Thirlepole. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Lobster. 
Oysters. 
72 ON THE PLACE: OF FISH IN 
gurnara, haddock, cod, herring, pilchard, sprat, and 
such like. Under this kind also are the great fish 
contained, the seal, dolphin, porpoise, the thirlepole, 
whale, and whatsoever be round of body, be it 
great or small. 
Of the long sort are congors, eels, garefish, and 
such other of that form. 
Finally of the legged kind we have not many ; 
neither have I more of the sort than the Polypus, called 
the English lobster, crayfish or crents, and the crab. 
- As for the little crayfish, they are not taken in the 
sea, but in our fresh rivers. 
Carolans Stephanus doubted whether lobster be 
fish or not, and in the end concluded them to grow 
of the purgation of the water as doth the frog; and 
those also not to be eaten, for that they be strong and 
very hard of digestion. 
We have plenty of oysters, whose value in old 
time for their sweetness was not unknown in Rome 
(although Mutianus, as Pliny noteth, lib. 32, chap. 6, 
prefer the czicena before them) ; we have mussels and 
cockles. We have likewise no small store of great 
winkles, scalops and periwinkles, and each of them 
far into the land from the sea coast in their several 
seasons. 
And albeit all our oysters are generally forborne for 
the foure hot months, May, June, July, August, 
which are void of the letter R, yet in some places they 
be continually eaten, where they be kept in pits. 
