60 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
breeding-place at Lundy Island, off the north coast of Devon.* 
In 1274 certain appointed Jurors (whose names are given) 
reported to the Crown, to whom Lundy Island belonged, 
that: ‘‘ There may be there twenty acres of arable land, which 
may be sown with barley or oats... . Also the taking of 
rabbits isestimated at 2000,worth £5 10s. and the estimate is at 
6s. 6d. each hundred skins, because the flesh is not sold. Also 
the rock of gannets [petra ganetorum] is worth 5s.; there are 
other birds, but they are not sold. There is also one eyrie of 
lanner falcons [ Falco peregrinus],¢ which have sometimes three 
young ones, sometimes four, sometimes more, and sometimes 
less. This eyrie the jury knew not how to estimate, and they 
build their nests in a place in which they cannot be taken.” 
A perusal of this document leads us to infer that the 
Lundy Gannets—the occupants of the “ petra ganectorum,” 
doubtless the isolated rock which is to be seen at the north- 
east end of the island—were not very numerous. If they 
had been, their value would surely have been reckoned as 
greater than a hundred rabbit-skins. Evidently the “‘lanner 
falcons,” although building in almost inaccessible cliffs, were 
highly esteemed. 
* “Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica,’ Vol. IV. (1837). pp. 
313-330. It is also printed, with slight alterations, in the ‘+ Calendar ot 
Inquisitions preserved in the Public Record Office’’ (1916, Vol. I., p. 298). 
} The words are: Una ayeria falconum lanerium. The falcons from this 
eyrie had been already bestowed in 1243 by Henry III. ‘ dilecto clerico suo 
Ade de Eston’”’ (‘‘ Close Rolls,” 1242-1247, p. 95). Modern faleoners have 
considered Lundy Peregrines to he of the best, cf. ‘¢ Birds of Devon,’’ 1892 
p. 161. 
