76 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
The passage about Solan Geese, tantalising in its brevity, 
for it merely tells us that Solan Geese breed there in great 
abundance, is as follows :— 
“ Tnsula de Bass, ubi solende nidificant in magna copia: 
cujus protector exstat Sanctus Baldredus, Sancti Kentigerni 
olim suffraganus; qui eam ab insultu mirifice protegit 
Anglicorum.” 
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We hear no more of them after that until 1493, and then 
only indirectly as wild-birds, or wild-fowl producing grease, 
which had a great value in the eyes of the Prioress of North 
Berwick, who was so wronged about the Gannets by one 
Robert Lauder that she applied to the Pope. 
William Botoner. Solan Geese at Pentybers.—It seems 
probable that there was a small Gannetry at this time on the 
north coast of Cornwall, if the “ Itinerarium ” of William 
