174 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Fenwick was the owner of the Bywell estates; one of his 
huntsmen (possibly the one here mentioned) was drowned when 
crossing the River Tyne while following the hounds. His body was 
afterwards found on the coast of Holland, and recognised by the 
name engraved on his horn, which was fastened to a leather belt. 
1743: 23 fulmarts heads and a wild cats head to Cath. Robson 0-8-0 
1705, Sepr. 80, John Thompson, 18 fulmart heads, 1 cat & 1 glead head. 
1690, Oct. 29; John Haggard in Dilston, 2 fox heads, 1 brock head, 
2 cats heads, five fulmart heads. 
1704: Dec. 3: John Thompson, 10 fulmart heads, 1 glead head. 
1729: April 19: Wm. Brown, 5 gleads heads. 
1710: Jan. 14: Wm. Bell, 13 fulmarts beads, 2 wild cats heads. 
Total number of Wild Animals killed around Corbridge between the years 
1677 and 1724, 
Foxes at 1s. per head s 5 ; . 367 
Fulmarts >» 4d. . . ; : E 653 
Brocks 3 ade re ! 3 L : 119 
Wild Cats ,, 4d. * t : . : 141 
Otters ace 3 : : : Y Q7 
Gledes » od. i, 1 P : q 153 
Total : » v LAO 
These numbers scarcely represent the correct total, for several 
pages in the accounts referred to have been torn or defaced, and 
doubtless more animals were killed than are here accounted for. 
During the period when wild animals were numerous in this 
district there was comparatively little cultivated land, the greatest 
part being moor, common, or waste land, thick forests, boggy 
ground, and rabbit warrens. An Act of Parliament was passed in 
1766, “for the division and enclosure of certain open common 
fields, stinted pastures, and common moors or waste grounds 
within the manor and parish of Corbridge,” and was completed in 
1779. Not only were all these lands divided, but good roads 
to bring the heads of foxes slain within the parish of All Saints, Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, and nail them to the church-door, for which they were paid by 
the Churchwardens a shilling a head. An order was made at Easter, 1674, 
that the new chosen Churchwardens should not allow the continuance of 
this practice, but that all such persons should go to the town chamber, and 
there demand the old custom.—Eb. 
