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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Early reference to Pheasants in Suffolk. In * The expenses 
of Sir John Howard, Knight, afterwards Duke of Norfolk,’ edited 
in 1841 by Beriah Botfield for the Roxburghe Club, we find 
(p. 399) the following early reference to Pheasants at Ipswich, 
under date of April, 1467 “ Item, xii fesawntes, pryse xii. s.” 
There appears to be no earlier mention of the Pheasant in Norfolk 
than some references in the L’Estrange “accounts,” 1519 : and the 
passage now quoted, contained in a volume entitled ‘ Manners and 
Household Expenses of England,’ is the earliest for Suffolk. But 
in Essex the Pheasant is mentioned in a bill of fare a.d. 1059; 
and this very early allusion is the first in any part of England 
(c/. Newton, ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica,’ p. 732). — J. H. Gurney. 
