APPENDIX. n9 



The great byrdes, for the Lord's mees 9 for the 

 Chambreleyn and Stewardes mees may be, as the 

 ingenious editor conjectures, Fieldfares, Thrufhes 

 and the like *, 



The eftimation each fpecies was held in may 

 be known by the following table, to which I have 

 added the modern name, and the reference to it in 

 this work. 





Page. 





Price. 



Cranys, the Crane, 



534. 





i6d. 



Hearon-fewys, the Heron 5 



355* 





1 2d. 



Mallards, 



500, 





2d. 



Teylfes, Teal, 



5*3> 





id. 



Woodcock, 



3 6 5, 



id. 



or id.T» 



Wypes, Lapwings, 



$*** 





id. 



Sea-gulls, Black-headed Gull 5 



456* 



id. 



or i"d. 4* 



Styntes, Purrs, 



397* 



6d. 



a dozen. 



Quails, 



234, 





2d. 



Snipes, 



37S, 



3 *- 



a dozen c 



Partridges, 



233* 





2d. 



Red-fhanks, 



37$> 





id. 



Bytters, Bitterns, 



35^ 





lid. 



Pheafants, 



238, 





I2d. 



Reys, Land Rails f, 



4io 3 





2d, 



* p. 104. 424. 



f I imagine the Keys to be the Land Rail, not the Reeve 



the female of the Ruff, for that bird feems not to be ia 



vogue in thofe days. Old Drayton does not even mention it 



in his long catalogue of birds, but fets a high value upon 



The Rayle which feldom comes but upon rich men's fpits *, 



* Polyolbion. Canto XXV, 



B b t? 4 Sholarde^ 



