70 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
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For a Plover ... ae ie bi 3 
» 5, Pheasant Bee ue em Ue: 
» 5, Curlew ... or on A 10 
,, 13 Thrushes ae oe one 6 
» 13 Small birds... AG cs 1* 
Mute Swans must have been appreciated in Edward III.’s 
reign to be priced so highly; on the other hand, Teal and 
Snije do not seem to have been thought much of. In 1357 
Edward III. was moved to concede to private persons a 
grant of all unmarked Swans—that is, cygnets which could 
not be caught—on the Thames between Oxford and London 
for seven years, while in 1393 his successor on the throne 
made a similar concession in respect of rivers in the County 
of Cambridge. This alone proves the value which was placed 
upon these large birds. 
* The price of Fish in Norfolk.—Mr. Hamon le Strange has obliged me 
with the following prices of fish, extracted from the Household Accounts of 
the le Straunges of Hunstanton Hall, in Norfolk, from 1340 to 1346. 
Anguille (Hels) of store. 
Grindling or Grinling (Qy. Groundling). 
Cheling (Cod) to the value of a few pence. 
Doggedrove (Dogfish) 100 bought for 40s. 
Haddock one penny. 
Hanon (Qy. Whiting) one halfpenny or one farthing. 
Herring wae or fresh | 200 cost 10d. 
Lucea (Pike) one farthing. 
Ling. 
Makerell 2d., but number not given. 
Mulvell (Qy. Mullet; cf. Higden’s 
« Polychronicon,”’ t.c., p, 423) one penny. 
Playce from 4d. to 24d. 
Porpoise twenty pence. 
Salmon 1}d., weight not stated. 
Sole twopence, number not given. 
Stockfish sixty cost 2/2. 
Sprotts (Sprats). 
Trotta (Trout) one halipenny. 
Turbut. 
Verdiyng (unidentified) to the value of a farthing. 
Crabbys 
Cravose (Lobster) two cost three halfpence. 
Muscula (Mussel) to the value of a farthing. 
Ostrea (Oyster) . penny. 
Welks xixd. 
Birds, with the exception of tho Mallard, hardly come into these accounts, 
Mr. le Strange finds the price of a Goose was threepence, of a Mallard or a 
Capon twopence, of a Hen three halfpence. 
