates have officiated: but the right of the metropolitan see seems to have been still preserved.] [Footnote 57: Lingard's History of England, vol. ii. p. 88, 89.] [Footnote 58: Henry V. p. i.] [Footnote 59: Johnes' Froissart, v. 12. p. 162.] [Footnote 60: Chron. Sax. 57, 63; Malmsbury, &c.] [Footnote 61: Wilk. Leg. 217, 228.] [Footnote 62: Ivanhoe, v. iii. p. 328-345.] [Footnote 63: Gen. xli. 9.] [Footnote 64: Neh. i. 11.] [Footnote 65: Clarke's Bible, Part ii. Exod.] [Footnote 66: Hist. Anglo-Saxons, v. ii, p. 79.] [Footnote 67: Malmsb. lib. iii. p. 80.] Sec. 4. ANECDOTES OF THE ACTUAL CEREMONIES OF THE CORONATION, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. Although the ceremonies of the royal investiture form a _spectacle_ for the eye of the passing age, rather than a subject of historical record, presenting any thing characteristic of our monarchs, traces of the "form and body of the time" have occasionally been left by them on the page of history, which it is now our design to present to the reader.