jan 1, 1652 - swanherd

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A keeper responsible for the swans. 1558-9 <i>ordayned that no Person or Persons being Swanherds ... begin a marking without the master of the Kings Game of Swannes ... be there present</i>, Hatfield (ERAS12/58); 1652 <i>their honors armes graven and quartered for the wearing of there hon’rs Swanherd on the carrs in Holderness</i> (Whit2/321). The sites where the swans were kept were called pools or carrs: 1508 <i>the goyng of a payr of swans in the carre of Newsom with ther brewde and brewdez</i>, Breckenbrough (SS53/272); 1558-9 <i>their swan Poles ... are by now ... Converted into Dryland</i>, Hatfield (ERAS12/59); 1570 <i>And there are in the Carre ... by the confession of the swannerdes xlvij whyte swannes and all the sygnettes are to be marked</i>, Leconfield (YAJ17/144); 1598 <i>Low Holling Closes or Swankare Close</i>, Thorpe near Ripon (SS104/213).

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