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charter of Herbert de Mareis,* granted them for the 

 term of their Hves, who pay 15s. yearly. Also one tenant 

 who should keep the said Gannets during the whole of the 

 season of their breeding thereon, for which service he will 

 be quit of his rent of two shillings. Also pleas and perquisites 

 of courts worth yearly 4s. "t 



In the forty-seven years since the previous " extent " 

 was made in 1274, the value of the Gannets had increased. 

 Perhaps it had been discovered in the interval that they 

 were an edible commodity, for a person is expressly 

 designated to look after them ; at any rate the Gannets' 

 stone, before assessed at 5s., is now valued at 66s. 

 and 8d. 



Four years later — 1325 or 1326 — Edward II., in order to 

 avoid his queen and barons, thought to take refuge on 

 Lundy Island, and again a third inventory, though a brief 

 one, was made, which gives Gannets among the island's 

 products. 



■' Cuniculos producit copiose, columbas, et struconas, 

 quas vocat Alexander Necham (Nechristum) Ganymedis 

 aves, indies (nidos) habet prsegnantes." ("Vita et Mors 

 Edwardi Secundi," by Thomas de la Moore.) ^ 



* Or Marisco, a descendant of William de Marisco, who was lord of 

 Lundy in 1199 (Steinman I.e.). 



t Inq. 15, Edw., No. 49. 



J Extracted from " The Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I. and 

 Edward II.," Vol. II., p. 309. 



