Manuscripts. Ordinance forbidding falconry in... Lot 1611
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[Manuscripts]. Ordinance forbidding falconry in Holland and Westfriesland during the hunting season, pen and ink, 1654, fold. leaf, (2)p. (recto and verso) and blank leaf (titled on verso "Patrijs ofte Hoen: jacht"). = On 17th century laid paper with foolscap watermark. Probably a transcript duplicate of the official ordinance by the "deurwaarder ofte geswooren exploictier van den comptoire des ontvfangers van des graeffelijckheijts Wildernisse". The reason for forbidding the hunting of partridges is the extensive falconry by licensed people and poachers causing a sharp decline of the birds. "(...) Doen te weten alsoo t'seder eenige jaeren herwaerts het hoen ofte partrijs alomme in den Lande van Hollandt ende Westvrieslandt seer is geruijneert door het continuel vliegen soo van de weijluijden daer toe gequalificeert, als door de disordre en de onbehoor[lick] vliegen van de Valckeniers ende andere, sulckx dat geschapen is dat het landt daer van t'eenemael in korten sal wesen gedepopuleert, ten waere daerinne promptelijck wierde voorsien (...)".
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