38 NOTES, ETC., RELATING TO FAMILIES OF PARKER. 
aforesaid, betweene one & fower of the clocke in the 
afternoone of the same day, and at the end of one 
whole yeare then next following” other £20, and at 
the end of every year £20 till he shall have paid 
the whole sum of £100. And also that whenso- 
ever the said John Parker the younger and Dyonise 
shall go to house by themselves, he will give unto 
them “one cowe w" a calf following her, & some 
howshould stuff, such & so much as hee of his 
fatherly goodwill shall thinke good to bestowe of 
them.”* Witnesses, Jasper Fysher, George Bullus, 
certain property had been settled, subject to an annual charge of £4, to be 
paid half-yearly, at Michaelmas and Lady-day, in the porch of Rowington 
Church, between the hours of ten and two. The Parties concerned, it is 
stated, met there, and the money was told out on a bench in the church porch. 
In a deed, dated 23 Nov., 7 Jac. I., 1609, Sir Vincent Skynner, Knt., of 
Westminster, mortgages the Thornton-College estate, in Lincolnshire, for 
#1200, and undertakes to repay the money “at or on the font-stone in the 
church of the Inner Temple, neere Fleetestreete, in the suburbs of the citye of 
London,” upon the days therein specified. 
* A similar covenant is contained in a settlement made by Robert Rock- 
ley, esq., of Rockley, co. York, 10 Nov., 9 Eliz., 1657, on the marriage of 
William Rockley, his son and heir, with Jane, daughter of Matthew Went- 
worth, esq., of Bretton. William and Jane were to live for two years with the 
father of the bride at his house at Bretton, and when they began to keep 
house each father was to give them £20 to the purchase of furniture. —(Hun- 
ter’s South Vorkshire, I1., p. 285.) 
Again, in a settlement made 8th July, 13th Car. 2nd, 1661, by William 
Beilby, esq., of Micklethwaite Grange, otherwise Wetherby Grange, in the 
parish of Collingham, co. York, and Susan his wife, on the intended marriage 
of his eldest son and heir apparent, John Beilby, with Barbary Lowther, 
daughter of Sir John Lowther, Bart., after providing for an allowance of £25 
a year, it was arranged, that from and after the solemnization of the said in- 
tended marriage betwixt the said John Beilby and Barbary Lowther, they 
should, with one man and one maid-servant, and such children as they should 
have, live in the house with Wm. and Susan Beilby, and have necessary meat, 
drink, and lodging, fitting and convenient for their quality and degree, for so 
long time as the parties should mutually consent. Should either party dislike 
such cohabitation, and the younger couple should with their family repair to 
some other place to live in, then an allowance of £50, in respect of ‘‘ dyett 
and entertainement,” over and besides the before mentioned £25, was agreed 
to be made to them. 
A curious illustration of life and manners occurs in a deed in the posses- 
sion of Miss Griffith, of Carreglwyd, North Wales, whereby a gentleman of 
Denbighshire, in the reign of James the First, whilst settling a landed estate 
on his son in tail male on the eve of his marriage with a gentleman’s daughter, 
stipulated that during his life the young man should ‘‘ worke and labour” for 
him ‘‘as a labourer,” and that the bride should during the same time “‘ labour 
and work” for him as domestic servant.—5th Report, Commission on Histori- 
cal MSS., 1876. Appx. p. 406. 
