[Footnote 48: Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. i. part ii. p. 129.
This is the xvith law of the emperor Lewis the Pious. His father
Charlemagne had falconers in his household as well as huntsmen,
(Memoires sur l'ancienne Chevalerie, par M. de St. Palaye, tom.
iii. p. 175.) I observe in the laws of Rotharis a more early
mention of the art of hawking, (No. 322;) and in Gaul, in the
fifth century, it is celebrated by Sidonius Apollinaris among the
talents of Avitus, (202 - 207.)]