FIFTEENTH CENTURY 87 
The following list of what was commanded for Neville’s 
banquet is taken from the “ Appendicis [sic] ad Joannis 
Lelandi antiquarii collectanea.”’ 
Wild Bulls ve aes 3 us 6 
Swans ws ave ae .. 400 
Geese... sa Ane ies ... 2000 
Capons ... oe sas ee ... 1000 
Plovers 08 ane Beh .. 400 
Quayles ies ise ... 1200 
The Foules called Bees bens ... 2400 
Peacocks ane are be .. 104 
Mallards and Teal... aan ... 4000 
Cranes ... ie ake as w. =«=—.204 
Rabbits... ig nse Bie ... 4000 
Bittors a5: one nee ... 204 
Heronshawes ... see ee ... 400 
- Fessauntes aie ae es ... 200 
Partridges a ss ois -. 500 
Wocdcocks ... P58 es ... 400 
Curlews ae nea ee ... 100 
Egrittes ae ite ote ... 1000 
Stags... ; see sie - 500 
Pike and Bream me see .. 608 
Porpoises and Seals ... ae se 12 
Besides the birds in the above list, there are named in 
the particulars of the courses Redshanks, Styntes, Larks and 
Martynettes, but what these last were is not clear, probably 
Swallows. * 
Lgrets and “ Rees.”—It has been thought that Neville’s 
Egrets were Lapwings, and to this theory Newton lent his 
support, but this can hardly be maintained, because in many 
later instances, some of which are cited by Mr. F. J. Stubbs,t 
both are mentioned. On the other hand, that the Egret was 
ever in any sense abundant in England would be difficult 
to establish, nor is it conceivable that a thousand could be 
obtained at one time. 
* A quite different list of the birds and other viands at Neville’s feast— 
including even the “ Ganetz’’—is yiven in ‘‘ A Noble Boke Off Cookry ” 
(15th cent.), edited from the Holk ham MSS. by Mrs. A. Napier in 1882 (p. 7). 
t “ Zoologist,” 1910, pp. 150, 380. 
