A COPPIE OF AN ARTICLE 



FOR A LIBELL FOR THE TITHE OF HERBAGE OF 



STEERS, DRIE COWS AND HEIFERS, AND 



HORSES AND MARES NOT KEPT FOR 



TILLAGE ; DRAWN BY R. C. 



That W.B. had in the moneth libellate within the parish libellate 

 &c. viz. in a peece or parcell of marish ground beeing seuerall, 

 conteineing l acres called l , the said W.B. had kept, 



fed and fatted fortie steers, drie heifers, &c. which were not bred 

 nor weaned within the parish libellate, nor euer vsed, imploied or 

 maineteined for the plough or the payle within the parish libellate, 

 whereof or of the fall of them neuer anie proffit came to the 

 churche to the parish (sic), but they were brought in by the said 

 W.B. when they were leane to bee fed and fatted for the butcher, 

 and were there kept, fed and depastured in the yeers libellate 

 vntill they were fatted and then solde them to diuers butchers and 

 others for farr greater sumins of monie than was paid for them 

 when they were leane ; and by such feeding and fatting of those 

 steers and heifers within the parish aforesaid the said W.B. gained 

 in euerie steer xl. s. and euerie heifer 40s. the herbage, pasturage 

 and feeding of euerie such beast beeing worth iij. s. iiij. d. euerie 

 week and the tithe thereof due accordeinglie &c. 



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