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" In the 18th year of his (Edward's) reign, 1290, ("Rot. Lib. 

 18 Edw. I., m. 6), he gave orders to Walter de Cambhowe, con- 

 stable of Hamburgh, to expend 4l. on the robes of Eesus ap 

 Maylgon, and Conan ap Mereduth, then incarcerated in this for- 

 tress, and 13s. 4d., for the robes of a servant waiting upon them; 

 being an allowance for the 16th (1288) and 17th (1289) years of 

 his reign, of 2l. 6s. 8d. per year ; or a sum of threepence a-day 

 each for Bees and 0<>nan, and twopence for their servant." 



From a subsequent statement in the same documents, we 

 can almost conjecture what was their fate. The irksomeness 

 of confinement, and the climate of the bleak Northumbrian 

 coast had become intolerable, and their health could no 

 longer be maintained. 



"To them this dungeon was a gulf 

 And fettered feet the worst of all." 

 " In the 24th year of Edward's reign (1296), Eees ap Maylgon 

 and Conan ap Mereduth were conducted to Newcastle-on-Tyne 

 in a dying state, and on the 7th of June, from hence to London." 



Miscellanea. By James Hardy. 



ZOOLOGICAL. 



Fox's Antipathy to Jackdaws, — A Fox which frequented 

 Siccar Point, in the beginning of May, took umbrage at the 

 Jackdaws which nestle in the old rabbit holes ; on the almost 

 perpendicular sea-banks. It had killed two and buried them at 

 separate spots ; other two it had surprised on the adjacent field, 

 and left exposed ; while a fifth, after its head had been eaten off, 

 was hid in a bunch of nettles. They had probably been render- 

 ing it too conspicuous by pursuing it like a thief, with cries and 

 chatterings, when going forth to prey, or returning to it3 den, 

 as I have often seen them do when a fox appeared among them. 



Sheep. — A shepherd informs me that Sheep are very fond of 

 eating moor-fowl's dung, if they can come at it. This is surely a 

 perversion of taste. 



Bottlenose. — Sometime in October, the newspapers recorded 

 that a "whale," fourteen feet long, had come ashore at Burn- 

 mouth, near Berwick. I have ascertained that it was a Round- 

 headed Porpoise, or Bottlenose (Delphinus melas). Droves of this 

 animal pursue the herring shoals ; and this individual had got 

 stranded. 



Peregrine Falcon, (Falco peregrinus). — One was seen in the 



