ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank Emma Raphael (Raphael Historic Falconry) for her comments on this paper. We would also like to thank all those who have reported vervel Treasure, and those that have recorded them.
Notes
1 Alternatively spelt vervils, varvels or vervailles, but pronounced ‘var-vels’.
2 Latham Citation1614.
3 Grassby Citation1997, 48.
4 Sherley 1603.
5 Thanks to Emma Raphael for this suggestion.
6 This vervel was found close to the route Edward took with his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester (subsequently Richard III), to London in April 1483. Edward was taken to the Tower of London, ostensibly for his safety, but subsequently disappeared, never to be seen again.
7 Thomson Citation1940, 228–9.
8 Grassby Citation1997, 61.
9 Glasier Citation1998, 16, 84, 213.
10 Sherley 1603.
11 Thanks to Emma Raphael for the suggestion of the points in this paragraph.