> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > > "the pastries are venison [...]" > Philip Hart wrote: > This strikes me as an odd ingredient for a street vendor to have > easy access to, based on a vague feeling that historically kings > or nobility have enforced a monopoly on the hunting of deer. Howard Brazee wrote on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:54:45 -0700 >Historically in England? >Historically, those in power do what they can to own all resources, >including game, land, and water. But there's nothing special about >venison, other than in small countries, game preserves are owned by the >crown. Dragaera seems to have plenty of land. Hi, It turns out that the Emperor had a game preserve. I did not remember that until I just reread it. The Imperial Preserve is probably part of the Lesser Sea now. The Emperor might have had a limited monopoly on hunting around Dragaera City only. "During this time, His Majesty might walk, or fence, or read, or even decide to cancel his afternoon appointments and go off to the Imperial Preserve to hunt the athyra, the wild boar, or other such game as might interest him." Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Sixth, page 71 Great new tax on meats, new tax on wheat entering the city and an Imperial Preserve for the Emperor to go hunting in without paying any meat tax. Bye. Linda G.