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a date when Cranes would be nesting.* On the first occasion 
as many as eight Cranes are brought in (p. 340), which sounds 
as if the fewlers had caught a party on migration: on the 
second the number is not stated, but may have been consider- 
able, as it was ‘a gaynste Maystrys Alyse weddyng”’ in the 
beginning of June (p. 357). 
In 1525 the Duke of Norfolk built himself a palace at 
Kenninghall in Norfolk, and from the ‘ Expenevs. of 
howshould ” Mr. R. Houlett has drawn up a tolerable list of 
fish, birds and minor provisions which were consumed there. 
The Crane, however, is only twice mentioned, and in neither 
case is the month given. 
In 1526, at a banquet given by Sir John Nevile in 
Yorkshire, nine Cranes were provided at a cost of thirty 
shillings, and at another banauet in 1530 twelve more were 
had at three shillings and fourpence each,{} but the month of 
the year is not recorded. There is no reason for supposing 
that these were not real Cranes ; Heron-sewes and ‘“ bytters”’ 
are mentioned as well. 
When the French Ambassadors came to England in 
1528, the citizens of London presented then: inter alia with 
twelve Cranes, twelve Pheasants and thirty-six Partridges. § 
The time of the year was, it appears, October, and that the 
birds were real Cranes, and not Herons, which would have 
been a gift of less consequence, is most probable. In 1531 
the first entry of a Crane which Mr. Tingey has traced 
occurs in the Norwich City Accounts, and is followed by other 
records of these large birds being brought for festival 
occasions.|| In 1530 and 1532 Eltham Palace in Kent was 
supplied with two Cranes in October, and four Cranes and 
two Bustards in January.{ Between 1537 and 1554 the 
Registers of Lincoln record the presentation to the Duke of 
* “ Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton ’’ (Historical Man. 
Comn., 1911, pp. 340, 357). What adds considerably to these accounts 
is the statement in the introduction that they were partly arranged in 
bundles, some of which T have had the privilege of seeing, by Francis 
Willughby and John Ray. 
7 “ Norfolk Archeology,” XV., pp. 57, 58. 
t “The Forme of Cury,” by Samuel Pegge [the elder;, 1780, pp. 165, 183. 
§ “ Hall’s Chronicle,” edition 1809, p. 733. 
|| Privy Purse Expenses of Henry the Eighth,’’ pp. 85, 187, 188. 
© Cf. “Norwich Naturalists’ Trans.,’’ Vol. VIT., p. 163. 
