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stages, they could never yet be restored agane. But it hath 

 bin lately attempted by Mr. Lowther to restore that game 

 who 2 or 3 years since brought young ones over out of 

 Yorkshire hither ; but the countrey people destroy'd them, 

 before they increased to any considerable replenneshing 

 number." (Vol. I, p. 137.) 

 Eagles. " Grisedale. About the year 1679 one Christopher Daws 



24 years of age spying an Eagle in the bottom of this Dale 

 w^? was feeding on a sheep ; and either for want of air to 

 waft her, or by haueing fiU'd her belly too full was not able 

 to rise : he struck freely at her w*^^ his fell staff & broake her 

 wing ; upon w^ she betooke herselfe for shelter to a great 

 stone, and thence made her salleys as she saw occasion, 

 wounding him in the leggs w*^ her Tallons, & beating him 

 briskely w*^ her wings. But at last when he had no other 

 shift, he fell down upon her w"i his whol body ; and took her 

 alive." (Vol. I, p. 778.) 



" In 1669 one William Thomas of Deepdale Bridge End 

 being but a youth of 17 years old encounter [sic] an Eagle 

 on the like occasion, but she so seemeth was not able to flye 

 by reason her feathers were mouted and spent by hatching 

 her young ones, for it was about midsomer tide. He chased 

 her several times round a stone ; and at last tooke her by 

 falling upon her, but not without som loss of blood. . . . 

 Mr. Mounsey to whom she was brought alive, & who kept her 

 a week and kild her afterwards by running a penknife into 

 her heart : and gave the Coat of her to Thomas Smyth a 

 Newcastle Merchant for 3" of Tobacco." [In 1685 the 

 Taylor's Guild at Carlisle bought 3 lbs. of tobacco for 

 Is. 9d.] 



He then goes on to mention (p. 724) that it was " A sort 

 of Eagle called an Iron (or Earn or Erne) here. In Scotland 

 a Naron, being of a Blackish brown colour" [i.e. a Golden 

 Eagle], and gives the measurements, together with a sketch 

 of the bird — " From the point of one wing to the other 

 6 foot 4 inches. From the end of the Beeke to the point of 

 ye Tale 3 f. 4 in." Id. [The sketch is conventional, and the 

 tarsus consequently is not feathered.] 



