DEDICATION. 



TO 

 SIR WILLIAM STAPLETON, Baronet. 



Sir, 



1. — If either Philosophy or Novelty have any allurements, the following 

 performance, I flatter myself, will afford you some entertainment. 



2. — Many subjects the Naturalists seem to have exhausted. Horses 

 and Dogs, and most of the animals that serve for the conveniences or 

 amusements of life, have undergone the nicest enquiries ; while the 

 Pigeon, that contributes in some measure to both, a domestic as it were of 

 ours, has been totally neglected. 



3. — With a partiality usually shewn to the victor, the Hawk has 

 engaged the pen of many a writer : but his prey , that seems to fly to us 

 for protection, has scarce met with that, which even the wisdom of the 

 Legislature has allowed it. 



4. — I have endeavoured therefore in the following sheets to do some 

 justice to this bird, and have prescribed the best methods, which long 

 experience has furnished me with, for its propagation and preservation. 



5. — I have wisely learnt from it to seek a proper refuge against any 

 ill-natured censures. To this purpose I beg leave to prefix your name 

 to this work, and to assure the World that you who have purchased 

 Pigeons at very considerable prices, don't think the subject below your 

 regard, and that the Author is, 



Your most obedient and most humble Servant, 



J. MOORE. 



1. (Eaton.)— To my young and inexperienced brother Fancier. I have thought fit 

 to Number the Paragraphs of the late Mr. John Moore's Work, (although it is not 

 BO in the Original,) conceiving it to be the easiest mode I could adopt, it being my 

 intention briefly of calling your attention to some of the Paragraphs contained in his 

 Work, and having carefully read and entertaining so high an opinion of his work — 

 COLUMBARIUM, or The Pigeon House, I shall, as I observed before, be brief as 

 possible, so as not to swell the book out beyond the reach of the more humble Fancier. 



2 (Eaton) and 3. (Eaton.) — Mr Mooee appears deeply to regret the Pigeon should 

 have been so long neglected by our Naturalists, while Horses, Dogs, and Hawks, have 

 undergone the nicest enquiry. 



4, (Eaton.) — There is not any account upon record, that any Pigeon-Fancier (for no 

 other could do it) ever contributed so much original matter to the Pigeon-Fanciers as 

 did the late Mr. John Mooee, which I will endeavour to prove, by and bye, before I 

 have gone through his Work ; he was the Pre-eminent of Pigeon-Fanciers. 



5. (Eaton.) — It would appear there were illnatured Fanciers when Mr John Moore 

 wrote his Book, 1735 ; being a good general, and anticipating some illnatured censures, 

 he sought protection under a Fancier, Sir William Stapleton, Baronet, to whom he 

 dedicated his Work. I think it will be right here to inform you, who and what 

 Mr. Moore was, and taking the most simple way, the best : it not being my intention 

 of publishing his account of some Medicines prepared by him, with a faithful narrative 

 of some Cures effected by them ; the account of the Medicines and Cures take up one 

 quarter of the book, and has nothing relating to Pigeons. Mr. M. describes himself 

 thus : — Mr. John Moore, Apothecary, at the Pestle and Mortar, in Lawrence 

 Pountneys Lane, the first great gates on the left hand from Cannon Street, who 

 formerly lived at the Pestle and Mortar, in Abchurch Lane, London. 



