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were first introduced into Europe ; for it is certain 

 that they were imported into England as early 

 as the year 1524, the 15th of Henry VIII. (Ba- 

 ker's Chr. Anderson's Diet., Com. 1, 354. Hack- 

 luyt, II, 165, makes their introduction about the 

 year 1532. Barnaby Googe, one of our early 

 writers on Husbandry, says they were not seen 

 here before 1530. He highly commends a Lady 

 Hales of Kent for her excellent management of 

 these fowl, p. 166.) 



" We probably received them from Spain, with 

 which we had great intercourse till about that 

 time. They were most successfully cultivated 

 in our Kingdom from that period; insomuch 

 that they grew common in every farm-yard, 

 and became even a dish in our rural feasts by 

 the year 1585; for we may certainly depend on 

 the word of old Tusser in his Account of the 

 Christmas Husbandrie Fare. " (Five Hundred 

 Points of good Husbandrie, p. 57.) 



"Beefe, Mutton, and Porke, shredpiece 

 of the best, 

 Pig, Veale, Goose, and Capon, and 

 Turkie well drest, 



