—The white feather is the sign of the cross-bred bird; you will never see one in my tail.
GAMECOCK.
John Lord Berkeley (Vol. v., p. 275.)
never was Bishop of Ely. John Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the second son of John Berkeley, was a British admiral; he died on the 27th of July, 1696-7, not more than thirty-four years of age, during eight of which he had filled the office of admiral. See Rose's Biographical Dictionary.
TYRO.
Dublin.
History of Commerce (Vol. v., p. 276.).
—C. I. P. will, I think, find much of the information required in David Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, London, 1805, 4 vols. 4to. particularly in vols. iii. and iv.; also in The History of European Commerce with India, by the same author, London 1812, 4to. Neither of them is entered in the Bodleian Catalogue.
C. I. R.