"Eirie" Quotes from Famous Books
... Allington, &c. Herons bred heretofore, sc. about 1580, at Easton- Piers, before the great oakes were felled down neer the mannour-house; and they doe still breed in Farleigh Parke. An eirie of sparrow-hawkes at the parke at Kington St. Michael. The hobbies doe goe away at..... and return at the spring. Qure Sir James Long, if any other hawkes ... — The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey |