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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… associated with the Crown as joint protectors of the swans of the Thames. Society of Apothecaries. 5. The Society …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… s. Chickens, 27 doz., 27 s. Pullets, 2 doz., 3 s. 9 d. 15 swans, 75 s. 6 cranes, 20 s. Conies, 31 doz., 62 s. …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… the act in the previous parliament limiting the keeping of swans to the social elite, which threatened their livelihood … Michaelmas should have or possess any flock of his own swans, nor should anyone else have or possess any such flock … lands and tenements to the said value to seize the said swans as forfeit, of which the king should have one half and …