Octopus Gift

Sadie wanted to play with the recenty deceased octopus we found on the beach. I checked it out, decide not to bring it home for dinner, and left it for the Eagles. “[At a special brother-hood held at Sandwich: Decreed to give the Lord Warden of free gift and not otherwise the third part] of all wrecks and fyndalls floating and the half of all wrecks and fyndalls jottsome, viz. dryuen to the londe yshore.” Boys’ Sandwich, 1570