196 VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF LAKELAND 



'[1755.] 



To Isaac Gateskel for a Young Eagle, . .006' 



'[1757.] 



For Foxes, 17s. 8d., Ravens, 2s. 4d. . .10 



More Foxes, 6s. 8d., One Eage, Is., 2 old 

 Ravens, 8d., Bucket, 18d. (?) 1 Fox more, 



3s. 4d., 13 2' 



'[1759.] 



For Foxes, 15s., for Ravens, 3s., for Eagles, 4s. 1 2 ' 

 '[1760.] 



To ale & victuals y e 4th of November, an 



Eagle, Is., 13 6 ' 



4 [1762.] 



Court Fees and Expences, . . . .116 2 

 Foxes & Ravens, 0, 2s. 6d., . . . . 1 18 8 ' 



Next line comes — 

 ' 2 Eagles, Is., one Fox, 3s. 4d., . . .044' 

 '[1763.] 



Foxes & Eagles, £1, 6s. 6d., Court fees & 



Expences, £1, 19s., 3 5 6' 



'[1765.] 



To Sundry persons for Foxes, Eagles, & 



Ravens, 14 8' 



Only four years after the last charge of Eagles in the Cros- 

 thwaite accounts, the poet Gray enters this passage in his journal 

 [on October 3d, 1769] : 'For me I went no further than the 

 farmer's (better than four miles from Keswick) at Grange ; his 

 mother and he brought us butter that Siserah would have 

 jumped at. Our farmer was himself the man that last year 

 plundered the eagle's eyrie • all the dale are up in arms on such 

 an occasion, for they lose abundance of lambs yearly, not to 

 mention hares, partridges, grouse, etc. He was let down from 

 the cliff in ropes to the shelf of the rock on which the nest was 

 built, the people above shouting and hollowing to fright the old 

 birds, which flew screaming round, but did not dare to attack 

 him. He brought off the Eaglet (for there is rarely more than 

 one) and an addle egg. The nest was roundish, and more than 



