66 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
want of labour, must have suffered severely. But although 
the poor suffered, the pursuits of royalty were not to be aban- 
doned. In Thomas Rymer’s “ Foedera,” there isa tract entitled 
“ De Pardonatione Venationis ” in which the author enumerates 
a list of the animals killed in 1356 by one of the Kings of 
Scotland.* No birds are named, but of fish the King got 
ninety-five pike, a hundred and nine perch and six bream, as 
well as roach, tench and chub. Fresh-water fish, pike more 
particularly, were always held to be an important article of 
food, trout were in less demand, but the larger salmon 
were appreciated. Before alluding again to Lundy and its 
Solans, it is desirable, in order to preserve a chronological 
Fel} 
HARROWING, c. A.D. 1340. 
Loutrell Psalter. 
sequence, that some reference should be made to Lord Middle- 
ton’s manuscripts, which are preserved at Wollaton Hall, 
Notts.t In the large selection printed by the Historical 
MSS. Commission there are only a few brief references to birds 
in the fourteenth century, but these few extend as far back 
as 1304-5. They make mention of fowls bought for the 
Falcons, which were no doubt an important part of the estab- 
lishment, also pork for them. They also mention Wild Geese, 
Wild and tame Ducks, Teal (cercell), Plovers and small birds, 
which were purchases made for the kitchen. At that early 
date it was not the custom to keep elaborate accounts, or if 
it were, they have been lost. 
* « oedera, Conventiones, Liter,” edn. 1708, Tom. V., p. 870. 
{ For references to which I am indebted to the Rev. T. S. Cogswell, and 
have since inspected some of them. : 
