108 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



and the " Channon's mark of Thetford," from a paper in 

 his possession, which are said to " occur in an original 

 deputation, dated May 24, 1576, made by Edward Clere, 

 of Blickling, Esquire, chief swanner for the Queen's 

 Majestie in Norfolk and Suffolk, to John Tirrell, Esq." 



Yarmouth, so long back as 1583, was granted a 

 swan-mark by the Crown, as will be seen by the fol- 

 lowing note, in Mr. Charles Palmer's " Continuation" 

 of " Manship's History of Yarmouth " (p. 75), the only 

 reference to the subject in that work : 



"In 1583 Mr. Loveday was ordered to obtain a swan-mark 

 from Her Majesty's Swanner. In 1633 a swan-mark was granted 

 to William Corbett, marshal, to mark cygnets for the use of the 

 town; and in 1638 he was paid his charges for marking cygnets 

 with the town's swan-mark. In 1641, the swanard was directed to 

 bring, yearly, a note of all swans marked for the town, and to receive 

 10s. therefore." 



This note is appended to a " Eelation" by the bailiffs 

 of the Cinque Ports of the events which occurred on 

 their visit to Yarmouth in 1603, when, amongst other 

 courtesies received by them from the bailiffs of Yarmouth, 

 and duly acknowledged, is a present of " a fatt Swane." 

 Mr. Palmer has never been able to meet with a drawing 

 of the above mark, but on a curious vellum roll in the 

 possession of Mr. Robert Fitch, of Norwich, is the swan- 

 mark of Lord Yarmouth, with several others, all con- 

 nected with this county. This mark, no doubt, belonged 

 to the extinct Earldom of Yarmouth, as, in Manship's 

 "Hist, of Yarm." (p. 329), and Palmer's "Continua- 

 tion" (p. 251), I find that the son of Sir William Paston, 

 of Oxnead, (who died in 1610) was created Baron 

 Paston and Viscount Yarmouth in 1673, Lord Lieu- 

 tenant and Vice- Admiral of Norfolk in 1676, and Earl 

 of Yarmouth in 1679. He was also High Steward of 

 that Borough in 1684, when a new charter was granted 

 substituting a Mayor for the two former Bailiffs. His son, 

 the second Earl, died in 1732, without male issue, and 



