Pertinax

Prithee: Note well that Pertinax will be much Engagde in Venerye the Morrowe.. so what do we have here? Amedieval shopping list? Emperor :The Eagle, Vulture and Merloun / Lady : The Marlyon King : The Ger Falcon and Tercel of the Ger Falcon / Young Man :The Hobby Prince :The Falcon Gentle and the Tercel Gentle / Yeoman :The Goshawk Duke : The Falcon of the Rock (coastal type) / Poor Man :The Jercel (male goshawk) Earl : The Falcon Peregrine / Priest :The Sparrowhawk Baron : The Bustard / Holy Water Clerk:The Musket (male sparrowhawk) Knight: The Sacre and the Sacret / Knave or Servant:The Kestrel Esquire: The Lanere and the Laneret Beshrew me! An order of precedence for the entitlement of persons to fly a rank of hunting bird fit to their station .A man could not fly a bird commesurate with a person of higher social standing. Tomorrow , hopefully, I fly the Peregrine and the Hobby ( mostte seemlye in ranke to my personne)-in bird handling skills alone , (I think it unlikely I will be hunting Roe Deer with an eagle).The Marlyon is the merlin, the smallest but nevertheless deadly hawk, hence its decorous adornment of the feminine wrist .Notice though that the better hunters are usually the feathery females. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=863 http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=864 some curiose footnottes: "Much has been written of King John's passion for crane hawking (for which he flew a cast of gyrs given to him by the King of Norway) and he often brought hunting parties to the Test Valley to fly falcons at herons." James I ( and VI) was noted for using cormorants to hunt fish.All monarchs from Alfred to George III are recorded as keen in the art of falconry.

:notworthy: let us sacrifice beer and things to him! Holy Moley! I dont know what im watching but its good! I seem to have the World Cup live amongst many other things.

Two observations, sea level /coastline change has been very great in this area , many coastal installations have been lost to silting and erosion-Brancaster was a major Roman seaport base in this area in the late occupation period.In this area the Classis Brittania would have been active and patrolling in river craft, if waterborne transport was available the Roman's would use it for any logistical operation, so a land/water link is quite logical and feasible.

Hmmm....Dr Levent might enjoy the company of some of the forum members, given his bibulous excellence...I name no names...

Amazing , as ive said elsewhere , up until 1935 any Doctor not knowing that would have been laughed at.Aconitic acid/achilleiac acid (appear to be almost same thing) is the active principle, if , heaven forfend, one had bleeding piles Yarrow would again be the best poultice.

Yes indeed , its recorded that children have been seriously ill just making reed whistles from the stems of Hemlock. If in doubt use a crushed mix of (for N American members) Lamb's tounge and comfrey ,

Do you have any local history net links to the "trade post" site?

Your cayenne capers are correct, might not also the rinds of discarded citrus fruits help, these being immune to the atmospheric transmogrifications of the Great Ones?

Good, My Lrod Mlecehtt: Now is the tmie for yuor brilliant wtis to frie on all cydinlers. Raed tihs: The qicuk bowrn fox capred oevr all the lzay dgos. Bob's yuor ucnle. Bob? isnt that short for Kate? She is indeed my Uncle! I freely translate the above as " the velocitous vulpeculae gavotted felicitously amidst the somnolent canines"

AH! Glaucomytic japes! go here! http://www.scarysquirrel.org/

So these Pelicans are (as I understand your New World vernacular) (coughs) "mofo bad**s Pelicans?"

Surely I suffer no disrythmia in my captological formulation of cranail contradistinctions! I ponder darkly the use of the word "that" whilst sitting in the crumbling , crenellated fastness of my ancient family Seat

Just the sort of normal items that get thrown away, but mean more than famous speeches.

No need for insalubrious self-flagellation , surely the Evil Genius aka E.Blackadder will return to offer more mesocricetic metaphysical expostulations.Or my name is not Melchett.

This item explains what happens when pelicans go bad. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/25062006/80-132/c...cion-drunk.html so watch your seafood intake this weekend! http://www.answers.com/topic/domoic-acid

Just to get started leafing through "Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians ans Sassanid Persians" is worth a look. Osprey series no 175.Gives some rough context.

ferret like, I'll warrant, in sinuosity and epistemelogical cunning.

Hmm..I shall need a cunning plan, indeed one so cunning you could pin a tail to it and call it a weasel ferret. Lord Melchett.

The image doesnt appear to have the remotest resemblance to anything Roman, only the accident of nature which lead to its position here gives any regularity. I wonder how much coastline change has occured here? NN do you have an image for the "new" Flavian find on your home patch?

Moonlapse scared the carp out of you? :fish: Cease carping! Are you perhaps the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells? something entirely different... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24

Hakim is an Arabic name, and Tibb means doctor in Arabic too. Are the herbs grown in England and Ireland comprable to that of mainland Europe? I heard that they can be different in length and depending on the type of land. Obviously the lands of England and Ireland are more lush I assume. These pain killers are fascinating. I did not know back then that they had any types of analgesics. There are definite strength and intensity variations in the physical ranges of herbal medicine. My rule of thumb is that if one draws a line from the Nile delta toward Italy and thence to Britain (with Scotland and Ireland in many cases being quite different ecosystems) then rhizome strength is greater the nearer the Nile (length of season/altitude/fertility are all co factors). It was certainly noted in Rome that preparation of henbane (hycosine) had to be done carefully, a strong , egyptian grown , fresh plant could kill whereas a European variant would anaestetise.This comment is only a rule of thumb-lobelia could kill you anywhere you got it for example. Continental climate winters would be harder on plants , especially at altitude, Britains wetness and relative warmness rather spoils my rule (gulf stream-we are level with Moscow and Canada), by producing some very verdant herbs/crops. As for the Roman Materia Medica just scroll back through the blog and gallery, I think you will find surprising continuity of usage.