NOEFOLK SWAN MAKES, 



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143. St. Bennet's Abbey Swan Mark, now the Bishop's. 



144. St. Bennet's Cellarer's Mark, now the Bishop's. 



195. The Swan Mark of Carrow Abbey. 



196. The City Swan Mark. 



197.*St. Giles' Hospital Mark, now the Mayor's. 



198. Eockel's Manor Mark, late the Hospital, now the Mayor's. 



199. The Hospital New Mark, now the Mayor's. 



200. The Prior's Old Mark, now the Dean and Chapter. 



201. The Prior's New Mark, now the Dean and Chapter. 



There is little doubt, I think, that the marks thus 

 figured by Blomefield were taken from the ancient Swan- 

 roll of 1598, to which, he alludes in his remarks on the 

 statute of Edward IV., but as this most interesting 

 record is at the present time missing from the muni- 

 ment chest of the Corporation I am unable to com- 

 pare the two, or give illustrations, as I desired, from 

 the original. Mr. Mendham, who has filled the office 

 of Town Clerk since 1857, assures me that he never had 



the two other marks he holds by virtue of his office, as Abbot of 

 St. Bennet's. 



Apropos of Swans and Bishoprics, a curious passage occurs in 

 Symmons's edition of Milton's prose works (vol. i., p. 15), under the 

 title of " Reformation in England." After stating his opinion of 

 what Bishops ought to be in their private lives, Milton concludes as 

 follows : " "What a rich booty it would be, what a plump endow- 

 ment to the many benefice-gaping mouth of a prelate, what a relish 

 it would give to his canary-sucking and swan-eating palate, let old 

 Bishop Mountain judge." Referring, no doubt, to George Moun- 

 tain or Montayne, who, between the years 1617 and 1628, was 

 successively Bishop of Lincoln, London, and Durham, and Arch- 

 bishop of York. (See "Notes and Queries," 4th series, vol. xii., 

 p. 452.) 



* This mark most resembles the one now in use for the Cor- 

 poration, but that figured by Yarrell (No. 9) as the Norwich 

 Corporate mark, does not answer to any I have seen on our local 

 swan-rolls. Yarr ell's figure No. 5 is, however, identical with our 

 present Corporate mark, though described as belonging to Sir 

 Thomas Frowick. Possibly, through a printer's error, the two 

 woodcuts were transposed. No separate mark is now used by the 

 Mayor. 

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