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then uphon the first Mondaie in August, I come westward 

 towards Wyndsor. Wherefore if it may j^lease yo" to send 

 to my howse to Hampton Court what dais you meane to 

 appointe for driving the river of Weybridge and Molsey, it 

 shall suffice, to th' end the gamesters maie have knowledge 

 thereof, that they may attend accordingly. I do thinke 

 it wold greatly satisffie them yf yo' did appointe the same 

 upon Tuesday the vii'^ of August, for upon that day they 

 wil be at the entrance of these rivers. And so praing you 

 to p'don me for my absence at this tyme, I humbly take 

 my leave. Hampton Court, this Mondaie, xxxth of July 

 1593. " Yor poore frend to comaunde, 



" E. May lard." 



"To the R. W. Sir W. Moore, Kn't, 

 at Pirforde." 



Since the publication of the first Edition of this work, the 

 Author obtained a very rare tract on Swans and swan- 

 marks, printed by A. Matthewes, in 1632, and containing, 

 besides some other illustrations, the swan-mark of Charles I. 

 and his Queen. It is a small quarto of eight leaves only, 

 of the " Orders, Lawes and ancient Customes of Swannes, 

 taken forth of a Book, which the Lord Buckhurst delivered 

 to Edward Clerk, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., to peruse," on 

 the back of which book it was thus entitled, " Taken out of 

 an ancient Book remaining with Master Hambden, some- 

 times Master of the Swannes," caused to be jDrinted by John 

 Witherings, Esq., Master and Governour of the Royal Game 

 of Swans throughout England, to whom it is dedicated by 

 John D'Oyly, from Alborn, in Wiltshire, with the plates of 

 the marks used to distinguish the Swans. 



The marks distinguished by the letters a, and h, are 

 those of Charles I. and his Queen. The next, c, and d, 

 are those of Oxford and Cambridge. The city of Oxford 

 has a game of Swans by prescription ; and in the sixteenth 

 century, when a state dinner was not complete unless a 

 Swan was included in the bill of fare, this game of Swans 

 was rented upon an engagement to deliver yearly four fat 



