MUTE SWAN. 



to p'don me for my absence at this tyme, I humbly take 

 my leave. Hampton Court, this Mondaie, xxxth of Jujly 

 1593. " Yor poore frend to comaunde, 



" R. Maylard." 

 " To the E. W. Sir W. Moore, Kn't, 

 at Pirforde." 



Since the publication of the first edition of this work, I 

 have been so fortunate as to obtain a very rare tract on 

 Swans and swan-marks, printed by Aujust Matthewes, in 

 1632, and containing, besides some other illustrations, the 

 swan-mark of the unfortunate Charles the First, and his 

 Queen. It is a small quarto of eight leaves only, of the 

 " Orders, Lawes and ancient Customes of Swannes, taken 

 forth of a Book, which the Lord Buckhurst delivered to 

 Edward Clerk, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., to peruse," on the 

 back of which book it was thus entitled, " Taken out of 

 an ancient Book remaining with Master Hambden, some- 

 times Master of the Swannes," caused to be printed by 

 John Witherings, Esq., Master and Governour of the Royal 

 Game of Swans throughout England, to whom it is de- 

 dicated by John D'Oyly, from Alborn, in Wiltshire, with 

 the plates of the marks used to distinguish the Swans. 



The marks distinguished by the letters a t and b, are 



