[114.] See “Chambers’s Dictionary,” last ed., article “Chase;” also Holt White’s note to this passage in the “Variorum Shakespeare.”
[115.] Wood’s “Buffon,” xix. p. 511, note.
[116.] This, it will be observed, differs materially from Col. Hawker’s observation.
[117.] “Essays on Natural History,” second series, p. 128.
[118.] See end of Chapter V.
[119.] See “The Ibis,” 1869. p. 358.
[120.] As a copy of the “Northumberland Household Book” is not readily accessible, we give the following interesting extract, showing the price, at that date, of various birds for the table:—
- Capons at iid. a pece leyn (lean).
- Chickeyns at ½d. a pece.
- Hennys at iid. a pece.
- Swannys (no price stated).
- Geysse iiid. or iiiid. at the moste.
- Pluvers id. or i½d. at moste.
- Cranys xvid. a pece.
- Hearonsewys (i.e. Heronshaws or Herons) xiid. a pece.
- Mallardes iid. a pece.
- Teylles id. a pece.
- Woodcokes id. or i½d. at the moste.
- Wypes (i.e. Lapwings) id. a pece.
- Seegulles id. or i½d. at the moste.
- Styntes after vi. a id.
- Quaylles iid. a pece at moste.
- Snypes after iii. a id.
- Perttryges at iid. a pece.
- Redeshankes i½d.
- Bytters (i.e. Bitterns) xiid.
- Fesauntes xiid
- Reys (i.e. Ruffs and Reeves) iid. a pece.
- Sholardes vid. a pece.
- Kyrlewes xiid. a pece.
- Pacokes xiid. a pece.
- See-Pyes (no price).
- Wegions at i½d. the pece.
- Knottes id. a pece.
- Dottrells id. a pece.
- Bustardes (no price).
- Ternes after iiii. a id.
- Great byrdes after iiii. a id.
- Small byrdes after xii. for iid.
- Larkys after xii. for iid.
[121.] “Extracts from the Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the L’estranges of Hunstanton, 1519–1578.” (Trans. Roy. Soc. Antiq. 1833.)
[122.] “The Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, 1536–1544.” (Edited by Sir F. Madden, 1831.)