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According to Fynes Morrison (“ Itinerary,” 1617), there 
was in Ireland “ such plenty of pheasants as 1 have known 
readie served at one feast.” 
The value set upon pheasants and partridges at various 
periods, as shown by the laws fixing penalties for their 
destruction, seems to have fluctuated considerably. 
By a statute passed in the eleventh year of the reign 
of Henry VII. it was forbidden “to take pheasants or 
partridges with engines in another’s ground without license 
in pain of ten pound, to be divided between the owner of 
the ground and the prosecutor.” By 23 Eliz. c. 10, “None 
should kill or take pheasants or partridges by night in 
pain of 20s. a pheasant, and tos. a partridge, or one 
month’s imprisonment, and bound with sureties not 
to offend again in the like kind.” By 1 Jac. I. c. 27, “No 
person should kill or take any pheasant, partridge, (&c.), 
or take or destroy the eggs of pheasants, partridges, (&c.), 
in pain of 20s., or imprisonment for every fowl or egg, 
and to find sureties in £ 20 not to offend in the like kind.” 
Under the same statute, no person was permitted “to 
buy or sell any pheasant or partridge, upon pain to forfeit 
20s. for every pheasant, and tos. for every partridge.” 
By 7 Jac. I. c. 11, “every person having hawked at or 
destroyed any pheasant or partridge between the Ist of 
July and last of August, forfeited 4os. for every time so 
hawking, and 20s. for every pheasant or partridge so 
destroyed or taken.” Lords of manors and their servants 
