88 C0RNT7BIANA. 



The following are the expenses of the Easter Meeting, 1792, 

 at St. Anthony in Men'eage, as given in the churchwarden's 

 accounts. 



1792. 



Expenses at Easter meeting s. d. 



One gallon of spirits (prob. rum) . . . . 8 



Lemon 1 



2 lbs. of sugar, l/lj lb 2 3 



At the House 2 



13 3 



The same accounts bear testimony to the destruction of 

 foxes, etc. 



1783-84. To cash for an ould fox 2/6 

 1786. To two half-grown foxes 4/- 

 1788. To 3 polecats.. .. 1/- 



Various similar entries are found in the registers of the 

 Meneage parishes : E. 9. *At Grunwalloe are tbese entries — 



Killing 3 Eoxes 7s. 6d. 



Killing 1 Fox 2s. 6d. 



From the foregoing extracts, it seems that half-a-crown was 

 the price fixed on a fox's head. 



The Cornish Chough in Heraldry. 



The Cornish Chough is by no means confined in Heraldry 

 to Cornish families, though of course it occurs more frequently 

 in their emblazonments than in those of other countries. In 

 these latter, the Cornish chough may be used as an indication of 

 their Cornish descent ; by way of difference ; or it may be simply 

 a "canting" usage, as is plain from the arms of Cornwallis, Co. 

 "Worcester, which were "sable, guttee on a fess argent, three 

 Cornish choughs argent." Sometimes no reason is now assign- 

 able 



Though the emblem is by no means exclusively Cornish, 

 yet a glance at the armouries of Cornish families will show how 



* Cumming's Cury and Gunwalloe, pp. 122-130, 



