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several then of high price being at present ba- 

 nished from our tables ; and others again of un- 

 common rankness much valued by our ancestors. 



Thus tVegions (I give the spelling of the time) 

 See-pyes, Sholardes, Kyrlewes, Ternes, Cranys, 

 Hearon-sewys, Bytfers, See-gulles and Styntes, 

 were among the delicacies for principal feasts, 

 or his lordship's own mees. 



Those excellent birds the Teylles were not to 

 be bought except no other could be got. 



Fesauntes, Bytters, Hearon-sezvys and Kyr- 

 lewes, were valued at the same price, twelve 

 pence each. 



The other birds admitted to his Lordship's 

 table were Bustardes, Mallardes, IFoodcokes, 

 Wypes, Quayles, Snypes, Pertryges^ Rede- 

 shankes, Beys, Pacokes, Knottes, Dottrells, 

 Larky s and small byrdes. - 



The great byrdes, for the Lord's mees, for 

 the Chambreleyn and Stewardes 7}2ees may be, 

 as the ingenious editor conjectures, FieldfareSj 

 Thrushes, and the like.* 



The estimation each species was held in may 

 be known by the following table, to which I 

 have added the modern name, and the refer- 

 ence to it in this work. 



* P. 104. 424. 



