110 BIRDS OP NORFOLK. 



and Gaywood river, having increased to an inconvenient 

 extent, the treasurer was authorised to sell a portion 

 or exchange them for other aquatic birds." 



In connection, however, with this part of the county 

 are the swan-marks, five in number, of the Fincham 

 family, figured in Mr. Blyth's* history of the village 

 and parish of Fincham, and which are presumed to have 

 belonged to members of that ancient family, resident 

 at Outwell, between the years 1566 and 1624. These 

 marks, as stated by Mr. Blyth, were taken from a MS. 

 in the possession of the late Mr. A. H. Swatman, of 

 Lynn, entitled "The laws, orders, and customs for 

 swans taken forth of A. Booke which ye Lord Buck- 

 hurst deliver'd to Edward Clarke of Lyncoln's Inn to 

 revise : Anno Elizabethse 26" (1584), and it appears, 

 from the names entered in the book, that it "appertained 

 to the district watered by the rivers Nar, Ouse, Nene, 

 Wissey, &c." 



The swan-mark of the Gurney family, as figured by 

 Mr. D. Gurney, of Runcton, near Lynn, in his " Record 

 of the house of Gournay," was taken, as stated by the 

 author, from a swan-roll headed " Carolo Wyndham 

 Equiti depinxit John Martinus, A.D. 1673," but supposed 

 to be a copy from a more ancient swan-rollf relating 



* " Historical notices and records of the village and parish of 

 Fincham, in the county of Norfolk." By the Kev. William Blyth, 

 M.A., Rector of Fincham and Rural Dean, 1863. 

 f This probably refers to an ancient swan-roll in the possession of 

 Sir Thomas Hare, of Stow. Besides those previously mentioned, I 

 have recently examined in the British Museum library a small folio 

 volume, purchased at the late Mr. Dawson Turner's sale in 1860, in 

 which some five different rolls of considerable antiquity have been 

 bound up together under the title of " Swan-marks used by the 

 Proprietors of Lands on the rivers Yare and Waveney, preceded 

 by the order for swan Botes established by the Statutes for the 

 Realm of England." I have also to thank the Rev. H. Evans 



