CHAPTER IX. 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY (2np Part). 
The Sixteenth Century (2nd part): English Household Accounts of the 
Sixteenth Century. The le Straunge [or Lestrange] Accounts, 1519-1578. 
The le Straunges of Hunstanton.—It has not been thought 
necessary to give up much space to Andrew Boorde’s 
“ Dyetary ” (? 1542), curious as it is, extracts, with a good 
account of the author, being supplied in the “ Bibliography of 
British Ornithology” (1916-17, p. 81) by Mr. W. H. Mullens. 
Boorde’s work was intended to be a medical one, like Dr. 
Muffett’s, which was written some fifty years afterwards, and 
there is but little about birds in it. Under the heading 
of ‘Wylde fowle” he gives his readers and patients. some 
promiscuous information, instructing them that “. oe 
A Woodcock is a meat of good temperance. Quails and 
Plovers and Lapwings doth nourish but little, for they 
do engender melancholy humours. Young Turtle Doves do 
engender good blood. A young Heron is lighter of digestion 
than a Crane. A Bustard well killed and ordered is a 
nutritive meat. A Bittern is not so hard of digestion as is 
a Heron. A Shoveler [Spoonbill] is lighter of digestion than 
a Bittern. A Pheasant hen, a Moor-cock and a Moor-hen, 
except they be set abroad, they be nutritive 4 
Mr. Mullens gives 1562 as being the year of the first dated 
edition. Nor is it necessary to quote again the journal of 
Peter Swave, the Dane, who visited the Bass Rock in 1535,* 
nor the logs of the English navigators Hore, Parkhurst and 
Gilbert, who visited Newfoundland in the sixteenth century 
(A.D. 1556, 1578, 1583), all of which are printed at length in 
Hakluyt.t A naturalist can not but have a feeling of melan- 
* Given in full in ‘ The Gannet,” p. 181. 
t “ Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries,’’ by Richard 
Hakluyt. 
