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The personal expenses of the justices of the forest eyre on 

 this occasion are set out in detail : 



"Mr. Attornay and others appoynted to be there" had for 

 supper at Stamford, on 27th July, 1556, "Chickens ud., rost 

 muton 17^., pidgeons 5^., bread and ale 3.5-. 6d., taille (teal) 

 8d., buskyetts and carawayes 5^., and wynne and suker 20^." 

 On Monday at breakfast they consumed : "Chickens 6d., eggs 

 and butter 3^., boiled meat iod., a peace of beffe 8d. , a pece more 

 of befe i2d., rost beefe 6d., a conye 4^., a dishe of pike 3^., 

 bread and beare 3^. 4^., wynne and .suker 6d." For dinner on 

 the same day they had : "Boy lied meate 3^. 4^., vealle 5.$-. 4^., 

 lamb 2s. 6d., pigs 2s.6d., befe 2s. 4^., pyes 6s. Sd., roste mout- 

 ton 3^., rappetes 2s., bakynge of venyson 2od., peper 2s. 8^., 

 paist 2s. 6d.j butter 6d., for payns and charges in the dressy ng 

 of the same 3^. 4^., wynne and suker 7.?., breade and beare 

 n,?." The same day at supper they began with "pig brothe," 

 followed by an abundance of beef, mutton, chickens, and 

 rabbits, etc. 



" Horsemeate for Mr. Attornay his horses for on day and on 

 nyght " amounted to 14^ ; the sheriff's man received 3^. 4^. for 

 " settyng upp of a tente for the Judges to sytt in and other Im- 

 plements for the same " ; two poor men had a shilling each for 

 fetching two bucks from the sheriff. 



The charges for the Justice Seat at Oundle, on July 27th, was 

 on a higher scale; 40^. 6d. was spent in beer ale, and 39^. 6d. in 

 wine. The horsemeat of the judges' 32 horses cost 14^. 4^. ; 

 the horsemeat for Mr. Attornay and the commissioners' horses 

 cost an additional 18^. Half a mark was spent at Oundle in 

 setting up benches in the Guildhall for the judges and their 

 clerk. 



On the last day of August of the same year a Justice Seat 

 was held at Weldon. The eating and drinking was on much 

 the same scale ; "the swillers in the kytching" cost i6d. 



A certificate of the regarders of Rockingham for 1577-8, 

 presented by Robert Ewarde and Rowland Slade, shows that 

 wood was sold that year to the value of ,231 is. 8d. Mention 

 is made in the sales of "wrassel okes," a term not found by 

 us in dictionaries, or usually met with in forest accounts ; 

 it was probably an equivalent for the dotard oaks, or those 

 whose upper boughs were barkless and withered. The 



