18 THE CAPERCAILLIE. 



1618. In Taylor's ' Visit to the Brea of Marr,' in 1618, 1 

 there occurs the following passage (p. 135) : 



"Thus with extreme travell, ascending and descending, 

 mounting and alighting, I came straight to this place where 

 I would be, in the Brea of Marr, which is a large county . . . 



" My good Lord of Marr having put me into that shape, I 

 rode with him from his house, where I saw the ruines of an 

 old castle, called the Castle of Kindroghit. ... It was the 

 last house I saw in those parts ; for I was the space of twelve 

 dayes after, before I saw either house, cornefield, or habitation 

 for any creature but deere, wilde horses, wolves, and such 

 like creatures. . . . 



" Thus the first day wee traveld eight miles, where there 

 were small cottages built on purpose to lodge in, which they 

 call Lonquhards. I thanke my good Lord Erskin, hee com- 

 manded that I should alwayes be lodged in his lodging, the 

 kitchen being alwayes on the side of a banke, many kettles 

 and pots boyling, and many spits turning and winding, with 

 great variety of cheere : as venison bak't, sodden, rost, and 

 stu'de, beefe, mutton, goates, kid, hares, fresh salmon, pidgeon, 

 hens, capons, chickens, partridge, moorecoots, heathcocks, 

 caperkellies, and termagants. . . . 



" All these, and more than these, we had continually in 

 superfluous abundance, caught by faulcons, fowlers, . . . 

 to victuale our campe, which conseisteth of fourteen or fifteen 

 hundred men and horses. . . . 



1 " All the WorTces of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Seeing Sixty and 

 three in Number, Collected into One Volume by the Author : With Sundry 

 new additions, corrected, revised, and newly imprinted, 1630, At London, 

 printed by J. B. for James Boler, at the figure of the Marigold in Paul's 

 Churchyard, 1630. Folio." At page 122 it is mentioned he left London 

 ' ' The yeere of grace, accounted (as I weene) 

 One thousand, twice three hundred and eighteen, 

 And, to relate all things in order duly, 

 'Twas Tuesday last, the foureteenthe day of July. " 



I am indebted to Professor Newton for kindly transcribing this passage and 

 title for ine at length. 



