_yolow_, yellow _yowre_, your _yowris_, yours We have now traced the various aspects in which this curious work may be viewed. There is not one of them that would not repay much deeper study, and the reader will, doubtless, sympathise with the writer in the wish that more could be discovered concerning the schoolmaster-printer. That his pioneer attempts to establish a printing press met with many discouragements was a matter of course; and, doubtless, he had many technical, business, and even social difficulties to overcome; for a reading public had to be created and patronage was scantily afforded. Nevertheless he struggled on for at least seven years, as we learn from the dates on his books, and whatever may have been his shortcomings, either as author or as printer, the fact of his having been one of the earliest promoters in this country of the grandest discovery which the mind of man has yet made, will unite all of us in honouring the memory and respecting the name, shadowy though it be, of the “Scole mayster of St. Albon.” WILLIAM BLADES. [Illustration: Fleuron] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In so moch that gentiƚƚ men and honest persones haue greete delite in haukyng and desire to haue the maner to take haukys: and also how and in waat wyse they shulde gyde theym ordynateli: and to knaw the gentiƚƚ termys in communyng of theyr haukys: and to vnderstonde theyr sekeneses and enfirmitees: and also to knawe medicines for theym accordyng. and mony notabuƚƚ termys that ben vsed ī hawkyng both of their haukys and of the fowles that their hawkys shaƚƚ sley. Therfore thys book fowlowyng in a dew forme shewys veri knawlege of suche plesure to gentiƚƚ men and ꝑsonys disposed to se itt. Thys is the maner to begynne to kepe hawkys: bot not aƚƚ maner hawkys. bott oonli Goshawkys: and Tercellis of Goshawkys. and spare hawkys. and in watt maner thay shaƚƚ be taake. The maner to speke of hawkis fro an eeg to thei be habuƚƚ to be takene.