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plentie of that kinde of foule onely, then of all other sortes layed 

 together, the chiefest plentyeysbetweene Michaelmas and Christ- 

 mas, and in these three monethes he visiteth most houses, their 

 chiefe takinge is in cockeroades * in woodds, w th nettes erected 

 vp betweene two trees, where in cocke shoote tyme (as yt is 

 tearmed) w ch is the twylight, a litle after the breakinge of the 

 daye, and before the closinge of the night) they are taken, some- 

 tymes ij. iij. or iiij at a fall. I haue my selfe oftentimes taken vj 

 at one fall, and in one roade, at an eveninge taken xviij, andyt ys 

 no strange thinge to take a hundred or sixe score in one woodd 

 in xxiiij or houres if the haunt be good, and much more hath 

 beene taken, thoughe not vsually. Yt is strange to thinke from 

 whence theis fowles shold come in such soddayne sorte, as they 

 are ffond to doe, for if there be not one seene, or to be founde in 

 the Countrye, if at any time, the East Southeast or Northeast 

 winde blowe could, and sharpe, this Countrey wilbe full w th in 

 xij houres, and yet in the countries, w ch lye East of this not one 

 to be seene or found in a moneth after : then againe the nature of 

 the fowle ys not to flee in the daie tyme, nor in the night, but 

 reasteth all daye in the woodd, and all night abroad in the fieldes 

 feedinge, and onely fleeth one flight every evening out of the 

 woodd into the fields, and every morninge retourneth againe into 

 the woodd, and so resteth all daye, and all night, so that yt ys to 

 be marveiled, from whence they come, or where they breede ; for 

 if they shold come from out of the Easterne Countreys ; yt were 

 very likely they shold bee seene to flee by day or by night, w ch 

 as I saied before ys against their nature : allso they shold be 

 found in those Countries wch lye Easterly of this sheere, as ys 

 the Counties of Carmarthen, Brecknock, Cardigan, Radnor and 



* Fenton (p. 6), in his eulogium on his great-grandfather, John Lewis, 

 says that he remembers three glades at Manarnawan used in his time for 

 catching Woodcocks in winter. And see our author's account of the wood 

 of Pen Celli (cf. pp. 80, 101, above), quoted from a Bronwydd MS. by Fenton, 

 in ' Cambrian Register,' ii. 104 : — " Also there is in said wood 13 cock shots, 

 wherein is great store of Woodcocks taken yearly, which cock shots are the 

 Lord's own," &c. Shakespeare, Rich. III. v. 3, speaks of " cock-shut time." 

 Cock shut occurs commonly in the place-names of the parts of England that 

 border on Wales, and is not uncommon in parts of Wales itself. In at least 

 one case it has been Wallicized into Cocsyth. There is a place called Cock 

 road between the Hardington and Buckland Woods, about three miles N. of 

 the town of Frome. 



