The Parson of Culles. 45 



always feede in the bottome of brookes, 

 and rivers. They are fish holesome to 

 be eaten of feeble persons having an ague, 

 or other sicknesse." He then recommends 

 that, in order to preserve these useful 

 little fish from " water rats and all other 

 fowles" rows of small heaps of stones 

 should be placed in shallow gravelly 

 streams. " Like as there is a shallow river 

 running from Barcamstede to Chestum, 

 and so to Chane : also by Croydon, and 

 other places, wherein they might breede 

 of the said fish great store, if they were 

 so given. The like river runnes in 

 Hampeshire bysides Altum, increasing by 

 diverse springes, and runnes shallow in 

 many places, and by a certaine parish 

 there called ; the Parson thereof 



hath tolde me, he hath had so many of 

 the saide Culles and Loches, to his tithe 

 weekly, that they have found him suffi- 

 cient to eate Fridays and Saturdays, 

 whereof he was called the 



" Parson of Culles." 



In the reprint from which I am quoting 

 the name of the parish of the Parson of 

 Culles is left blank : I know not if it 

 is so in the original. 



Mascall is probably following his French 

 teacher when he tells us quaintly of the 



