214 ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



Bowness, Novr. 12, 1892. 

 SIR, 



You will remember that Mr. Barratt, of Coniston, 

 asked for and obtained permission to take char from here to 

 Coniston. I beg respectfully to inform you that we have 

 supplied Coniston Lake with some splendid char. I met 

 Hully by appointment on Thursday last, and in one draw, 

 ten fathoms from the shore, we got more than we required. 

 I had received three tanks from the Lunesdale Hatchery, 

 and we put all the char we thought possible to take, viz. 104. 

 Of that number (en route} we lost 9. When you take into 

 consideration the distance, I don't think this is bad work in 

 small tanks. I average the char taken to Coniston as near 

 as possible j Ib. each. 



I am, Sir, 



Your Obedient Servant, 



HARRISON CHAPMAN. 

 To John Watson, Esqre. 



Char have always been a delicacy obtainable at 

 the Lakes, and " potted " char and " char-pyes " 

 are mentioned by Sir Daniel Fleming up- 

 wards of two centuries ago, as witness the fol- 

 lowing : 



" Mar. 6. Paid John Banckes which he had paid at 

 Kendall, February 23, 1666, for the carryage of a char-pye 

 unto the Earl of Carlisle at London, being 4 stone and 5 Ibs., 

 9.?. od. Mar. 2. Paid unto John Banckes which he had dis- 

 bursed at Kendall last Satterday, for the carryage of two 

 char-pies unto London to the Lord Arlington and Joseph 

 Williamson, Esq. to Will Banckes, carryer, weight 6 stone 

 7 Ibs. the sum of i." 



As showing the abundance of . har in Coniston 

 as far back as 1662, Adam Fleming is recorded as 

 having brought " eleven dozen of charrs from Con- 

 nistone for four pies ; " and from the Transactions 

 of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian 

 and Archaeological Society I take the following 



