"That the distributers of the provision for the destruction of noysome foule and vermine being chosen, and having money [as before shown by me, Vol. iv., p. 389.], shall give and pay the same money so to them delivered, to every person that shall bring to them any heades of old crowes, choughes, pies, or rookes, taken within the several parishes, for the heads of every three of them a peny; and for the heads of every sixe young crowes, choughes, pyes, or rookes, taken, as is aforesaid, a peny; and for every sixe egges of any of them unbroken, a peny; and likewise for every twelve stares heades, a peny. All which said heads and egges, the said distributers in some convenient place shall keep, and shall every moneth at the least bring foorth the same before the said churchwardens and taxors, or three of them, and then and there to them shall make a true account in writing, what money they have laid forth and paid for such heads and egges, and for the heads of such other raveinous birds and vermine, as are hereafter mentioned, that is to say: "For everie head of merton, haukes, fursekite, moldkite, bussard, scag, carmerant, or ringtaile iid For every two egges of them id For every iron or ospraies heads iiiid For the head of every woodwall, pie, jay, raven, or kite id For the head of every bird which is called the kingsfisher id For the head of every bulfinsh, or other birde that devoureth the blouth of fruit id For the heads of every foxe or gray xiid For the head of every fichewe, polcat, wesell, stote, faire, badger, or wildecat id For the heads of every otter or hedghog iid For the heads of every three rats or twelve mice id For the heads of every moldwarpe or want, an halfe-penie. "All which sayd heads and egges shall be foorthwith, after such account made in the presence of the sayd churchwardens and taxors, or of three of them, burned, consumed, or cut in sunder."--Vid. 8 Eliz. c. 15.; 14 Eliz. c 11.; and 39 Eliz. c. 18. FRANCISCUS. WAS RALEIGH IN VIRGINIA? (Vol. iv., pp. 190. 241.) Raleigh never visited Virginia. The numerous expeditions thither, set on foot by him, and in which he had so large a concern as to cause them to be called _his_ voyages, no doubt gave rise to the popular error. We first find Raleigh's name, in connexion with discovery in North America, in 1579. In that year Sir Humphrey Gilbert, his stepbrother, prevailed upon him to join in a projected voyage. The accounts of this voyage are very scanty: all, I believe, that is known on the subject is to be found in Hakluyt, vol. iii. p. 146., in the following words: