164 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE BREEDING OF THE CRANE. 
In 1542—3 Fol. 71. 
Itra. To Osborn of Kyrby for vj fatte Swannes xviij s. 
Itm. For fecbyng of them from Kyrby . iiij d. 
Itm. For lcepyng of them vj days after . xij d. 
Itm. For a closse Mawnde* to trusse them in vj d. 
Itm. Payd for a Purpose Pygge govyn to his 
Grace at hys fyrst comyng at Mr. Rede’s 
bowse than Mayer . . . vij s. vj d. 
The latter formed part of a present given to the Duke of Norfolk 
then at Kenninghall. 
1544 — 5 Fol. 174. 
In Primis Pd. for a Present send to the Duke 
of Norff. his Grace to Kenyngale the xxix 
day of Novembyr within the tyme of thys 
accompt and ffyrst to Eobt Osborn of 
Kyrby for vj fatte Swannys . . xxiiij s. 
Itm. To Thomas Palmer for ij Cranys . xij s. viij d. 
I shall quote one more entry from this source farther on, but at 
present my object is to show that in the 16th century the Crane 
was apparently by no means a rare British species, although it 
did not much longer continue so. About this time we also have 
Dr. Turner’s statement in his Avium Historia (1544), that he met 
with Cranes probably in Cambridgeshire, to which we shall again 
have to refer. 
By letters patent, dated August 1554, 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, 
license was granted “ unto our wellbelovyd subjecte George Eden,” 
who seems to have resided partly in London and partly at Sudbury, 
and to have had a landed estate at Wickhambroke, in Suffolk (to 
which county, according to the same Patent Roll, he was in 1555 
appointed surveyor of Crown lands),! “ to appoynte at his wyll and 
pleasure any one of his servauntes to shote in a crosbowe or 
handgone att all manner of dere, heron, shullard ( [i.e ., spoonbill), 
wildswane, mallard, tele, crane, bustard, and all other land fowle or 
water fowle whatsoever, and also to use, carrye, occupie, and kepe 
his said crosbowe or handgonne for the purpose aforesaide within 
the counties of Suffolk and Cambridge, and the lymyttes of the same.” 
# A covered basket to pack them in. 
f I)r. J. J. Howard, ‘ Visitation of Suffolke,’ 1866, p. 17. 
