v.)

Margaret Paston, writing (1460) of the revived hopes of Henry VI.,
says--

"Now he and alle his olde felawship put owt their fynnes, and arn
ryght flygge and mery."

HAWK NAMES

We have naturally a set of names taken from the various species of
falcons. To this class belongs Haggard, probably related to
Anglo-Sax. haga, hedge, and used of a hawk which had acquired
incurable habits of wildness by preying for itself. But Haggard is
also a personal name (Chapter VIII). Spark, earlier Sparhawk, is the
sparrow-hawk. It is found already in Anglo-Saxon as a personal name,
and the full Sparrowhawk also exists. Tassell is a corruption of
tiercel, a name given to the male peregrine, so termed, according to
the legendary lore of venery--

"Because he is, commonly, a third part lesse than the female."
(Cotgrave, )

Juliet calls Romeo her "tassell gentle" (ii. 2). Muskett was a name
given to the male sparrow-hawk.

"Musket, a lytell hauke, mouchet." (Palsgrave.)

Mushet is the same name. It comes from Ital. moschetto, a little fly.
For its later application to a firearm cf. falconet. Other names of
the hawk class are Buzzard and Puttock, i.e. kite--

"Milan, a kite, puttock, glead"

(Cotgrave);

and to the same bird we owe the name Gleed, from a Scandinavian name
for the bird

"And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind." (Deut.
xiv. 13.)

To this class also belongs Ramage--

"Ramage, of, or belonging to, branches; also, ramage, hagard, wild,
homely, rude"

(Cotgrave)--

and sometimes Lennard, an imitative form of "lanner," the name of an
inferior hawk--

"Falcunculus, a leonard."

(Holyoak, Lat. Dict., 1612.)

Povey is a dialect name for the owl, a bird otherwise absent from the
surname list.

BEASTS

Among beast nicknames we find special attention given, as in modern
vituperation, to the swine, although we do not find this true English
word, unless it be occasionally disguised as Swain. Hogg does not
belong exclusively to this class, as it is used in dialect both of a
young sheep and a yearling colt. Anglo-Sax. sugu, sow, survives in
Sugg. Purcell is Old Fr. pourcel (pourceau), dim. of Lat. porcus, and
I take Pockett to be a disguised form of the obsolete porket--

"Porculus, a pygg: a shoote: a porkes."

(Cooper.)

The word shoote in the above gloss is now the dialect shot, a young
pig, which may have given the surname Shott. But Scutt is from a Mid.