398 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Carew, of Clapton, Master of the Ordnance within the Realm of England, 
Governor and Captain-General of the Isles of Guernsey, Alderney, and 
Sark, to Amias de Carteret, Esquire, Bailiff of Guernsey, his Lieutenant- 
Governor, dated at Castle Cornet, the 9th day of August, 1610 :— 
“IT do pray you to oversee the keeper of the island of Erme (Herm) that 
no wilful or negligent waste be made of the Deer, Pheasants, or Conies there. 
And of the Deer and Pheasants, in your discretion, kill what you please, 
being confident you will endeavour their preservation and increase as much 
as myself. For the provision of your table I do give you out of Erme (for 
so long as you are my lieutenant) after the rate of 200 couples of conies per 
annum. I do likewise give you, for the provision of your own table, Carps 
without any certain limitation, praying you to favour the pond, as that the 
increase be not decayed. I do also desire you to be careful that the breed 
of Swans brought to the island by Sir Thomas Leighton, and cherished by 
him, may not be destroyed. Of these yearly you may take for your own 
use as many as you please, and unto John de Quetteville what you may 
spare I pray you to bestow upon him; your moderation in both I am sure 
will be such as the game will be maintained. My predecessors, the 
Governors, have ever accustomed to be careful that none in the country 
should keep Greyhounds to destroy the Hares, nor shoot at fowl, without 
their license, which laudable custom I pray you observe, wherein I do not 
Wish to restrain any man of quality, but the baser people whose time spent 
in labour is their proper calling. And in like manner not to permit any 
man to take Partridges, of which game the island is almost destitute.” 
In a note to this, the author of the ‘ Chronicles of Castle Cornet,’ from 
which I have copied the above, says:—‘‘ Deer, Pheasants, Swans, and 
Partridges have long since disappeared from Guernsey and Herm. Hares 
have been reintroduced into Guernsey within a few years, but they were 
soon destroyed.” rom this note it would appear that Mr. Ferdinand Brock 
Tupper, the author of the above-mentioned ‘ Chronicles,’ agrees very much 
with me, and considers Deer, Hares, Pheasants, Swans, and Partridges as 
all being introduced species, and having since become extinct; but he does 
not state whether the Partridges mentioned were the so-called “ Guernsey 
Partridge,” i.e., the Red-leg, or the common Grey Partridge. As I am writing 
on the Channel Islands, it may be interesting to add, as to the Carp 
mentioned above, that Heyling, in his account of Guernsey as it appeared 
in 1629, says, amongst other things :—« A lake on the north-west part of 
it near unto the sea of about a mile or more in compasse, exceeding well 
stored with Carps, the best that mortal eye beheld for taste and bignesse.” 
This island is now nearly dry, especially in summer; but there are still a 
good many pools of water there, and some large reed-beds, the home of the 
Reed Warbler. Further on, in the ‘Chronicles,’ Mr. Tupper describes 
the island of Herm in these words:—“ Herm was long kept as a game 
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