218 ANATID^E. 



Wherein ycT request me to come to Perford to conferr wt 

 yo' touching the upping of Swanes, w'ch I wold most gladly 

 pforme, yf I were not throughe very ernest busynes letted 

 of my purpose, ffor to morrowe being Tuysdaie I take my 

 jorney along the river of Thames at Gravesend.* And 

 then uphon the first Mondaie in August, I come westward 

 towards Wyndsor. Wherefore if it may please yo u to send 

 to my howse to Hampton Court what dais you meane to ap- 

 pointe for driving the river of Weybridge and Molsey, it 

 shall suffice, to th' end the gamesters maie have knowledge 

 thereof, that they may attend accordingly. I do thinke 

 it wold greatly satisffie them yf yo' did appointe the same 

 upon Tuesday the vii th of August, for upon that day they 

 wil be at the entrance of these rivers. And so praing you 

 to p'don me for my absence at this tyme, I humbly take 

 my leave. Hampton Court, this Mondaie, xxxth of July 

 1593. " Yor poore frend to comaunde, 



" R. Maylard." 



"To the R. W. Sir W. Moore, Kn't, 

 at Pirforde." 



Since the publication of the first edition of this work, I 

 have been so fortunate as to obtain a very rare tract on 

 Swans and swan-marks, printed by Aujust Matthewes, in 

 1632, and containing, besides some other illustrations, the 

 swan-mark of the unfortunate Charles the First, and his 

 Queen. It is a small quarto of eight leaves only, of the 

 ' Orders, Lawes and ancient Customes of Swannes, taken 

 forth of a Book, which the Lord Buckhurst delivered to 

 Edward Clerk, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., to peruse,' on the 

 back of which book it was thus entitled, " Taken out of 

 an ancient Book remaining with Master Hambden, some- 



* Many Swans were formerly kept below bridge. In ancient views of the port 

 of London, they are usually represented as swimming in that part of the river. 



