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13. Besides, judging from a passage in the “ Antiquities 
of Westmoreland,’* there must have been a settlement at 
Helflack Moss, also in Cumberland. 
14. According to a quotation in Pennant’s “ British 
Zoology ’’t there was a Gullery near Portsmouth, which 
produced to its owner forty pounds a year by the sale 
of “ Pewits,” and it is suggested by Kelsall and Munn 
that the site may have been on Pewit (locally Pewty) 
Island. t 
15. From the Household Book of Hurstmonceux Castle 
in Sussex (1643 to 1649) we learn that the fare included puets, 
sea gulls and sea mewes, but§ whether this can be accepted as 
proof of a Gullery on the manor seems doubtful. 
16. Mr. Harting brings forward evidence of an ancient 
Gullery near Eastbourne in Sussex, but it is not quite clear 
that the Gulls nesting there were of the present species.|| 
17. A remark of John Aubrey’s points to the presence 
of a seventeenth century Gullery in Wiltshire : “ Sea-mewes. 
Plentie of them at Colerne-downe ; . . .”—en inland parish.4] 
18. In 1602 Richard Carew, a Cornish historian, 
enumerates Gulls end ‘“‘ Pewets,” (by which he does not 
mean Lapwings), among the birds of Cornwall, and says 
they breed upon little islands, laying their eggs on the 
grass. ** 
Here the list ends, but it is possible that there were Black- 
headed Gulleries in the north and east of England, and certainly 
there must have been more in the west than the four here 
mentioned. One indication of it is that “puets” are 
repeatedly named among the table provisions for Judges on 
the Western Circuit, and this, be it noticed, was always in July, 
just the time at which the young Gulls would have been 
ripe. Unfortunately these Assize accounts only run from 
* By J. Nicolson and R, Burn, 1777, (Vol. 1., p. 225.) 
+‘ B.Z,,” IL, p. 543. 
+ “ Birds of Hampshire,” p, 335, 
§ Communicated to the Sussex Archeological Society (Vol, XLVIIT.), by 
T. Barrett Lennard, 
||‘ Zoologist,” 1891, p. 194. 
«The Natural History of Wiltshire,” edited by J, Britton, p, 65, 
** “ The Survey of Cornwall,” 1811 edn.,, p. 109. 
