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His disbursements in all are as will appear by the book of 
his disbursements £1508 8s. 5d., which deducted out of the fore- 
said sume of £1626 10s. 4d. do make his remain £118 1s. 11d.— 
perused by us Christofer Towneley, Charles Towneley. Received 
the 15th day of December in anno Domini 1620 the sume of fifty 
nine pounds eleven pence ob (haif penny) being the half of 
£118. 1s. 11d. found remaining in my brother Christopher his 
hands, upon his accopts, as will appear herebefore and so due 
unto me, I say received 
Per me CHARLES TOWNELEY. 
Fastened in the volume is a letter from Nicholas Bancrofte 
to Christopher Towneley at Noctone. 
Peculiar words are few, rigauld used as a noun and an 
adjective; quee—a heifer, skins mortes and slaughters ; twinter 
—an ox or amimal two winters old, drape wethers, fat oxen well 
stricken with flesh, chawder of lime for chaldron. 
In conclusion I would just say that the period singularly 
enough is omitted by Eden in his ‘ State of the Poor ;’’ it looks, 
according to Harland, as if he was unable to find any accounts 
from 1602 to 1608 to furnish him with prices, and this manu- 
script, covering from 1601 to 1608, helps with the Gawthorpe 
accounts to fill up the chasm which there is in that work. 
BAPTISMS AND ANNIVERSARIES, &c., 1705 to 1722; 
WITH TERRIER OF DEMAINE OF MARTHOLME. 
By F. J. GRANT. 
The Terrier* was copied in the book in 1667, and is believed 
to be in the writing of Christopher Towneley. Probably in the 
17th century the demesne of Martholme extended from Altham 
to within a short distance of Whalley. The names of several 
fields, &e., remain the same as at the time when the Terrier was 
made. 
Thirty-eight years after the Terrier was completed, the book 
was appropriated to the use of the Chaplain at Towneley, who 
for 16 years utilised its spare pages for the record of his masses, 
and as a register of the Marriages and Baptisms in the Family 
Chapel. 
The priest’s entries divide themselves into three portions. 
1. Record of those ‘ christened since I came to Towne- 
ley.” From March, 1707, to March, 1727, ninety-five 
children were baptized Many of the names enumerated 
*Terrier :—“‘ a survey or register of lands.””—Jolnson. 
