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NOTES On the preceding Paper, On the Order and Government of a Houfe. " 'Earalle* p. 315, arable. llluftrative of this " Order and GovernTnent of a Nobleman's Houfe," are two ac- counts printed among the notes of the Northumberland Houfehold Book, p. 419 et feq. ".An Account how the Earl of Worcefter lived at Ragland Caftle, before the Civil Wars, [begun in 1641,]" and " Lord Fairfax's Orders for the Servants of his. Houfhold [after the Civil Wars-]." Confult alfo Fleta on this fubjecl:. See alfo- " The Boke of Carvinge," Black Letter, no date. In the Lift of Birds and Fowls here ferved up at Table in a Nobleman's Houfe, it is hardly neceflary to obferve that many, if not the mod of them, are confidered at this time as being rank carrion. To make the " Bujlarde" palatable, [p. 341.] Muffett in his Treatife on Food, London, 1655, 4to. p. 91, gives the following very curious prefcription : " Chufe the youngeft and fatteft about Allhalontide, (for then they are beft) and diet him a day or two with a little white bread, or rather keep him altogether fafting, that he may fcotir away his ordure : then let him bleed to death in the neck-veins; and having hanged three or four daies in a cool place out of the moonihine, either roft it, or bake it, as you do a turkie, and it will prove both a dainty and a wholfome meat. " To render " the Storcke, Bitter, and Hernne, (Heron) p. 341," fit to be eaten, he advifes, ut fupra, p. 93. " Chufe the youngeft and fateft, for they may be eaten, fo- with much fpice, fait or onions, and beeing throughly fteept in a draught of old wine. If they be dreft without their {kins, they rellilh far better^ according to the French and the beft fafhion, who alfo (tuff them full of fweet herbs, and draw them with fine and (mall lard." '* Craynes" p. 341, fay the Notes to the Northumberland Houfehold Book, are now judged to have forfaken this iflaud, then almoft as common as the Heron or Heron- Sew. The Bitter is the Bittern of Ray " Ardea Stellaris." Cranes, fays Muffett, ut fupra, p. 91. " as old Dr. Turner writ unto Gefner, breed in our Englifh fens being young, killed with a gofhawk, and han ed two or three days