10 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



wliich time fatte sheepe are very rare and hard to come by, and 

 abonte Whitsuntide alsoe they goe well of ; but betwixt Mid- 

 summer and Lammas every one wiU have a fatte sheepe to sell 

 Whearefore the best way for feedinge of such weathers is to 

 take them aboute Martlemasse, or soone after, when they come 

 first hoame to be fathered, and putt them into some lowe and 

 springy close, and there to keepe them, with good and constant 

 fotheringe, duringe the time of frost and snowe ; and then as 

 soone as fotheringe time is past, (which, if the weather breake, 

 will bee aboute the 10th of March,) yow are to remoove them 

 to some fresh pasture wheare there is a goode timely springe 

 appearinge on the gi-ownd, and neaver to keepe them on a place 

 that is too much fulled ; and, by this meanes, may yow have 

 them in very goode phght against Easter : yow are not to offer 

 to feede a weather till hee bee three or fower shears, for a 

 younge sheepe will neaver feede kindely ; and, besides, to sell 

 them before they bee att their full growth, yow shall finde losse 

 on all sides, but noe way profitt by soe doinge. 



Ordinary weathers (with this kinde of feedinge) have often- 

 times beene solde att this time of the yeare for twentie markes 

 a score ; and Hkewise lambes which have runne with the ewes 

 in the closes have beene solde towardes clippinge time for twentie 

 nobles a score.' 



The best way for feedinge of olde and broken mouth'd ewes, 

 is to take them soe soone as they lambe, and to |)utt them and 

 theire lambes togeather into some moist and nourishinge grownd 

 wheare the gi-asse is not too shorte for them, and soe to lett 

 them runne togeather till Wliitsuntide or betAvnxt Wliitsuntide 

 and Midsummer, aboute which time yow are to take away the 

 lambes and sell them ; and such fatte lambes will (if they bee 

 large and well quartered) give nobles and 7-s. a peece ; this 

 done, yow are to take tlie ewe's fleeces and to feede them still 

 till towards Michaellmasse, and then to sell or kill them, as yow 

 see occasion ; this must bee your methode, bec^iuse lambes will 

 not feede, beinge weaned, nor the ew^es, till such time as the 

 lambes bee taken from them ; these kinde of ewes may per- 

 liapps sell att this time of the yeare for 7s. or Ss. a peece, if 

 they bee large and well quartered. 



minister use none other ceremonies than to eny the eiii. nnd civ. Psalms, and such 

 sentences of Smpturo as he appointed hy the Queen's Injunctions, with the Litany 

 nnd Suffrages following the same, nnd rending one Homily nlrendy decreed nnd set 

 forth for that purpose ; without wearing nny surplice, carrying of hnnners or hand- 

 bells, or staying at crosses, or such like Popish ceremonies." — Archbishop (irindal's 

 Injunctions to the Clergy of the Diocese of York, 157 1 . — Strype's Life of Grindal, 

 1G8.— [J. U.] 



" In tb" margin is added Proh. [atum.] 



