384 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 



do we see larger families, handsomer women, and 

 more robust and active men, or greater exemption 

 from illness." 



SELECTIONS FROM HISTORIC NOTICES 

 OF THE FORMER USE OF FISH IN 

 ENGLAND. 



The following extracts are made for the con- 

 venience of those who do not find them in their own 

 public libraries. 



They may suggest ideas as to the extent fish may 

 be again used in diet as well as objects for sport, or 

 for being kept in ponds only for ornament. Some of 

 them are curiously quaint, but they all seem to show 

 that, whatever the period from which the quotation 

 is made, more attention was paid to the use of fish 

 than has been in this iQth century up to the time of 

 the Fisheries Exhibition. 



Time of I. TIME OF EDWARD IV. 



Edward IV. 



From Joannis Lelandi, in ' Collectanea de Rebus,' 

 vol. VI., " Out of an old Paper Roll." 



The great feast at the intronization of the Reverende 

 Father in God, George Nevell, Archbishop of Yorke 

 and Chancellor of Englande in the 6th year of the 

 reigne of King Edward the Fourth. And first the 

 goodly provision made for the same. 



Amongst other things there were the following 

 fishes : > 



Pikes and Breames, Porpoises and Scales. 



Here followeth the serving of fish in order. 



