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stray mare, yonge Demdyke, yonge cracstones, and a yonge bay 
that trotteth.”’ These with others make a total of 31. In 1599 
there were 46, but 22 were sent for a year to Townley. The 
name of Demdyke is curious, for this horse or rather these horses 
(for there were old and young Demdyke) were in Lincolnshire, 
and the name did not come into notoriety in connexion with the 
Lancashire witch trials till several years after. Next are enumer- 
ated the store of cattle, 31 draught oxen, 39 milke kyne, bullocks, 
fat cows, bulls, steers, &c., altogether about 180. These lists are 
repeated in succeeding pages, with the modifications required for 
different years, and then begins the account of the sales. The 
first entry is a sale on Oct. 27, 1601, to Edw. Metcalfe, who as one 
might gather from his name without the corroborative evidence 
of the MS., was a butcher, of a branded steer for 48/4 and a red 
cow for 36/8. We may note in these prices the persistence of 
the old fashioned sums of 3/4 and 6/8, the half noble and the 
noble, though the coin was almost entirely out of use. The next 
month, the self-same butcher of Lincoln pays £6 16s. 8d. for 
three four-year old fat steers. As regards the prices of other 
animals, we find that fat wethers realised 8/-, calves 7/4, 8/-, 
while next May the wethers fetched 10/-, and the fat calves 
came down to 5/10; six pigs came to 6/-; 2 yoke of fat 
oxen were sold at Grantham for £24 10s., by Ralph 
Proudlove and William Witton whereof 6d. given him again, 
and toll 6d., and spent by them 12d. Rabbits seem to 
have been relatively more expensive, for 14 dozen of them (18 
couple to the dozen) were sold for £3 15s. 6d., which means 24d. 
each, while some lots fetched even 4d. and 6d. each. There isa 
difference made between the black and the grey, the former being 
valued at half as much again as the latter: the cause lay in the 
money received for the skins. The prices of horses are as one 
might expect very variable: some idea may be gathered from the 
following entries—gray nage £4 16s. 8d., nag calied Walker £10 
Os. Od., bay nag £6 6s. 8d., the great bay mare £7 Os. 0d., the swallow 
colt £4 0s. Os., nag called Chirrlemayne £4 0s. 0d., gray 3 year old filly 
42/-, filly (her colour black bay) 30/-, &c.: then at one grand effort 
amare, two fillies and a colt for the apparently reasonable price of 
£617s.6d. As for poultry we have 16 geese sold for 10/8, that is 
8d. each, two turkeys at /22 and /12 respestively; 4 turkey hens 
went for 5/4 and 2 turkey cocks for 4/-; pigeons were /10 a dozen. 
Mr. Townley appears to have done a considerable trade in skins, 
for the entries under this head seem to come on every page; a 
steer skin sold for 5/8 in 1601, 8/4 in 1602, a bull skin for 20/., 
and a cow skin for 9/-. The cost of the keep of a young cow for 
a week was set down in 1601 as /3, but in 1602 the meat ofa 
stray steer kept for 6 weeks rises to 2/-. Grain of all kinds was 
very uncertain in price, varying not only from year to year, but 
