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Hugo de Moreton, zonarius. 

 Johannes de Moreton. 

 Robertas de Ricale. 

 Robertas de Newton, mercer. 

 Thomas de Thornton, mercer. 

 Nicholas de Clifton. 

 Alanus de Rocliff, zonarius. 

 Rogerus de Eskrik. 

 Johannes de Haxby, mercer. 

 Ricardus de Bottercramb. 

 Willielmus de Fangfoss, alutarius. 

 Willielmus de Thornton. 

 Johannes de Cathall, sellar. 

 Ricardus de Bilbrough, molendinarius. 

 Ricardus de Rughford. 

 Simon de Acum. 



Robertus de Copmanthorp, tannator. 

 Petrus de Foxholes, zonarius. 

 Jacobus de Pickeryng, pistor. 

 Johannes de Setryngton, pelliparius. 

 Ricardus de Pytyngton, pistor. 

 Johannes de Kirkham, pelliparius. 

 Ricardus de Conyston. 

 Ricardus de Heperhingham, cissor. 

 Willielmus de Alvarthorpe, pistor. 

 Adam de Lede. 



Although these details are somewhat dry and tedious, Iventure 

 to think that the information they afford will not be considered 

 either uninteresting or unimportant. Facts of this class are 

 very sparingly furnished by our general histories : and the truth 

 of history, as regards the social condition and domestic habits of 

 the people at any given period, must wholly depend upon the 

 fidelity and accuracy with which local transactions and circum- 

 stances are described and narrated. Dr. Henry, in his " History 

 of Great Britain," was the first to adopt the method of giving 

 an account of the civil and domestic affairs of the community 

 separately from the military and poUtical transactions of the state, 

 and his work contains only the following short passage relating 



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