1476-11-24, Westminster

Commission to John Straunge of Straunge, knight, Richard Martyn, clerk, Robert Basset, John Wode, esquire, Richard Forde, Thomas Wyndesore, Richard Turnaunt, Humphrey Forster, Richard Restwold, Richard Barnet, Thomas Lute, Robert Skerne, John Wyrall, John Gloucestre, Walter Forde, Thomas Babham and John Upton to enquire by oath of good men of the counties of Kent, Hertford, Essex, Surrey, Middlesex, Berks, Buckingham, Oxford and Gloucester into the capture of swans and cygnets on the river Thames and its tributaries from Cirencestre to its mouth by hooks, nets, lyme-strynges and other engines, the alteration or deletion of the marks of swans and the taking of swans eggs, and to arrest and imprison the offenders. ( 25 ) . Parr I.