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to a fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a 

 goose, having black legs, and bill or beak, and fea- 

 thers black and white, spotted in such manner as 

 our magpie, called in some places pie-annet, which 

 the people of Lancashire call by no other name than 

 tree-goose ; which place aforesaid, and of all those 

 places adjoyning, do so much abound therewith, 

 that one of the best is bought for three-pence. For 

 the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to 

 repaire to me, and I shall satisfy them by the testi- 

 mony of good witnesses *." 



Bernacle Goose-Tree, from Gerard's Herbal. 

 * Gerard's Herbal, p. 1587. 



