ANTIENT EXTRACTS. 
several then of high price being at present ba- 
nished from our tables ; and others again of un- 
common rankness much valued by our ancestors. 
Thus /Vegions (I give the spelling of the time) 
See-pyes, Sholardes, Kyrlewes, Ternes, Cranys, 
Hearon-sewys, Bytters, See-gulles and Styntes, 
were among the delicacies for principal feasts, 
or his lordship’s own mees. 
Those excellent birds the Teylles were not to 
be bought except no other could be got. 
Fesauntes, Bytters, Hearon-sewys and Kyr- 
lewes, were valued at the same price, twelve 
pence each. 
The other birds admitted to his Lordship’s 
table were Bustardes, Mallardes, lWoodcokes, 
Wypes, Quayles, Snypes, Pertryges, Rede- 
shankes, Reys, Pacokes, Knottes, Dottrells, 
Larkys and small byrdes. 
The great byrdes, for the Lord’s mees, for 
the Chambreleyn and Stewardes mees may be, 
as the ingenious editor conjectures, Fieldfares, 
Thrushes, and the like.* 
The estimation each species was held in may 
be known by the following table, to which I 
have added the modern name, and the refer- 
ence to it in this work. 
* P. 104. 424. 
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