128 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xiv. 



The first two quotations are of course translated from the 

 Latin, while the third and fourth are transcribed as written. 

 The earliest is the one from Lydd, and the fourth the first of 

 the Canterbury records. 



1 47 1 -2. Folio ii8fl. 

 Itm paid for the dinner of the Bailiff and Jurats on the 

 Hundred Day [i.e. Hundred Court] . . . . . . 2S. 



Itm paid to Richard Hoghlet for one crane .. .. lod. 



1490-91. 

 Paid John Wardene for the crane that was given to Richard 

 Gildeforth, Knight .. .. .. .. .. .. i6d. 



(Sir Richard Guldeford was Sheriff of Kent in 1494.) 



1525-6- 

 Gevyne to one that went to Seyntmaricherche att that 

 tyme for a crane, to be gevyne to my Lord Wardene . . 2d. 



(St. Marys, referred to in this quotation, hes some two 

 miles north of New Romney.) 



1520-21, 

 Friday in Christmas week, paied for ii. cranes gevyn and 

 sent to Mr, Wode to Otford, then beyng Marchall of 

 Graysyn . . . . . . . . . . . . v.s. iiiid. 



The second Canterbury record belcngs to the same year, 

 but is not transcribed in the Report, its general sense only 

 being given, to the effect that the city presented two Cranes 

 and a Swan to John Hales on the marriage of his daughter. 



