114 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
Norwich lies at the junction of two rivers, and its citizens 
of the fifteenth century had numerous Swans, and valued 
them highly. This we can gather from the pages of our 
famous local historian, Francis Blomefield, whose work is 
partly based on the collections of an earlier antiquary named 
Le Neve. Blomefield has a good deal to say on the subject ; 
he tells us that in 1482 a statute for the qualification of swan- 
marks was made* ‘“‘ upon which statute an account of all the 
swan-marks in this county [of Norfolk] was taken and entered 
in a roll, which was renewed in the year 1598 ...... a 
] a 3 
1, THE CANON’S MARK. 2. BINKNORTH’S MARK, 3, THE PRIORESS’S MARK. 
Neither the original of 1482 nor that made in 1598 is any 
longer in existence, as far as Stevenson could make out, 
but I understand that a modern copy of the 1598 roll on 
paper is in the possession of Mr. J. E. Harting, who has quoted 
it in an article in the “Zoologist,”’ where he treats of the old 
terms “Cob” and ‘“Pen’’ formerly applied to the male and 
female Swans.f Also a modern swan-roll, beautifully executed 
in 1846, which may be in part a copy, is preserved in the 
Norwich Museum, and from this source the three heads shown 
on page 113 have been taken. 
* By Edward IV., supra, p. 82. 
+ “ Zoologist,” 1895, p. 372. 
