xlviii YORKSHIRE ANCIENT RECORDS. 



In the year 1526 another member of the great family of the Neviles, Sir 

 John Nevile of Chevet near Wakefield, High Sheriff of Yorkshire, gave a 

 banquet to celebrate his daughter's marriage. Some of the charges are 

 thus given: 'two roes, ios., and for servants going, I5>r.; swans, 15^.; 

 nine cranes, il. ios. ; twelve peacocks, i6s. ; six great pike, for flesh dinner, 

 lew. ; 21 dozen conies, 5/. 5^.; three venison, red deer hinds, and fetching them, 

 ios.; twelve fallow deer, does, . . . ; thirty dozen mallards and teal, 

 3/. us. 8d.; two dozen heron-sewes, I/. 4*. ; twelve bitterns, i6s. ; eighteen 

 pheasants, I/. 4-r. ; forty partridges, 6s. 8d.; eighteen curlews, I/. 4-r.; three 

 dozen plovers, 5-y. ; five dozen stints, gs. ; sturgeon on goile, 55-.; one seal, 

 I3.y. 4</. ; one porpoise, 13^.4^.' 



In 1530, another daughter was married, and the expenses are returned 

 pretty much as before. The prices were, for swans, 6s. each ; cranes, 3-r. ^d. 

 each; heronsews, I2d.', bytters, iqd.', and conies, every couple $d. 



In 1528, Sir John acted as Sheriff, and returned his charges as follows : 

 ' Item, two barrells of herrings, I/. 5.5-. 6d. ; Item, two barrells of Salmon, 

 3/. is. ; . . . Item, in great pike, and pickering, received of Rither, 

 6 score, 8/.; Item, 12 great pike from Ramsay, 2/.; Item, in pickerings from 

 Holderness, mice., 3/.; Item, received of the said Rither 20 great breames, I/. ; 

 Item, received of the said Rither 12 great tenches, i6s. ; Item, received of the 

 said Rither, 12 great eells and one hundred and six jowling eels, and 200 

 brewitt eels, and twenty great rudds, 2/.; 'Item, in great fresh salmon, 28, 

 3/. i6.r. 8d. ; Item, a barrell of sturgeon, 2t.6s.8d.; Item, a firkin of seal, 

 l6s. 8J.-, . . . Item, three bretts, I2J.; . . . Item, a draught of 

 fish, 2 great pikes and 200 breams, 7/. 6d. 8d. ' Such was the fare provided 

 at the Lent Assizes. At the Lammas Assizes in the same year flesh was 

 provided at about the same prices as above cited for the wedding feasts, with 

 the addition of * 12 shovelards, I2s.; item, 10 bytters, 13^. 4^.; item, 80 part- 

 ridges, I/. 6s. 8d.; item, 12 ffesants, I/.; item, 20 curlews, I/. 6s. 8d.; 

 item, curlew knaves, 32, I/. 12s.; 6 dozen plovers, 12^.; item, 30 dozen 

 pigeons, 7-y. 6d.,' &c., showing a slight advance on the prices of 1526. At the 

 same Lammas assizes the fish was charged as follows : ' First three couple 

 of great ling, 12s.; Item, 70 couples of heberdines, 2/. ; Item, salt salmon, 

 I/.; Item, fresh salmon and great, 3/. 6s. 8d.; Item, 6 great pikes, 12s.; 

 Item, 80 pickerings, 4/.; Item, 300 great breams, I5/.; Item, 40 tenches, 

 I/. 6s. 8d.; Item, 80 jowling eels, and brevet eels, and 15 rudds, I/. I2s.; 

 Item, a firkin of sturgeon, i6s.; Item, in fresh seals, 13^. 4</.; Item, Eight Seam 

 of fresh fish, 4/. ; Item, 2 bretts, 8s. 



The accounts of the Cliffords, of Skipton Castle, as given in Whitaker's 

 Craven, afford evidence of the existence nearly three centuries ago of the same 

 fish in Malham Tarn as now inhabit it. In 1606 there is an entry of 2s. 6d. 

 ' P'd to H. H. being at Mawater, watching the well-head for stealing the trouts 

 coming unto this Ritt Time,' and in 1609 was paid ' For getting 33 pearch and 

 troot from Mawater for my lo. and judge, ns. \'\d' 



