Swan marks of Lincolnshire burmese water carriers The Protestant Dissenters' School

The Protestant Dissenters' School

20th September 1991

Lazarus Ercker

Bottom shows the pigeon-holes occupied by spectators

recording two of his three career Grand Prix victories in the process

Swan marks of Lincolnshire burmese water carriers The Protestant Dissenters' SchoolNine swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire, England, including to 'Sir John Hossye Knyght' [eg Sir John Hussey]. The marks illustrated here were incised in the beaks of the birds by a swan herd. The names of those with grants of swans are noted in the margin by each painted mark. Page 4 from Royal Society manuscript MS 106, a register of swan marks, kept by the Queen's swan herd, possibly a member of the Towneley