370 DAIRY PRODUCE, EGGS AND POULTRY. 



twice, at an average of 35. lid. Grey plovers are found in 

 one year only, at js. a dozen ; and stone plovers also once, 

 at is. id. each. Stints are found twice in the early period, at 

 is. z\d. the dozen. Pewits are also bought, at 35. ^d. the 

 dozen. 



Fieldfares are found six times, once in 1602, at the great 

 price of js. a dozen, the average of the other five entries 

 being is. id. the dozen. Blackbirds are bought at is. 6d. 

 the dozen; redshanks, in 1599 and 1600, at &/. and 6d. 

 Quails are found twice, in 1585 and 1621, at Ss. in the first 

 year, and Js. 6d. in the other, by the dozen. Curlews are 

 quoted at 3^. each in 1694; herons at $s. ^d. in 1599 ; gulls, 

 hardly I should think the modern bird, in 1599 and 1600, 

 at is. 4d. and is. 8d. each ; and bitterns in 1600 at 2s. Wild 

 geese are bought in 1585 at 6d. ; and brand geese in 1642 and 

 1688 at is. ^d. and is. 6d. Besides these, two entries are 

 found in the year 1622 of haddicocks, a name I cannot find 

 in the glossaries. They are bought at 4s. and $s. lod. the 

 dozen. 



Entries of teal are found in nine years. They are generally 

 bought by the dozen, and up to 1640 the average is 3^. 6d. 

 In 1698 they are bought at two prices, 9^. and is. 6d. each, 

 these purchases being made in London. There are also 

 entries of widgeon for nine years, the average of the whole 

 being *]\d. each. If 'wild fowl' and wild ducks are to be 

 identified as the same birds, they are found in seven years. 

 But in one year they are bought in Oxford at a very high 

 price, 2s. each, the average of the other five entries being ^\d. 

 There are two entries of dottrells by the dozen in the early 

 years, at an average of $s. i\d. Lastly, in 1585 I find a pea- 

 cock bought at 5-y. 



Had the private accounts of such persons as Lords Spencer, 

 North, and Pembroke been preserved more largely than they 

 have been, I should no doubt have found more abundant evi- 

 dence of these purchases. This would also have been the case 

 if the manciple's books at Winchester had largely survived. 



