To be taken out annually, in the parish or place where your assessed taxes are paid—costs, 3l. 13s. 6d., and one shilling fee to the collector.
Does not authorise unqualified persons to kill game, but exempts them from the penalty of 20l., and leaves them subject to that of 5l. for non-qualification, and also to that of 5l. a piece for every head of game found in their possession.
For menial servants, hired as gamekeepers, costs, 1l. 5s., and a shilling fee to the collector.
Persons, not menial servants, must have a three and a half guinea certificate, and should have, also, the common gamekeeper’s certificate, to hold a deputation.
When demanded by any assessor, collector, land owner, commissioner, inspector, surveyor, occupier of land, also gamekeeper, or other person, provided the two latter produce their certificates, previously to requiring yours, penalty for refusing, 20l. If you have not your certificate to produce, your name, and place of abode, may be asked. All certificates expire on the 5th of April in each year.
If you have not a certificate to produce at the time it is called for, your Christian and surnames, and place of abode, may be demanded by any assessor, &c. &c., (as before mentioned) and the penalty for refusing them, or giving a false name, is 20l.
Cerulean, a. Blue, sky-coloured.
Chad, s. A sort of fish.
Chaffinch, s. A bird so called, because it delights in chaff.
This bird is rather less than the sparrow. The bill is bluish; irides hazel; the forehead black; crown of the head, back part, and sides of the neck, bluish ash-colour; the cheeks, under side of the neck, and breast, dull pink; back, chestnut-brown; rump greenish; belly, white, tinged with pink; the bastard wing and coverts of the primary quills are black; those of the secondary tipped with white; the smaller coverts black and greyish, on which is a spot of white; the quill-feathers dusky, slightly edged with greenish yellow on the outer webs, marked with white on both webs at the base; tail dusky; the exterior feather is obliquely marked with white, taking in the whole of the outer web, the next is tipped with white; legs dusky.