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must have had this same Gullery in his mind, and had probably 
visited it, for he comments on the young “ Pewits” as being 
“esteemed proper for the table.”* Another witness, hitherto 
overlooked, who had seen these Gulls at their nests, was the 
amusing diarist Henry Teonge, a chaplain on board the 
“ Assistance.” Teonge records his visit on July 8th, 1678, 
to the Gullery: “ This dav I went with our captaine on 
shoare to Puett Iland, where wee tooke above 10 douzen of 
young puetts.’t It would, however, seem highly probable 
that this was not the only settlement of Black-heads at that 
period in Essex, for Mr. Miller Christy points out that no 
fewer than three islands on the coast bear the name of 
Pewit Island.t 
4. Of the Staffordshire Gullery Fuller makes no mention, 
but we have two excellent accounts, ne by John Ray in 1662.§ 
and another, which is still more complete, by Robert Plot in 
1686. It was already an ancient settlement when they went 
to view it, having flourished on the same estate “ wltra hominum 
memoriam.” Plot gives a clever picture of the lake where 
he saw them breeding, with eight men engaged in driving the 
young Gulls towards a net, within which are two pens to 
put them into when caught.|| This quaint illustration has 
been given by Mr. W. H. Mullens in “ British Birds,’ Mag. 
(Vol. IL, p. 220) with a good biography of Plot, and with 
Mr. Witherby’s permission is again reproduced. Unlike the 
Norfolk Puets, which were sold at small rates, and their eggs 
used for puddings, the Gulls at Norbury were reckoned of no 
little consequence, the young ones, after a course of feeding, 
being werth five shillings a dozen, so that in some years the 
mere had produced a profit cf sixty pounds. 
It is difficult to point to the whereabouts of more than 
these four Black-headed Gulleries in the seventeenth century 
in England, but what may be called seccndary evidence is to 
be had of at least sixteen others, and these shall be briefly 
enumerated. 
“ Antiquities of Harwich,” 1732, p. 402. 
“The Diary of Henry Teonge,” 1675-1679, p. 245. 
“The Birds of Essex,’ p. 267. 
P. 218. 
“ Natural History of Staffordshire,” chap, VII 
