MUTE SWAN. 



and kingdome, to fight with him bodie for bodie," &c. 

 Camden. 



These last four swan-marks are from the Archseologia. 



No. 5, the swan-mark of Sir Thomas Frowick, of Gun- 

 nersbury, Middlesex, who was born at Ealing, bred in the 

 study of our municipal law ; wherein he attained to such 

 eminency that he was made Lord Chief Justice of the 

 Common Pleas. Four years he sate in his place, ac- 

 counted the oracle of law in his age, though one of the 

 youngest men that ever enjoyed that office. Abridged from 

 Fuller's Worthies. The swan-mark is from Harleian MS. 

 No. 541. A volume of papers collected by Stow the An- 

 tiquary. Monuments to the memory of the Frowicks will 

 be found in the churches of Ealing, South Mimms, and 

 Finchley. Ecclesiastical Topography. 



The next three swan-marks are from an interesting 

 volume, Mr. A. J. Kempe's Losely Manuscripts, and refer 

 to the time of Elizabeth. 



No. 6, the swan-mark of Lord William Howard, after- 

 wards Earl of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, 

 in the reign of Queen Mary. 



No. 7, the swan -mark of Lord Buckhurst. The keys 

 here adopted have reference to his office of Chamberlain 

 of the Household. At the present day the appointment 

 of the royal swanherd's man is vested in the Lord Cham- 

 berlain for the time being. 



No. 8, the mark of Sir William More, who was ap- 

 pointed by Lord Buckhurst to the office of Master of the 

 Swans for Surrey, " in such sorte as all the rest of the 

 sheres were graunted." One of the conditions recorded 

 in the grant is as follows : " But this order must be kept 

 that the upping * of all those Swans, near or within the 



* Upping, or taking up the young Swans to mark them, now sometimes 

 called Swan-hopping. 



