206 THE RIVER-SIDE NATURALIST. 



THE CARP. 



The CARP (Cyprinus carpio] is supposed to have come 

 originally from the East, and then transported to Germany 

 and Sweden. Its first introduction into England, according 

 to Sir Richard Baker, "was about the year 1514 :" 



" Hops and turkies, carps and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year." 



Daniel, in " Rural Sports," gives a different version : 



" Turkies, carps, hops, pickerell and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year." 



Hawkins (fourth edition " Complete Angler ") gives yet 

 another : 



" Hops, Reformation, turkies, carps and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year." 



The carp, however, is mentioned in the " Boke of St. 

 Albans," printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496, as " a 

 dayntous fishe." Turkeys were not known in England till 

 1524, and hops somewhat later, as in 1528 the Parliament 

 petitioned against their use as a " wicked weed." In 1504, 

 according to Daniel, at the Inthronisation Feast of Arch- 

 bishop Warham, we read of " carpe in sharpe sauce " and 

 " carp in armine," whatever that means. Beer was drunk 

 in England in 1422. 



