Time of 
Edward IV. 
54 ON-THE PLACE OF LSE TN 
do we see larger families, handsomer women, and 
more robust and active men, or greater exemption 
from illness.” 
SELECTIONS, FROM -HISTORIC, NOMGES 
OF THE, FORMER.USE. OF FISH) IN 
ENGLAND. 
The following extracts are made for the con- 
venience of those who do not find them in their own 
public libraries. 
They may suggest ideas as to the extent fish may 
be again used in diet as well as objects for sport, or 
for being kept in ponds only for ornament. Some of 
them are curiously quaint, but they all seem to show 
that, whatever the period from which the quotation 
is made, more attention was paid to the use of fish 
than has been in this r9th century up to the time of 
the Fisheries Exhibition. 
1. TIME OF EDWARD IV. 
From Yoannis Lelandi, in ‘Collectanea de Rebus,’ 
vol. VI., “Out of an old Paper Roll.” 
The great feast at the intronization of the Reverende 
Father in God, George Nevell, Archbishop of Yorke 
and Chancellor of Englande in the 6th year of the 
reigne of King Edward the Fourth. And first the 
goodly provision made for the same. 
Amongst other things there were the following 
fishes :— 
Pikes and Breames, Porpoises and Seales. 
Here followeth the serving of fish in order. 
