[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 179, Issue 16

[Jacintha of Highland Foorde]

Well! Turkeys ARE period after all! I just learned something! Thank you
Laird Mungo Napier.

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> From: Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000 at gmail.com>
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> Noble Friends,
>
> This piece was forwarded to me by Lady Sophia, who is not on the Merry
> Rose. The History Blog article cites three animal bones found at a dig in
> Exeter in 1983. The bones were recently analyzed and found to be from
> turkeys. According to the blog, the turkey was introduced to England by
> explorer William Strickland circa 1524-1526. They were at first bred as
> exotic pets, but became a table item for the rich around 1550.
>
> I almost missed the first comment at the end of the article. Turkeys were
> known in Spain and Germany even earlier. Thus the American turkey
> definitely falls within the SCA period.
>
> Here's the link: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/49943
>
> There is more about William Strictland on Wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strickland_(navigator) . Although he
> was granted arms (crested with a turkey), Strickland apparently was never
> knighted. His religious views were unacceptable to Queen Elizabeth. The
> turkey decorating the lectern of Strickland's parish church in Yorkshire is
> shown in the History Blog article, but according to the Wikipedia article
> it is a 20th century creation (actually 1934, according to one of the web
> sites below).
>
> The church, including photos of the turkey lectern, can be viewed at
> http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/yorkshire/
> east_riding/east_one/boynton/index.html
> and again at
> https://churchhuntingnorth.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/st-andrews-boynton/ .
>
> It took me a bit of searching, but I found a depiction of Strickland's arms
> at
> https://books.google.com/books?id=twW0OFpGzJAC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false
> . Other searches brought up only the Westmoreland branch of the family's
> arms.
>
> Now I wonder if turkey feathers were ever used for fletching during the
> 16th century. They might have occasionally appeared on sport arrows used by
> the rich, but military archery was in serious decline by the time the
> turkey arrived in Europe and their use there would be unlikely.
>
> I sure had fun digging out all this stuff for y'all.
>
> Yours Aye,
>
> Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge
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